Solved English Precis exercise on “Promoting Safe Tourism” 500 Words Precis for Class 10, 12 and Competitive Examination.

Solved Precis exercise on “Promoting Safe Tourism”

Tourism has emerged as the world’s largest industry. Growing rapidly in the last two decades, today it accounts for 6% of world output and employs some 100 million people around the globe. Since the end of the Second World War, it has developed immense revenue and development potential and stands today as a unique natural renewable resource industry.

Tourism – the travel-based recreation – provides people with a change of place and a break from the monotony of daily life. It brings people of different nations together, allowing them to come into close contact with each other’s customs and other aspects of life. It reveals the scenic beauty and past heritage of a country to people belonging to other nations. The knowledge and experience gained in the process can lead to greater understanding and tolerance, and can even foster world peace.

The contribution of tourism can be nowhere seen more clearly than on the economic front. A study conducted by the United Nations has shown that developing countries, in particular, can reap handsome benefits from tourism which greatly boosts national income.

Tourism generates employment and adds to the entrepreneurial wealth of a nation. While tourism’s advantages are many, its undesirable side effects have raised fresh problems.

Tourism can cause social, cultural, or environmental disruption. Of the greatest concern is its damage to the environment. In order to attract more tourists, sprawling resorts are built which take neither the local architectural styles nor the ecology into consideration. Natural systems come to be destroyed as a result of indiscriminate construction to provide water and waste disposal facilities and recreational arrangements to tourists. Overuse of environmental wealth disturbs the ecological balance.

Damage is most in wildlife parks which remain the foremost sites of tourist attraction. Tourist vans and the visitors’ feet destroy the ground vegetation, thus affecting the feeding habits of the animals and the landscape as well. Overcrowding brings about congestion, leading to environmental and health hazards.

The Taj Mahal, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, has suffered a lot of wear and tear from the trampling feet of tourists.

Some socio-cultural effects of tourism have been damaging. Tourism often ushers in new lifestyles; arrangements, as desired by tourists, are provided in order to make them feel at home. The emergence of this ‘other’ culture in various places has caused dissatisfaction among the local people. The concern is that the local people tend to imitate the foreign values, breaking away from their own traditions.

To promote safe tourism while ensuring that it remains a profitable industry, it is imperative to understand the factors that hamper the growth of tourism and check them effectively.

The general instability of the nation is damaging to tourism prospects. Political disturbances, in particular, pose a serious problem. The growing violence on the international scene and the increasing threat of terrorism affect the flow of tourists. Countries like Sri Lanka have been a victim of terrorist threats for a long and have therefore suffered setbacks in tourism. “

Whatever the problems, India must work hard to reap the benefits from this industry, for the country has everything to attract visitors from far and near.

Solved Precis:- 

Title: -Promoting Safe Tourism

Tourism is a growing industry accounting for six percent output of the world. It employs about one hundred million people. It brings people closer and breaks the monotony of life. It also promotes world peace. It displays the rich heritage and beauty of a country. National income can be boosted by it. But it also destroys the natural system. Its overuse causes environmental imbalance. Ground vegetation is destroyed by the tourists’ vehicles. Political instability and terrorist threats are the factors that inhibit safe tourism.