The Economic Benefits
Tourism contributes collection of foreign currency (foreign exchange), increase income and employment opportunities, can improve economic structures, and encourage small business development.
Obtaining Foreign Currency (Foreign Exchange)
Balance of payments for a country is the relationship between the payment must be made to other countries and the money received from other countries. When a country buys something from another country it is imported; when a country sells something to another country then it is called export. All countries try to achieve a positive balance of payments or surplus. Since most of these countries have difficulty doing this, it took the arrival of tourists - which is regarded as exports - is encouraged as a way of achieving a positive balance of payments. On the other hand, if the population of a country vacation trip abroad, then it is considered as imports (because of money flowing out of the country).
As a result of tourism to the economy could be directly or indirectly. As a result of tourist expenditure langsungadalah. As a result of indirect or secondary effect, is what happens when the money is flowing into the local economy.
Propensity to import. Many factors determine whether a tourist destination can take advantage of the entry of foreign tourist's money. The definition of profit is the difference between gross income - money that is brought in - and net income - the money saved successfully. The factors that determine these is the import of a country, the number of foreign workers employed and the type of capital investment. Propensity to import is the number of additional units of expenditure of the tourists who used to buy imported goods.
Foreign labor. Many countries use foreign labor to serve the tourists. Hospitality industry in the UK for example, uses a lot of energy nationals of Spain and Portugal. In some cases it happened because local people do not want to do the job, and in other cases because the locals are not too skilled to do the job.
Capital investment. In the early stages of tourism development, money with a very large amount needed to build facilities and other infrastructure facilities. Most less developed countries do not mampumenyediakan own financial needs and must turn to other countries to receive assistance. Foreign companies come in, build profits in the country get out of it. Destination area requires foreign currency income in order to develop the tourist potential, but with conditions such as above the region's loss of control (and profit).
Because of these factors, the economy experienced a leak can be very high locally. For countries that are developing, tourism is not much take advantage of foreign currency that comes in, something that never considered very likely. This is all about how we can prevent our revenue in foreign exchange, so capital flight will not happen...Government mus be patient an care about economic impact, not only for investment but for society, local people...
