The Forbidden City

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Since the ancient days, mankind has always dreamt to explore the unknown, be it a neighboring city or a faraway continent. With the advent of affordable commercial air travel, the opportunity to explore these places is bigger than ever before, shortening a few months’ worth of traveling by sea into mere hours by air. Thanks to this development, countries from across the globe have established countless points of interest as major income sources. But just like how fire catches, it has also introduced some unforeseen problems.

Nowadays, diseases spread easily worldwide with the help of tourism. For example; The Infamous Influenza virus that caused influenza, commonly known as flu. When a person who is infected by the influenza virus decided to visit a foreign country, he or she will most likely introduces the virus to the country. By doing so, tourism has contributed in harming one’s country.
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For example; the Forbidden City, located in Dongcheng Beijing, has rules that do not allowed people to enter the city. This action is to prevent tourist from causing any damage to the ancient structures. Preserving a fragile part of history is not easy, but yet they manage to succeed and improve the country’s development through tourism.

In conclusion, tourism today has helped one’s country to develop further but also introduces unexpected problems. With how ease diseases spread easily across the globe to preserving a part of history that cannot be replicate. Tourism can both do harm to one’s country or help one’s country

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