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tourism
Advantajes of the tourism in Jamaica:Tourism has important significant to the economy of Jamaica.Commerce: Each year Jamaica get from the tourism of foreign Exchange receipts aproximate U$2 billions.Jobs: Thousand of Jamaicans work directly or indirectly in tourism. Tourism employs is the second largest, Jamaicans Works directly in hotels, transport, attractions and crafts. As well as indirectly trading, manufacturing, and banking.
Disadvantajes of the tourism in Jamaica:
Cultural destruction, loss language, religión, rituals.
Environment destruction because of resorts buildings,
Social: Prostitution, drugs trade.
TRUE COST OF DEVELOPMENT
The tourist infraestructure of Negril was built at the expense of their coastal wetlands. The mangrove forest in the coast and the prairies of seagrasses were eliminated to allow the creation of the white beaches and the tourists love.
"Human activities also play an important role" in the degradation of reefs, said a report of the project for the development of methodologies to risks and vulnerabilities of the program of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).
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