TOURISTS AND MINDSET OF THE HOST
Tourism is a booming industry in this dot com era. Some countries like Nepal heavily depend on tourism for their national development. With the emergence of English as a lingua franca of the world, tourists find it easy to visit many spots of scenic beauty dotted on the green planet. The industry solves many health problems caused by the busied disciplined life of globalization thereby elongating life expectancies of different peoples.
Not to be précised from record books, it is true that the industry provides employment to thousands and thousands of workers around the world. The tourists who enjoy the scenic beauty or rough terrains or religious places in turn give sources to many for earning at least a meal a day. The mingling of different peoples at one site hastens globalization and caters the sense of one world. The wall that has been separating between man and man is breaking sown day by day with different cultures coming closer and closer. The gamut is the sense of humanity as a whole. Though this idea, one can say, may be quixotic, it is not frail at all.
Developed transport facilities, telecommunication boom, economic well-being, literacy, medical facilities- are some of the factors responsible for the boom. Every government wants to welcome more and more tourists from different areas of the world and works accordingly to provide for a tourist-friendly environment. Competition, as does in other industries, looms large in tourism industry too. De luxe service is usually provided for.
What baffles the planners of the host countries most is the problem, of whose solution is difficult to find out-the mindset of the people of the host countries? Religious ethos, aged-old traditions, lack of education, regionalism, communalism, and the like bind the minds of the people usually deleterious to the industry, for which tourists fear most. Tourists of different cultures, races, colour, demeanour, structures and the like are easily identified from among the local peoples. Some closed societies do not accept foreigners-let it be tourists or anybody else. Some people of the host country take tourists as mines for earning easy money. Tourists often are victims of eve-teasing, molestation, rape, murder, robbery, kidnapping, begging, forced donation, obnoxious behaviour, cheating overcharging and the like. Beggars are ubiquitous in many countries, for example. They wallop the enthusiasm of the tourists. These beggars follow tourists even upto a mile or so begging to pay, very often encroaching the privacy of the tourists.
The malicious eyes of the people can not discover the sense of humanity form the tourists in the particular corner of the earth they resides. Their protruded eyes follow tourists until the foreign elements are out of their sight. History may corrupt this perfidious mindset. Whatever may be the reasons, the ultimate victims of the mindset are the tourists who usually have experienced the ungainly mindset. Whoever he may be, wherever he lives, whichever his forms, whatever his religion, culture, he is a human being born on the earth like everybody with veins and arteries of red blood. Time comes to think again. We should forget the wrongs committed in history, changing the mindset towards tourists.
Tourists are a reliable source of bullion on which the economy of a country can depend. Therefore, the mindset that sees the tourists with precarious eyes should be switched to universal brotherhood and friendship.
Not to be précised from record books, it is true that the industry provides employment to thousands and thousands of workers around the world. The tourists who enjoy the scenic beauty or rough terrains or religious places in turn give sources to many for earning at least a meal a day. The mingling of different peoples at one site hastens globalization and caters the sense of one world. The wall that has been separating between man and man is breaking sown day by day with different cultures coming closer and closer. The gamut is the sense of humanity as a whole. Though this idea, one can say, may be quixotic, it is not frail at all.
Developed transport facilities, telecommunication boom, economic well-being, literacy, medical facilities- are some of the factors responsible for the boom. Every government wants to welcome more and more tourists from different areas of the world and works accordingly to provide for a tourist-friendly environment. Competition, as does in other industries, looms large in tourism industry too. De luxe service is usually provided for.
What baffles the planners of the host countries most is the problem, of whose solution is difficult to find out-the mindset of the people of the host countries? Religious ethos, aged-old traditions, lack of education, regionalism, communalism, and the like bind the minds of the people usually deleterious to the industry, for which tourists fear most. Tourists of different cultures, races, colour, demeanour, structures and the like are easily identified from among the local peoples. Some closed societies do not accept foreigners-let it be tourists or anybody else. Some people of the host country take tourists as mines for earning easy money. Tourists often are victims of eve-teasing, molestation, rape, murder, robbery, kidnapping, begging, forced donation, obnoxious behaviour, cheating overcharging and the like. Beggars are ubiquitous in many countries, for example. They wallop the enthusiasm of the tourists. These beggars follow tourists even upto a mile or so begging to pay, very often encroaching the privacy of the tourists.
The malicious eyes of the people can not discover the sense of humanity form the tourists in the particular corner of the earth they resides. Their protruded eyes follow tourists until the foreign elements are out of their sight. History may corrupt this perfidious mindset. Whatever may be the reasons, the ultimate victims of the mindset are the tourists who usually have experienced the ungainly mindset. Whoever he may be, wherever he lives, whichever his forms, whatever his religion, culture, he is a human being born on the earth like everybody with veins and arteries of red blood. Time comes to think again. We should forget the wrongs committed in history, changing the mindset towards tourists.
Tourists are a reliable source of bullion on which the economy of a country can depend. Therefore, the mindset that sees the tourists with precarious eyes should be switched to universal brotherhood and friendship.
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