7 Ways Tourists Are Destroying the World’s Best Vacation Spots
| May 11, 2015
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Money Doesn’t Stay in the Local Economy
The vast sums of money spent by tourists, both by the well-heeled and by backpackers, often don’t remain in the local economy. For example, high-end hotels in the Angkor Wat region of Cambodia are more likely to import their food than buy from Cambodian farmers, and top positions within the hotel are filled by foreign nationals.
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