Tourism is a growing industry. On the one hand many people are benefiting from the easy access to many places; on the other hand, people who lived in these tourist locations are suffering as a result of tourism. In the cities, building have been refurnished, shopping centres were built to attract more tourists. Locals do benefits from the increasing range of services available. The downside of this is that the money for refurbishing of buildings comes from the tax of local people. Many individual shop owners may profit from tourist visits, but the life of working class people may be affected by the increasing tourism, take transport for example, if there are more tourist, it is almost definite that there will be more traffic and more cars on the road, and more people on public transport. During seasons where tourism is high, prices of goods usually rise alongside it. This could cause problem for local people, because they do not gain anything from the tourist, but they have to pay more for goods during the holiday season.

One possible solution might be that shop owners who made a lot of profit from tourists pay more toward refurbishing of towns. This might be helped the poorest in the area, because if the shop owners are the only ones who pays tax, this could help locals to save money. However, shop owners are very unlikely to agree to give up some of their profits.

The other way in which the poorest may benefit from tourism is that shops or industries combine small part of their profits and share it amongst the locals. Although this would not work in big cities where there is a large population, but in small villages this can work. In a village where we came from, there is a system where industries built in the area, they have to pay small amount of their profit to the local people, as all the members from the village are share holders of the land, so each