Changes that have been brought about by the growth of tourism in Taiwan

One of the positive changes that have been brought about by the growth of tourism in Taiwan is the increase of tourist revenue, this is due to the money spent on local goods such as the accommodation, food and beverage outlets, retail shops has increased which in turn benefits the economy in Taiwan.

Not only that, some of the tourist who visited Taiwan may include foreign businessmen, hence when they see there are some good aspects in investing Taiwan hence they will have confidence in investing the country which helps the foreign investments to increase.
The growth of tourism also helps to create employment because without the employees who are the ones who satisfied the customers, there will not be customers anymore.

Another positive change is whereby there is a local awareness of the financial value of the natural and cultural sites and also the Taiwanese have learn that conserving the environment is important to them. Hence, in Taiwan, there are more and more heritage sites have been conserving by the government for the sake of cultural and heritage tourism.

In addition, the Taiwanese also can have the opportunities to know more about other countries’ culture when tourists visited Taiwan, this is beneficial to them as in they can reduce prejudice against other cultural and live in harmony with people around the world.

The loss of indigenous identity and values a negative change brought by the growth in tourism is the causing. There are in total 14 indigenous tribes in Taiwan, each has its own unique cultures and beliefs, hence when tourists come to Taiwan, they would tend to be interested in knowing more about them because as compared to them, their cultures and belief are totally different.

This thus causing the indigenous tribes to simplified their culture activities such as their traditional dance, to entertain the tourist. This is done so because, usually by presenting the real culture of them is quite difficult for the tourist to understand due to its complexity. As time passes when such entertainments are done for a long time, the ingenious cultures are slowly losing their authentic culture.