- Tourism has led to international terrorism or piracy.
- Erosion of some social values.
- Tourism has encouraged poaching or illegal collection of marine resources.
- Tourism has led to increase in crime.
- Tourism has led to increase in drug abuse.
- Local people borrowing from tourists some social cultural values with negative consequences e.g. homosexuality and lesbianism which could lead to breakage of marriage life and spread of S.T.Ds.
- Government neglecting other sectors of the economy such as agriculture and development projects like health and education by using a lot of money on tourist infrastructure such as construction of roads and airstrips in tourist areas some of which are rarely used.
- Some tourists encourage poaching by buying and smuggling souvenirs in form of game trophies which make poachers to kill animals so as to meet demand for these products.
- Destruction of vegetation by tourist’s vehicles as they move over it which reduces the amount of pasture available for browsing animals.
- Tourists chasing animals while trying to get close-up photographs which destructs the animals feeding and bleeding habits. Noise from vehicles and people also disturb animals.
- Some tourists come with the purpose of trafficking drugs and some introduce youths to drugs leading to drug abuse and its related consequences.
- It may cause some male and female children to drop out of school to be showing the tourists around and obtain money by befriending tourists e.g. beach boys.
- A number of youths especially at the coast have dropped out of school to become tour guides.
- Tourism has led to pollution of national parks.
- Over emphasis on tourism has led to neglect of the other sector of economy.
maurice.mutuku answered the question on June 19, 2017 at 14:09
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