The Concept of Over Tourism

After enduring a rollercoaster ride of emotions through our previous article on "Relationships", it's time for us to share with our readers on "Over tourism" which is constantly growing as a contextual issue in the world. This article was sent to us by Dinuka Abeysinghe , a 2nd year undergraduate of the Faculty of Management and Finance, University of Colombo. Here he has shared his thoughts on this current ever growing issue and has tried to make us all aware on it. In my opinion tourism is one of the main income sources to exotic countries like Sri Lanka. In 2018 Sri Lanka ended up with approximately 2.33 million tourists visiting our country and that is a staggering 10.3% increase compared to 2017. The tourism and hospitality industry has prevailed to provide more job opportunities in the country in the recent past and our citizens and businesses have relied heavily upon this industry. For this reason and many more the island was named the “the best co...