According to an international travel magazine, many tourists today fly straight to their holiday resort and almost never leave it. Unlike tourist in the 1960s and 70s, they return home with no experience of the local culture. Why do you think this happen? How was tourism different in the past?

It is written in an overseas travel magazine that plenty of visitors nowadays depart to their holiday destinations and never return to their home countries. This trend was different in the 1960s and 1970s when visitors went back home without any local experience from their journeys to bring home. This might have happened in the past due to lack of development in the holiday destinations and information provided by the tourism agency. In 1960s and 70s the development of countries was not as well-distributed as todays. It is common that people from the western regions such as Europe, North America, and East Asia were the ones travelled to foreign nations which have tropical climates. In those years, these tourist destination countries were still underdeveloped. They would probably have less than sufficient clean and running water, terrible road and transportation infrastructures. So, it had been hard to stay there for longer time for international tourists. The other cause could also be lack of information about the particular holiday area; travel agencies could just offer places which had been popular abroad and brought higher profit margins for them, and skipped the ones did not. One example is Bali island in Indonesia; it was the one mostly put on top of tourism promotional brochure as it was well-known outside the country and foreign tourist would flock in easily and bring in their currencies to the region at the time. As a matter of fact, a lot of areas were more interesting than Bali, but they were not getting any promotion, as it would unknowingly be successful to promote the area as the cost of advertisements back then were high. The two reasons could make the tourists not stay longer in the place they went to for holidays. They possibly thought that it would be hard to get by in the area; they would not have critical facilities that these visitors easily accessed in their own nations, such as hospital, school, clean water, and so on. They likely had a thought that these countries destinations were underdeveloped nations that when they took a trip outside the resort area, they would spot a lot of poverty, crime, slum, and wide economic divides. Therefore, having visited only the area of tourism without going beyond that was resulting these foreign visitors not having any real knowledge about the place. To sum up, tourism in the past was different from nowadays. Tropical climatic nations were less developed in the past that not many tourists from abroad would want to stick around for long within the areas. In addition, the information provided by travel agencies was limited that they would not promote the ones without any promises to give them considerable profit margin. Thus, tourists were only enjoying one spot of a resort at a time, but not exploring other areas. Finally, they went home without any unique and significant experiences although they had travelled far from their homes.