Foreign visitors should pay more than
local visitors for cultural and historical attractions.
To what extent do you agree or disagree
with this opinion?
It
is sometimes argued that tourists from overseas should be charged more than
local residents to visit important sites and monuments. I completely disagree
with this idea.
The
argument in favour of higher prices for foreign tourists would be that cultural
or historical attractions often depend on state subsidies to keep them going,
which means that the resident population already pays money to these sites
through the tax system.
However,
I believe this to be a very shortsighted view. Foreign tourists contribute to
the economy of the host country with the money they spend on a wide range of
goods and services, including food, souvenirs, accommodation and travel. The
governments and inhabitants of every country should be happy to subsidise
important tourist sites and encourage people from the rest of the world to
visit them.
If
travellers realised that they would have to pay more to visit historical and
cultural attractions in a particular nation, they would perhaps decide not to
go to that country on holiday. To take the UK as an example, the tourism
industry and many related jobs rely on visitors coming to the country to see
places like Windsor Castle or Saint Paul’s Cathedral. These two sites charge
the same price regardless of nationality, and this helps to promote the
nation’s cultural heritage. If overseas tourists stopped coming due to higher
prices, there would be a risk of insufficient funding for the maintenance of
these important buildings.
In
conclusion, I believe that every effort should be made to attract tourists from
overseas, and it would be counterproductive to make them pay more than local
residents.
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