Tourism and No Poverty

A country without poverty! It is not only my dream but also every people want a safe and good environment for living. Each and every people are trying to help each other to solve this problem but it is difficult to when the whole community is living in poverty. The question is can we do something which will help the whole community to develop themselves?

Tourism can play a vital role in Bangladesh to improve the whole community no matter are they living in a village or city. Tourism contributes 5% of the world’s GDP whereas the performance in Bangladesh is very low. Now it is the high time to rethink about our options. In the rest of the article, I will talk about poverty and why Tourism is very important in poverty alleviation in order to achieve 1^st Sustainable Development Goal.

The word poverty means extremely poor. What do you think? If you think poverty is not having enough money, maybe you are right but the word poverty is way bigger than that. Let me tell you some more information about poverty. Poverty means you do not have food, no shelter, no clothes, nothing to do for your livelihood and everything is uncertain. It can be worse if you die without any proper treatment. So, I guess now you clear about the word poverty.  

One of my friends in the village he is a rickshaw driver as his profession. He barely earns his daily food for him and family. He has no savings for the future. Many times, I saw him suffering from various diseases but he never goes for a good doctor. Sometimes he went to the nearest pharmacy and buy medicine without a prescription.

Near his house, there is a river with a very good landscape. If we make any tourism development in that place, he may change his profession and he will get some opportunity to do business and remove poverty.

Tourism always increases the business activities which is very important for poverty alleviation. It has the power to create a business where normally we can not think about business. For the third world countries, Tourism will be the best key to development as we have seen that emerging economic countries are getting more international tourist arrival.