N.Siddiqui
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Domestic tourism helps make the nation more cohesive and aware about its geography, culture, resources and how to behave with each other...The people who just stay in one place whole their lives develop a lot stupid and false impressions about other place and people. So domestic tourism is far more important than foreign tourism. I'm not against foreign tourists visiting Pakistan but we should not consider it as an industry or a significant income source...the main advantage of foreign tourists is positive image and people to people contact.
True domestic tourism promotes cohesiveness and integrity among different ethnic groups, provinces and regions and between diversified groups.
Tourism industry though can be a mirage, take the example of Greece, top tourism destination...gone bankrupt and needed huge bailouts. Turkey is doing fine in tourism also...country need to have a diversified industrial base and relying just on tourism can be a fallacy, you are absolutely right here.