Although some people argue that culture is endangered by tourism, there is another different view indicating its benefit. I will discuss both sides, taking financial profits into consideration along with drawbacks concerning erosion of cultural heritage.
There are some harmful points of visits by tourists apart from financial improvements. It has an unadmittedly impossibility of denying dangers of tourism influencing some aspects like dressing style and mentality based on religious principles. The erosion of dressing principles and ancient traditions peculiar to some country has increased in recent years, especially, in the terms of muslim countries. Islam religion, for instance, banned women to wear such kinds of clothes grabing strange men`s attention to themselves. Nonetheless, the majority of young women are following foreign cultures against their national mentality, taking up dressing stylish with tight trousers and intimate clothes. It is also an unfortunate regret to say that there are some people transferring their gender by surgery to another one. It is regarded as haram in Islam for muslims. In a word, tourism brings about erosion of a specific culture of a country.
On the other hand, tourism brings much more financial income rather than its given drawbacks, too. On the grounds that the more tourists visit a country, the more money that one charge them for a wide range of services during their travel. Particularly, private companies get remarkable income from pleasing the tourists with their high quality services. As a result, not only employers and employees make a living but also the government receive a great amount of taxes from both of the two categories. Thanks to visit of foreign people, local hand-craftsmen do not have any difficulties in selling their hand-made products at a reasonable price without worrying about low interest in purchasing national hand-made items among local individuals. All in all, tourism can improve economic condition of both every citizen and the government.
To sum up, I would support the second view but for the fact that the first one is much more worth taking into accounts because of visibly significant reasons above stated.