Thursday, December 9, 2010

Changes that have been brought about by the growth of tourism in Chiang Mai

Due to an increase in the number of tourists visiting Chiang Mai, better facilities such as route, transportations, accommodation, hospitals were built to cope with the growth of tourism. Hence, facilities such as transportation and hospital not only benefit the tourists, but also benefit the local residents as well. Today, Chiang Mai is well-connected with other countries as well as within Thailand. People can go to Chiang Mai by air, bus or train. It is very accessible to travel to and around Chiang Mai.  In addition, more schools were built and English language is also taught in school so that the locals can communicate well with the tourists or they can work in tourism-related jobs.
With the growth of tourism, other tourism-related businesses such as hotels, entertainment such as pubs, and attractions are built or upgrade so as to attract tourists to visit Chiang Mai.
Also, the hill tribes now are more open to tourists to visit them. In the past, they might prefer to live on their own without much disturbance from the outside world or being influence by the tourists. However, after they realise the importance of having tourists to come to their place, spend on food and accommodation etc., they realise that they can earn money from those tourists, which resulted in them having higher income and a better standard of living.

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