Tourism, while economically powerful, often creates significant strain on the communities that host it. As visitor numbers rise, locals face increasing housing costs, overcrowded infrastructure, environmental degradation, and the erosion of cultural identity.

Essential resources—such as water, coastline access, and public spaces—are frequently redirected toward visitors rather than residents, widening inequality and diminishing quality of life. In many destinations, tourism becomes a paradox: it brings opportunity, but it also extracts value from the very communities that make these places worth visiting.

Without a balanced system that reinvests in local people, tourism risks doing more harm than good.