The Risks and Benefits of Making Puerto Colombia a Tourist Destination

When talking about tourism you always come with ideas like luxurious hotels, incredibles views, relaxing spaces, Paradise and pure fun, this is idea when think in Puerto Colombia.Nobody think and talk about tourism is the risk that this entails, risks as destruction of environment, pollution, overpopulation, among many other risks that result in the development of a tourist destination, but not only can we that about the risks that making Puerto Colombia a tourist city, the risks that would have been tourism in this areas, risks such as losing a large volume of visitors, less investment in the structure of city, that bring as a result less economic income to the city. So that question arise what is better, to make Puerto Colombia tourist destination or not?

L, Fang (2010) support. “compared with other industries tourism is still a new and developing industry for it is relatively developing late, in pace with the accelerated process of urbanization, tourism has gradually become a new and significant growth point of economic development”. The risks of losing potential urbanization process is big for not doing tourism in Puerto Colombia. But the tourism it will also increase the pollution and destruction of environment, because Liu, Fang. (2010) said. “ecological risk assessment is mainly about eco-tourism zone stress factors, the aim is to determine the probable exist sources and talk about ecological risks are: tourism development and construction, tourism services, forest fires, landslides and debris flow which determined by expert advice and expert scoring method, base don the characteristics of tourist areas”. These are risks that must be taken into account to determine if the best option is to do tourism in Puerto Colombia.

Other risks of developing Puerto Colombia a tourist destination is a foreign investment decreases the local that in consequence bring the will increase the life cost of inhabitants of Puerto Colombia. Simanavicius, A., Edmunde, J. and Birurta, S., (2015) said. “tourism revenues and number of outgoing people have increased by number of times. Therefore, the tourism sector is highly attractive to new business initiation and development of its dynamic growth, new markets and rapid changes”. This new changes entail will bring more and better opportunities, it increases employment for the people in Puerto Colombia. Tourism risk identification only with treads and losses is limited, the tourism risk could be considered as a phenomenon, which is not only the opportunity of failure, loss, but also with the probability of success, which could help to achieve a positive effect. The increased risks could benefit from from tourism business by increasing their benefits for the inhabitants.

Is it better to make Puerto Colombia a tourist destination or not? depends on the organization of the government and the inhabitants of Puerto Colombia. It is necessary an analysis of the common problems in this area, studying the ecological risks, economic risks, sources of risk, risk factors, alternative study. There will always be some type of risk to carry out any of the options, there will be tourism risks such as the investment of foreigners that opaque the local investment, but with the new investments would increase the sources of work, also talk about the risks of pollution by the number of tourists, but the risk that tourists will not reach the port of Colombia would increase unemployment and thus there are many examples that must be taken into account. making a good study of the factors mentioned above, with the help of the inhabitants of Puerto Colombia, its rulers and tourists, could reduce these risks to make the best decision.