yamamoto
Junior Member
- Joined
- Nov 11, 2011
- Member Type
- Academic
- Native Language
- Japanese
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- Japan
- Current Location
- Japan
Hello.
I have some trouble understanding this article.
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As humorist Will Rogers once said that money was all appropriated for the top in hopes that it would trickle down to the needy, we might expect tourism to generate benefits across the economy. After all, tourist are demanding: they need feeding and watering and entertaining. They need someone to grow the food, make the furniture, bottle the beer and so on. But too often, in poor countries, tourists eat imported food and sleep in rooms where nothing has been made locally. Tourists demand their cornflakes and steaks, their cheeses and crisps - as if they were at home; and they want imported beers rather than local brands. All of this contributes to leakage. As a result, many tourism earnings are either retained by the tourist-sending countries and sent back to them in some way. Somehow or other, it ends up with our hosts-not us-picking up much of the bill.
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My want to know, in the last sentence, who 'our hosts' are and who 'us' is.
Thanks in advance.
I have some trouble understanding this article.
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As humorist Will Rogers once said that money was all appropriated for the top in hopes that it would trickle down to the needy, we might expect tourism to generate benefits across the economy. After all, tourist are demanding: they need feeding and watering and entertaining. They need someone to grow the food, make the furniture, bottle the beer and so on. But too often, in poor countries, tourists eat imported food and sleep in rooms where nothing has been made locally. Tourists demand their cornflakes and steaks, their cheeses and crisps - as if they were at home; and they want imported beers rather than local brands. All of this contributes to leakage. As a result, many tourism earnings are either retained by the tourist-sending countries and sent back to them in some way. Somehow or other, it ends up with our hosts-not us-picking up much of the bill.
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My want to know, in the last sentence, who 'our hosts' are and who 'us' is.
Thanks in advance.