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employees will not be motivated to commit to
sustainable tourism as a career. Additionally,
sustainable tourism, like other forms of
tourism, can be an unstable source of income.
Tourism demand fluctuates with external
factors that are outside the control of tourist
destinations. For example, political conflict, or
rumors of unsafe conditions within a region or
country, can discourage international visitors
for years. Changes in currencies can also
affect tourist travel. For example, the 2001
terrorist attacks in the United States, along
with the simultaneous decline in value of the
US dollar, resulted in a steep reduction in US
tourists traveling abroad for the following two
years. As another example, in Komodo
National Park in Indonesia, tourism dropped
from over 30,000 visits per year to 11,000 in
the wake of the bombings in nearby Bali,
which had been the source of most foreign
tourists visiting the park.
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