Self-study
Columnist: On average, about 70 percent of the profit from tourism in developing countries goes to foreign owners of tourist businesses. ██ ████████ ██ █ ███████ ███████ █ ████ ███████████ ███████ ████████████ ███ ██████████ ██ ████████ ████████ ██ ████ ███ ██████████ ████████ ████████ ███ ██████████ ████ ██████ ██ █████████ ██████████████ ███ █████ ████████ ████████ ████ █████ ███████
Summary
Columnist: On average, 70% of tourism profits in developing countries go to foreign business owners. As a country becomes a more popular tourist spot, this percentage tends to rise. However, tourists can counteract this effect by getting accommodations and other services directly from locals.
Strongly Supported Conclusions
In at least some situations, tourists are able to influence local economies.
In some developing countries that are established tourist destinations, most tourism profits go to foreign owners of tourist businesses.
24.
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a
Tourists in a ██████████ ██████ ██████ ██████ ██████████████ ███ █████ ████████ ████████ ████ █████ ██████ ██ ████ ██ ███ ███████ ████ ███████ ██ ████ ██████ ██ ██ ███████ ██████ ██ ███████ ███████████
Unsupported. The stimulus tells us that tourists can counteract the profits of foreign business owners by obtaining services from local people, but it does not provide a value judgement as to what tourists should or should not do.
b
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Strongly supported. An average of 70% of tourism profits go to foreign business owners. This increases when a country is a more established tourism spot. So, in some of the developing countries that are most established as tourist spots, most tourism profits go to those owners.
c
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Unsupported. The stimulus tells us that tourists can obtain accommodations directly from local people, but we do not know whether tourists actually obtain these things from local people in any developing countries.
d
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Unsupported. The stimulus tells us that a large percentage of tourism profits are exported, but there is also a percentage that remains in the country. We do not know that local people become progressively poorer as tourism becomes more established.
e
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Unsupported. Tourists who obtain accommodations and other services directly from local people may help to counteract the rising profits of foreign business owners, but we do not have enough information to conclude that they do not contribute in any way to those profits.