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People who like traveling believe that traveling can help them expand their view. If they can make themselves travel with an open mind and try new things around them, they can see the world from a new view. Traveling helps us learn about different people and different places. People travel for different reasons. But one of the reasons is that a lot of tourists are interested in traditional culture (传统文化).

Tourism (旅游业) can be very good for traditional cultures. This is because when people travel to another country, they often want to learn more about that country’s traditions such as music, food and history. So the local (当地的) people in that country will wear traditional clothing and sell traditional food. They will also have shows for tourists. These shows can be dances, concerts, plays or something else.

Tourism also helps people respect each other. If you understand another culture well, you will probably respect that culture much more. You will probably want to protect (保护) that culture as well.

However, tourism isn’t always good for traditional culture. A lot of people say that tourism makes “not real traditional culture” happen. This means that the local people wear traditional clothing and do traditional dances only for tourists so that they can make money. But that isn’t their real lifestyle. Their real lifestyles are like the tourists’ lifestyles.

Another problem is that tourists may make trouble for the local people. For example, sometimes tourists come to watch local people praying (祷告) in temples (庙宇), tourists take photos and make noises. This often makes the local people angry.

Sometimes tourists may also do something bad to local places of interest. If five hundred people went into an old temple every day, they might do harm to that temple.

Anyway, more and more tourists want to learn about traditional cultures. Most local people want more tourism because tourists bring money and help local business. Tourists have to respect local culture and local places. Local governments try to protect places and lifestyles. If everyone tries his best, then tourism will be great for traditional cultures.