In many countries tourism is a major part of the economy, but it also causes environmental damage and ruins the places it exploits. It is argued that tourists should pay an additional tax to compensate for this damage. To what extent do you agree?
It is an open secret that tourism is an integral part of many people’s lives. Not only does it help people to get new experiences and emotions but also facilitates the development and maintenance of countries’ economies. On the other hand, tourism contributes to environmental damage and vandalization. It is considered that making tourists pay an additional tax might diminish the consequences of their actions. I can not fully agree with this position because, in my opinion, such measures will not be as effective as it is stated for the following reasons.
To start with, these impositions seem to be quite unfair because not all the tourists cause damage. A whole host of people are extremely concerned with ecological issues and, therefore, do their best in order not to damage the environment. My friend Katya is one of them. To tell the truth, she is obsessed with environmental activism and knows everything about ecological ways of travelling. I believe Katya would not be over the moon if she found out that she would have to pay such a tax along with those who do not even try. In addition, taxes can reduce the flow of tourists, which would severely affect countries’ economies.
Moreover, such a tax might not solve the problem of environmental damage caused by tourists. Provided this tax were imposed, many people would just pay it and continue ruining nature. If you ask me, it is a fine that could solve this problem but not a tax. There is a study which showed that in many cases fines are much more effective than taxes because the former sanction only those who are guilty.
Overall, I, personally, have a lot of doubts that tourist taxes can deal with this issue. There are better ways to prevent and diminish ecological consequences caused by tourists’ actions, which will have smaller costs for the economies.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, moreover, so, therefore, in addition, in many cases, in my opinion, to start with, on the other hand, to tell the truth
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 24.0651302605 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 33.0 41.998997996 79% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1540.0 1615.20841683 95% => OK
No of words: 313.0 315.596192385 99% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92012779553 5.12529762239 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20616286096 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78869269536 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.55910543131 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 487.8 506.74238477 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.9765268579 49.4020404114 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.5882352941 106.682146367 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.4117647059 20.7667163134 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.88235294118 7.06120827912 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.9879759519 226% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.293453652071 0.244688304435 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0889041751982 0.084324248473 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0510388860906 0.0667982634062 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.172848191047 0.151304729494 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0660708434457 0.056905535591 116% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 13.0946893788 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 50.2224549098 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 12.4159519038 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.91 8.58950901804 92% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 78.4519038076 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.