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The reading passages presents a positive overview about the consequences of the so-called eco-tourism. The professor, however, disputes all these arguments.

To begin with, the professor points out that eco-tourism damages the environment, since the constructions of roads are needed. In addition to that, it causes an increase of air and water pollution. This casts doubt on the point in the reading passage that eco-tourism can substitute worse forms of development that would create more damages to the environment.

The professor also claims that even if the government's intentions are to protect and preserve the nature involved in the eco-tourism phenomenon, it does not imply that the people in charge for that do their work in a good manner. For example, they could be corrupted, so that other people can exploit this with illegal actions, such as cutting down trees, stealing or illegal hunting. This would seem to contrast the argument in the reading passage that eco-tourism necessarily brings the conservation and preservation of the surrounding environment.

The reading passage also asserted that all parties benefit from eco-turism, from tourists to local people, as well as plants and animals. The professor disputes this point as well, asserting that the increase of pollution harms the latters, while the creation of new job places would attract people from closer areas. This, in combination with the arrival of tourists from all over the world, would cause a significant change in the customs of local people, and the professor underlines this fact as a negative effect.

TOEFL listening lectures: Which event or development did not strongly influence the history of bread?

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