Question

Tourism is a smokeless industry. Justify with examples

Answer 1

In the old days, when the word industry was mentioned, most people thought of the factories with belching smoke stacks and noisy machineries. Also, the dictionaries are still defining the term “industry” as an economic activity where goods are manufactured in factories. Later after the advent of electric-powered machineries, smoke producing factories become lesser. The term industry still applied to the manufacture of goods. However, the times have changed and the usage of many English words have also evolved to mean other than the usually accepted meanings. One good example is: the use of the word industry, which once applied only to businesses involving factories and machineries for manufacturing solid goods, now become widely used in other sectors too. The most visible and often heard usage is in the tourism sector, which lacked physical substance. People started to metaphorize the tourism as an industry: the smokeless industry.