Document Type : Research Paper

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Every Community interested in developing tourism to enhance or divers if ytheir economy wants to know how much good tourism can do for them .While tourism is not the answer to every community's economic challenges, it can provide economic benefits inmany cases. These economic benefits must then be compared to the social, cultural and environmental changes that tourism might bring in order to judge its acceptability in community economic development efforts. Translating visitors pending into economic impacts requires some information about the state or local economy, as well as procedures for dealing with good that visitors purchase at retail establishments. While some economic benefits and costs are very difficult to calculate, total economic impacts can be estimated relatively easily .In this paper a descripition of terms is provided first, next, the formulas