Is tourism beneficial to developing countries?

Tourism is seasonal, thus jobs are seasonal

Question: Is tourism beneficial to developing countries?
Position‹2 of 2: No, tourism is detrimental to developing countries
Argument‹2 of 4›: Tourism is seasonal, thus jobs are seasonal

Tourists typically come during the summer, making the other seasons an issue.

The argument

Tourism is structurally seasonal, and this argument holds that the seasonality is what makes it a poor foundation for a developing economy. The peak falls in the summer — June to August in the northern hemisphere, November to February in the southern — and the rest of the year is comparatively quiet. Because the jobs exist only while the visitors do, employment in a tourism-dependent economy follows the same pattern, so income arrives in a concentrated burst rather than across the year. The problem this creates is one of stability rather than of total earnings. A country whose economy becomes heavily dependent on tourism has little financial stability during the less popular times of year, and the shortfall arrives predictably in every cycle. Bridging it requires an expansive system of investment and savings capable of carrying earnings from one season across to the next. Where such a system is absent — which is generally the case in the developing countries most reliant on the trade — everything can collapse in the gap between seasons, not because the season failed but because nothing was in place to span the interval after it. The dependence runs deeper than the accounting. Countries are left drained and vulnerable once a season ends, having poured resources into serving it, and are emptied out again before the next one begins. Locals may be independent in the sense of running their own businesses, yet remain tied in dependence to visitors who decide elsewhere whether to come at all. That leaves the whole arrangement exposed to events no one in the country controls, where a single wrong move can collapse the economy. Because tourism is seasonal and its jobs are seasonal with it, this argument concludes, tourism is detrimental to developing countries.

Premises

[P1]Tourism has a short peak season, leaving little financial stability for the rest of the year. [P2] An economy dependent on tourism can collapse between seasons unless it has an expansive savings and investment system. [P3] This leaves locals drained, vulnerable, and dependent on visitors, so one wrong move can collapse the economy. [C] Therefore, because tourism is seasonal and so are its jobs, tourism is detrimental to developing countries.

Counter-arguments

Dependence on tourism isn't necessarily a bad thing. This allows the country to develop their own infrastructure while providing a steady source of income in the meantime.

Rejecting the premises

[Rejecting P2] Even if tourism is reliant on one season, this can build infrastructure for the whole year.