Identifying Logical Fallacies

If we allow one tourist to take photos in the museum, soon everyone will do it, and the artifacts will be damaged.

• Hasty Generalization

• Ad Hominem

• Slippery Slope

• Straw Man

People who support ecotourism are just naïve tree-huggers who do not understand economics.

• Ad Hominem

• Red Herring

• False Dilemma

• Circular Reasoning

Either we build more hotels now, or tourism in this region will collapse.

• Bandwagon

• False Dilemma

• Slippery Slope

• Hasty Generalization

We should not listen to her opinion on cultural tourism-she has never even traveled abroad.

• Straw Man

• Red Herring

• Ad Hominem

• Appeal to Emotion

Tourism must be good for the environment-look how many countries support it.

• Appeal to Authority

• Bandwagon

• Hasty Generalization

• False Analogy

Guided tours are boring. I went on one last year, and it was terrible.

• Slippery Slope

• Circular Reasoning

• Hasty Generalization

• Red Herring

Cultural festivals are a waste of time because they do not serve any real purpose.

• Straw Man

• Begging the Question (Circular Reasoning)

• Red Herring

• False Dilemma

Tour guides only care about money, so they cannot be trusted to educate tourists properly.

• Hasty Generalization

• Ad Hominem

• False Dilemma

• Straw Man

Opponents of cruise tourism must want to destroy our economy.

• Straw Man

• Slippery Slope

• Bandwagon

• False Analogy

We should trust the tourism minister's proposal because he studied abroad.

• Circular Reasoning

• False Dilemma

• Appeal to Authority

• Red Herring