That travellers should be forced to settle

First off, it is spelled "traveler" not "traveller". Just throwing that out there. Now, it would certainly help if you would define "travelers" to what person exactly is a "traveler". If you mean all travelers in general (that is, people who move from one place to another for either a short or long period of time), this strikes me as foolish. So I'll write an argument for travelers in general and travelers as in migrant worker-type people. If you mean travelers in general, how would this human world, with all of its complexities and the global market that has developed today, sustain itself? America and its economy, for example, would come to a screeching halt. How would businessmen negotiate deals to acquire oil from the Middle East or negotiate deals to purchase finished goods from China without travelling? Americans would have no finished goods to purchase (for the most part) because so many are foreign-made and the businessmen would be unable to make deals to purchase them. Now, travelers (general travelers) cause a great deal of waste and mess because they have to stay at a place such as a hotel during their travels, but the hotel service industry is a huge money maker for many countries (either for business or tourism). Jamaica, for example, "is heavily dependent on services, which now account for more than 60% of GDP" (https://www.cia.gov...). Many countries would suffer great economic hardship from a lack of travel. You also state that travelers are "not good for the environment," and I greatly disagree. It is not the travelers themselves that are the cause of the damage but rather the people who provide the services that cause the environmental damage (a tourist staying at a Hilton Hotel has no control over whether the hotel uses environmentally friendly air conditioning units or all-natural detergents and so). Now, if you meant travelers as in people such as migrant workers or immigrants, I must also greatly disagree. Both migrant workers and immigrants have played pivotal roles in the world's history and still have great importance in the world today. Immigrants have quite recently played a pivotal role in the development of the Industrial Revolution, most notably in America. The Industrial Revolution began around the end of the 18th century when Samuel Slater brought the new machines of Britain's textile industry to America and Eli Whitney developed the Cotton Gin and Interchangeable parts; however, it was very weak until the boycott of English and French finished goods before and during the War of 1812. This allowed the industries in America to gain some ground, but they were still lagging behind when the boycotts were removed. The scales tipped into America's favor in the 1840s and 1850s, when there was massive immigration of Irish people (due to the Irish Potato Famine) and Germans (due to a failed revolution in Germany in 1848). Hundreds of thousands of immigrants rushed into America, and, while the explosion in population caused hygiene to drop to a disgusting level, the boost to America's industry was enormous. It laid the foundation for what would be about another century of an industrial boom, and, after a few decades, the grime and lack of hygiene slowly was cured. Another example of how mass travelers and immigration changed the course of history is after the Catholic Crusades into the Holy Land. The thousands of knights were amazed by the great splendor in which the Muslims lived due to the revival of their study of the Ancient Greeks and Romans and also the technologies that came from the Far East. They took the ideas, technologies, and thirst for a better lifestyle back home to Europe, and it caused The Renaissance. The massive movement of the pilgrims and knights, although certainly a strain on much of the agricultural and fiscal abilities of the area, allowed Europe to step out of the Dark Age. In modern times, migrant workers are very important to the agriculture and thus, the economy of America. They travel the country picking fresh fruits and vegetables and doing odd-jobs that the general populace do not wish to do. Sure, their travel may lead to sudden booms in the areas in which they stay and then a sharp decline after they leave, but how else would the crops be collected? How would the odd-jobs be done? It would crush the economy. I admit that travelers do create waste, but normal people living for a sustained period of time in one place do as well (why else do we have the massive pollution that we do?). It would be foolish to halt the movement of people and subsequently destroy the world economy because travelers seem to produce waste. I first ask that you specify who the travelers are, and then, I would ask that you show just how they create the waste you claim to do (and show how it is worse than that of people who remain settled in one place).