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Tourism provides people with jobs but often rather menial ones.

a menial job in the restaurant's kitchen

menial work

My parents work at menial jobs and are given no respect.

menial jobs or tasks are not very difficult, do not require any skill, and the people who do them have very low status

menial work is boring, and not well paid or respected

Immigrants often take menial jobs that no-one else wants.