The tourism industry is booming throughout the world, but nowhere more noticeably than on the small tropical islands of Southeast Asia. Millions of tourists flock to the remote islands every day to enjoy the beaches and snorkel among the coral reef, but the traffic and the waste it produces has forced some ecosystems to reach their breaking point. “Overtourism” is the new term for the overpopulation of tourists who wreak havoc on fragile ecosystems and many Asian governments have had to close...
from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/overtourism-surges-in-unsustainable-tourism-are-destroying-islands-in-the-pacific
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