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Article: ECOTOURISM IN NEW CALEDONIA.
- Article from:
- Parks & Recreation
- Article date:
- September 1, 2001
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 National Recreation and Park Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Ecotourism is the current buzzword in development circles for the interior of new Caledonia's Grande Terre and Loyalty Islands Province. Difference and separateness together with primeval and endemic are its nature and culture themes.
New Caledonia is becoming one of the newest alternative tourism destinations in the Pacific in a quest to provide economic and other benefits to those sectors of its society that suffered from the colonial administration of the territory and to diversify its economy. Its remoteness and its dependency status have protected it from mass tourism exploitation and degradation of its natural and cultural assets. It is developing ...
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... ... Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) in New Caledonia's capital Noumea to launch an ambitious project ... already in existence) or more formally, like in New Caledonia. New Caledonia's coral reef ha s also been described as one ...
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