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Article: PARADISE LOST? WITH ECOTURISM CATCHING ON, THERE'S HOPE THE TRAVEL INDUSTRY WILL CLEAN UP IT'S ACT CLEAN INDUSTRY OR CULTURE KILLER?
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 20, 2002
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The United Nations has declared 2002 the International Year of
Ecotourism. Bad timing, you say? Given the events of Sept 11, any
news about travel has been mostly about its disastrous decline.
Before that terrible day, tourism had a very different trajectory.
Often ranked as the world's largest industry, employing some 10
percent of the global workforce, tourism has been growing every year.
Today it plays a major role in the economies of 125 of the 170
nations in the world, and it is the biggest breadwinner in many
developing countries. A good number of those countries - Costa Rica,
Nepal, Fiji, Kenya, Tanzania, Belize, South Africa, and Australia, to
name a few - claim to be promoting ...