Preserve or Destroy
Tourism and the Environment

This text gives an account of how tourism has ruined precious landscapes, polluted coast and countryside, and destroyed the distinctive cultures of many communities. But it also looks as a variety of pioneering inititives in which local people play a key role in tourism development.

The scale of the problem - managing visitors: the Peak tourism partnership
sustainable tourism - pulling together: the Isle of Purbeck
country matters - a new identity: the Tarka project
obstacles to change - paradise invented: the holiday village
limiting the damage - towards the millennium: Wales
getting there - making the links: Scotland
business matters - light on the land: Northern Ireland
acting locally - rural connections: the Republic of Ireland
conclusion - walking the talk.