7 Ways Tourists Are Destroying the World’s Best Vacation Spots
| May 11, 2015
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Changes in Landscape
Changes in landscape can’t directly be attributed to tourists. Beach tourists are hardly likely to want to spend their holidays laboring in construction sites. Rather, locals wishing to make more money from the tourist trade and accommodate ever increasing crowds will build ever more hotels along popular beach strips or around popular tourist sites. Koh Phi Phi in Thailand is the perfect example; 30 years ago Koh Phi Phi was a beautiful crescent beach with rocky forests on either side. Today the crescent beach is crowded with hotels, guesthouses, bars and restaurants and you can’t really tell whether you’re in Thailand or another tropical beach resort. They all start to look the same.
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