7 Ways Tourists Are Destroying the World’s Best Vacation Spots
| May 11, 2015
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Environmental and Site Damage
Most frustrating is that the sheer numbers of tourists often lead to environmental damage as well; pollution from increased traffic to tourist areas, increased garbage, and occasionally direct damage from overuse. Many coral reef dive sites are suffering from careless dive boats and increased traffic. Thousands of tourists climbing on and defacing ancient sites has also resulted in some damage as is the case at Stonehenge in England, and may soon be a very real problem at Angkor Wat in Cambodia.
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