![]() ![]() ![]() Scholars such as sociologists Chris Rojek and John Urry (1997) have approached tourism as a specifically cultural process, while others, such as anthropologist Ian Munt (1994a 1994b) have written ethnographies of “the toured”. Gooding, 1977: 8).Ģ While tourism development can have significant affects on environments, much of the critical scholarship on tourism and its affects on local places has focused upon social impacts. So here we have a very close ecological connection between tourism and the natural environment. Although the area removed was perhaps only 20 x 30 yards, the consequent change in wave action resulted not only in the removal of the sandy beach previously existing but also the knocking down of the sea wall of the hotel itself. ![]() We had a nice example of this in Barbados recently when a certain hotel, in order to improve its beach facilities, bulldozed a certain piece of inshore reef to make a “white hole” for bathing. 1 Now coral reefs are not merely pretty, of much greater consequence is their vital importance of protecting our shores, this may not be generally realised. ![]()
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