From Thailand to Mallorca, local ecosystems have suffered under the weight of mass tourism. Can visitor number limits and sustainable practices help restore the balance?
of this overtourism is forcing the industry to act, and to follow in the footsteps of some sustainable tourism pioneers. , an an idyllic beach on an uninhabited island in Thailand's Phi Phi archipelago, become globally famous when it was the location for "The Beach," the 2000 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
Tourist traffic led to pollution from discarded trash and damaged coastal vegetation, but the main problem was the boats dropping their anchors onto the coral below. When Maya Bay finally reopened in early 2022, visitor numbers were cut from the previous height of around 7000 to around 400 per day, noted Thon Thamrongnawasawat, head of the restoration team, in an interview with China's State news agency, Xinhua.
But the fee hike hit tourist numbers and resulted in losses across the sector. In August, Bhutan halved the amount to US$100 to stimulate tourism as it strikes a balance between climate protection and the local economy.In 1997, implemented a Certification for Sustainable Tourism that became a pioneering blueprint for a climate- and environment-friendly travel industry.
Sustainable tourism is integral to the fact that over half the nation is again covered in forest. Meanwhile, more than 98% of the Latin American nation's energy comes from renewable sources. "There are few places in the world that contribute as much to global warming as Mallorca," Jaume Adrover, a spokesperson for the Mallorca-based environmental group Terraferida, told DW in 2022 of the tourist mecca. "And this is due to only one activity: tourism."
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