I’m still behind in reading so I just spotted an interesting article from Sunday’s New York Times: Can Darwin’s Lab Survive Success?
During and following this summer’s class in Cultural & Heritage Tourism Development I learned a lot about tourism at World Heritage sites and did my final paper on endangered world heritage. It’s a sad issue that, in my opinion, doesn’t get near the coverage that it should.
Although I’ve never been to Galápagos, it’s always interested me stemming from research I did as an undergrad about the economic situation in Ecuador (archive of an old tripod page that defies all laws of good design-sense). I think tourism is just one of the many ways that Ecuador can develop and recover, but at what expense?
Ecotourism is a huge boon to some regions, but when a site is placed on the danger list, what’s the responsibility of tour operators and tourists?
It’s a good question that I’m not sure I know the answer to.
