When announcing its ideas on development policy in the Second Development Decade which began in 1971, the Federal Government said that it "wishes to promote tourism in sultable less developed countries (LDCs) through improvement of the infrastructure, especially transport, provision of...

The focus of this paper is on sustainable tourism's wider benefits, it is important to acknowledge that there are tradeoffs involved. Like other economic activities, tourism both gives and takes from communities and travelers. When it is poorly planned, tourism can negatively impact cities,...