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Sustainable Coastal Tourism Handbook for the Philippines

"Coastal tourism" brings up popular images of resorts at the seaside with white sandy beaches lined with coconut palms and crystal-clear waters. Advertisements and travel trade literature have helped to promote this image of the three "S's" that coastal resorts usually offer - sun, sea and sand.
A fourth "S", for sex in the form of flourishing prstitution, has created social and cultural problems in many popular coastal toursist playground around the world, especially in developing countries. And finally, a fifth "S" has found its way recently into news in developing countries. And finally, a fifth "S" has found its way recently into news headlines and more disturbingly, into the coastal waters in front of beaches resorts: sewage.
The purpose of this handbook is to provid tourism developers and operators of small to large tourism projects, coastal communitites and local government units (LGUs) with practical tools and guidance to avoind unnecessary environmental and social problems from tourism development. The ultimate goal of government and private sector is to restore a tarnished coastal environment back to clean beaches and crystal-clear waters for long-term business and environmental viability.
Tropical coastal areas has major advantages compared with the coasts in the temperate climate zones. They are better suited to offer of the combinatin of sun, sea and sand to tourists year-round. The Philippines' tropical climate and diverse 18,000 - kilometer coastline on more than 7,000 islands have made it an important area for coastal tourism development. Important coastal tourism destinations in the philippines are shown in Figure 1.

Author: 
Carsten M. Hüttche
Alan T. White
Ma. Monina M. FLores
Subject: 
Coastal Tourism
File: 
PDF icon coastal_tourism_handbook.pdf
Physical Location: 
Philippines
Project Title: 
Coastal Resource Management Project (CRMP)
Publication Type: 
Handbooks / Manuals / Modules