Coastal Tourism Project Document
Globally, the productive capacity and ecological integrity of the marine environment, including estuaries and near-shore coastal waters, are being degraded, and in many places the degradation has intensified1. According to the Third Global Environment Outlook (GEO-3), the key driving force behind the degradation of these ecosystems is often poorly-planned, and rapidly accelerating, social and economic development-related activities in coastal areas that results from increasing populations, urbanization, industrialization, maritime transport and tourism2. Tourism is presently one of the most dynamic and fastest economic growth sectors around the world, especially in developing nations3. Globally, this sector has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to act as a primary driver of growth in some of the poorest nations4, and its potential to contribute to the Millennium Development Goals, and its central target on poverty reduction5 through generating incomes, investment, jobs, social welfare, external debt reduction, and encouraging economic diversification.
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