Can Tourists Learn to Tread Lightly?
EVERY year, thousands of people pay up to $5,000 a week for the right to snap pictures of Kodiak brown bears on their home turf, savagely beautiful Kodiak Island in the Gulf of Alaska. The problem, from the bears’ point of view, is that there are not a lot of places left in the world where they can gulp huge quantities of king salmon without human interference. If too many spectators line the swollen rivers of the island, the bears will start to change their behavior, maybe even directing their appetite toward tourists. That is the conundrum facing modern tourism in distant and unscarred lands. More and more, people who travel are clamoring for places where the culture is untouched by MTV, and the land is yet to be burdened with warehouse shopping centers. But visitors can change the character of a place. To cope with what many see as a major threat to the future of tourism — the loving-a-place-to-death syndrome — the industry has begun to form some guiding principles for the broad a
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