Killing the golden-egg goose?

Green Coast or Gold Coast?

These links provide evidence from several major overseas tourist areas which prove that overdevelopment has led to economic downturn. Whitsunday needs to be mindful of local tourist surveys which show a considerable percentage of our visitors consider that Whitsunday is already overdeveloped and losing its appeal.

• Spain's overdevelopment causes irreversible environmental damage
• Psychology & The Environment  -- Overdevelopment of North Beach, Maui
• Tourism Development & Host Involvement - the importance for grass root involvement in an areas development
• Sustainable Tourism Development in the Caribbean
• Sun, golf, cement: On Spain’s latest construction craze
• Overdevelopment, Pollution Threaten Billion-Dollar Caribbean Dive Tourism Industry
• Tourist Industry Fat Cats Rake In Tsunami Windfall
• Perceptions of the impacts of Tourism in the Surf Coast Shire: A comparison of permanent and nonpermanent residents
• GBRMPA - rp38_conclusions.pdf - DOESN'T WORK
• WWF - Coastal development problems: Towns & cities
• WWF - Coastal development problems: Tourism

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