Is Tourism a Good Development Strategy?

Tut: Is tourism a good development strategy for countries that rely on it in their early stages of development, or is it an economic trap instead? The question is how you turn it into something like a fair exchange that generates mobility. How do you avoid it spilling over into naked exploitation and ruinous destruction of natural environments? It's chicken and egg, no doubt. Because weaker, poorer societies are less well placed to make the bargains that need to be made. Even a society as rich as italy can produce a really disfunctional model of tourism.