How To Be An Ethical Traveler
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The Lofiten Islands - A Beautiful, Beautiful, Remote Island
In the Lofiten Islands, there's a village called Utakli with a beach so outstanding that National Geographic called it one of the most romantic in the world. The people of this little village are now being invaded by 250,000 tourists on that little beach every year. This is turned into a stampede. When someone gets ill, this little island has to transport them by helicopter to a clinic and pay the bills. They have to pay for their own porta-potties that people will ignore. All of the money being made on tourism, none of it goes to the community, but the community has to pick up the pieces. We can't just go wherever we
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