How to deal with the Tourist Tide @ Radio 4's 'Costing the Earth'

Tourism and what it brings is full of contradictions. 

Sidmouth needs it - but how much does it need it?
Futures Forum: "Objections to tourism are often contradictory"

In fact, it can often be a bit too much - and some feel its a beast which needs to be 'tamed':
Futures Forum: Taming tourism

In particular, many feel that 'tourism' doesn't actually benefit the places tourists go to:
Futures Forum: "Struggling to adapt to the challenges posed by a booming tourist sector: money comes in from outside, pushing prices up, forcing the locals out, second homes proliferate and the traditional activities that define a place become little more than window-dressing."

The new series of Costing the Earth on Radio 4 looks at the impacts of tourism:

Tourist Tide

Costing the Earth

Can beautiful places welcome mass tourism without environmental destruction? Tom Heap reports.

There's been a summer of discontent in some of Europe's most popular tourist destinations. In Venice and Barcelona there have been a series of protests over their inundation by visitors. In the capital of the Basque country, San Sebastian, 'tourists go home' graffiti has appeared.

Dubrovnik is capping the number of visitors allowed in the old city. Even the Isle of Skye told people not to come unless they had accommodation already booked.

So how can the most popular places find a way to continue attracting visitors and their cash without destroying the beauty that was so appealing in the first place? 

Tom travels to Orkney which has become the most popular cruise destination in the UK and to Amsterdam which is trialling innovative ways to spread its millions of visitors beyond the Rijksmuseum, the coffee shops and the Red Light District.

BBC Radio 4 - Costing the Earth, Tourist Tide
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