Issue 409 of New Internationalist

Reader-owned global journalism

March 2008

March 2008

This month's theme of Ethical Travel deals with two separate subjects: the first half devoted to the thorny issue of flying and the second to the impact of tourism.

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In this issue

  • People on the tiny Thai island of Koh Yao Noi have adopted ‘community-based tourism’. *Marwaan Macan-Markar* asks them about the benefits.
  • Groups working on floods / rivers
  • Major floods have grown expon

  • There is a little hole on the wall of every office, restaurant, reception area, hotel lobby, shop – even in the humblest of the living rooms – which serves as a formidable metaphor for the vicissitudes of power, prestige and privilege in Brunei.
  • Tourism is booming – and every country seems to want more. But, *Chris Brazier* wonders, do they see the pitfalls?