Creating Environmentally sound resorts: A guide for reducing environmental impacts from small scale tourist facilities on Pacific islands

The tourism industry has long been considered by Pacific Island countries as their great hope for economic development While tourism does hold promise as a means of development for Pacific Islands, it has also been a major agent of environmental and cultural change in the pacific region. Coastal resources are impacted from directed destruction such as the filling of mangrove swamps or reef flats for resort development.