Last-chance Destinations

To stay or go? As tourism increases around the world, it puts tremendous pressure on the very places that tourists most want to visit. As the globe-trotting Norwegian journalist Arild Molstad argues in this brisk and lively tour of fifteen endangered destinations, the ecological issues are more complex than they seem. In many instances, tourism can actually enhance the prospects for survival of an over-traveled destination. A tax for visitors to Venice? A wildlife protection habitat in Rwanda that attracts tourists committed to the cause of preservation? There are other solutions besides staying home. Molstad journeys to Morocco and Cuba, Dubai and Penang, to explore the prospects for sustainable tourism. These aren't just whirlwind glimpses; the author has been to these places many times, and is an experienced observer, uniquely qualified to compare what they were to what they are and could become. Last-Chance Destinations is a travel guidebook like no other.