Ingredients for Sustainability

The tourism economy will only flourish with:

  • the full support of the local community; and
  • it will only last as long as the natural environment remains healthy and preserved; and
  • cultural uniqueness is upheld through a genuine pride in popular traditions

Sustainable development means, in the words of the 1987 World Commission on Environment, "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."

In other words, sustainable development is a comprehensive approach to promoting development in ways that do not harm the environment or deplete natural resources so that they will still be available in the future.