The World Heritage wilderness of Lutruwita (the palawa kani name for the island of Tasmania) is under threat from collusion between state government and private tourism interests, according to Tom Allen. The Wilderness Society campaign manager reckons tourism does best when it complements not compromises natural values. It’s a “Good Tourism” Insight.
Upon signing the Wilderness Act into US law in 1964, President Lyndon B Johnson said: “If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt we must leave them something more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning.”
(Incidentally, President Johnson was also the first US president to recognise climate change, saying “This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through the steady burning of fossil fuels.”)
Since President Johnson made the Wilderness Act law, the world has seen catastrophic declines of wilderness, such that just 23% of the world’s wild areas remain.
Australia doesn’t have a Wilderness Act, nor does it have ... continue reading this "GT" Insight at https://goodtourismblog.com/2021/03/losing-lutruwita-tourism-troubles-in-tasmanias-world-heritage-wilderness/