{"id":16955,"date":"2017-02-27T18:49:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T17:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=16955"},"modified":"2017-02-27T18:50:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T17:50:17","slug":"the-perils-of-a-tourism-boom-palawans-popularity-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2017\/02\/the-perils-of-a-tourism-boom-palawans-popularity-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perils of a Tourism Boom: Palawan\u2019s Popularity Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16956\" src=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/El-Nido-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The Perils of a Tourism Boom: Palawan\u2019s Popularity Problem\" width=\"627\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/El-Nido-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/El-Nido-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/El-Nido.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">P<\/span>alawan\u2019s Popularity Problem: An Interview with Photographer Duncan Murrell<\/p>\n<p>This past fall (autumn for those outside North America), I was lured to Palawan, a culturally and ecologically rich archipelago in the Philippines made up of nearly 2,000 islands. Seeing the name pop up repeatedly on \u201cworld\u2019s best islands\u201d and \u201cworld\u2019s best beaches\u201d lists in recent years meant I wasn\u2019t the only one who fell for the hype. Palawan\u2019s Provincial Tourism Office estimates that 2.3 million tourists visited what it calls the Philippines\u2019 \u201clast frontier\u201d in 2016, up 28 percent from 2015. 2017 numbers are expected to climb even higher.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after landing on the main island, I saw some of the consequences of this recent tourism boom \u2013 rocks and debris washed onto roads during rainstorms because the surrounding hillsides had been cleared of trees, raw sewage running directly into the sea not far from where tourists snorkeled and swam, and workers scrambling around the clock to finish hastily constructed hotels in time for peak tourist season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is an excerpt from an article first published by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ethicaltraveler.org\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Ethical Traveler<\/em><\/a>. Read the original article here: <a href=\"http:\/\/ethicaltraveler.org\/2017\/02\/the-perils-of-a-tourism-boom-palawans-popularity-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Perils of a Tourism Boom: Palawan\u2019s Popularity Problem<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palawan\u2019s Popularity Problem: An Interview with Photographer Duncan Murrell. 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