Review : Pillage holidays

From Antarctica to the Costa Rica rainforest, the South Wales coalfield to
the Masai rangelands of Kenya, travel is cheap, tourists are keen and locals are
poised to take them for everything they can. People and Tourism in Fragile
Environments, edited by Martin Price (Wiley, £35, ISBN 0 471 96584 7) is a
collection of lectures to the Royal Geographical Society on the environmental
fallout.