IGCSE Travel & Tourism · Media & sustainable tourism

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Bay

Maya Bay, Thailand: up to 5,000 visitors a day. It closed in June 2018 and reopened in 2022 with strict limits, and sharks returned.
Trolltunga, Norway: under 800 hikers a year until 2010, then over 80,000 in 2016, with 40 rescues that summer.
Blue Planet II (2017): its plastic episode led to the UK ban on plastic straws, stirrers and cotton buds.
Palau Pledge (2017): visitors sign an eco-pledge stamped into their passport.
Australia (2020): after the bushfires, "Holiday Here This Year" and #EmptyEsky sent tourists to regional towns.

One post can save a reef, or flood it with 5,000 tourists a day. You run the bay's social account. Decide what goes viral.

@viralbay Media can protect places… or love them to death. Which will it be?

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