Skiing and golf are dangerous activities: you can break limbs playing the one, and bore people to death talking about the other, But they harbour othei less obvious tiireats. Both pursuits draw millions of people across the globe every year, sending them to ecologically and environmentally sensitive i oinmunities, usually by air. And if you live on the Heathrow approach, as Leo Hickman does, you quickly become aware of just how many aeroplanes ih.it amounts to - about 500 fly in and out of Hejthrow every day, the vast majority carrying tourists. But despite the huge numbers involved, tourism remains largely unregulated, and for all its inevitable impact on the traditional areas of government - health, education, the economy -contiol of it mainly rests with Western corporations: hotel groups and tour operators, whose bottom line is always financial.
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