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Wednesday, 02 January 2008
Jamaica scored 44 points on a list of destinations surveyed by the National Geographic to determine how the integrity of the islands around the world is holding up.
The survey results, which are featured in the magazine's November/December 2007 issue, showed that Bora-Bora in French Polynesia is the premiere island in the South Pacific region while the Faroe Islands in Denmark are the world's number one.
The list is based on a survey conducted by National Geographic and George Washington University involving a panel of 522 experts in sustainable tourism and destination stewardship.
Jamaica's score puts it among the islands in serious trouble.
The team reviewed conditions in 111 islands and archipelagos.
According to the magazine, the world's most appealing destinations- islands- are the ones most prone to tourism overkill.
The experts voted on which islands avoid the danger, which are succumbing to it, and which hang in the balance.
National Geographic maintained that beach-blessed islands draw sun-and-sand resort tourism development that can get out of hand quickly.
It said multiple cruise-ship crowds can also overwhelm an island.
Therefore cooler islands tend to do better in sustaining their infrastructure.
The Faroe Islands got a score of 87; Molokai in Hawaii, 78 and Bora Bora, 76.
Jamaica was placed at the bottom of the list with such islands as those in Key West, Florida and Phuket, Thailand.
The Turks and Caicos with 44 and St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands with 37 also held on to the bottom places.
Jamaica scored 44 points on a list of destinations surveyed by the National Geographic to determine how the integrity of the islands around the world is holding up.
The survey results, which are featured in the magazine's November/December 2007 issue, showed that Bora-Bora in French Polynesia is the premiere island in the South Pacific region while the Faroe Islands in Denmark are the world's number one.
The list is based on a survey conducted by National Geographic and George Washington University involving a panel of 522 experts in sustainable tourism and destination stewardship.
Jamaica's score puts it among the islands in serious trouble.
The team reviewed conditions in 111 islands and archipelagos.
According to the magazine, the world's most appealing destinations- islands- are the ones most prone to tourism overkill.
The experts voted on which islands avoid the danger, which are succumbing to it, and which hang in the balance.
National Geographic maintained that beach-blessed islands draw sun-and-sand resort tourism development that can get out of hand quickly.
It said multiple cruise-ship crowds can also overwhelm an island.
Therefore cooler islands tend to do better in sustaining their infrastructure.
The Faroe Islands got a score of 87; Molokai in Hawaii, 78 and Bora Bora, 76.
Jamaica was placed at the bottom of the list with such islands as those in Key West, Florida and Phuket, Thailand.
The Turks and Caicos with 44 and St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands with 37 also held on to the bottom places.