Tourism in Spain is an important factor that accounts to 12 percent of its gross domestic product. But there is an unchecked construction going on along the coast which is damaging Spain’s shores and causing a danger to the vital tourism industry.
The international conservation group Greenpeace accuses Spain for overdeveloping its coastline, which it says could cause irreversible damage.
There are plans to build more than 200,000 hotel rooms, 316 golf courses and 112 marinas in the environmentally sensitive areas. According to Greenpeace, these projects threaten to damage Spain’s coastlines that annually attract millions of tourists.
The mix of lenient building laws, greedy developers and corrupt politicians is having disastrous effect on the environment of the Spanish coastline. The local administration is held responsible for not being able to put brakes on destruction of the coast.
There is an immediate need to find the solution to the problems of the coastline and adopt important reforms regarding the management of the coast.
Source: International Herald Tribune
