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Tourism Concern, a London-based charity that advocates tourism development that benefits local people, says the building of "mega-resorts" should be halted because they are displacing existing populations and wreaking havoc on fragile ecosystems. "The development of mega-resorts and all the social and environmental problems that go with them is an issue facing communities from Scotland to Bulgaria, from Spain to the Bahamas, India to Thailand," said Patricia Barnett, the group's director. "Tourism has to be developed in a more sustainable, transparent and democratic way. That means listening to the needs of local people and the environment, and demands an abandonment of the ‘economic growth at all costs' attitude that is seeing communities dispossessed of their homes and their means of earning a living the world over."
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