Diving can be much more than just enjoying marine wildlife. Dive tourism if well managed may assist local communities. In planning dive tourism in developing countries, it is important to connect environmental sustainability to social sustainability if we are to conserve coral reefs for future generations ! 

“Environmental change threatens people’s health, physical security, material needs and social cohesion. This is a world beset by increasingly intense and frequent storms, and by rising sea levels. Some people experience extensive flooding, while others endure intense droughts. Species extinction occurs at rates never before witnessed. Safe water is increasingly limited, hindering economic activity. Land degradation endangers the lives of millions of people. This is the world today”                                                                                                                       (United Nations Environment Programme, 2007, p. 6)  

There is a clear and urgent need to move forward in all society sectors and in all levels.  

What is the role of tourism? What is the role of diving tourism? Should they play a role in sustainable development?
 

This website has been created to share ideas about how to make diving much more fun, not only for us, addictive divers, but for our host communities...people that live from and for the ocean. A responsible dive is about environmental and social responsibility.

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