Sustainable Tourism — a week in Morocco

Sustainable tourism is the concept of visiting a place as a tourist and trying to make only a positive impact on the environment, society and economy. I have often wondered how it could be that a ‘tourist’ could have a positive impact by travelling.

I enjoyed an idyllic childhood in Goa, India but also remember humid, hot summers with very little water in the wells (we had to pull water from the well in villages in the '80s)-what I remember hearing then was talk that the local five-star hotels would buy water by truckloads to fill their large swimming pools. I…