My hometown is in the coastal zone that my childhood was full of journeys to the beach and times spending on the white sand and under the sun in summertime, or in any seasons that my family felt like to visit the beach. My family is not the only one who enjoys the beach, but thousands of people also find visiting the beach is the easiest and simplest way to spend their leisure time, especially those who have children. Entrepreneurs and investors instantly realized coastal areas are potential places for them to develop the tourism industry and earn profits so that coastal tourism was named.
What is coastal tourism exactly?
We usually assume that coastal tourism is visiting and spending our spare time enjoying the white sand and blue waves. However, if it was that simple, we did not have a whole coastal tourism industry nowadays. The idea of coastal tourism includes various types of tourism, relaxing, and recreational activities taken place in the coastal area and the sea. By that mean, entrepreneurs in the coastal tourism industry built up facilities and infrastructures such as restaurants and second homes to support tourism development in the fragile coastal ecosystem. Also included are beach-based tourism activities such as swimming and sunbathing, coastal walks, etc. Coastal tourism has been a trend and developed with diverse activities and infrastructures taken place on a gigantic scale with the only purpose is to satisfy the entertaining demands of humans. However, we seem to forget one of the most important elements that in order to maintain a long-lasting development of coastal tourism, humans must protect the sustainability of the environment, particularly the coastal zone.
Coastal tourism 