Damage to tourism (1)

Published on The Times of Malta on 19th June, 2007 by Joe Portelli, Ghajnsielem.

Apparently tourism is Gozo's largest and most significant industry. So how does destroying the natural beauty of Ramla l-Hamra equate to attracting more tourists?

Or for that matter how does developing and ruining Hondoq ir-Rummien and Ta' Cenc, two of the most picturesque places left on Gozo, attract tourists?

I've yet to meet a Maltese or foreign tourist who comes to Gozo to enjoy the congestion and traffic of Victoria, the "scenic beauty" of concrete buildings, streets laden with construction equipment, and what's left of our fast diminishing countryside littered with filth.

And we want to attract tourists? What a bad joke!