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Andre
Hmmm those things don't seem to help over there. Tourism is their main industry revenue earner, and they are fiercely protective of their tourism lisencees. Its like being caught smuggling diamonds in the Northern Cape...no amount of appologies or pleading ignorance will help. They will nail you... properly.
My sister is married to the son of the Chief Justice of Seychelles. I think I have covered the cheap fishing option with him many times, and there is no alternative but to do it with a licensed operator, or on your own. Details of reserves and National parks are easy to come by to know where one can and cant fish.
Seychelles are so protective of their tourism resources, that they have intentionally made it a very expensive place, for the purpose of defining the market to people who can afford it. No backpackers, campers, etc etc are welcome there, and all rightly so, otherwise it would have long ago degenerated to something like the Comores or Mauritius.
Its one of the reasons why Seychelles don't have recreational fishing licence requirements. They expect that all fishing tourism will be condicted through legitimate operators, who know , understand, and abide by the requirements.
Andre
there are a couple of studies in terms of cheap holiday makers vs high end tourism.
i.e. Spain where they had a look at the contribution to the local economy of the mass market package deal English holiday makers in certain areas vs the high end tourism.
The mass market, adds almost no value to the local economy except drink lots of beer, and eat CHEAP food. The high end tourism, supports the local industry, crafts, restaurant, sight seeing etc. In certain Spanish coastal towns, they have started demolishing the cheap hotels, as they no longer want the bottom end, package deal, beer guzzling English tourist.
Gerrit
Research have shown, that all the new "tourism hotspots" that have been opened up, was due the the leading roll that back packers have played to open up due to adventurous spirit of the back packers and their urge to see "new" places.
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