Paradise in the South Pacific? Isn't that only ad copy for getaway resorts that put little beach umbrellas in the cocktails and charge prices the locals could only afford after a winning lottery ticket?
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| Local leader Visanti Makrava, here with an arm around his elder brother, hopes to keep tourism small-scale to minimize its impact on the community. |
Maybe so, but places remain that, if not paradises, are blissfully unwired and undiscovered. Of course, in drawing attention to those places, travel writers often make them a little more like Shibuya: Where the jumbos fly, McDonald's and Starbucks inevitably follow.
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