ABSTRACT
Integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) is a strategy for an integrated approach to planning and management, in which all policies, sectors and, to the highest possible extent, individual interests are properly taken into account, with the proper consideration given to the full range of temporal and spatial scales, and involving stakeholders in a participative way. Coastal management is the complex interaction of laws, programs and efforts to evaluate tradeoffs and make decisions about how to use, conserve and value the resources and opportunities of the coastal zone. ICZM is thus defined as being an iterative and collective process which must be coordinated using a multidisciplinary, multi-tool approach according to a non-linear timescale. Coastal tourism systems involve interactions between people and place in destinations that include small communities and villages, self-contained resorts and cosmopolitan cities. Coastal and marine tourism destinations, as with tourism destinations elsewhere, reveal the contradictions of travel.
