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(CNN) — The gorgeous islands of French Polynesia may change into tougher to go to because the area declares a brand new sustainable tourism plan.

Underneath the Fāri’ira’a Manihini 2027 (FM27) five-year strategic mission, the French Polynesian authorities goals to set an annual cap of 1 overseas vacationer per native resident — about 280,000.

The Southern Pacific nation contains in style locations like Bora Bora, Mo’orea and Tahiti. Its capital, Papeete, is on Tahiti.

It is unclear whether or not the brand new customer cap will apply to French nationals.

French Polynesia is a territory of France, and thus anybody with a French passport would not be thought of an abroad customer by legislation.

The FM27 doc acknowledges that tourism is a crucial supply of employment and income for residents. Nevertheless, the customer cap and different modifications will deliver a extra considerate sort of tourism.

Underneath this plan, the federal government goals to “diversify the completely different sorts of tourists, make it potential to reconcile financial progress with the preservation of the atmosphere, the standard of lifetime of the populations and the appreciation of our heritage.” It additionally mentions encouraging guests from a spread of components of the world.

The said finish aim is to “transition to an inclusive and sustainable tourism mannequin.”

Nevertheless, it could appear unusual that the nation is contemplating a customer cap when overtourism is just not a difficulty there.

In accordance with information from the World Financial institution, French Polynesia welcomed about 300,000 guests in 2019, its highest quantity ever. However this long-term plan was doubtless influenced by different such fashions world wide.

The central Asian kingdom of Bhutan is commonly cited for example of what can occur when tourism is rigorously and thoughtfully managed by the federal government. At the moment, the nation prices a $200 per particular person every day “vacationer tax,” which retains all however essentially the most devoted vacationers from visiting. In flip, the cash from the charge is used to help native communities by offering schooling, well being care and extra.
In the meantime, many in style locations round Europe have needed to impose stricter measures in recent times to fight the move of vacationers.

The Italian metropolis of Venice has been one of many hardest hit by overtourism. It has imposed measures like a every day tax for day trippers (to stability out the dearth of income from resort stays) and closely cracked down on properties listed on Airbnb in an effort to stem the tide of vacationers.

Photograph of French Polynesian seashore through Getty Photographs