WUFT-TV/FM | WJUF-FM
1200 Weimer Hall | P.O. Box 118405
Gainesville, FL 32611
(352) 392-5551

A service of the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida.

© 2025 WUFT / Division of Media Properties
News and Public Media for North Central Florida
Donate
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
Special Report: The Price of Paradise
Costa Rica is a global model for nature-based tourism, thanks to bold policies that reforested a quarter of the country and prioritized conservation. But now, mass tourism and foreign investment have begun to raise questions about whether outsiders are loving Costa Rica too much – and whether too many local people have been left behind.

Part Four: Overcoming Overtourism

The solutions to overtourism include new models to help visitors leave places even better than they found them.
Algunos huéspedes del Hotel Belmar descansan en la orilla de un estanque de agua de manantial. (Sabrina Castro/WUFT News)
Regenerating the idea of ecotourism in Costa Rica and the world
Sabrina Castro
In response to the failed promise of “sustainable tourism,” can a new model leave places better with the help of tourists?
Water, water everywhere?
Caia Reese
Un grupo de turistas visita el Parque Nacional de los Everglades. (Foto cortesía de J. Roark/National Park Service)
Saving the real Florida
Maria Avlonitis