Synopsis
Simon Reeves visits an island used to dump all the waste from the tourist industry.
- Programme: Indian Ocean with Simon Reeve
- Episode: Oman to the Maldives
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2012
- Geography | Tourism | Tourism | Positive and negative impacts of tourism
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