eco-tours

Today's South China Morning Post has an article on coral tour boats at Hoi Ha - prompting comment from me about Hong Kong "eco-tours".

A reporter went out on a so-called "eco-tour" - which proved to be a 10-minute coral-viewing trip, with "no introduction or explanation of what we saw." This hardly seems atypical in Hong Kong - where "eco-tourism" has become a highly misused buzz word, sometimes having about as much to do with real eco-tourism as my piano playing has to do with classical music. (I can't even play Chopsticks.)