While tourism development has been spatially focused on the beach,sun, sand, surf much more in the past, the marine environment as a whole has become one of the new frontiers and fastest growing areas of the world’s tourism industry [5]. The exact numbers of marine tourists remains unknown. Nevertheless, the selling of ‘sun, sand and surf experiences’, the development of beach resorts and the increasing popularity of marine tourism (e.g.fishing, scuba diving, windsurfing, and yachting) has all placed increased pressure o