'To succeed, tourism in the community must be planned and managed to improve the quality of life of the residents and to protect the local, natural and cultural environment'. That is the view of the World Tourism Organisation. Center Parcs, from its first village through to the building of its third village in Longleat Forest, has shown that tourism can be sustainable and that by investing in biodiversity through the process of environmental management, it is possible to integrate a leisure development with a valuable part of our natural heritage.