1. Defining marine and coastal tourism
The concept of coastal tourism including tourism, leisure, and recreations oriented activities that take place in the coastal zone and marine. These include marine tourism development and the infrastructure supporting coastal development. Alsoincluded are tourism activities such as recreational boating, coast- and marine-basedecotourism, cruises, swimming, recreational fishing, snorkeling and diving [5,6].Marine tourism is closely related to the concept of coastal tourism but also includesocean-based tourism such as deep-sea fishing and yacht cruising. Orams [4] definesmarine tourism as including ‘those recreational activities that involve travel awayfrom one’s place of residence and which have as their host or focus the marineenvironment (where the marine environment is defined as those waters which aresaline and tide-affected)’. Such a definition is significant for in addition to its