As referred to earlier, the late 80s marked not only a watershed in the conceptualization of human interaction with the environment, but also in the goals of tourism development. Policies driven by economic imperatives, divorced from the environmental costs of resource usage, meant that destinations in a mature stage of development had become increasingly aware of the need for an emphasis to be placed upon conservation. For example, Holder (1988), while describing the range of environmental problems that had resulted from the accumulative effects of tourism development in the Caribbean, emphasized the need for resource conservation because of communities’ economic dependency on tourism.