Maritime action plan to aid tourism

OUR tourism promotion bodies are scratching their collective heads to find ways of luring more visitors to our shores.

They might be rewarded should they place a bigger focus on marine wildlife tourism.

Whale and dolphin watching is becoming an ever more popular past-time along the south and west coasts, in particular. We are surrounded by some of the richest marine flora and fauna and abundant populations of a wide range of marine species, including seals, sharks, turtles and seabirds, in Europe.