Is this what they call eco-tourism?

HOW can a 100-bedroom luxury hotel and 105 holiday cottages to be developed at Lough Key national forest park — one of the most beautiful public parks in Ireland and a treasure to all of us privileged to live in the north-west — be called ‘eco-tourism’?

Is this what they call eco-tourism?

Unless ‘eco’ is short for economic advantage to the developers.

They then talk about future development of an 18-hole golf course when just a few kilometres away is the magnificent Carrick-on-Shannon club situated beside ‘Woodbook’ of literary renown.

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