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Many people feel that there ___is_____ (example) great potential for making Hong Kong a successful eco-tourist destination. __________, I believe Hong Kong's eco-tourism is in a mess.
__________, eco-tourism is not a priority for most tourists. They do not visit Hong Kong for the beautiful beaches or countryside, __________ the shops. To them, Hong Kong is a ‘shopping paradise’.
Secondly, the lack of interest has meant eco-tourism firms have either
closed __________ pushed their prices up. As a __________, visitors often end up on eco-tours run by untrained operators, __________ offer cheap eco-tours. There groups usually have very little concern about the environment and may even damage the sites they take people to. For __________, they get too close to the pink dolphins, or they take __________ many people to small, uninhabited island __________ cannot cope with a large number of visitors. Even __________ the government has always urged people __________ to protect the natural environment, they seem to have ignored it.