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Last Updated: 5:05PM BST 18/07/2008
Hotel developers in southern India have been accused of seizing coastal land that was hit by the tsunami of 2004.
*www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00691/kerala_coast-404_691552c.jpg
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A new report says developers are exploiting fishermen's lack of business experience
Entire communities have sold up and relocated inland, giving up their access to the sea, upon which they depend for fishing, according to the organisation Tourism Concern. Developers are said to have effectively privatised communal beach-front land by bringing in private roads, fences and security guards, thus blocking access to the sea.
Tourism Concern, which campaigns against exploitation in the tourist industry, highlights the village of Mararikulam in Kerala, which it says has borne the brunt of such developments.
"Their land has been bought up gradually over the past 10 years, but since the tsunami there has been a real drive by estate agents," said Rachel Noble, campaigns officer for Tourism Concern. "Once they have accumulated large tracts of land, they sell it on to developers for the tourism industry."
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Last Updated: 5:05PM BST 18/07/2008
Hotel developers in southern India have been accused of seizing coastal land that was hit by the tsunami of 2004.
*www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00691/kerala_coast-404_691552c.jpg
Getty
A new report says developers are exploiting fishermen's lack of business experience
Entire communities have sold up and relocated inland, giving up their access to the sea, upon which they depend for fishing, according to the organisation Tourism Concern. Developers are said to have effectively privatised communal beach-front land by bringing in private roads, fences and security guards, thus blocking access to the sea.
Tourism Concern, which campaigns against exploitation in the tourist industry, highlights the village of Mararikulam in Kerala, which it says has borne the brunt of such developments.
"Their land has been bought up gradually over the past 10 years, but since the tsunami there has been a real drive by estate agents," said Rachel Noble, campaigns officer for Tourism Concern. "Once they have accumulated large tracts of land, they sell it on to developers for the tourism industry."
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