Park Service Markets Yosemite as Tour Package

While the National park Service has eliminated any user capacity numbers for Yosemite, it markets Yosemite as a part of quickie tour packages -- actively enticing more people to tour and impact the Park's already degraded natural values. The Park Service then claims that it has to accommodate these tourists with ever increasing amounts of and increasingly upscaled types of accommodations. (The Yosemite Valley Plan will bulldoze and pave even more asphalt in Yosemite Valley and many other areas of the park.

Usually people on such tour packages spend a mere few hours in Yosemite, while leaving a large impact on its resources. Rather than taking home a priceless in-depth experience of Yosemite's natural values, they rush from spot to spot to take quick photos, purchase souvenirs, and eat. Rather than Yosemite leaving a lasting impact on them, their impact leaves a lasting impression on Yosemite.

Please see the following which is a National Park Service press release:

"Yosemite National Park Employees Attend Travel Expo [in China] to Promote Tourism to National Parks"

http://nps.gov/yose/news/2002/tour0701.htm

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