SUSTAINING SIARGAO
It’s late and I’m at Bravo Beach Resort, the premier nightclub on the wave-rich Filipino island of Siargao (pronounced: shar-gow). The comparison with Bali is undeniable. Cheap drinks, great food, tropical weather, cranking waves, comfortable accommodation, and an intoxicating local culture. Siargao is on a collision course with global tourism. Whether it descends into the quagmire of unchecked development, irresponsible tourism, hedonism, corruption, pollution, inflation, overcrowding and cultural ruin that has beset large swathes of Bali is the
