... national park service. Until the 1960s, the tourism industry in Galapagos was very small and limited to a few adventure travellers from North America and Europe, as well as some border tourism from Colombia and Peru. In 1969, the cruise ship "Lina A" began to offer tours to the Galapagos Islands, and a new tourist boom began. Today, the fragile environment of the Galapagos faces a surge of new tourism and immigration that threatens to destroy the environmental purity of the volcanic islands, wipe out entire species of plants end animals. Positive impacts The government collects money in an indirect way, like for instance income taxes. All the income taxes go directly to the national park service to be distributed among all the Ecuadorian parks. The Galapagos Islands receives the biggest portion of the income, about fifty percent of the total. Roughly twenty-five percent of the income for the Galapagos go to ...

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