With a population of under a million, Bhutan, which borders India and Tibet, has laws limiting tourism in order to preserve its culture and natural resources.

"Plans to limit tourism in Antarctic."

In choosing the current design, voters rejected the argument of many political and business leaders that it was retarding the state's economic progress, limiting outside investment and tourism by projecting a retrograde, backwater image.

This success has led Mr. Fricker to become a consultant of sorts to other Florida towns wanting to limit tourism.

Nonetheless, the remoteness of the region limits even tourism, and after short visits to the major sites, most tourists return to other areas, such as Queenstown or Invercargill.

The proclamation limits tourism to the area, and calls for a phase-out of fishing by 2011.

For others, particularly Israel, political and security considerations limit regional tourism.

The country's air force maintains a monopoly on all scheduled commercial flights into the Amazon, a prerogative that allows it to limit tourism.

Its intention is both to limit the ways in which AIDS has been commonly spread, and sexual tourism, European sexual tourism.

"We're not ready to limit tourism," said Mr. Bruno.