Flipboard Culture Desk<p>Think sustainable tourism is a pipe dream? The Cook Islands may be proving that wrong. “Gazing out of the taxi from Rarotonga airport to our resort, we were immediately struck by the absence of high-rise hotels, fast-food restaurants and corporate chains,” Pam and Gary Baker write for <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@BBCNews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BBCNews</span></a></span>. Read their story about how this South Pacific nation is preserving its paradise for generations to come:</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/b0mitF" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/b0mitF</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Culture</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Travel</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/CookIslands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CookIslands</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Tourism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tourism</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/SouthPacific" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthPacific</span></a></p>