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ABSTRACT
The infeasibility of implementing an organized mass tourism model in the small islands of the South Dodecanese, due to their geomorphology and size, the local production structures and their geographical position may on the one hand minimize the danger of facing the adverse environmental, social and cultural consequences of the tourism industry, at least for the time being, but on the other calls for an immediate choice of more environmentally and culturally friendly small- scale tourist activities, such as ecotourism, that can contribute to relaxing isolation and stopping or reversing demographic contraction. Thus, the functional linking and interwoving of the local development axes with activities directly related with ecotourism, aiming at the optimization of a mixture of economic and non- economic objectives, such as the increase of local employment, the provision of social services and environmental protection, may prove very effective in upgrading standards of living and thus retaining the most dynamic sections of the population.
