This article explores the Indo-Pacific Islands, highlighting Mentawais Island, as a testbed to demonstrate the importance of capacity management and environmental management systems. This has been done enforcing operating permits to prevent industry impacts for surf destinations. These impacts include crowding, commercial competitive conflicts within the industry, environmental changes, cultural changes and economic affects. It has been recognized that different forms of tourist activity have different impacts and there for appropriate planning, design, technology and operational management must be created for them. For surf tourism controlling over-crowding is a major concern, not only to control 
There are luxury surf travelers who tend to book tours (commercial tourists) and there are cash-poor surfers (independent travelers) who are willing to take higher risks and will figure it out on their own. Though they are rare to find, there are surf resort for luxury travelers as well and over 100 surf camps worldwide. These companies have exclusive access to breaks and have the advantage of marketing themselves as unspoiled and uncrowned locations. Surf tourism attracts relatively high paying tourists to areas that have little to no fixed infrastructure. The finances that the surf tourism industry creates can provide cash flow to fund tourism infrastructure to support the development of a broader nature, adventure and cultural tourism sector in less these islands.impacts but for the perceived value and satisfaction of the surf tourist.
Buckley, R. (2002). Surf tourism and sustainable development in Indo-Pacific Islands. ll. Reacreational capacity management and case study. Journal of sustainable tourism , 425-442
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