Its relative inaccessibility has kept it undeveloped, but boat taxis chug back and forth so if you need a hit of urban pleasures, it's an easy trip to the bazaar and buzzy waterfront at Marmaris.
But its insular nature has also kept it undeveloped, and companies are looking to take advantage of the worldwide financial downturn by hiring some of the newly unemployed to diversify and upgrade their own staffs.
Urban areas, which are providing tax incentives to build green, are encouraging concentration of growth, Mr. Wisniewski said; residents of nonurban areas want to keep them undeveloped.
A few leading citizens have called the environmental groups enemies of the nation that are trying to impose racist schemes to keep Belize undeveloped.
He said that should the GOT continue to refuse to provide transit for SD2 gas on terms that Azerbaijan finds commercially viable, then the GOAJ might well decide to keep SD2 undeveloped and "let Turkey freeze for a few winters".
"It's vital that we keep this space undeveloped," said the co-president of the Colwick Civic Association, Christopher Norris.
The landowners, in turn, get a share of those fees — an incentive to keep their land undeveloped.
