@Zurisee Mauritius is a democracy , and while it is not perfect (they are tackling government corruption, the former Prime Minister is under house arrest for running ponzi schemes) citizens have freedom of expression, there is a stable functioning justice system with separation between religion and state and the military and state. Visitors are encouraged to mix with citizens. The justice system does not include corporal or capital punishment.
Meanwhile while people lounged on beaches on the tourist atolls over the last few years, on the island's capital of the Maldives the population have been subject to military and religious coups, harsh interpretation of sharia law, harsh retribution for exercising freedom of speech (there is none) and the system has been designed to keep citizens from mixing with tourists.
Mauritius is making an effort to redress some of the ecological damage done by years of the sugar industry (fertiliser run off into the sea) and to move to less plastic and better environmental practices but the truth is that wherever a tourist industry makes massive demands on water and pampers visitors in luxury hotels, feeding them on imported food there will be an impact. All meat except chicken will be imported.
Wherever any of us choose to go, the holiday industry everywhere puts pools where there is a water shortage, encourages visitors to have endless baths and showers, clean towels all the time, casually dropping beach towels in the laundry bins on the beach, hotels maintaining grass with constant watering in areas where no grass grown green naturally all year, thousands of visitors running air conditioning.
Few of us choose to holiday in a way that supports any form of sustainability, camping say, or staying in B&Bs and guesthouses and living like a local.
We are like spoilt kids, really.