Geoffrey Kent, the CEO of Abercombie & Kent recently faced condemnation from a reader for his supposed hypocrisy when dealing with the planet’s problems. He wrote a piece about traveling and conservation but the reader feels that there is instead too much travel these days and people must rather focus on understanding their own communities and preserving the environment. Luxury tourism with which Kent is associated, is getting tarnished by claims of environmental degradation due to excesses such as the use of caviar as an item of consumption. However, Kent feels that tourism is the best way of protecting the environment. African countries such as Kenya and Zambia must protect their wildlife the way for example Saudi Arabia protects its oil. Wildlife must be top priority for generation of travel jobs and national income in these countries of Africa.