Opposition groups said that any such levy would damage the tourism economy.

It will be quite an engineering feat, even without the efforts to ease the environmental and aesthetic impact on the moors, the lifeblood of the local tourism economy.

For many years, the hunting and fishing have also attracted visitors in the regional tourism economy.

In addition, the surge in national automotive traffic and improvements in roads boosted the local tourism economy.

This shift to conservation helped the region sustain a new tourism economy, as rail connections, and later the automobile, brought dry-fly fishermen to the valley.