It is not just us gringos that spur tourism!

I agree with most of your comments, except the one regarding glass bottles on the beach. If I'm destined to step on a broken bottle there, I'd prefer plastic to glass.

As a lifetime beach-goer I've only stepped on broken glass once, and that was while running to catch a frisbee on the tiny backwater beach called Shell Point in the Florida Panhandle.

Unlike glass, plastic takes decades if not centuries to biodegrade, and the oceans already contain more plastic than fish, so I'll stand by my comments that glass containers should not be banned from the beach. We do not need any more plastic in our oceans, but unfortunately that's where it keeps ending up.