France is to trial a "visitor's permit" in the spring in Sugiton, a pristine cove on the southern French coast near the Mediterranean city of Marseille and a popular site that has been threatened for several years by severe erosion.
The high cliffs and sapphire-blue waters at the Sugiton pebble beach are a big tourist draw for the Calanques National Park, not least because other areas of the forest reserve are often closed because of the risk of fire.