In the past large amounts of money have been spent building and promoting tourist resources in the Taitung area. These schemes have often resulted in serious damage to the area, such that even many aboriginal people who had looked to such ideas to make their villages more prosperous have become dismayed.
過去推廣台灣東部的觀光資源，常是大手筆地建設，也帶來嚴重的破壞，到最後連希望家鄉繁榮的原住民也覺得害怕。