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Turning an authentic rural experience into a thriving part of the tourist industry - that's the aim of , an organisation celebrating its thirtieth anniversary this year. Over the decades, it's seen redundant farm buildings being converted into shepherd's huts, eco-lodges, luxury woodland hideaways and contributed 3.5 billion pounds to the rural economy in the UK.

The all-Wales Coast Path has attracted three million visitors and generated more than since it opened according to a report from the Wales Economic Research Unit. The income was generated between September 2011 -- when many of the main routes were already open -- and August 2012. The 870 mile route runs from the Dee estuary in the north, to Chepstow in the south. We talk to Ramblers Cymru

And tourism is not just walking or visitors staying in Wales - we talk to the Llyn tourist operator branching out and launching "" - a consortium of Welsh businesses able to serve cruise passengers at the ports around our shores.

Welsh softwood timber has traditionally been regarded as low grade, suitable only for products such as pallets, fencing posts and chipboard. But now, through harnessing a technique pioneered in Germany, Welsh timber is being used to build a major extension at Coed y Brenin, the Forestry Commission's famous mountain biking centre. And as our community reporter Huw Jenkins discovered, it's hoped the revolutionary system could bringto small local sawmills across Wales.

Performing autopsies, diagnosing new diseases and detecting harmful parasites - all in a day's work for Dr. Sian Mitchell, a senior vet working at the She's just become one of only 2 vets in the UK to be awarded a Diplomate of the European Veterinary Parasitology college - Rachael Garside meets her at work in the lab.

And if you want to imagine dangerous fish you think of shark or Pike or some other monster of the deep - but the Environment Agency has this week launched an exercise to remove an unusually dangerous fish from Welsh lakes. It's small but a prolific breeder, eating all the food our native fish should be consuming. The arrived in our waters after escaping from imports for aquariums imported from Asia.