TOURISM AND TRAVEL: SUSTAINABLE TOURISM: Why Sustainable Tourism is the Travel Industry's Duty

[David P. Dillard]

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TOURISM AND TRAVEL: SUSTAINABLE TOURISM:

Why Sustainable Tourism is the Travel Industry's Duty

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Why Sustainable Tourism is the Travel Industry's Duty

Richard Hammond

The Guardian

Friday 6 September 2013 02.00 EDT

http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/
sustainable-tourism-travel-industry-duty

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A shorter URL for the above link:

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http://tinyurl.com/lhna4yc

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The global tourism industry has reached an unprecedented level of demand.
For the first time in history, the number of tourists crossing
international borders in a single year reached over one billion in 2012,
according to the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO). While
just over 50% of these tourist arrivals were from Europe, much of this
demand is being fuelled by rising household incomes in emerging economies
not only the Brics (Brazil, Russia, India and China) but increasingly
across the rest of south-east Asia and Latin America. In addition to
increasing levels of international travel, it is estimated that another
five to six billion people travel in their own country every year.

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Given these statistics, it is little surprise that tourism is one of the
world's fastest-growing industries. Yet while the positives are often
widely broadcast tourism currently accounts for 9% of world GDP, $1.3tn
in exports and 6% of world trade, as well as bringing economic benefits to
local communities and encouraging greater global connectivity the
negatives are less likely to be discussed, including greenhouse gas
emissions, water consumption and waste management.

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How the tourism industry can manage this dramatic growth, while reducing
its less sustainable consequences, formed the backdrop for a recent
Guardian roundtable discussion sponsored by international leisure travel
group TUI Travel.

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A key priority for a more sustainable tourism industry identified in the
roundtable was to deal with the impact of aviation on spiralling carbon
emissions. Tourism presently accounts for 5% of global emissions
approximately 4% from transportation (40% of those from air travel and 32%
from car travel) and almost 1% from the accommodation sector. Demand for
air travel is forecast to double by 2050, and carbon emissions from
flights departing the UK are forecast to increase from 33.3 MtCO2 in 2011
to 47 MtCO2 by 2050.

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Dr Andy Jefferson, programme director of Sustainable Aviation, thinks it
is possible to "disconnect growth in aviation with growth in carbon
emissions". How? Through the use of future aircraft technology, better
operational flying techniques and sustainable fuels. He says it will be
possible, with an internationally agreed emissions trading scheme (ETS),
to reduce net CO2 emissions to 50% of 2005 levels by 2050.

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Others were less convinced that the ETS is the panacea.

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The complete article may be read at the URL above.

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