How can tourists, travel companies and destination managers work together to promote emissions reductions and ensure the preservation – even the betterment – of holiday destinations?
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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