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Sustainable tourism



With the advent of the internet, some traditional conventions are being replaced with virtual conventions, where the attendees remain in their home physical location and "attend" the convention by use of a web-based interface programmed for the task. This sort of "virtual" meeting eliminates all of the impacts associated with travel, accommodation, food wastage, and other necessary impacts of traditional, physical conventions.

Travel over long distances requires a large amount of time and/or energy. Generally this involves burning fossil fuels, a largely unsustainable practice and one that contributes to climate change, via CO2 emissions.

Air travel is perhaps the worst offender in this regard, contributing to between 2 and 3% of global carbon emissions [7]. Given a business-as-usual approach, this could be expected to rise to 5% by 2015 and 10% by 2050. Car travel is the next worst offender.

Mass transport is the most climate friendly method of travel, and generally the rule is "the bigger the better" - compared to cars, buses are relatively more sustainable, and trains and ships are even more so. Human energy and renewable energy are the most efficient, and hence, sustainable. Travel by bicycle, solar powered car, or sailing boat produces no carbon emissions (although the embodied energy in these vehicles generally comes at the expense of carbon emission).[citation needed]

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References

  1. ^ Urban Environmental Management Sustainable Tourism. Global Development Research Center. Retrieved on 2007-12-06.
  2. ^ Randall, A. (1987). Resource economics, Second Edition. New York, USA: John Wiley and Sons. 
  3. ^ Kamauro, O. (1996). Ecotourism: Suicide or Development? Voices from Africa #6: Sustainable Development, UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service. United Nations News Service. 
  4. ^ Vivanco, L. (2002). Ecotourism, Paradise lost - A Thai case study. The Ecologist, 32(2):28-30. 
  5. ^ Sustainable Coastal Tourism Paper
  6. ^ Australian Sustainable Coastal Tourism Policy
  7. ^ IPCC

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