HOW DO YOU MEASURE GREEN TOURISM?
How much tourism can a delicate landscape — or globe — sustain? NY Times October 6, 2008, By James Kanter
BARCELONA — The next time you see cranes and bulldozers at a congested airport, consider the following: There will be 1.6 billion tourists traveling the globe by the end of the next decade. That is nearly twice as many than at present – and it could have a profound impact on heavily visited parts of the globe. “Tourism is an extraordinary growth industry,” Achim Steiner, the executive director of the United Nations Environment Program, said on Monday at the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona. He said it was the responsibility of operators — from hoteliers to travel companies — as well as governments to ensure that sites are sustainable. READ MORE AT http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/is-there-any-such-thing-as-green-tourism/?pagemode=print