Tourism is bad for the planet, according to new research

According to a new study not considering only airline mileage, tourists traveling all over the world have made much more planet than previously thought.

In a report published in Nature magazine, researchers judged that tourism accounts for about 8% of world carbon dioxide emissions.

According to CNN, this is about three times higher than the previous estimate and the carbon footprint has increased four times from 2009 to 2013.

Researchers who describe tourism as "mainly high income people" said they investigated the emissions from tourists, shopping, local transportation in 160 countries around the world and related air travel It is.

They also said they are studying domestic and overseas trips, and it is because travelers from the US, China, Germany, India are the most frequent travelers followed.

Dr. Arunima Malik, Chief Researcher at the University of Sydney, told the BBC that in Maldives and Seychelles tourism emissions would amount to as much as 80%.

"Small island countries are highly dependent on tourism income, but I am in trouble because I like to travel to these places that are susceptible to sea level rise and climate change," Malik said. Who is warning that it is essential to carry out sustainable development in line with the growth rate of tourism?

Travel and tourism will provide employment opportunities in remote areas. As more and more tourism trends find undeveloped destinations and meaningful ongoing experiences, the impact of tourism expenditure spreads to more distant parts of the Earth. Look at a small inland Bhutan as an example, this is a prudent sustainable tourism development plan. Over the past seven years, the number of tourists has increased from over 20,000 people to nearly 160,000 people annually, and 3 people have brought more than 30,000 new jobs. Tourism replaces illegal work with a legitimate income source. This is not a mere opportunity for those who may be struggling to find a job. Travel and tourism can also provide other income to those who previously used to live by relying on illegal or dangerous work.

War Tourism is not a new phenomenon, according to Philipstone, director of the Central Lancashire University University Dublin Tourism Institute in the UK, but improvement of commercialization is a new trend. Dark Travel currently has a sophisticated infrastructure than Thomas Cook sees visitors, and increased technology and interpersonal communication has enabled this field to grow at a faster rate (Kamin, 2014 ). This article covers media phenomena such as the VICE video (online documentary), the unknown part of the celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain show, and the development factors of the adventure travel industry. They cite extreme tour operators such as War Zone Tours and Wild Frontiers (operated since the 1990s) as pioneers in this field.

I am very interested in learning about the new dark tourism institute held at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK last week. According to their mission statement, "The Dark Tourism Institute is aimed at improving the knowledge of visitor deaths, disasters or seemingly spooky tourist attractions." The director of the institute is in the tourism industry It is Dr. Philip Stone who worked. Before becoming a scholar in the industry. After reading Dr. Stone's educational background, I got a new word because he has a doctorate. "Emotions" - Social reactions and perceptions of death and death, and co-editing of "Dark side of travel: Theory and practice of dark tourism" (Channel View Publications, 2009)