Posts Tagged ‘ tourism pollution ’

Primarily these are tax raising or revenue raising ideas

Sustainable tourism rather than decimation tourism may become a reality rather than an over-talked about wish.

ABTA says that staycations will continue to perform well and that Europe will continue to be host to the main destinations.

In a unusual turn of events, the Mayor of Venice will ask UNESCO to place the city on its World Heritage Site blacklist.

The question for all of them is how do they manage to have their cake and still eat it.

It is concerned about the behaviour of visitors in the Gion-Shinbashi area of the city where relations between visitors and locals has reached the point where a committee of locals has been set up to encourage more courteous behaviour.

No longer could destinations just attract tourists. They now needed to “manage” where tourists went in cities so that locals could exist in harmony with visitors.

There are a spate of cruise stories this week as most of us settle down to enjoy the last bank holiday until Christmas.

The suggestion by ne expert that all those involved should get together to resolve the problem in a particular destination seems “pie-in-the-sky” given the number of competing claims.