Question-Not An Anti-Car Post

There was an article today that said that a study has informed people
that tourism is a threat to the global environment. Does this mean
tourism is ending?

Joey Jolley wrote:
There was an article today that said that a study has informed people that
tourism is a threat to the global environment. Does this mean tourism is
ending?

Yes. Whenever a study comes out informing people that something is a threat
to the environment, everyone immediately stops doing it.

miguel
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On 12 Sep 2003 21:20:02 -0700, (Joey Jolley)
wrote:

There was an article today that said that a study has informed people
that tourism is a threat to the global environment. Does this mean
tourism is ending?

You might be interested in some of the campaigns by this organisation:

http://www.tourismconcern.org.uk/

although they mainly concentrate on Third World destinations.

Quite a few places in the First World are worried about the effects of
mass tourism - in the UK, for instance, there are schemes in Oxford
and Bath to restrict tour buses from entering the city centre, and I
believe Amsterdam will be similarly banning them - passengers will
have to use public transport into the city centre from a tour bus
terminal.

Having worked in mass tourism, my personal concern is that many tour
operators do not contribute that much to local infrastructure -
personally, I would alo like to see more people using local facilities
(local public transport, cafés, restaurants, independent hotels rather
than multinational chains) which pre-supposes smaller groups. In other
words, mass tourism would become more like independent travel.

Keith
Bristol
UK

Hmm.. there's a very long chain of cause and effect before anything
like that happens...

One day, the international community might get round to using some
sort of tax mechanism to get air travellers to pay the whole
environmental cost of the fuel they're using, but I wouldn't be
surprised if oil doesn't run out earlier...

And in the meantime, business travel might well start to decline as
e-communication improves. Which may well mean air travel becomes more
of a luxury again.

But this is over quite a long period of time.

PJW

On 12 Sep 2003 21:20:02 -0700, (Joey Jolley)
wrote:

There was an article today that said that a study has informed people
that tourism is a threat to the global environment. Does this mean
tourism is ending?

In article ,
(P J Wallace) wrote:

And in the meantime, business travel might well start to decline as
e-communication improves. Which may well mean air travel becomes more
of a luxury again.

The counter-argument to this (I don't have any evidence; it's just an
interesting argument I've heard) is that improved e-communication means
more international trade, especially for small companies which couldn't
easily engage in it before, and therefore more business travel!

(Joey Jolley) vented spleen or mostly mumbled...

There was an article today that said that a study has informed people
that tourism is a threat to the global environment. Does this mean
tourism is ending?

No, Sex, because it causes so much reproduction and population growth and
is the greatest threat to the world's environment. I think you need to
stop it....(or if the level of intellect indicated by your query is
correct, (a) you're to young to quit that which you haven't or have hardly
started, or (b) you really need to quit on the grounds that any descendants
you might produce would likely threaten the environment out of sheer
stupidity).

TMO
TMO

Following up to Joey Jolley

There was an article today that said that a study has informed people
that tourism is a threat to the global environment. Does this mean
tourism is ending?

"not an anti car post"? Did you mean anti aeroplane? Planes and
ships cause more pollution than cars BTW.
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Keith Anderson wrote in message . ..
[snip]
Having worked in mass tourism, my personal concern is that many tour
operators do not contribute that much to local infrastructure -

Well, yes, other than taxes you mean. Not sure how they could.
they tend to exist because of a lack of the very service they are
providing.

personally, I would also like to see more people using local facilities
(local public transport, cafés, restaurants, independent hotels rather
than multinational chains)

So you're saying you want tourists to subsidize your transportation
by using transportation that doesn't serve their needs? Why do you
care what hotels they use? Do you use hotels? And as someone who
lives in one heck of a tourist town, the last thing I want is the
tourists filling up the restaurants. They drive prices through
the roof.


which pre-supposes smaller groups. In other
words, mass tourism would become more like independent travel.
[snip]

Which alot of folks don't want.