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What Are The Chances Of....
What are the chances of eco-tourism becoming dominant and taking over
the tourism industry? |
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Joey Jolley wrote: What are the chances of eco-tourism becoming dominant and taking over the tourism industry? What is eco-tourism? |
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C wrote: In article , Joey Jolley wrote: What are the chances of eco-tourism becoming dominant and taking over the tourism industry? What is eco-tourism? Tourists stay home so as not to damage the environment. |
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What are the chances of eco-tourism becoming dominant and taking over the tourism industry? Hopefully nil -- considering the size of the tourism industry, how many of the rare or sensitive ecosystems that people go to see could survive such a stampede? Of course, this scenario is pretty much inconceivable, implying as it does that people would lose interest in all the other forms of tourism, of which there are many, a lot of them inherently centered on the works of man. But let's do some finite-napkin modeling of how many people we're talking about. According to the UN's International Tourism Organization, some 700 million people a year engage in international tourism. Domestic tourism is much harder to get a handle on but plainly huge -- according to Wikipedia, that agency defines tourism as a pleasure trip of at least 80 km (50 miles) from home, and that's something people do right and left in any country where they have much mobility and disposable income and are unfettered by internal movement restrictions. So how does ecotourism compare? Well, first you have to define the term and then decide what-all qualifies, and these are matters of considerable argument; and then you have to gather the statistics.* But it's doubtless some tiny fraction of all that -- the Wiki tribe seems to think (with many caveats about how hard it is to get good numbers in this regard) that the ecotourism ranks might include 5 million Americans and a comparable but lesser number of others -- and it isn't clear to me whether they mean per year or in toto. I hope ecotourism continues to succeed, and does so with high educational goals and a low ecological footprint. However, I can't imagine that too many people are genuinely hung up between that and going through the Louvre, getting hypothermia by dressing for their idea of "summer" at Fishermans Wharf, seeing the Taj Mahal, drinking rum punch on the beach, and whatever else tourists do. Tourism is hugely diverse as well as just plain huge and there is room enough for any good thing (not to mention any number of bad things). Now if you care to imagine the applicable eco-tourism principles gaining acceptance in other tourist activities, and in the design and operation of tourist facilities... hmm, now there's a thought... Cheers, --Joe * My favorite cautionary motif in these matters comes from Sir Josiah Stamp, who was among other things H.M. Collector of Inland Revenue in the late 1800s. Observed he, as quoted by a number of sources: "The government is extremely fond of amassing great quantities of statistics. These are raised to the nth degree, the cube roots are extracted, and the results are arranged into elaborate and impressive displays. What must be kept ever in mind, however, is that in every case, the figures are first put down by a village watchman, and he puts down anything he damn well pleases. " |
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"Joey Jolley" wrote in message ... What are the chances of eco-tourism becoming dominant and taking over the tourism industry? Is it that time of the month again? |
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"Joey Jolley" wrote: What are the chances of eco-tourism becoming dominant and taking over the tourism industry? Probably about the same odds of space ship travel becoming popular by the end of this decade. I guess anything is possible though. |
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Maxx. wrote:
"Joey Jolley" wrote in message ... What are the chances of eco-tourism becoming dominant and taking over the tourism industry? Is it that time of the month again? Yeah, strap on some Pampers and stop dribbling all over the floor. |
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Ad absurdum per aspera wrote:
getting hypothermia by dressing for their idea of "summer" at Fishermans Wharf In the weather section of the Don't miss sights in San Francisco page http://geocities.com/iconoc/Articles/Sights.html at the site at Right in the sig, one can find the Following: San Francisco has about nine CLIMATEs. Seacliff, where idle rich live, has the worst; Dogpatch, where the working poor live, has the best. We NEVER go out without carrying a sweater or jacket and you shouldn't. Those you see covered in goose pimples shivering in their shorts are those at whom we laugh not for their misery but their arrogance rejecting the advice we know they, and you, received. __________________________________________________ _________________ A San Franciscan in (where else?) San Francisco. http://geocities.com/dancefest/ - http://geocities.com/iconoc/ ICQ: http://wwp.mirabilis.com/19098103 --- IClast at SFbay Net |
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