(CABI) “A paper just completed by tourism and climate change scientists, Stefan Gossling and Paul Peeters presents more facts about tourism’s appetite for growth and resources. For the first time using the concept of Resource Use Intensities (RUIs) – the paper pioneers the assessment of tourism’s total global resource use, including fossil fuel consumption, associated CO2 emissions, fresh water, land and food use.”
3 key points
1) “Over the next 45 years, water consumption (both direct and indirect) is expected to double.”
2) “From 2010–2050, tourism is anticipated to grow considerably in energy use and emissions, doubling energy use over the coming 25 years in a “business as usual scenario”
3) “The paper forecasts that over the next 25 years, land use for tourism will double, and almost triple to 2050”
