Category: Environmental issues

VisitBritain chief urges governments to act on sustainability

We tend to be short-term and you are more likely to be fired for not managing load factors or filling rooms than promoted for a long-term strategy that deals with growth

Tourism’s appetite becoming too great for world resources

New research by some of leading scientists on tourism's environmental impacts makes for very uncomfortable reading for anyone who thinks tourism is becoming more sustainable

Copenhagen, Vienna and Zürich best at tackling air pollution

The Soot Free Cities campaign found that Zurich, Copenhagen and Vienna were the cities in Europe doing the most to address air pollution

Growing a future – Coral restoration in Bluefields Bay, Jamaica

Fishers of Bluefields Bay tell stories of a time when the coral grew so high parts of the reef were impassable, when boats had to navigate around the coral tips emerging out of the Caribbean’s blue waters.

Turning waste management into a tourism attraction

So bad is the problem of rubbish that climbers on Mount Everest will have to bring back 8kg of rubbish and waste per person.

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