Category: Water

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

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.

Time for tourism to ban use of plastic water bottles

San Francisco has become the first city in America to ban the sale of water in plastic bottles. Shouldn't more follow suit?

Africa’s greenest hotel a model for sustainability

Near Cape Town's Airport, there is a wetland, an aquaponic herb garden and an eco-pool – all part of Hotel Verde, known as Africa’s greenest hotel.

Dispatches from South India: Alleppey’s dirty waters

Kerala’s backwaters are beautiful and a growing tourist magnet, but tourist boats threaten this lovely environment and the people who live there.

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