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G<\/span>reen destinations experts from six continents\u00a0will gather this September in Cascais, Lisbon, Portugal to share new approaches to tourism that seek to avoid mass tourism becoming increasingly intrusive and disruptive to local communities.<\/p>\n

The Global Green Destinations Event<\/a> (GGDE17) takes place on September 29th in Portugal convenes global experts and destination leaders planning for tourism that is beneficial to local communities and their environment and local culture. These include the newly chosen Top 100 Sustainable Destinations, that all provide showcases of responsible tourism. Among the \u00a0participants are destination leaders from Azores, Botswana, Canada, Slovenia and Gozo (Malta), Australia, Los Angeles, Iceland, and Taiwan, and many more.<\/p>\n

According to organisers, the fact that 2017 is the UN-declared Year of Sustainable Tourism 2017 provides an opportunity to reflect on the legacy of fifty years of mass tourism.\u00a0Since 1947 tourism has taken advantage of tax-free fuel, and has managed to remain exempted from paying for their major contribution to climate change. This partly explains the continuous 4% annual growth, from just 150 million in 1967 to an amazing 1.3 billion international arrivals this year, says Albert Salman, President of Green Destinations. \u201cAs long as carriers escape from carbon emission compensation, mass tourism will remain unsustainable,\u201d he says, adding that the cruise industry, cheap carriers and social media hypes have generated massive shareholder value while bringing crisis to the sector.<\/p>\n

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Furthermore, adds Salman, the industry has pushed off-limit city breaks, obsessive bucket-listing \u201cTop 10 places to see\u201d and now suggest that visitors can \u201clive like locals\u201d- without the responsibilities that locals bear, while booking platforms like Airbnb and Booking.com increasingly take whole apartments off the local market for tourist\u2019s use. In this way, he claims, the industry has channelled 99% of international tourists to less than 1% of the world\u2019s destinations \u2013 wrecking the local chaos that has hit today\u2019s world headlines.<\/p>\n

\u201cTourists are told to live like a local in many cities, but in fact many rich expats are illegally staying there instead of a local,\u201d adds Salman. \u201cThis trend became very clear this year, and it is very dangerous, even in traditionally tourism-friendly cities like Lisbon.”<\/p>\n

More info: http:\/\/greendestinations.org\/greenfest-global-green-destinations-event-2017\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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