UK lawmakers to count environmental cost of mass tourism
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation British lawmakers said last week they would count the environmental cost of mass tourism amid warnings that leisure trips pose an ever greater threat to the planet. Fast-growing tourism accounts for about five per cent of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide while floods of visitors are damaging a host of hot spots, said […]
WOW! NO GUILT TRIP – IN SPACE STARVED CITIES, A “FAIRER” TYPE OF HOME SHARING EMERGES
SOPHIE DAVIES, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on a new initiative aimed at helping to make tourism more sustainable…
POSTCARDS: DOING THE “I-TURN” JAPAN TAPS TOURISM TO LURE CITY DWELLERS TO EMPTYING VILLAGES
RINA CHANDRAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…