Buying the real sombreros supports authentic cultural heritage and provides needed jobs for the locals who make them. These travelers were inadvertently helping to support a growing marketplace for trafficking rare and endangered wildlife products as souvenirs. Just say no. All rights reserved.
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But can this level of tourism and the continual focus on growing tourist numbers to make more money be sustainable in the long term? It came home to me when I visited the Cinque Terre — this beautiful patch of Italian coastline has become so popular that it saw 2.
Unsurprisingly villages were packed full, trains were overflowing, paths were being eroded and locals forced out of their homes by rising prices. The Cinque Terre just one of a long list of places where tourist numbers were getting out of hand in the years before the pandemic. Where the things which attract visitors — the culture, the landscapes, the atmosphere — were in danger of being destroyed by those visitors.
Some governments even stepped in, with talk of quotas on the numbers of visitors, flights or cruise ships. In Venice visitors could be fined for swimming in the canals or loitering too long on the bridges. In the Balearic Islands, tourist accommodation was restricted to , beds with plans to reduce it further. And the whole island of Borocay in the Phillipines was closed off to visitors for six months in after the water got so polluted it was dangerous.
The huge restrictions on travel in and mean the issues of overtourism have disappeared for now. Each individual wanting to go and tick somewhere off their wishlist adds up to a whole lot of people. And travel writers have extra responsibility.
Whether we have a hundred readers or a million, what we post on websites and social media can help shape where people choose to go. I loved the Cinque Terre and know a lot of readers want to visit so of course I wanted to post about it.
Definitely not — has showed us how important travel is. It has plenty of positives, from providing income and encouraging investment to helping preserve cultures, funding conservation and protecting wildlife from poaching.
But how can we help make tourism more sustainable? But first of all, what is sustainable tourism? The World Tourism Organization describes sustainable tourism as:. Making tourism sustainable means increasing the benefits of tourism and reducing its negative impacts. The pandemic stopped tourism in its tracks, but that reset does give us the opportunity to rebuild the travel industry in a more sustainable way. So if you are looking to travel more sustainably in the future, here are five tips to get your started.
When queues of people are waiting to reach the summit of Mount Everest you know things are out of control. But you can lower your impact by visiting at off-peak times and exploring their lesser-known sites as well as the famous ones here are some of my suggestions for alternative things to do in London and Paris.
Look beyond the obvious destinations too — think Albania instead of Greece or the Faroe Islands instead of Iceland. Try smaller cities or rural destinations outside of the major cities.
People tend to be pretty lazy and stick to places close to airports and easy to get to, so if you have to add on a ferry trip or train ride chances are the destination will be less touristy. The old advice to spend locally still stands, so as much money as possible goes into the local economy.
In places like the Caribbean , an average only 20 cents of each dollar visitors spend actually stays in the country. Resources are much scarcer in some countries though, especially water, which makes it even more important to minimise usage. Apparently a guest in a luxury hotel uses litres of water per night versus litres for the average person in the UK. Flights are a major contributor to climate change.
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