Tourism companies are now using climate change as a marketing tool, offering to take people to places endangered by global warming or with species in the verge of extinction.
Exotic travelers’ interest in remote and strange places has grown a lot in the past years, but traffic to those destinations is proving to be a complicated subject.
On one hand, massive tourism to delicate environments most times has a negative impact on them. For example, the increase of traffic to Galapagos was damaging the islands ecosystem and caused the Ecuador government to take measures to protect them. On top of this, accidents like the sank of a cruise ship in Antarctica last December (which left a petrol stain five kilometers long) prove how hard it is for tourism to truly be safe and responsible.
Travel is growing: 4.3 percent per year for the last 10 years, to be exact. And ecotourism and nature tourism is growing three times faster than the industry in general.
-from www.tierramerica.info
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