Tourism represents around 11 percent of the world’s greenhouse gases, expected to double in the coming decades. It’s also a huge source of jobs. The industry is taking baby-steps to address its footprint.

How and why we travel must change

If you haven’t seen it already, I strongly recommend watching The Last Tourist. Halfway through I was ready to commit to never, ever travel again. But then the movie reveals how we can help communities and reverse environmental destruction.

https://youtu.be/di6gg46xRwQ

Set new goals

After 18 years of relative inertia since the tourism industry made its first climate promises, 300 initial signatories, including the United Nations World Tourism Organization and the World Travel & Tourism Council, committed to the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism in 2021 to halve tourism’s emissions by 2030 and eliminate them to near zero by 2050.

Choose a different denominator

Tourist destinations market themselves to…