The Tourism 2023 project report has been launched at the ABTA Travel Convention in Barcelona, and is now available online (at http://www.forumforthefuture.org/projects/tourism-2023) to help the UK outbound travel and tourism industry understand the challenges it faces and plan for a sustainable future...
They note that the project has identified three potential work streams on issues which require urgent industry collaboration: demonstrating that tourism delivers real socio-economic benefit to tourist destinations; making tourism a low-carbon, low-impact industry; and encouraging demand from customers for sustainable tourism...
But what of future trends? Vivid details bring the world of each scenario to life and are designed to provoke debate. Will mass tourism, swollen by the Chinese and Indian middle classes, cause huge overcrowding in popular destinations? Will soaring oil prices make air travel so expensive that families have to save for years to fly abroad? Will we see “Doomsday tourism”, with visitors rushing to see glaciers and coral reefs before they’re gone for good? Or will household “carbon quotas” see Britons go back to holidaying at home? We can only guess...
This story offers great insight to the future possibilities of the industry, so please go to http://www.travelmole.com/stories/1139627.php?news_cat=3 and the link above to learn more.
Barticus.
They note that the project has identified three potential work streams on issues which require urgent industry collaboration: demonstrating that tourism delivers real socio-economic benefit to tourist destinations; making tourism a low-carbon, low-impact industry; and encouraging demand from customers for sustainable tourism...
But what of future trends? Vivid details bring the world of each scenario to life and are designed to provoke debate. Will mass tourism, swollen by the Chinese and Indian middle classes, cause huge overcrowding in popular destinations? Will soaring oil prices make air travel so expensive that families have to save for years to fly abroad? Will we see “Doomsday tourism”, with visitors rushing to see glaciers and coral reefs before they’re gone for good? Or will household “carbon quotas” see Britons go back to holidaying at home? We can only guess...
This story offers great insight to the future possibilities of the industry, so please go to http://www.travelmole.com/stories/1139627.php?news_cat=3 and the link above to learn more.
Barticus.
