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Links between key points
Changes in attitude
The government has shown it will work with the tourism industry to help accommodate sustainability and support local areas as well as to identify achievable ways of getting 'greener' [1]
As a culture, sustainability has become a much for focused on issue. Our societal norms have changes which in turn changes our personal norms. Accountability of consequences has become a much more discussed topic [7]
Accountability is also more openly being pushed onto business, especially airlines. changes in attitude resulted in individuals believing that it should be airlines who have to compensate for the CO2 emissions rather than the individual [6].
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Opinions
Individuals who are aware of their environmental impact choose longer trips to avoid airplane/car whenever possible, especially in area's with good public transit like Western-central Europe. [6]
Due to the media's portrait of holidays individuals allow themselves to temporarily forget about sustainability [6] this causes tourism to have a large negative impact.
Due to the impact of Covid-19 individuals have been less inclined to travel [6]. This causes a belief that tourism has reached it's peak and will now start declining until little to no people are travelling [4].
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What is done to help?
The Global Roadmap for Food Waste Reduction in the Tourism Sector was created to help reduce food waste in production for tourism. [2] the goal is to half food waste production by 2030 as well as providing the necessary education/framework to help implement these reduction tactics.
The government has agreed to a Net Zero 2050 Plan and the 25 Year Environment Plan [1] which focuses on air quality, wildlife habitat, connecting people with nature and reduce plastic use. This will have a significant positive impact on the environment and not just tourism.
The government has also committed to introducing more National Parks [1]. This will help protect the UK's landscapes while also allowing others to safely enjoy them and their history.
What is causing issues?
When discussing how to make tourism more sustainable there are two main focus points for discussion.
The first focus is in the food side of sustainability. Agriculture which is entirely for the hospitality sector produces a large amount of waste and uses a lot of water [2]. Due to the inflation in costs of resources many travel companies pass that cost increase onto tourists [4] which makes them pay more while using unsustainable business practices due to being profit-driven.
The second focus is typically transport. Many tourists, especially in European countries that have a large public transit system, prefer to take public transit instead of airplanes due to it's environmental impact. With some individuals taking a longer trip just to avoid a short-haul flight [6].
Another form of transport, or in this case type of tourism, that's avoided are cruises. They take up an extortionate amount of energy [6] due to the fact that they are essentially large holiday resorts that float on water, the largest of them being nearly 370 metres long and weighing almost 250,000 gross tonnes.
Less prominent focuses
A lot of sustainability is focused on the home and while on holiday people tend to get lazy and stop thinking about whatever is going on back in their regular life. [6] this leaves sustainability to be something that's exclusive to the home rather than being important in every part of life.
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