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Booming tourist income leaves an ever bigger carbon shadow



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Published Date: 03 March 2008
By COURTNEY PEYTON
Experts are to debate how to limit the impact on climate of a predicted 1.5bn international travellers by the year 2020, writes COURTNEY PEYTON
A SEEMING contradiction lies at the heart of the world’s tourist industry. Last year, the number of international travellers reached a record figure of 900 million – up 6 per cent on 2006 despite the fall in the dollar. By 2020 this will grow to 1.5...



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  • Last Updated: 02 March 2008 9:46 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Climate change
 
1

madrab,

edinburgh 03/03/2008 07:32:13
When will the scottish government impose a tourist tax on each hotel bed so that every scot can benefit from the tourists and not just the few rich people that own hotels?

Will all new hotels be taxed to offset the carbon footprints of extra tourists flying here?
2

Leifwiz,

Eatonville 03/03/2008 08:02:21
When will you folks realize that the CO2 crap spouted by Al Gore and his sycophants is just that. All indications are now that we are entering a cooling cycle, that is a natural evolution for this planet. All the bureaucratic nattering about carbon credits, footprints is just another example of common sense being discarded in favor of mass hysteria.

Leif
USA
3

nabodican,

Rural Scotland 03/03/2008 08:03:49
#1 "The few rich people that own hotels" !!!!!!!

Time to open your eyes and look at the real world. Gleneagles is a one of and what it does is irrelevant to a typical small rural hotel.
Every Scot does benefit from tourism as tourists spend money on all sorts of services as well as hotels.
An awful lot of Scots work directly and indirectly in the tourism business.
Carbon offsetting is just a scam anyway to line the pockets of Al Gore et al with their carbon offset companies.
4

Unimpressed one,

03/03/2008 08:15:07
The angst! We must increase our tourism sector, oh but what about their carbon footprint. What a dilemma.
5

The Strategist,

03/03/2008 09:05:11
Bet that biomass boiler was made in Germany.
6

Neil,

Glasgow 03/03/2008 11:52:56
Booming tourism is a good story. To convert it into a bad one by all this about "carbon footprints" is nonsense unless there were some evidnce both that we were facing catastrophic warming & that CO2 was causing it. Neither is proven & indeed neither is true.
7

truthsleuth,

03/03/2008 23:14:28
#2 Leifwiz,Eatonville

You simply don't get it do you you poor delusioned denier.

Where do you get your facts from.

As a professor of mine once said
It matters not what the truth is but just what the listener wants to believe is true particularly when the truth is not in their favour.

You are yet another bit of 'evidence'.

 

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