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Your Visitors are Taking Environmental Action? Reward Them!

23 April 2010 Written by: Julianna Priskin

To stimulate demand for sustainable tourism, there may be a greater need for financial incentives for consumers and businesses. Small businesses might especially benefit from financial incentives for implementing operational changes that lead to net resource conservation from measures such as rebates and tax breaks. If the savings were passed onto consumers, it might lead [...]

Sustainable tourism
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Canadian Travel Agents and Carbon Offsets

12 April 2010 Written by: Rachel Dodds

In 2006, 26,400 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide were emitted into the atmosphere, of which tourism contributed 5% (UNWTO, 2008). Of that 5%, air travel was responsible for 40% and land travel for 36%. The relationship between climate change and tourism is interwoven and interdependent.  Climate change has major implications for the future of tourism [...]

Distribution networks|Sustainable tourism
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