II5 - Island Tourism: Balancing Protection and Profitability to Ensure a Sustainable Future ???
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It's holiday season, let's discuss sustainable tourism! While many island territories are?highly dependent on tourism to drive economic growth and survival , it is the travel industry which brings tourists to these shining shores that produces around 8% annually of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions globally.
?CO2 emissions?contribute to the global warming?which will eventually further exacerbate the existential crisis caused by rising sea levels that confronts so many island communities. And therein lies the paradox: the same industry that is seen as?crucial to economic survival?is also the main element in impending destruction. It is for this very reason that?sustainable tourism for islands is being brought into greater focus . With the holiday season, today's featured blog post brings up?alternatives for a more sustainable tourism for islands.
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This week's highlights
These Maldives resorts are leading the charge on sustainability
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Maldives resorts claim high energy and resource demands, and turn out excess waste production.
As a result, many of the country's 150-plus, luxe-leaning resorts aren't just choosing to "go green" for good PR optics --- experts say that in the Maldives, operating as sustainably as possible is essential to a business's long-term survival.
?Today, several Maldivian resorts are leading the pack on innovative sustainability actions that are helping to minimize impact -- while proving that luxury and sustainability can go hand in hand.
Isla de la Juventud: Cuba’s remote nature paradise
A pirate hideaway, a one-time US colony and a biodiverse hotspot home to endangered crocs, parrots, sharks and turtles, Cuba's Isla de la Juventud is an enigma. The Caribbean nation's largest offshore island lies 60 miles south off the mainland and is a comma-shaped arc of palm and pine trees, citrus groves and marble hills that few visitors ever see.?
?According to Dr Julia Azanza Ricardo, a turtle expert and professor at the Higher Institute of Technologies and Applied Sciences of the University of Havana, Guanal is one of the most important nesting areas in Cuba. However, climate change is threatening their future.
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