#InTheNews: 10 Highlights this week re. #sustainable #travel #tourism & #development

1/ #Communities: Was this the (Northern hemisphere) #summer of bad #tourists? https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230821-is-this-the-summer-of-bad-tourists #irresponsibletourism #heritage #culture #conservation #paris #berlin #Italy #Rome #Pompeii #Egypt #Japan #PassengerShaming #destinations

2/ Communities: #Overtourism? Some say Under-Management? #Hallstatt, #Austria #WorldHeritageSite protest against mass #tourism: residents (700 vs 10,000 visitors a day during high season) call for limits & bans on buseshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66634889 #alps #sdg11 #worldheritage

3/ Communities: #Paris becomes 1 of 1st capitals banning rented #escooters due to rising injuries & deaths, 5 years after being 1 of 1st to adopt them. With 90% in favour of banning yet less than 8% voting, is it actually #democracy?https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66682673 #EV #EVs #carbon #transport #sdg13

4/ Communities: #Australia will vote in a historic #referendum in October to decide whether to enact an #Indigenous Voice to Parliament https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-66654327 #culture #Aboriginal #TorresStrait #People #Australians #UluruStatement #FirstNations #identity #dignity

5/ Communities/#Climate: Travel has to be for #positive #impact #purpose of eg. #SDGs like us > Why did #tourists keep coming as #Rhodes & #Maui burned? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/30/tourists-rhodes-maui-burned-travel #hawaii #Greece #impacts #sdg1 #sdg3

6/ Climate: Optimistic for +2.7C? > #ClimateCrisis means 25% of #Europe #ski #resorts face scarce #snow every other year with #2C global heating. Do they have a future?https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/28/climate-crisis-quarter-of-european-ski-resorts-scarce-snow #skiing #mountains

7/ Climate: ‘Off-the-charts’- has #humanity finally broken it? This year seems worse, with societies & #ecosystems more"vulnerable to even small changes than expected previously, and so the damages are worse” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/28/crazy-off-the-charts-records-has-humanity-finally-broken-the-climate #co2

8/ Climate/#Conservation: Why it may be time to stop using the #polarbear as a symbol of the #climatecrisis https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/30/why-it-may-be-time-to-stop-using-the-polar-bear-as-a-symbol-of-the-climate-crisis #extinction #sdg15 #species #nature #biodiversity #polar

9/ Conservation/Climate: #UNESCO #WorldHeritage Sites cover <1% of planet yet protect 20% known #species on #Earth, but can't against the climate crisis & #human #consumption https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/31/fifth-of-known-life-on-earth-found-in-unesco-world-heritage-sites-survey-finds-aoe #wildlife

10/ #Destinations: The Last Place on #Earth Any #Tourist Should Go. Take #Antarctica off your Travel #BucketList https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/07/antarctica-tourism-overcrowding-environmental-threat/674600 #sdg14 #lifeunderwater #lifeonland #penguins #whales #icebergs #travellers