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

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

1/ #Commerce: Some of the World's Leading Travel & Tourism #Sustainability #Certification Organisations have Joined Forces https://www.travelpulse.com/news/features/worlds-leading-travel-tourism-certification-organizations-join-forces #FoundationForEnvironmentalEducation?#FEE #GreenKey #BlueFlag #Biosphere #GoodTravelSeal #GreenGlobe #Travelife #TourCert #sdg12

2/ Commerce/#Community: #Barcelona to ban #apartment rentals to #tourists in bid to cut #housing costs: #AirBnB intended to spread #income but it's made #housing unaffordable for #residents https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/22/barcelona-to-ban-apartment-rentals-to-tourists-in-bid-to-cut-housing-costs #Spain #homeshare #infrastructure #sdg9

3/ Commerce/Community/Climate: #Housing troubles in #Iceland: #Overtourism crackdown as the country plans new measures to prioritize #locals over hot-spring-obsessed #visitors https://fortune.com/europe/2024/06/18/overtourism-crackdown-iceland-new-measures-prioritize-locals-hot-spring-blue-lagoon/ #touristtax #surgepricing #sdg12 #nature #communities #tax #impact #transport

4/ Commerce/Community/#Culture: Definitely time #UK government recognised the importance of #travel sector! & so take #responsibility for a holistic joined up #impact approach > Election candidates urged by #SPAA to recognise importance of #tourism https://travelweekly.co.uk/news/tourism/election-candidates-urged-by-spaa-to-recognise-importance-of-travel-and-tourism #impacts #sustainabletourism

5/ Commerce/Community/#Conservation: "We’re not anti-#tourist" but "more than just a picture postcard" - "without #conservation there would be no #CinqueTerre”: area looks to the #mountains & #farming #communities to disperse crowds https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/23/were-not-anti-tourist-italys-picturesque-villages-struggle-to-cope-with-deluge-of-insta-visitors #culture

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6/ Conservation: Protecting just 1.2% of #Earth’s surface for #nature would be enough to prevent the #extinction of the world’s most #threatened #species, according to a new study. 16,825 sites should be prioritised https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/25/protecting-just-12-of-earths-land-could-save-worlds-most-threatened-species-says-study-aoe #sdg15 #sdg14

7/ Conservation: #Migration of 6m #antelope in #SouthSudan more than double that of East #Africa’s renowned ‘great #migration record, aerial study reveals, movement has continued despite decades of war & instability https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/25/south-sudan-antelope-migration-worlds-largest-aoe #sdg16 #peace

8/ Conservation: How islanders are saving their #IndianOcean #coral #reef with tourism https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjkkd66874ko #Tanzania #zanzibar #nmemba #climatechange #climate #ecosystem #ecosystems #corals

9/ Conservation: ‘Give #nature space and it will come back’: #rewilding returns #endangered #species to #UK’s south #coast A 100-mile stretch reveals how a pioneering project is transforming #seascape, rivers & #land https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/27/give-nature-space-and-it-will-come-back-rewilding-returns-endangered-species-to-uks-south-coast #lifebelowwater #lifeonland

10/ Conservation: Calls, like most animals? > '#Singing' #lemurs communicate with rhythmic vocalisations in a similar way to #birds' & #human song https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd110j5zx45o #indri #indris #madagascar #independenceday #sing #lemur