Travelers worldwide keen about sustainable tourism

Friday, July 22, 2022

A lot has been heard about how tourism is back on track after an unexpected turbulence of a couple of years. Curiosity in sustainable tourism has certainly increased since the onset of the pandemic.

Since travel is turning a lot easier with the reopening of the world, the penchant for a ‘green’ or an ecological holiday is prevalent among the tourists of today. The pandemic along with the heat waves in Europehas made us cognizant about what we do every day actually impact us and the world we live in.

With several initiatives, the Dubai Government has taken importantsteps to welcome ecological tourism. In effect, a Dubai Sustainable Tourism Department was formed to add to the wide-ranging clean energy and viable expansion targets that Dubai is aiming to attain.

Booking.com’s Sustainable Travel Report polled over 29,000 travelers across 30 countries. 73 per cent of the US travelers consider that sustainable travel is important. 46 per cent opine that the pandemic has made them think about traveling sustainably.

Since lodgingconstitutes one of the crucialessentials of tourism, travelers are still finding it perplexing to come up withappropriate sustainable-minded stopovers for their journeys. The Global Sustainable Tourism Council says that asustainable journey suggestsreducing the negative influences and making the most of the positive ones.For instance, decreasing littering, harming nature, over-tourism, and increasing the conservation of the natural scenery, including the local culture.

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