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Only climate-friendly tourism is sustainable: cc.alps - CIPRA’s demands for tourism in climate change
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by
zopemaster
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published
Mar 09, 2011
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:14 AM
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Climate Change,
Tourism
Climate change is a major challenge to Alpine tourism. It has to adapt to climate change and at the same time become more climate-friendly. There is a particularly large potential for reduction of CO2 emissions in the key areas of traffic and energy. Tourism is a branch of the economy which is heavily subsidized. Therefore public policy can and must direct developments towards sustainability through the support given to tourism. The present discussion about developments in the tourism industry is dominated by the large chair lift companies which are essentially fixed on ski tourism and the maintenance of the status quo. But focusing only on snow and skiing means promoting a capital-intensive, highly technological form of Alpine tourism and a monoculture. This is neither climatologically nor environmentally sustainable.
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A beacon for sustainable tourism
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by
CIPRA International
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published
Jul 12, 2017
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:06 AM
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alpMedia 05/2017,
Tourism
The second weekend in August will once again see the “Fire across the Alps” burning. In this, the UN Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development, these watch-fires are intended to stimulate ideas as to the necessary changes for tourism in the Alps.
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A blessing and a curse
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by
CIPRA International
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published
Aug 30, 2017
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:07 AM
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filed under:
alpMedia 06/2017,
Tourism
Some places are deserted, others are overrun by tourists. The two Slovenian municipalities of Bled and Bohinj in the Triglav National Park were faced with the latter situation, as they struggled with masses of cars this summer.
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