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Tourism villain and victim on climate change: UN tourism body
0 Comments | AFP, March, 2007
MADRID (AFP) — Tourism is both villain and victim when it comes to climate change the head of the World Tourist Organisation (WTO) said on Tuesday.
Major growth in air traffic "is a vector of (climactic) change under way," WTO director general Francesco Frangialli told an international conference on meteorology in Madrid.
Latest WTO figures show that a record 842 million people travelled abroad in 2006 and 40 percent of them travelled by air, contributing to the greenhouse effect.
But tourism also suffered from the effects of climate change, Frangialli said.
The economies of coastal regions and small tropical islands, such as the Maldives, heavily dependent on tourist receipts are now threatened by rising ocean levels and temperatures, he added....
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