{"id":135191,"date":"2024-11-07T07:30:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T05:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/overtourism-and-sustainability-top-agenda-at-world-travel-market-in-london\/"},"modified":"2024-11-07T07:30:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T05:30:25","slug":"overtourism-and-sustainability-top-agenda-at-world-travel-market-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/overtourism-and-sustainability-top-agenda-at-world-travel-market-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Overtourism and sustainability top agenda at World Travel Market in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135191\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>London hosts the 2024 World Travel Market. The event takes place amid growing concerns over the impact of tourism on climate change as well as extreme weather events affecting the sector. Thousands of travel representatives have arrived in London&#8217;s ExCeL exhibition centre for the World Travel Market trade event, as new data shows global tourism is now breaking pre-pandemic records. But more tourists means there is a higher risk of overcrowding in many hotspots, putting pressure on local infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We see a phenomenon like this, for example, when cruises visit small islands that aren\u2019t equipped to handle large numbers of tourists at once. We believe it\u2019s more about local infrastructure and management than anything else,&#8221; says Andreas Fiorentinos, Secretary General of the Greek National Tourism Organisation. Another area under threat from overtourism is sustainability. Tourism development becomes unsustainable when the negative social, cultural, political, and environmental impacts on the local community outweigh the economic and societal advantages. As a result, many communities are becoming exasperated at the increase in tourist arrivals to their countries.<\/p>\n<p>Some European destinations have even seen anti-tourism protests, amid concerns over environmental damage and high rental prices, for example. Spain saw multiple protests against mass tourism earlier in the year, notably in the cities of Barcelona and Malaga, on the Balearic Islands as well as the Canaries. Many destinations are now introducing new rules to protect local citizens against the negative impact of overtourism.<\/p>\n<p>In Croatia, for example, new regulations are being implemented to address the housing challenges caused by the large influx of tourists. \u201cWe are passing a law in which we are requiring 80% approval from tenants in the buildings where the short-term rentals are possible. We will have a situation in which we have our apartments and residential areas, I\u2019m not going to say free from tourists, but with a significantly reduced number of tourists,\u201d says Ton\u010di Glavina, Croatia&#8217;s Minister of Tourism and Sport. All this comes amid mounting climate change concerns and extreme weather events impacting the sector.<\/p>\n<p>The travel sector says it\u2019s not just working to reach net-zero, but also striving to become net-positive. \u201cThe stats say that people are acutely aware of the impact on the environment, and many of them are eager to go to destinations that have a lower carbon footprint. I think there\u2019s also a bigger impact on the weather and how that\u2019s changing people\u2019s travel choices,\u201d explains Jonathan Heastie, Portfolio Director at the World Travel Market.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2024\/11\/06\/overtourism-and-sustainability-top-agenda-at-world-travel-market-in-london\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/overtourism-and-sustainability-top-agenda-at-world-travel-market-in-london\/\">Overtourism and sustainability top agenda at World Travel Market in London<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,16837,16838,1530,16839],"class_list":["post-135191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-overtourism","tag-stop-agenda","tag-sustainability","tag-world-travel-market"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}