Technological advances enable tourists to reach distant countries ever
more easily and cheaply. Information exchange is important in any
transaction but is perhaps particularly important for transactions in the
travel and tourism industry where information gratification plays such a
crucial role. Internet-based technologies allow organizations to exchange
information with an often geographically dispersed and wider marketplace
without a loss of quality. Visit Britain has announced that UK visitor
numbers for the first half of this year are the best ever. The number of
international visitors to the UK during the January-June period was 13 per
cent higher than for the same period last year, reaching 12.5 million. The
figures reflect a strong recovery from 2003, when concerns over the war
in Iraq and saris had a major impact on world travel.
Is eco tourism a contradiction in terms. How can places of great natural
beauty, or wildlife, be preserved once tourists start visiting in their
thousands, bringing with them the need for services and development.
Is it possible to have a guilt-free holiday. Can you visit a place without
damaging it in some way.
If you close down all the airports in the UK tomorrow, you'd save a
fraction of a per cent of global climate impact and that would have no
impact. What it would do, unfortunately, is to really affect the UK
economy and UK travel habits. The inevitable head-on collision between
Britain's climate change and aviation policies moves a step closer today
with figures showing the total distance flown by the Government's own
ministers and senior officials last year alone is equivalent to 14 return trips
to the Moon.
