The future of tourism might look like

Half of Europe is groaning already under the onslaught of the tourists, the crowds are increasing every year and floods the Switzerland. At the same time, the call for more environmental protection louder, the climate youth protests, the Greens were in October, the election winner.

Stop the tourists can hardly be. How can you bring both of these interests, the desire for the vacation trip, on the one hand and sustainability on the other side? In the case of Swiss travel agencies Travel Inside rises according to the demand for organic Offerings. Actually a good thing. For the Individual. But how sustainable would it be if all the tourists would descend electricity through eco-friendly tree house hotels in South East Asia or rustic Chalets in the Canton of Grisons?

A taste of Übertourismus in Switzerland, with Around 4000 members of a Chinese tour group met in may 2019 in Lucerne. Image: Keystone

not at all, says Jeremy Sampson, CEO of the Travel Foundation. For him there is no reality in the all in Eco-Lodges descend, that is simply not feasible, and these places would also bring nothing. These accommodations were not designed for a tourist rush.

For Sampson, but there are quite a more sustainable mass tourism and All-inclusive resorts. The long frowned upon is the package needed to be improved and could then make its contribution, he explains to CNN.

Less CO2-emissions per passenger

The way in the All-inclusive Bunker that typically starts with a flight. The travel must be for the mass tourist as cheap as possible, so a cheap airline is out of the question. The advantage of this: they usually have a younger fleet that consumes less fuel and less CO2 emits.

The last survey of the specialists CH-Aviation shows that Norwegian has the youngest fleet in Europe, with an average aircraft age of 4.32 years. Also, the Hungarian Low-Cost Carrier Wizz Air has with an average of 5.43 years, a young fleet. Larger Airlines like Delta or British Airways will be around 15 years, some over 20-year-old Jumbos are even still in use.

A Boeing 737 of Norwegian in Kirkenes. With a seniority of 5 years is already an older model at the low-cost airline. Photo: Reuters

low-cost airlines as many passengers do not use the plug in addition, as possible into your flyer, ample legroom, business class and other bells and whistles there are. Thus, the CO2 emissions per passenger drops.

Locals relieve

Optimally, and the climate would be friendly instead of a flight, a journey by train. For many destinations, this form of travel is too cumbersome, if more Change is necessary, the trip takes a total of to long, and compared to the flight, the journey is also usually too expensive. Everything is working, but the Trend is already towards more night trains. Until the travel package tourist but by train instead of plane to southern Spain, it will go a few more years.

It remains, therefore, for the time being, flight of the cheap airline, after the future mass holiday go further in the Bus, the train is the most ecological transportation mode for large groups. It is better, if 200 passengers in the 5 buses will travel more than 50 cars.

Around 100 additional Cars brought in, the Chinese giant group in may to Luzern. Image: Keystone

The goal of the trip: the All-inclusive Bunker, the isolated Paradise for recreation-seekers. What sounds like the nightmare of the modern adventure traveller, is for Sampson to the rescue for the tourism world. The cities complain about too many tourists, too many Airbnbs, too little space for the Locals and the loss of quality of life. The holiday guests remain well-behaved in the hotel complex, there are for the Locals suddenly back in their room, and from Airbnbs apartments again.

All-inclusive at the local Restaurant

the losers local shops and Restaurants, but then there, the have set up to Feed the masses. The Board is, in fact, but also in the All-inclusive Hotel, there is a Problem. Usually there is food from the Buffet, mostly from all regions of the world, pre-bussing, most of the Hungry draw more than you eat, there is Food Waste.

For Sampson is, therefore, clear: the food in such Resorts would have to local produce, produce from the farmers of the Region. Or, the Hotels work with the Restaurants in the area, and their guests, for example with vouchers to the quota tables to eat there. Both approaches support local businesses and the Locals, the Restaurants are busy to stay, but not overcrowded.

Chinese besiege Bucherer in Lucerne, for individual transactions, a good business, while others go empty. Image: Keystone

Greater thought farms can together ensure the supply of Hotels in the vicinity. For the marketing of the plants atmosphere would be this locally, at least in the case of Swiss guests, a Plus. The Travel Foundation works in such projects, also in the Small. In Greece, local producers supply the hotel with organic olive oil, wine and honey, in Mexico, there are jams from the Region, also in the hotel shop and in Turkey, 40 farmers supply along several Resorts. The projects will continue to run even if the Travel Foundation to withdraw, reported spokesman Ben Lynam.

crowds restrict

the Restaurant or not, the mass tourist All inclusive-Bunker in the country, not experienced at all that he visited, are likely to individual travelers complain at the end of now. On the one hand, there is a percentage of people that don't want to, than to plod from the hotel room to the beach or the Pool and back into the system. The other could be carted off to the sights with day trips minor. Groups are easier to plan and time to divide, as individuals, appear suddenly, says Lynam.

A part of the Chinese group in the gorge. They came before the main season, the operators were therefore pleased about the additional business, and there are hardly any other tourists were affected. Image: Hans Peter Roth

Where now Übertourismus prevails and the people are in a queue, you need to rethink, even at tourist attractions. As in the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam, where you must, in advance, a Ticket for a certain time to buy. Thereafter, the Queue is at the cash register, and during the visit you have more place. The operators just have to be careful not to have too many visitors per period of time to allow. A well-known principle.

Color sheets

hotel resorts have many more ways to be sustainable: Recycling in the plant, used for the protection of animals, more effective sanitation systems or colored linen. White bath towels or white bedding must be regularly bleached, such as sun cream stains away. Colored things, therefore, have a positive effect on the environment.

individual travel can be sustainable, but you can just as well be harmful as a package holiday on the beach, says Lynam. The mass tourism there, anyway, the handling would change but still. And although the change may start Small, anyone who wants to really change something, had to look at all forms of the problem, including the mass tourism.

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Created: 19.11.2019, 20:41 PM