With the increase of greenhouse gas emission and the atmosphere pollution ecology becomes a hot subject to dig if not a fundamental topic. Is this still worth to travel ? And how to take them ? What are the figures behind tourism and ecology. In this articles as we love to talk about received ideas we go back to local travels and others travels to do a focus on this.

Upon the increasing of greenhouse gas emission the travel industry seems to be the perfect peccant to look to explain the global warming. Planes, vehicles, and factories are the three main polluters. The figures inspection defines the amount of planes contamination to 8%. 

First sector with the most heavy pollutant load, the fuel and energy sector is the first pollutant sector worldwide. It counts nearly the half of greenhouse gas emission with 72% in 2022. The sector take into account heating (coal usage or nuclear power usage), industry, and oil extraction. This sector serves in everyday life, in the working systems, and is prominent for comfort in office and plant running. We wish to remark that this definition doesn’t take into account the usage of laptop and technology usage whatever in office or at home. Technology and IT stand as a separate field of energy expenses. 

Second source of pollution is the agriculture sector, more aggressive for soil, than aggressive for air, the agriculture is double charge on the global ecological bill: in one hand the agriculture practice consume a huge amount of water and reject a lot of methane, and in an other hand, it soils the land in his deepness plus required an important work of deforestation. However the agriculture is radically benefit for human specie as living and therefore is thought provoking for ecology and tourism, a point we will see further in the article.

Third source of pollution is the fashion industry, its amount in global emissions is around a tenth of global emissions of harmful products. If all clothing aren’t ecologically unfriendly the uncontrolled diffusion of fast fashion sets the industry at this position. This practice favors the production of noxious waste and generate poor clothes that are more pollutant.

Fourth source of pollution and already mentioned in the top of the article is transport. Transport stands for a major source of pollution with top polluters planes, boats, common transport and vehicles. Transport engines are every motor engine helping to move from a point A to a point B. Rockets are not counted in transport means.

Fifth source of pollution is manufacturing and construction, they emit 6.3 billion tons of ecological waste. Creating air pollution at the hautigness of 23%, water pollution at the hautigness of 40% and landfill waste at the hautigness of 50%. Construction, despite of the accomplishment it offers, is still a very pollutant sector and affect several field as geological field, water purification field, air pollution field, and surface pollution field. 

Sixth field of the pollution source is the food retail area, which is an important source of food waste with 3.1 billion tons of rubbish rejected. This sector includes a huge amount of plastic dejections and, to take an example each year UK rejects 800 000 tons of plastics in this area only.

Seventh source of pollution is technology and IT. It accounts for 5,5% of global emission and have to be mentioned as one source of gas emissions.

Local tourism destination.

Do the choice of local tourism is, from received ideas avoiding transport pollution, reducing maritimes exchanges, and helping the local business to be booming. In addition to promoting its own land and proximity business, it creates a real attraction, animations to the place visited and exposes it to the international extent.

In term of ecology the advantage is even more interesting locals destinations protect the area where it sets by offering it sustainable infrastructures and helping the space to be understand deeper and getting more documentations about it. 

Locals destinations can be a lac, a canyon, a forest, a cultural patrimony, a mountain, or anything. 

The eco-friendly label.

According to his definition this label guarantee the low ecological impact of a service or a product during his production cycle. This evaluation goes from the extraction of raws materials, passing by the conception of the service or the product, to the transport, to its usage, and ending by the recycling of the service or the product.

In fact, local tourism benefits from the eco-friendly label due to proximity it implies. Usually it presupposes the usage of a small cycle of supply for food and materials supplying. The eco-friendly label is delivered by competent authorities after meeting the criteria of delivery.

Local agriculture.

Agriculture is one of the most hot topics, whatever it is about ecology, or about yield and production cycles, or subventions and distribution. The topic is full of dares and with the main purpose the idea to consume less energy to get the maximum amount of food. If there is no straight method nor straight answer to reach this ideal some patterns have been identified as gracing. Plant what the land is adapted for or adjust the land to plant the best vegetable suit the weather and adapted to people. The local agriculture through the promotion of proximity agriculture, agriculture with small cycle of delivery cycle, allows to regions to reach autonomy and develop an ecosystem in the locality.  

Type of local destinations that help the ecology.

In this article because we like to discuss received ideas like we have told in the introduction, we will tell you about destinations that are known as local destinations that are good for the earth.

Canoe in lakes and rivers. 

We have put this kind of spot first, because it is the destination by excellence where you can rest and reduce your carbon footprint at the same time. Usually near forests or reserves, chalet, castle, villa or house near rivers or water points are good for the surrounding in general, preserving animal life and observation of the land and its constraints.

The main threat being the overload of the place that can sometimes create miss evaluation of the needs that the land required. 

Museum and city spot. 

Those spots are professionally done to receive massive people and are adapted to the regulation concerning ecology. As we have seen in the report of most polluting area world wide those spot are not inside, so feel free to visit museum and historical monument as you wish, however it is important to note that if you could do it walking or by gas bus it would be better. It is important in addition you take your sandwich with you, food is usually very expensive near tourist spots and if you have followed the figures we have in the article you would do some good gestures for the planet bringing your own sandwich to the museum or when you are visiting an historical monument. 

Parks and green areas. 

Parks and green areas are good for the environment, don’t hesitate to visit them. Or do jogging inside it, you can also rest on the green or just walk with your love. 

Ski and mountain.

The most controversial activity for the ecology, skiing causes damage to the environment and despite the sport activity it brings, skiing is harmful for the atmosphere. To be practiced with parsimony, skiing is not good for the planet when tracks are overloaded. Consequently when you go to the mountain if it is not to do hiking you have to inform yourself to not skiing on unnatural snow and hurt the environment.     

Others destinations.

Destinations.

International destinations counts 1466 millions of arrivals in 2019 worldwide meaning that international travel remains the main part of the travel quantity. Current leading destinations are Middle East, United States of America, Europe with France, Central America, Asia and Africa. 

Move to another country suppose to take planes and it counts 8% of the global pollution. It is a lot, that why, in this article we give you some tips we have found to reduce this ecological impact in case you want to take long haul flight. 

Go to a homely hotel or public house.

Homely public houses or artisanal housing are often hold by locals or by externals who are living there, it is for this reason that we advise it to you. Small businesses have more chances to be integrated in small loops of production in terms of food, buying in the local market, working with local agriculture, and is favorable for ecology in the mid-long term. Because local agriculture helps the structure of the land, plus, participates to think about forests with expertise. It reduces the transport cost, creating well yield culture and synergies through town planning exertion.

Favors green premium.

Green premium is the usage of green technology to produce energy and to live in general, use it.