UNSUSTAINABLE TRAVEL

CONTENTS

• Quick facts
• Infrastructural effects
• The Airline Industry
• Human footprint
• Solutions
• Conclusion

QUICK FACTS

• 1 BILLION tourists
• 1 golf course = 60,000 people’s water
• 1,500 KG pesticides & fertilizers
• 5% total world emissions
• (The World Counts, 2018)

INFRASTRUCTURAL EFFECTS

• Private construction
• Infrastructure development
• Marina development
• Foreign investment
• (GDRC, 2018)

THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY

• Generation EasyJet
• Plane congestion in crowded airports
• Flying is often cheaper than train/car
• Dublin to Krakow = 80 tonnes of Co2
• RyanAir
• (Fryer, 2018. The independent, 2018)

HUMAN FOOTPRINT

• Overpopulated but under resourced
• Depletion of resources
• Pollution to the local community
• Land degradation
• (GDRC, 2018)

SOLUTIONS

• Bio-fuels
• Alaska Airlines
• Local government intervention
• Educating the population
• (NASA, 2015. Alaska Airlines, 2018)

BE RESPONSIBLE

REFERENCES

• Alaska Air. (2018) Alaska Airlines Bio-Fuel [Online]. Available at: https://blog.alaskaair.com/alaska-airlines/news/nara-flight/ (Accessed 25 feb. 2018)
• Fyer, R. (2018). It's time to wake up to the devastating impact flying has on the environment. [online] The Conversation. Available at: https://theconversation.com/its-time-to-wake-up-to-the-devastating-impact-f... [Accessed 25 Feb. 2018].
• Gdrc.org. (2018). Environmental Impacts of Tourism. [online] Available at: https://www.gdrc.org/uem/eco-tour/envi/one.html [Accessed 28 Feb. 2018]
• Independent.ie. (2018). Ryanair at top of nation's air pollution league - Independent.ie. [online] Available at: https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/ryanair-at-top-of-nations-air-pol... [Accessed 25 Feb. 2018].
• Laurance, W., Peletier-Jellema, A. and Van Dijck, P. (2018). Reducing the global environmental impacts of rapid infrastructure expansion.
• NASA Biofuel Study (2015) reducing jet engine pollution. https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-study-confirms-biofuels-reduce-jet-... Accessed: Feb 25 2018