It's shocking to think about how little the travel industry cares about sustainability - and it's the basis of their business!
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
The growth of purposeful travel is a good thing. It can have a positive impact. We should continue to experiment and move along this line.
In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.
People in all walks of life, and especially business, do not want to experience the collapse of cities like New York along with global finance and economy in chaos, but this is what business faces if we continue to attribute climate change to fossil fuels alone.
I actually believe 'Sustainability', as a concept, is one of the arteries leading to the heart of so many of our cultural transitions at play today. And it's this concept which leads me to bottled water, and its multibillion dollar industry.
If you look at the state of our planet, the next generations won't be around if we consider sustainability as a gimmick.
The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.
With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environmental activists, and indeed all those concerned about the complex, fragile systems on the sphere we inhabit. It has shaped debates about business, design, and our lifestyles.
Businesses typically look at issues like price, quality, time of delivery. They don't often think about social and environmental impact because they're focused on their financial bottom line.
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