Can tourism ever really help the environment? - The Climate Question podcast, BBC World Service

The eco-tourism market is booming. It was worth £73 billion ($92 billion) globally in 2019 and is expected to top £86 billion ($108 billion) by 2027.
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In this episode of The Climate Question, presenter Qasa Alom is in Costa Rica, often portrayed as a shining beacon of eco-tourism. He wants to find out for himself whether eco-tourism is a force for good or a threat to the planet.
More from The Climate Question ➡️ • The Climate Question
0:00 Looking for turtles on Costa Rica's Tortuguero beach, the birthplace of sea turtle conservation
1:11 Tortuguero, sea turtles and tourism
1:46 Costa Rica, the home of ecotourism: can tourism ever really be good for the environment?
2:27 How do tourists help the sea turtles?
3:45 Why are sea turtle numbers in Costa Rica starting to fall again?
5:29 Eco-tourism is the buzz in tourism
6:00 Eco-tourism definition and history
9:32 How well is eco-tourism working in Costa Rica?
13:45 Tourists' contribution to climate change
16:39 Tourism GDP boost for Costa Rica
19:28 A victim of its own success?
20:37 Bird watching
22:11 The "intangible benefit" of tourism and connecting to nature
23:21 Overall is eco-tourism good or bad for climate change?
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[@whocareswhoami7278]

If you see any beautiful quiet places, foolishly don't share on social media or even with friends, which brings in more tourists and spoils the place. Social media is spoiling beautiful quiet places by bringing in more tourists.

[@fsnr9]

I understood that there’s will always have a contradiction around eco tourism once since the transport we take generates impact to the global warming but it’s much better than travel all around luxury services and including that we know that business overseas impact much more and those are the ones we should debate the efficiency to tackle the global warming.

[@jeanpearl1731]

Those tourists would go somewhere else and spend money there, contributing to the climate change in that process.
So if the money they would spend anyway is spent on eco tourism, at least it will have some positive impact as local govenments and communities would try to protect habitats instead of destorying them in the name of developmet or by neglecting.

[@ofiaweka-dp9if]

Qqqq😊q😊q

[@MizanurRahaman]

Really staggering documentary regarding ambient.

[@shambhoosharan9004]

Very thought provoking details of tourism,,,,,

[@lelowim004]

Thanks for giving details about natural park in Africa parks sight is amazing hunters also should protect wild animals like pumba 😅

[@johney3734]

YES!!!! i went to Antarctica to see the penguins i gave them grass seeds .. they did not eat them but the place is alive with weeds now

[@elizabethleyden892]

I wish you had undertaken an investigation of efficacy or otherwise of the various carbon offsetting programmes - if that was even mentioned, it was so short that I missed it.

[@namy147]

I like this type of episode because i like to nature🌿🍃 when do i see the trees🌲🌳🌴 and animals🐵🐔🐶🐷 really good feels me

[@monicaflorez2977]

Saludob dese collombia grandes impactos del turismo .En una región llamada salento!

[@connect1affect711]

I don’t think tourism's footprint should include food because the tourists would be eating food at home if they weren't on tour, and probably similarly impactful food considering their economic profile.

[@swilson6170]

That is a very good point

[@user-tb6mi7hb6g]

Is the very good thing that people do and leading them to the better Chang in their life..

[@user-fl2ho2xg7i]

Yeah, it could be, but it should have a Good management, sometimes the bussinessman are only think about how to get earn money without thinking about environment and the status of animal is endangered or not.. So many thinks when we want to focus on eco-tourism in our country.

[@Vientofuerza]

Пора понемногу привыкать к тому,что привычного туризма больше не будет,придется accommodate to a new form of that

[@themoonisjustthebackofthesun]

I'm from Costa Rica, basically since we are born we are told to take care of the environment and animals, of course there is always bad people who don't follow the rules, but the majority of ticos will do their best to take care of our small country's environment

[@mr.chicken9085]

I think the problem is not to crowd a place with a plane of tourists or so,is the trashy stuff they all are backpacking on , because u need the tourist system in for the local communities to do livehooding possible,u as an underdevelopping countrh like costa rica or any other latin america the ttourist is require just think about the hawaii too 😅.

[@gromotion933]

Eco tourism is like a zigaretfilter...its a tiny bit better but still killng you.
The moment you enter a plane your carbon footprint explodes.

[@hjanwar93]

i can see anything

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[@vibhusingh1457]

Victim of its own success...

[@marianasalles242]

No!!!

[@cosettefundenberger4801]

😣 *promosm*