Any move to new technology and alternative forms of transportation directly hurts their profitability. At the GIN conference, there was no shortage of studies and scientific research with serious implications for travel and tourism. Everything has been geared towards becoming bigger and bigger as if there would be eternally infinite natural resources to run them. The backlash is now setting in. The bigger will suffer more than others.
Tourism is a massive water-guzzler.
In many parts of the world now, fresh water is a precious commodity. The average tourist has no incentive to save water. The guest pays for a hotel room and earns the right to fill up the bathtub. Yet, railways are among the most ecologically efficient means of transportation for both the poor as well as tourists. International donor organisations have poured billions of dollars into roads and airports.