Tourism industry can play major role in curbing climate change.
Even before the Climate Conference got underway in The Hague, another international conference with a major stake in the prevention of harmful effects of human activity on the climate was coming to an end. It also calls for the preservation and wise use of the environment and for ecological balance as essential elements for the future of tourism. There can be no doubt about the tourism industry's stake in the preservation of the environment and the prevention of harmful effects of climate change on tourism as a global industy, she said. The harmful effects of climate change, if left unchecked with the failure of the international community to act effectively in accordance with the Kyoto Protocol, would cause damage to the physical infrastructure of the globe, particularly by sea-level rise and by extreme weather events. This would have a catastrophic effect on the future of tourism, with all its positive economic social and political implications, which were discussed at the conference.