Mass tourism poses a challenge for tourism industry

As the ITB, the leading trade fair for the global tourism industry, opens in Berlin, WWF, the conservation organization, today issued a warning about the increasingly negative impact of tourism development on the Mediterranean.

"The tourism industry has to reduce its impact on nature, if we want to save the Mediterranean's unique heritage. By wrecking the valuable environment on which it depends, the tourism industry will be the ultimate loser," said Peter DeBrine, Tourism Officer at WWF's Mediterranean Programme Office.

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Photo © Archive EVK: Estellencs, Serra de Tramuntana in Mallorca.

Datum: 03/03/2001

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