Culture & Design
Using the Downturn to Reduce Mass Tourism’s Carbon Impact
None of the 34 tourism government aid programs tracked by Bloomberg Green have climate strings attached
People sunbathe at Levante Beach on July 22, 2015 in Benidorm, Spain.
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You can’t fit 1.5 billion tourists in eco-lodges.
That was my first thought as I stepped on the burning sand of Alicante beach in Spain about three weeks ago. Stretching to the horizon, north and south, was the wall of tall concrete buildings that’s the backbone of Spain’s tourism industry.