Archive for May 30, 2009

Facts and figures about water and tourism

700 million international tourists per year and 500 billion dollars in annual receipts make tourism one of the biggest industries in the world, with a correspondingly serious environmental footprint.

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During the 1970s, only 1 person in 13 from industrial countries had travelled to a developing country as an international tourist. By the end of the 1990s it was 1 in 5.
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