Sustainable Tourism Practices/The complexity and challenge of sustainable tourism/Complexity and challenge



On a global level the tourism industry faces a multitude of significant sustainability-related challenges:''


 * energy, emissions and reliance on nonrenewerable resourse
 * water consumption and availability
 * waste management
 * loss of biological diversity
 * conservation of heritage, history and culture

At an industry/business level:


 * growing concern about the impact of travel on climate change
 * greater use of the internet and online bookings
 * higher fuel prices
 * recruiting appropriately skilled staff
 * becoming more environmentally sustainable
 * the provision of appropriate, high quality infrastructure