Sustainability

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In response to the global shift towards environmentally sustainable tourism practices, the Culture and Tourism Ministry is taking decisive steps to enact climate-friendly tourism development legislation.

As a part of the 2024-2028 strategic plan, initiatives are underway to bolster cultural richness and tourism while addressing the issue of climate change.

Policy-makers, experts, environmentalists and representatives of NGOs and companies discussed ways that can help reduce Slovenia's ecological footprint at a panel held in Ljubljana ahead of Earth Overshoot Day, the day when humanity's demand on nature exceeds Earth's biocapacity. This year Earth Overshoot Day falls on 2 August.

Although eight in 10 tourism businesses in Greece have already implemented or intend to soon adopt at least one measure of environmental and socio-sustainability, one in two players do not engage in strategic partnerships to promote sustainability according to a survey by the Institute of the Greek Tourism Confederation (INSETE).

NEW YORK - Serbian Minister of Science, Technological Development and Innovation Jelena Begovic attended a general debate in the ministerial segment of a political forum held at the UN headquarters in New York under the patronage of the UN Committee on Economic and Social Affairs.

Tourism is a mainstay of the Croatian economy, but questions are being asked of its sustainability.

In a grim report, the U.N. has warned that at the current rate of global progress 575 million people will still be living in extreme poverty and 84 million children won't be going to school in 2030 - and it will take 286 years to reach equality between men and women.

Turkish technical consultancy firm HISE GLOBAL has signed a strategic alliance agreement with French design and architecture company Arte Charpentier, aiming to develop sustainable urban planning and construction projects on a global scale.

Infrastructures, human resources and expanding the tourist season are the necessary preconditions for a sustainable development of tourism and of air transport in Greece, Dimitris Gerogiannis, CEO of Aegean Airlines, said on Monday.

He said infrastructures were extremely important for the sustainable development of tourism, of cities and of the country in general.

Greek citizens, who in their overwhelming majority recognize the importance of tourism for the national economy, are becoming skeptical in relation to its effects on their daily lives, on the environment and on the character of individual destinations, while they are troubled by the spread of short-term rentals as well as increases in the cost of vacations, according to the findings of surveys