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Tourism Industry Action Plan on Climate Change
Sustainable Tourism CRC and its commercial arm EC3 Global have been invited to provide strategies to address the effects of climate change on the tourism industry. The strategies were outlined in a recent report presented to the Federal Minister for Tourism, Hon Fran Bailey by Sustainable Tourism CRC.
The Tourism Industry Action Plan on Climate Change report opens much needed dialogue across industry as to the challenges faced by tourism stakeholders and presents a plan to combat the potentially devastating effect climate change could deliver to Australia's third largest industry.
The report asserts that benchmarking, sustainable best practice, carbon neutrality and aggregate destination carbon footprints must become a part of tourism industry practice.
As the world leader in sustainable tourism technology, EC3 Global’s proven role in these areas is vital. The use of current EC3 Global technology to develop a new carbon offset scheme and a way to measure and track destinations has been recommended by the Sustainable Tourism CRC report.
These existing services, particularly in benchmarking carbon footprints, will assist tourism organisations to actively assess their current environmental performance and to help decrease their environmental impact in the future.
Australia's $20.5 billion per annum industry can significantly reduce its carbon emissions by adopting EC3 Global’s scientifically accredited services and in the process help to maintain Australia's attractiveness as an inbound and domestic tourism destination.
The Action Plan also identifies a wide range of strategies that can assist in maintaining Australia's tourism market as well as addressing risk areas that may hinder tourism operators. Many of these relate to the detrimental effect international regulatory bodies could have on the industry if Australia is not seen to be proactive in finding solutions to combat climate change.