Sustainable Travel - the Need of the Hour

By Misaal8930 | May 9, 2022

Popularly travel is viewed as seeing new places. However, it is so much more, opening your points of view to encounter totally various cultures and customs, cuisines, and scenes. Traveling is an exceptionally important part of life as it is the best way to get out of a consistent lifestyle in comfort zones. It helps with encountering life in various manners. Traveling is probably the most ideal approaches to enhance personal growth. It improves psychological and physical well-being. It's not just about encountering the excellence of nature, various geographies, topographies, cuisine, memories, adventures, and people. Traveling is exploring new places, cultures, cuisines, rituals, and styles of living.

But the negative ecological effects of the travel industry are considerable. They incorporate the exhaustion of natural resources as well as pollution and waste issues. The travel industry puts a huge weight on local land use and can prompt soil erosion, increase pollution, natural habitat loss, and more pressure on endangered species. These impacts can progressively obliterate the natural resources on which the travel industry itself depends.

Air travel is one of the more environmentally harming exercises travelers take part in. Globally, the airline industry is blameworthy for approximately 2.5% of carbon dioxide emissions, and that is rising rapidly as more individuals fly more frequently.

Solid wastes produced by the travel industry are huge in absolute terms it accounts for roughly 35 million tones of solid waste every year globally.

Water pollution because of the travel industry records an estimate of 70,000 tons of wastewater produced every year from cruise ships which damage the natural habitat of marine life. 88% of the ocean surface is polluted by plastic waste.

Food waste because of travelers roughly amounts to 1.3 billion tons, annually. Food waste is a significant environmental, social, and economic issue.

Tricky Travellers sukoon village

Tricky Travellers sukoon village

Plastic waste records to more than 275 million tones, every year. About 50 % of plastics utilized are single-use items, for example, bottles, plastic sacks, packaging, straws, stirrers, spoons, and forks. Around 1 million plastic drinking bottles are bought every minute globally.

Animals are kept in imprisonment for peoples' amusement and nature is purposely destructed.

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Written by Misaal Malhotra
Hi, I am Misaal Malhotra a lawyer by profession and documentary filmmaker and Traveller by passion. I love exploring different cultures and write articles about them and i can discuss about it anytime, anywhere.

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