UK Government to Probe Environmental Cost of Tourism
Photo Credit: A British Airways A380 flying over the cliffs at Dover. British Airways / Neil Frazer
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The UK's tourism industry is robust and vitally important to its economy — which is why it's even more important that the government take a look at its environmental impact.
The UK parliament's Environmental Audit Committee will launch an inquiry into the cost of tourism to the environment, it announced Thursday.
The announcement mentioned various consequences of overtourism, including carbon emissions, resource degradation, the decline of cultural sites, and negative effects on the housing market. It specifically called out the impact of aviation as a priority of the inquiry, noting that it intends to "seek views on travel choices to inform the Government’s forthcoming aviation strategy to 2050."
Chair of the committee, Mary Creagh, member
