Tourism appetite too great for world resources

Latest scientific paper outlines unpalatable facts and forecasts. A paper just completed by tourism and climate change scientists, Stefan Gossling and Paul Peeters presents more facts about tourism's appetite for growth and resources. For the first time using the concept of Resource Use Intensities (RUIs) - the paper pioneers the assessment of tourism's total global resource use, including fossil fuel consumption, associated CO2 emissions, fresh water, land and food use.