The soaring numbers of tourists cruising to the Antarctic could have serious environmental implications for the world’s last great wilderness. Delegates have met to call for tougher safety regulations…
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Tourists cause pollution problems in Nilgiris dt.
[source: The Hindu] Officials in Nilgiris district as well as members of The Department of Tourism are working on ways to promote responsible tourism to combat the ‘irresponsible’ activities of ‘insensitive’ tourists who leave behind copious amounts of garbage and convert ecologically sensitive areas into picnic spots.
[source: The Guardian] Popularly known as a tropical paradise, and Maldives hides a dirty secret: the world’s biggest rubbish island. A few miles away from the Maldivian capital rests the artificial island created to solve the city’s refuge problem. With more than 10,000 tourists a week, the rubbish is rising…
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