In the next ten years or so, the tourism industry is going to double and its contribution to global warming is expected to jump as increasing numbers of people travel by air. The industry accounts for five percent of global emissions of heat trapping gases in the atmosphere.

According to a UN agency report, global warming may extend the summers of northern countries like Canada, Britain and Russia and create new opportunities for travel in the polar regions. In poorer and island nations where the tourism industry is generating an economic output up to forty percent were seen jeopardized by worlds rising temperature and the result of environmental changes.

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