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May 18, 2007

Pollution from air travel is a threat to ecotourism

By DOUG MELLGREN
Associated Press Writer

OSLO, Norway — Ecotourism may be just as environmentally damaging as traditional travel due to the greenhouse gases vacationers are burning to reach remote and pristine areas, industry experts warned.

That dilemma has been the focus of the Global Ecotourism Conference in Oslo, a three-day gathering of ecotourism officials struggling to chart the future of an industry whose success threatens to become its own undoing.


 
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