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Rush to Paradise...
Dennis Oda, Star Bulletin, starbulletin.com/96/10/14/news/story2.html
...and Rush Hour in Paradise
International Tourism Growth
WTO (2005)
From: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=4231, as accessed 070619
Infinite growth?
Innovative air travel – anything revolutionary
on the horizon?
From: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/partners/NexusImages/July06/jet.jpg, http://wallpapers.dpics.org/14__Airbus_A380_Super-Jumbo.htm,
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0118_050118_airbus.html, as accessed 070619
Airbus 380: fuel consumption ca.
2.9 liters (0.76 gallons) / passenger
and 100 kilometers (60 miles).
Boeing 747-400 (Jumbo Jet)
 Three return trips LHR-SIN-LHR onboard an
Airbus 380 emit approximately as much CO2 as
an average full-size car over 2 years of
operation.
 An AAdvantage Executive Platinum traveller
needs to anually emit the CO2-equivalent of 7,7
years of driving an average full-size car
(100,000 miles/year or 165 200 km/year) to
retain top-tier status.
 Improvements in aircraft and engine technology and in
air traffic management are not expected to offset the
projected growth in aircraft emissions. That is, we need
to slow the growth in air travel if we want to reduce the
growth in aircraft greenhouse gas emissions.
 At the same time, about 1 in 10 jobs worldwide are in the
travel & tourism industry, out of which many in
destinations that cannot be (easily) reached by any other
form of transport.
 Should we stop/reduce air travel?
Partly from: http://www.airportwatch.org.uk/briefingsheets/detail.php?art_id=143, as accessed 070619
From: http://www.cambridge2000.com/azara_blog/html/2007/06/20070611_air_travel.html, as accessed 070619
The Bishop of London has recently stated that flying is
immoral.
His colleague, the Right Reverend Tony Footit, former
Bishop of Lynn and now environmental advisor to the
Diocese of Norwich, stated that we all need to think
much more carefully about travel:
"I think it is immoral to fly within the United Kingdom or
Western Europe when it is perfectly possible to travel by
train. It seems perfectly reasonable to fly to the United
States or Far East but we ought to really ration it and ask
if the trip is really necessary.”
 Fly less often (and/or stay longer per trip)?
 Abstain from that cheap little weekend trip to Nice?
 Choose closer destinations and alternative means of
transport?
 Off-set our carbon emissions and placate our conscience?
 Develop innovative schemes of emissions accounting? –
(e.g. economic yield/emissions generated)?
Should we
We urgently need to become more innovative about the
ways we transport, accommodate, feed, entertain and
cater to multiple other needs of travelers, such as to
develop products, build/modify relevant infrastructure,
develop business models and practices, and establish
behaviors that will not threaten the ability of subsequent
generations to pursue travel and tourism as part of their
lifestyle.
Can technologies help?
Technology is…
”…a set of pieces of knowledge, both directly
practical (related to concrete problems and
devices) and theoretical (but practically
applicable, although not necessarily already
applied), know-how, methods, procedures,
experience of successes and failures, and also,
of course, physical devices and equipment”
From: Hjalager, A.-M. (2005). The Marriage Between Welfare Services and Tourism – A Driving Force for Innovation? Innovation in
Hospitality and Tourism. The Haworth Press., as cited from: Dosi, G. 81982). Technological Paradigms and Technological Trajectories.
Research Policy 11, pp. 147-162.
Technology is also…
 Human innovation in action that involves the
generation of knowledge and processes to
develop systems that solve problems and extend
human capabilities;
 The innovation, change, or modification of the
natural environment to satisfy perceived human
needs and wants.
From: www.doe.mass.edu/frameworks/scitech/2001/resources/glossary.html, as accessed 070619
The president of a large country recently stated that his
country is addicted to oil.
Could this be because his country, like most other in the
industrialized world, are addicted to technology?
Are technologies becoming ends to themselves, and to
what degree is innovation in technology an exercise in
procastrination?
As somebody said: ”It is not what you have that counts,
　
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