Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Can tourism ever be good for the climate?
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Can tourism ever be good for the climate?
This week, we’re off to Costa Rica, an eco-tourism hotspot in collaboration with BBC’s The Travel Show.
Eco-tourism is big business - it’s forecasted to generate $103 billion annually by 2027. But how well do its green claims actually stack up when it comes to the climate?
Presenter Qasa Alom visits the birthplace of Sea Turtle conservation, goes on patrol with a ranger protecting the forest from loggers and miners, and spots luxury tourist developments in the terrain of the puma.
How big is tourism’s climate impact, and can this ever be mitigated by its benefits?
Guests:
Ralf Buckley, Director of the International Centre for Ecotourism Research, and Research Director of the Climate Response Program at Griffith University, Australia.
Stefan Gossling, Professor at the Linnaeus University School of Business and Economics and Lund University's Department of Service Management
If you have a question about climate change that you’d like us to answer, or a comment – please email them to [email protected]
Presenter: Qasa Alom
Producers: Sophie Eastaugh for The Climate Question and Jamie Hamilton for The Travel Show
Researcher: Octavia Woodward
Series Producer: Simon Watts
Editor: China Collins
Sound Engineer: Tom Brignell
Production Coordinators: Sophie Hill, Jacqui Johnson
View all episodes
By BBC World Service
4.4
158158 ratings
This week, we’re off to Costa Rica, an eco-tourism hotspot in collaboration with BBC’s The Travel Show.
Eco-tourism is big business - it’s forecasted to generate $103 billion annually by 2027. But how well do its green claims actually stack up when it comes to the climate?
Presenter Qasa Alom visits the birthplace of Sea Turtle conservation, goes on patrol with a ranger protecting the forest from loggers and miners, and spots luxury tourist developments in the terrain of the puma.
How big is tourism’s climate impact, and can this ever be mitigated by its benefits?
Guests:
Ralf Buckley, Director of the International Centre for Ecotourism Research, and Research Director of the Climate Response Program at Griffith University, Australia.
Stefan Gossling, Professor at the Linnaeus University School of Business and Economics and Lund University's Department of Service Management
If you have a question about climate change that you’d like us to answer, or a comment – please email them to [email protected]
Presenter: Qasa Alom
Producers: Sophie Eastaugh for The Climate Question and Jamie Hamilton for The Travel Show
Researcher: Octavia Woodward
Series Producer: Simon Watts
Editor: China Collins
Sound Engineer: Tom Brignell
Production Coordinators: Sophie Hill, Jacqui Johnson
More shows like The Climate Question
View all
In Our Time
5,407 Listeners
The Documentary Podcast
1,855 Listeners
Global News Podcast
7,831 Listeners
Science Weekly
411 Listeners
Economist Podcasts
4,341 Listeners
6 Minute English
1,770 Listeners
Learning English Conversations
1,061 Listeners
Climate One
560 Listeners
The Infinite Monkey Cage
1,965 Listeners
Newshour
1,063 Listeners
BBC Inside Science
395 Listeners
The Inquiry
752 Listeners
Curious Cases
796 Listeners
CrowdScience
471 Listeners
People Fixing the World
243 Listeners
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
460 Listeners
Switched On
97 Listeners
Americast
778 Listeners
All Things Sustainable (formerly ESG Insider)
57 Listeners
You're Dead to Me
3,031 Listeners
Climate Rising
76 Listeners
The Green Blueprint
205 Listeners
Zero: The Climate Race
196 Listeners
Rare Earth
9 Listeners