Sara

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31 10, 2010

Leave Nothing but Footprints: Mission Impossible?!

By |October 31st, 2010|India, Nepal, Regional developments|4 Comments

Mountain tourism is growing and therefore as well the environmental degradation induced by these tourists. This entry deals with the impact trekking tourists have on nature, especially in the Himalaya regions in India and Nepal. Subsequently it will be discussed which measures would help to reduce these impacts. Moreover the role of the trekking […]

24 09, 2010

Slow Travel in a Speedy World

By |September 24th, 2010|Ungategorized|11 Comments

Within the last decades modernity has mainly been characterized by a strong acceleration “in which speed is the natural and welcome byproduct […]” (Molz, 2009). In the tourism context this became evident especially in the increase of air traffic within the last century.
While speed and mobility were connoted with positive magnitudes, slowness has […]