DUBAI, UAE, BTNp: DUBAI Airports and Emirates have partnered with Etihad Clean Energy Development Company to promote sustainability through solar energy. Their goal is to build the world’s largest rooftop solar panel system at an airport. The project will install 62,904 solar panels at Dubai International (DXB) and Dubai World Central—Al Maktoum International (DWC). These…
PERTH, AUSTRALIA, BTNP: WORLD Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) latest Environmental & Social Research (ESR), —created in partnership with the Ministry of Tourism of Saudi Arabia,— reveals that in 2023 Travel & Tourism accounted for 6.5% of all emissions globally, down from 7.8% in 2019, when Travel & Tourism was at its peak (8,1%)….
“There is no modernity without tradition and locality.” DENPASAR, BTNp: TRI Hita Karana (THK) was defined as a concept for the development of Bali in 1969 (Repelita I). However, from 1969 to 2000 this concept was never evaluated for its application in the development of Bali. At the initiative of a number of journalists, lecturers/academicians…
Nice, France, BTNp: PROFESSOR Geoffrey Lipman, President of SUNx Malta, delivered speech at the International Mountain Tourism Forum, highlighting the urgent need for climate action in the mountain tourism sector. The session, linked with China, underlined the critical role the country will play in the global response to the existential climate crisis. Lipman pointed out…