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	<description>The future of tourism in a changing world</description>
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		<title>Population growth is not a major driver of climate change, says study</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An article published today (28th September, 2009) in the journal &#8216;Environment and Urbanization &#8216;  reports on research that finds that there is at most a weak link between population growth and rising emissions of greenhouse gases.
The paper contradicts growing calls  for population growth to be limited as part of the fight against climate change  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisd.org/blog/?p=43</link>
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		<title>The future of the hotel shuttle is here!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve stood in line at a major airport waiting for a shuttle to take you to the hotel, you know how much traffic, and therefore how much pollution, these buses generate. Now Sinautec Automobile Technologies LLC and the American University (AU) aim to reduce that pollution and will be demonstrating America&#8217;s first &#8216;ultracapacitor&#8217; electric [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisd.org/blog/?p=45</link>
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		<title>Good news and not so good news</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Press statement - Saleemul Huq, senior fellow in the International Institute for Environment and Development’s climate change group, has been at the UN climate change negotiations in Bonn, Germany. Saleem was also a coordinating lead author of the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The latest round of international negotiations to agree a global [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisd.org/blog/?p=41</link>
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		<title>The Price is not Right</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Thomas L. Friedman, author of &#8216;The World is Flat: a Brief History of the 21st Century&#8217; wrote a recent column with this title in the New York Times.  The piece begins:
The Price is Not Right
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: March 31, 2009
I don’t expect much from the G-20 meeting this week, but if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisd.org/blog/?p=35</link>
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		<title>Making the world a better place</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hotels mostly employ mature technologies. We wait until a new concept is tried, tested and freely available on the market before we incorporate it into our business model. Think of things like plasma screen TVs, wireless internet access and EPOS systems.
Sometimes, though, there’s a part of the hotel business just crying out for improvement, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisd.org/blog/?p=29</link>
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		<title>Is the 2012 Olympic Games to be the last major tourist event in Europe?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, don’t panic, it probably won’t be. But a report released this month by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in the UK suggests that after that date air travel in the EU might become much more expensive as the carbon Emissions Trading Scheme includes emissions from aircraft for the first time.
The report concludes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisd.org/blog/?p=25</link>
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		<title>Sustainable development must become &#8220;business as usual&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If sustainable development is going to become a mainstream concept it must be accepted as a normal part of everyday business practice by line and senior managers in companies. The question ‘is that sustainable?’ has to become as common as ‘is that profitable?’; in fact, those two concepts need to move closer together until answering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisd.org/blog/?p=22</link>
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		<title>Hotel EMS Programs- Only Step #1 towards Sustainable Tourism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last decade, we have seen increasing tourism and hospitality media coverage on efforts undertaken by a growing, but still minority, hotel chains and independent properties in  using cost savings tactics associated with implementation of Environmental Management Systems (EMS) programs. In supporting the expanding distribution of this message, the Hotel sector has publicly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisd.org/blog/?p=19</link>
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		<title>WWF-UK survey predicts decline in business air travel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The UK branch of WWF released a report in May entitled ˜Travelling Light&#8220;, which surveyed 100 of the Financial Times FTSE350-listed companies about their future plans for business air travel. Here are the results:

89% of the FTSE 350 companies surveyed expect they will want to fly less over the next 10 years
Business flights are expected [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisd.org/blog/?p=11</link>
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		<title>Getting the message across</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just got back from the IEMA annual conference in the UK. This institute represents those involved in environmental management, auditing and assessment, and the attendees came from various industry sectors, academia, local and national government.
Apart from the presentations and workshops, which were largely excellent, what struck me most was an underlying feeling of frustration [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisd.org/blog/?p=10</link>
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