Green destinations
With the United Nations putting sustainable tourism firmly on the global agenda, and Muslim countries traditionally struggling in this field, eco-experts are now wondering if it is time to bring religion into the discussion.
Last month at the UN’s Sustainable Development Summit, more than 150 world leaders agreed to adopt an “ambitious new sustainable development agenda” that will affect all areas of policy for the next 15 years, including tourism, and nowhere will this be more difficult to implement than in the Muslim member states.
Recently, when the long list for the 2015 World Travel Responsible Tourism awards were released, only one of the 206 companies included was from the Middle East. Only 6 percent of the companies on the list were from Muslim countries.
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Tharik Hussain