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Pre Covid – 19, tourism was one of the fastest growing economic sectors in the world. It contributed to about one tenth of the global GDP and employment. Small and medium sized enterprises in the tourism industry contribute significantly to the number of enterprises and the number of people employed in the tourism sector.
We have recently entered a new epoch in earth history where human activities represent the dominant driver of environmental change (Rockström et al., 2009; Steffen et al., 2015). An overwhelming strand of literature from all over the globe confirm that we are no longer living within the limits of our earth systems (IPBES, 2019; IPCC, 2019).
Short excerpt from report Ecolabelling for tourism enterprises, What, why and how” (page 18 – 19)
Arron Wilde Tippett, Else Ragni Yttredal, Øivind Strand, NTNU
