By the mid 2000s a third of Spain was at risk from desertification due to agriculture, tourism and of course climate change.
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After the Games, Brazil could use the continued golf tourism boost the course could potentially bring, but if it is just another of the hundreds of worldwide Nicklaus courses, or ditto for Robert Trent Jones, Jr. and their brethren, the only way it could draw visitors if it turned out to be a spectacular, must-play courses, and based on experience and statistics that is highly, highly unlikely.
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The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has announced its first extensive and in depth training course on Tourism and Biodiversity.
The majority of its economy, as measured by gross domestic product (GDP) is derived from services from industries such as financial, real estate, and, of course, tourism.
The course is aimed at national and local authorities, the private tourism sector and NGOs involved in biodiversity and tourism.
Solo tourism was growing in popularity among the young people, and even in the course of our time together my fellow-tourists had wearied of hustling so much.
The amount of money the United States has left on the tourism table in the past decade should be enough to convince Congress that we need to shift course and entice rather than repel this huge source of jobs and revenue.
Of course, critical to the long term economic wellbeing of the region, and its potentially lucrative tourism sector in particular, will be the maintenance of political stability.
Tourism Minister John Penrose said it was "vitally important" to have "properly accessible" accommodation during the course of the games.
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