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BANGKOK: Asian airlines and tourist firms are too complacent about
the urgent need to address global warming, industry leaders warned
at a conference on climate change.
Westerners rather than Asians dominated the
first Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) conference on climate
change, held in the Thai capital, organizers said.
“As far as Asian faces, there weren’t
necessarily as many as we would have liked,” PATA president Peter
de Jong said. “Not everyone is ready to commit time to this
yet.”
Of the more than 200 delegates who met to
discuss ways to make the tourism industry greener, regional airlines
were noticeably under-represented at the conference, which wrapped
up Wednesday.
People from China, India and the Philippines are
slightly more worried about climate change than Europeans but feel
less empowered to do anything about it, according to a 2007 study by
polling organization GlobeScan.
-- AFP
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