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Francisco Franghayali the boss of the worldly tourism organization said that tourism industry is the world became a victim to the climatic changes. He added tourism is considered a basic economic man for life in many countries and any efforts to decrease it means cutting the living of millions men. He ensured it shares in relieving the poverty and that is one of the millennium's aims.
He pointed many people look at the tourism as a kind of luxury and wasting time not as a vital economic activity.
The worldly tourism organization which followed to the United Nations published the number of tourists in the first eight months this year which was 610 million and this means an increase about 5.65% comparison with the same period last year.
Franghayali said if that increase continues, the number of tourists in the world will be 900 million this year, will be 1.1 milliard in 2010 and it may 1.3 milliard in 2020.
Although air transport shares with a small number in gas emissions in the world. It is expectant that this enlargement in that industry will cause an increase in sharing the tourism in these emissions.
Franghayali warned from the harmful effects of increasing the Earth's temperature began to appear in the coral reefs, melt the Ice Mountains and increasing the water level in the ocean, all of these problems will affect on those countries which have touristic islands.
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