You'd think that at a meeting held by a group called the Pacific Asia Travel Association, most of the delegates would be from, you know, Asia. However, AFP reports that at a recent conference held by PATA to discuss greening up the travel business, Asian airlines and tourism companies were woefully underrepresented.
Officials from PATA, who declined to be named, said they had invited more Asian companies, but faced overwhelming disinterest. The impression that they had was that many Asian businesses don't have climate change or other environmental issues on their radar screen yet.
Air travel is thought to account for between 2 and 4 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
The article speculates that Asian airlines and other travel businesses will probably become more eco-conscious as they come under pressure from overseas partners, and also as they become influenced by the next generation of kids who've learned about climate change in school. And if that doesn't do the trick, the increasing frequency of massive typhoons, floods, and sandstorms in various places around the continent might attract their attention.
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