Can the world handle a billion tourists?

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 10:48 — Anonymous by Karla CrippsStampedes at the Sistine
Chapel; queues for the Great Wall of China as long as the wall itself; menus
dominated by Asian options at international restaurants. That's what you
might expect to be faced with as a traveler in 2012, when you consider the
news from the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), that
international tourist arrivals are on track to hit 1 billion this year.
That's a whole lot of suitcases.  But is a billion tourists as daunting a
number as it sounds?  Actually, the signs are that the world not only can
cope with a billion international travelers, it can do so comfortably. read
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