Travel Agents and Tour Operators

I came across this useful explanation of how Travel Agents differ from Tour operators. Is there any other difference that you can think of?
I hope all your doubts are cleared by reading this article. If you still have doubts, we will deal with them in class later.
http://www.fto.co.uk/operators-factfile/tour-operators/

Leading the Challenge on Climate Change

The World Tourism ORganization presented this report together with the Travel and Tourism World Council in order to set the guidelines to reduce pollution and avoid the negative environmental impacts of tourism.
Is there any suggestion that you would add to the ones that have already been included? Post your ideas here!
http://www.wttc.org/eng/Tourism_Initiatives/Environment_Initiative/

Positive and Negative Impacts of Tourism in Argentina

This activity will help you analyse the effects of mass tourism within our own country:
a)Select a town or region in your country where tourism is developing or being considered.
b) Collect newspaper articles which may be for or against the development and think of:
*the economic impacts of the development to the community.
*the social impacts.
*the cultural impacts.
*the environmental impacts.
Once you have gathered all the data and information, prepare a report. Don´t forget to add a final conclusion.

Negative Impacts of Tourism in a region or country

Watch this video about the negative Impacts of tourism.
Do you agree? What do you think about the video? Are the negative aspects more important than the positive ones? Why?