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Editorial
POOL OUT
The mass tourism season has now started in the
Mediterranean and charter
tourists are frying around the omnipresent swimming pools of
giant resorts touted by tour operators as
children friendly resorts, so that in fact many now have developed
shallow children pools for extra family fun. Fancy a swim in that
hotel pool then? Why not, you will be in good company with dioxins,
furans and trihalomethanes. In a study
published this June,
researchers found that young swimming pool enthusiasts who swam
frequently had protein levels similar to those found in regular
smokers, thanks to the good old chlorine in the pool water and an
increased risk of developing asthma. So, go to the mega resort's sandy
beach instead then? Emm, yes provided you do not step on them turtle
eggs (and risk the hotel its ecocertificate), but hey think again, where does all this chlorinated pool water
end up? So just say no to this banality, and have a look at http://ecoclub.com/lodges.html
for some reality. Stay cool, outside the pool !
On the other hand, tourists have allegedly pulled
out from the Mediterranean Balearic Islands (Majorca, Menorca &
Ibiza) where an "Eco-tax" on tourism was applied last year.
The eco-tax was very successful, or rather too successful for its own
sake: At 1 Euro per tourist per night, it raised around EUROS 17
million and slightly cut visitor numbers. So the newly elected
(right-wing) local government pledged to abolish it in the next few
days. The tiny Balearic islands have a combined population of 800,000
and presently host 11 million tourists a year, presumably there
is plenty of space for more?
Antonis B. Petropoulos, ECOCLUB Editor
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