Although Tourism Remains Discordant, CO2 Can "Go Green"

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com –The tourism industry is not sterile if related to the production of carbon dioxide or CO2. Tourism contributes to carbon dioxide by as much as 5 per cent to the world.

"Two percent of that of the transport that is used for tourism," says Secretary General of the Ministry of tourism and Creative Economy (Kemenparekraf), Wardiyatmo told reporters in Jakarta, Monday (14/8/2012).

However, advanced Wardiyatmo, while carbon dioxide in the world contributing, on the other hand tourism can help implentasi the concept of go green or play a role in preserving the environment. According to his opinion, the hypothesis presented the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), tourism is expected to help keep the Earth in order for not quickly broken.

"There are two hypotheses of UNWTO, one that tourism can curb global warming and climate change," says Wardiyatmo.

The assumption, if the construction of tourism developed in rural areas, it will be able to create jobs, alleviate poverty and curb urban sprawl. Urbanization, advanced Wardiyatmo, creating pollution that leads to the greenhouse effect.

"The earth so the heat, climate change more quickly," he added.

The second hypothesis, he added, that environment-related tourism can help the preservation of the environment. It is closely related to the population of a country. Wardiyatmo gave an example for developing countries like Indonesia, still lack the passion to have many children.

"Indonesia every year its growth high, there are 4 million born every year. Figure 4 million equivalent to Singapore's population overall. Many children, need to find work more and more, "he said.

The number of residents then any increased needs. Take a simple example, such as Wardiyatmo, Indonesia expressed every day needs to be available 240 million rice dishes. If you eat three times a day, then that means 720 rice dishes. Rice is produced from rice that need to land to harvest them.

"Ultimately destructive nature. Especially if it's not found work, tend to become destructive nature. If the village alone can already be able to work from tourism, nature must be maintained because of the nature of their tourism products, "he said.

In addition, natural, tourism also preserve augment culture. He indicated that the modernization makes people tend to abandon the classical culture considered old-fashioned. With tourism, he explained, so countries vying dig old cultures that already has been pent-up or even abandoned.

"Talk culture will not be depleted. Indonesia had a lot of dance, not to mention the art of music is incredible. If the environment is damaged, tourism activity can not anything. Tourism to the preservation of nature and culture that the price off. Without both, we couldn't have anything, "he said.