How the cruise industry is sailing towards a sustainable future
With a record number of new ships hitting our oceans each year, the tourism sector is finding new ways to sail ever more lightly on the planet.
Aurora Expeditions’ ship, Greg Mortimer, uses virtual anchoring to protect the seabed.
When it comes to sustainable travel, few tourism sectors have powered as hard as the cruise industry to overhaul their image and practices. But first, the big picture.
Cruise ships account for "0.2 per cent of all global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion and cement production", according to the Global Sustainable Tourism Dashboard, an international research effort co-led by Australia's Griffith University.
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