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.

Fiona Carruthers and Brian Johnston

Feb 17, 2020 – 9.30am

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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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Brian JohnstonTravel writerBrian Johnston seemed destined to become a travel writer and author: he is an Irishman born in Nigeria and raised in Switzerland, who has lived in Britain and China.