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MEDSTAT explores the issue of water use by tourism

Global Arab Network - - Maha Karim

Thursday, 18 June 2009 17:16

The EU funded MEDSTAT II programme has just published an innovative study on water consumption in the tourism sector. The pilot study, ‘Water and Tourism’ explores the issue of water use by tourism activities and assesses the availability of statistical information in four countries: Israel, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia.

The study says the Mediterranean region is one of the top destinations in the world of mass tourism, with the number of tourists constantly increasing from 4% of the world total in 1990 to 6% in 2005: by 2025, it is expected to welcome 396 million tourists. This has led to the building of accommodation infrastructure, consuming water in coastal areas with high population density, putting huge pressure on water resources, accentuated by swimming pools, golf courses, aquatic centres, spas, etc.

With scant statistics available on the tourism sector’s water consumption of water, MEDSTAT’s pilot study makes recommendations to improve the production, collection, dissemination and use of statistics on water and tourism.

MEDSTAT II aims at backing the Mediterranean Partner Countries so that they collect reliable and coherent statistical data, in nine priority sectors: trade of goods and services, transport, migration, tourism, environment, national accounts, social statistics, energy and agriculture.

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