Planning a vacation? Think before you do that it might be hazardous to your planet

The more of vacations the more of emission of gasses, As tourism is responsible for a twelfth of world green house gas emissions, and a vacation boom is complicating a global drive to slow climate change.

Emissions from tourism, mostly by domestic travellers, were highest in the US, China, Germany and India, according to a review of 160 nationals led by the university of Sydney and published in the journal Nature climate change.

Small is land countries such as the Maldives, Mauritius, Cyprus and the Seychelles see between 30% and 80% of national emissions from international tourism.

Tourism including flights, hotel, food and even the production of souvenirs, emitted the equivalent of 4.5 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2013, the most recent data available, or 8% of all man made green house gases, up from 3.9 billion in 2009, it said