HOSPITALITY
A broad category of fields within the service industry that directly or indirectly contribute to, or depend upon, travel and tourism. Hospitality industry includes any businesses where the sale of food and drink or accommodation is the main source of income. This industry consists of a broad category of fields within the service industry that includes hotels, restaurants, bars, event planning, theme parks, transportation, cruise line, and additional fields within the tourism industry.
The industry has an important role in contributing to the solution for plastic pollution. Plastic waste clearly damages the aesthetic of tourist destinations, resulting in major economic costs and losses in tourism-related incomes. Tourism both impacts and is impacted by plastic pollution. Bold and ambitious action is needed to tackle the plastic pollution in this section as 80% of tourism takes place in coastal areas and peak tourism season is known to result in a 40% increase in marine litter in some areas. Not only does coastal tourism contribute to marine plastic pollution, but land and urban tourism do as well, with large amounts of plastic polluting rivers and flowing into the ocean.