Climate Change and Tourism

With seasons acting erratically, people within the travel industry are concerned with how climate change is going to affect the tourism industry. Last month the United Nations World Tourism Organization met at at an international conference on climate change in Davos.
“Tourism has been both a victim and a vector of global climate change,” say Christopher [...]

With seasons acting erratically, people within the travel industry are concerned with how climate change is going to affect the tourism industry. Last month the United Nations World Tourism Organization met at at an international conference on climate change in Davos.

“Tourism has been both a victim and a vector of global climate change,” say Christopher Jones and Daniel Scott in the Globe and Mail. “Iconic tourist destinations such as the Great Barrier Reef, the countries bordering on the Mediterranean Sea, the European Alps, the island states of the Seychelles, the Maldives and Mauritius, and the majestic glaciated mountain landscapes from the Rockies to the Andes have all become victims of the rise in global mean temperature of the past 150 years. But the tourism sector has also become a non-negligible contributor to climate change through greenhouse-gas emissions largely from the transport and accommodation of tourists — as much as 5 per cent of all carbon dioxide emissions from human activities.”

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