Tourism Industry - Foremost Affected By Climate Change

In the next ten years or so, the tourism industry isextinction up to thirty percent of marine life and
going to double and its contribution to global warmingdifferent pant species. Notwithstanding, to mention
is expected to jump as increasing numbers of peoplesafari Africa where a significant decrease on the
travel by air. The industry accounts for five percentnumber of lions, elephants and rhinoceros, affecting
of global emissions of heat trapping gases in theand hurting the safari operators.
atmosphere. According to a UN agency report, globalMaldives an island south of subcontinent India, and
warming may extend the summers of northernwhose economy is dependent heavily in tourism,
countries like Canada, Britain and Russia and createcould lose the entire islands with a small increase in
new opportunities for travel in the polar regions. Insea levels while the urban sites in Europe like Venice
poorer and island nations where the tourism industryand lower Manhattan could also be submerged to
is generating an economic output up to forty percentwater. While the estimated potential losses the
were seen jeopardized by worlds rising temperaturetourism industry was not clearly known. Unmitigated
and the result of environmental changes. Beachclimate change can damage tourist sites, could cause
resort tourism and winter-summer sports as wellsevere job losses and economic dislocation. Changing
already felt the effect of rising temperatures whichweather patterns has underlined by would be
will cause more hot days, strong winds, tropicaltraveler’s perceptions of the impact of global
storms, intense rainfall, drought and wildfires, the UNwarming that is affecting in some particular areas
World Tourism Organization has reported.would increasingly influence their choices.
Several coastal areas have noted beach erosionsWater shortages in popular warm weather resorts is
brought about by storms, more algae blooms andimminent because this would effect strain resources
jelly fish infestations because of warmer than normalshake by the local population or agriculture. Travelers
sea temperature. Mountain resorts have coped withby air are increasingly aware of green gases
less snow and shorter ski seasons. Areas allocatedemissions and a possible carbon taxes will be levied
for scuba diving and snorkeling were also seen underanything associated with air travel according to the
threat from climate change.UN World Tourism Organization.
Most of the coral reefs would be obliterated by justAlthough the overall worldwide growth in tourism was
a mere increase of a three degree Celsius of seaunlikely to suffer much, it could lead to more tourism
temperature. Those colorful fishes and sea creaturesspending in temperate nations and less in warmer or
would also disappear in due time if the rising of seatropical destinations that are presently popular the
temperature cannot be stopped. It could threatenreport has added.