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Changing Environment and Tourism : Essay

   

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1CHANGING ENVIRONMENT AND TOURISMIntroductionGlobal Climate has undergone drastic changes in the modern era and this has a greatimpact on the tourism industry. Climate Change along with that of loss of biodiversity hasproved to be detrimental for the hospitality industry (Michailidou, Vlachokostas andMoussiopoulos 2016). This essay analyzes the impact that climate change and loss of bio-diversity has on the sector of tourism and suggests measures that can help in combating thesechallenges.DiscussionStudies have shown that there will be a shift of the preferred destinations to places ofhigher altitude within the mountainous areas. The tourists belonging to the temperate nationsare currently dominating the international travel and they will spend more of the holidayswithin their home country. People will visit the tourism spots only in the winter season whenthe climate will become more appealing thus costing a lot of revenue for the hospitalityindustry (Dogru, Bulut and Turk 2016). The shift of the travel pattern will have significantimplications and more of the spending will be on the temperate regions. It will pave the pathfor less spending on the warmer nations that are visited by the tourists from temperateregions. It can alter the flow of intra-regional tourism in which climate is considered to be ofextreme importance (Rosselló-Nadal 2014). There is however no evidence that can prove thatclimate change will lead to reduction in that of global volume of tourism. The effect onclimate change based in the global arena can be said to be limited.The tourists will respond to the holistic impact in relation to climate change and notthe changes within the ambit of climactic conditions. The demand of tourism demand at theregional scale will be affected by the environmental changes taking place. Global climate

2CHANGING ENVIRONMENT AND TOURISMchange can affect the tourism demand in relation to selected destinations and also at theregional level in which political destabilization can occur. The perceptions pertaining toclimate change will play a crucial role in the process of decision making of the tourists andalso for the investors of tourism. These perceptions relating to environmental changes are asimportant to the consumers as that of the actual conditions. Media coverage also plays animportant role in deciding about the choice of the consumers. Speculation in relation toclimate change has dominated the media such as in relation to decline of ski industry(Amelung and Nicholls 2014). Global warming will lead to less snowfall at that of the skiresorts. Tourists will stay away from Asian and Mediterranean on account of the immenseheat. Fear of diseases along with that of water shortage will drive the tourists away fromthese regions. Rich bio-diversity can help in attracting tourists and thus can help in bringing profitsfor the tourism industry. Deterioration in relation to natural beauty will prove to be disastrousfor tourism as people will be less inclined to visit places (Bigano 2017). Less amount ofrainfall will prove to be catastrophic for the rainforests along with that of the coral reef. Theweather conditions that are faced by the tourists are of great significance for them. Weathercan help in an activity to be carried out and it can act as an inhibitor pertaining toparticipation. Bleaching takes place when coral becomes stressed on account of increase intemperature and this poses to be a threat for the coral reefs (Lew 2017). Increase in that of thesuspended sediments can also be detrimental for animal along with that of plant life form.The prevailing conditions can cause “zooxanthallae” ( forming colour within coral) to moveaway from the coral. The coral bears a white appearance without the algae and it soon dies(Shani and Arad 2014). For example, Great Barrier Reef that brings in a lot of profits for thetourism industry is also undergoing coral bleaching in last 20 years.

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