Climate Change in Venice: Impact on Tourism and Future Prospects

Running Head: TOURISM MANAGEMENT
Tourism Management

TOURISM MANAGEMENT 1
Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Theories of Climate Change and Their Application in the Real- Life Context...............................2
Current Issues in Venice..................................................................................................................3
Future of Climate Change in Venice...............................................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................8

TOURISM MANAGEMENT 2
Introduction
With the passage of time, tourism has become an important source of income for a number of
countries and regions. A significant amount of income is brought into the local economy through
tourism by way of payment for goods and services required by the tourists. A number of
employment opportunities are also generated in the tourism associated service sector of the
economy.
Climate change can be defined as the changes taking place in the statistical distribution of the
weather patterns and that change persists for a significant period of time such as decades to
millions of years. Tourism is considered to be highly vulnerable to tourism as it results in
increasing the insurance costs and safety concerns, damage to attractions and assets at the
destinations and biodiversity loss. Also, the tourism sector is negatively impacted due to
continued climate driven disruption and degradation to the natural and cultural heritage (Becker,
2016). This further leads to the reduced attractiveness of the destinations and decrease in the
economic opportunities for the local communities. Moreover, tourism is also capable of
addressing the climate change issue with the help of fully mobilizing and orienting the
innovativeness and resources of this global economic sector. The topic selected for the purpose
of this assignment is climate change in Venice.
Theories of Climate Change and Their Application in the Real- Life Context
The most important climate change theory is the greenhouse theory which provides the
restoration of the climate system to equilibrium through the warming of the surface troposphere
system along with the cooling of the stratosphere. There is a partial absorption of the incoming
solar light and atrial reflection by the surface of the earth. With the passage of time, the carbon-
dioxide has increased in the atmosphere thereby leading to the increase in the average global
temperature (Lejeusne, Chevaldonné, Pergent- Martini, Boudouresque and Pérez, 2010).
The application of the greenhouse theory in the context of climate change in Venice provides
that Venice is expected to disappear underwater within a century is the levels of global warming
is not lowered. The global warming has led to the forecast of rise of the Mediterranean Sea by up
to 140 cm before the year 2100 (Roson and Sartori, 2014). This rise is expected to swamp the