Global Tourism Issues

GLOBAL TOURISM ISSUES

Introduction
More than 118 million people are directly
employed in this sector that means 3.8% of
the global employment is relied on this
industry (Wu 2016).
The global tourism is considered to be a
driven factor to increase the additional job
possibilities in 2017 with more than 2 million
jobs (Kasemsap 2017)

 According to Rosselló-Nadal (2014) the
extreme and unpredictable fluctuations in
the weather caused huge trouble for a
continuous growth in travel and tourism
across the world.
 Grillakis, Koutroulis and Tsanis (2016)
showed that in California, Lake Tahoe is
popular for its Ski sports and as a result of
that $1.3 billion sports and recreation
industry was developed into the region.
Climate change and global warming

Climate change and global warming
Mountains and winter sport
destinations
 Grillakis, Koutroulis and Tsanis (2016) it
can be argued that snow making Ski
industry is highly popular in Eastern
Canada and US.
 Rosselló-Nadal (2014) pointed out that
the snow based tourism in New England
also witnessed greater loss in tourism
industry up to 25% due to low emission
scenario.