Sustainable tourism - Sustainable Development

Running Head: SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
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Environmental
Management for hotels and
attraction
(Student Details: )
3/29/2020

SUSTAINABLE TOURISM 1
Contents
Climate Change Impact on Tourism Industry............................................................................2
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Climate Change and its global significance...............................................................................2
The key impacts of climate change on tourism sector...............................................................2
Useful relevant examples...........................................................................................................3
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................4
References..................................................................................................................................5

SUSTAINABLE TOURISM 2
Climate Change Impact on Tourism Industry
Introduction
This essay is based on environmental management in the context of hotels and tourism
attractions. In doing so, the essay will mainly talk about how climate change is affecting
accommodations as well as the tourism attractions sector worldwide. In general, the topic is
related to climate change as a global issue and hence the impacts of climate change are being
researched in the context of a selected sector as the tourism sector (Semenza & Ebi, 2019).
The essay aims to analyse and critically discuss the key impacts which climate change can
have on the tourism sector while identifying the role of tourism in achieving sustainable
development goals (SDGs). The essay will also include two important real-life examples in
this context to support the responses to the chosen topic.
Climate Change and its global significance
In general, climate change is being seen as a global challenge which has no limitations or
borders as well as to combat it needs coordinated work from all global countries. Mainly,
climate change is caused due to global warming (Bhattarai & Karki, 2020). When the earth’s
overall temperature rises more than the natural limit then huge variations in the climate and
weather are seen. In this context, the overall increased temperature of the earth causes global
warming and thereby climate change. Such a climate change problem is not restricted to
some particular country or city, but it is evenly distributed to the whole world (NASA, 2019).
On the other hand, the key impacts of climate change are also affecting the specific sector of
tourism worldwide. It is because climate change affects tourists’ demand directly while
interfering with the choice of destination as well as the trip duration. In other words, it can be
said that climate change is indirectly affecting the quality of the tourist experience, adverse
perceptions post some extreme event and thereby insecurity about that climate change
affected tourist attraction (Urry, 2015).
The contribution of sustainable tourism to SDGs
In this context, there are 17 SDGs set by United Nations to end poverty, address injustice and
inequality and most importantly fix the issue of global climate change by the year 2030. It