TOURISM INDUSTRY AWKWARDLY BEWILDERED BY CLIMATE CHANGE

Tourism and climate change has become a spotlight topic nowadays. Global warming has an effect on tourism and the economies of many countries. Climate is an essential resource for any tourism sector especially for ‎beach, nature and winter ‎spots tourism. The phenomenon of global warming already affects the tourism ‎industry and an increasing number of destinations. With an incretion of temperature, climate may be much warmer which has very important consequences on the tourism industry. Tourism operators will also examine the impact of climate change on their industry. Climate change is a gradual, creeping process that will have long-term effects on tourism. The tourism industry needs to recognize the importance of climate change and other environmental issues for its development in future. The visitors traveling from long distances by air and cruise ships it is even more very difficult.

Tourism faces a monstrous problem due to changes in climate. The whole industry is heavily smashed up by the consequences of climate change such as higher temperatures, erratic rainfalls and increased intensities of drastic happenings such as cyclones, floods, storm and coastal humiliation. Some counties may suffer from droughts and many plants may not hold off such high temperatures and they scattered. Many countries may looks more similar to a desert. Winter spots holidays will be threatened by the melting glaciers, beach holidays will be threatened by drought and heat waves. So people are very scared of getting into the holidays trips. Since the majority of the tourism industry is located in coastal areas, the tourism sector is likely to face the burden. Tourism currently accounts for 5 percent of global emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, and the sector's contribution to global warming is expected to jump as increasing numbers of people travel, particularly by air.

The entire tourism industry will be affected because every destination is climate oriented. Before this issue people are going to find tourism as a pleasure and leisure but nowadays they are highly threatened by the climate change which is also considered to be one of the major reason for swine flu etc., in order to get rid of this issues, the tourism industry needs to act positively to broadcast itself as environmentally conscious, carbon neutral and not infuriate the problem.