The tourism and climate changes : interferences
Part of : WSEAS transactions on business and economics ; Vol.5, No.7, 2008, pages 393-402
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393-402
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The global warming of the atmosphere undoubtedly will affect not only the other components of theEarth environment, but also human society. The tourism maintains really ambiguous relations with the weatherphenomena because it relies on the deterioration of the human existence, regarded as an economic activity (e.g.the abundant snow may provoke traffic-jams and it requires expensive efforts in order to unjam them, but at thesame time it guaranties the quality of tourism, which is vital in the quality of tourism, which is vital in the caseof the well-known Alps resorts when it comes to winter sports). The need to control the weather changes thathave a negative impact on tourism leads to, on the other hand, to making the touristic infrastructure more andmore artificial and extremely expensive (climate control systems, snow making machines, exotic plants aneantto make the environment more attractive etc.). The prediction of the weather changes becomes more and moreimportant, especially in the cases where it is expressed by different phenomena, such as risks and naturaldisasters (tornadoes, the terrible tsunami from December 2004, which resulted in over 500.000 dead persons,floods, frost phenomena etc.) the frequency of which cant be exactly predicted, having some negativeconsequences on tourism. The weather comfort in tourism differs from the one that is expressed in otheractivities, a problem which is presented in detail in this paper.
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climate warming, impact, tourism, ecotourism
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