Global Warming to Have a Negative Impact on Travel Industry

Posted October 3, 2007 by Rosalind Gardner · Filed Under News

In a report prepared for a U.N. conference on climate change and tourism, The U.N. Environment Programme, the World Meteorological Organisation and the World Tourism Organisation predicted that travelers from Canada, the U.S., Europe and Japan will increasingly spend their vacation time at or near home to take advantage of longer summers caused by global warming.

This is turn will have a negative economic impact on tourism-dependent developing nations and island states, where tourism accounts for as much as 40 percent of national economic output. Officials from the Maldives, Fiji, the Seychelles and Egypt told the conference that both the ecological damage from global warming and consequent shifts in travel choices posed serious threats to their businesses and jobs.

Read the full article, “Climate will alter travel patterns in decades –UN” on Reuters.

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