Sea level rise and coastal tourism:

-the connection between coastal tourism and sea level rise.

-pointing out the impacts of sea level rise(loss of high-value beaches, destruction of
tourism infrastructure, altered biodiversity, increased need for shore protection,
changed coastal aesthetics)
-presenting different studies that show what might happen to coastal tourism
destinations when affected by the rise of the sea level but the studies do not take
into account the possible adaptation strategies.
-coastal protections depends on several factors to be established successfully and in
some low-density coastal resorts it might not be economical.
-main areas for further research: Understanding tourist response to beach impacts
and how prior knowledge of the degraded beaches or price discounts played in the
varied interpretations or their respective intentions to return to this destination.

Nature-Based Tourism:
-tourist perceptions and responses to environmental change are not clear.
-examining studies on tourists responses on different climate-induced
environmental changes from different nature-based destinations.
-based on the studies, when tourists observe a damage to a glacier they stop
visiting so often, but when the damage was made from something unpredictable as
a tropical cyclone the impacts are more limited after the recovery.
-studies showing that coral reef bleaching are not impacting the tourism businesses
but on the long term it might change the visitation in the area.
-pointing out that biodiversity, which is an important tourism attraction for the
nature-based destinations, can affect the number of visitors (example with the polar
bears in Canada).

Mitigation Policy, Consumer Attitudes, and the Future of

Tourist Mobility:
-the impact of mitigation policy on tourism have focused almost exclusively on the
aviation sector
-studies that have examined the potential impact of aviation sector mitigation
policies on international tourism demand showed that policies as currently proposed
would have little impact on overall tourism demand.
-absolute emission reductions will eventually be required of the aviation sector and
aviation mitigation policies will therefore become increasingly relevant to
international tourism.
-the need to identify the most effective policies in achieving emission reductions
without affecting tourism development, if this is indeed possible.

-tourist perceptions of the carbon footprint of travel could also influence future
international tourism.
-there is little evidence that customer attitudes toward flying are likely to have a
meaningful impact on tourism demand in the near term.

ADAPTATIONIS TOURISM PREPARED?

-studies with a diverse range of tourism stakeholders in 11 countries showing that
they were reasonably well informed about the potential impacts of climate change
on tourism, but not highly concerned that the impacts would significantly affect
their businesses.
Several key barriers to adaptation: - Uncertainty over climate change science
-The very long timeframes of climate change
impacts are considered largely incompatible with business planning.
-Inadequate technical, human resource and
financial capacity.
-Tourism operators in several regions have expressed concern and intense
frustration about media coverage of the climate change implications for their
destinations.
-The highly competitive nature of the tourism sector means that for strategic
business reasons climate change adaptation strategies by tourism operators are not
usually made public.

CONCLUSION
-the article presented the impacts of climate change and climate policy on tourism.
-5 local areas that were affected by the consequences of climate change for tourism
were critically reviewed.
-pointing out the need in adapting tourism destinations to climate change and the
need for further research.