Every person on Earth has a duty to make an attempt to protect their environment!

In order to develop some measures to help in the preservation of our planet, I would like to take travelers’ attention to climate change how people perceive climate change and sustainable tourism.

Tourism the World’s biggest industry with around 10 trillion USD revenues and around 300 million people working in the industry globally (around 11% of Global workforce). Travel and tourism accounts for 7 % of the Global gross domestic product (GDP). Therefore, It is crucial to take into account the industry's environmental effects because to its immense size.

UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development establishes a series of sustainable development goals (SDGs) in order to “to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all” by 2030. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the associated Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have become focal points for the study of tourism's contribution to sustainable development and the sustainability of tourism as a whole thanks to the UNWTO's emphasis on sustainable tourism and the sector's economic importance. Climate change is expected to have significant impacts on global tourism. Rising temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and sea-level rise can lead to environmental degradation, reduced availability of natural resources, and increased frequency and intensity of natural disasters such as hurricanes, floods, and wildfires, which will all negatively impact tourism destinations. Climate change poses a significant threat to the tourism industry, as it relies heavily on natural resources, and the duration and quality of tourism seasons are determined by climate conditions.

Tourism and climate change have a complicated relationship. The tourism industry is already being impacted by climate change in terms of investment, planning, and operations. The direct and indirect consequences of accelerated climate change and comprehensive government responses will impact tourism's competitiveness, sustainability, and geography. Sustainable tourism development is incompatible with any occurrence that hinders economic expansion, jeopardizes cultural heritage, or amplifies security risks.

Tourism is the victim and the reason!

In addition to being a victim of global warming, global tourism industry is also one of the reasons of the issue! 8% of the carbon emissions produced worldwide are due to global tourism alone. (Which in 2019 was 11%). This footprint is expanding as more individuals travel each year. 40% of total tourism industry resulted carbon emissions come from air travel.           

There is nowhere to hide, for global tourism industry there is a huge the need to respond the challenge of climate change. The most important task for preventing and managing the devastation of sustainable tourism brought on by climate change is managing the carbon risk associated with the shift to a net-zero economy. In order to achieve the sector's emission reduction targets, Global tourism industry has to show enormous effort of decarbonizing the tourism industry.

Especially seaside and small island destinations will face the unfortunate economic decline and livelihood failure of welfare.

The amount of household waste created surge as a result of the rapid rise in visitors and locals. Besides, in such attractive tourist destinations, there is a significant increase in the number of commercial facilities and increase in car traffic problems brought on by the flood of tourists, thus this will decrease in the destination’s long-term competitiveness and good reputation.

There is nowhere to hide, for global tourism industry there is a huge the need to respond the challenge of climate change. 

The most important task for preventing and managing the devastation of sustainable tourism brought on by climate change is managing the carbon risk associated with the shift to a net-zero economy. In order to achieve the sector's emission reduction targets, Global tourism industry has to show enormous effort of decarbonizing the tourism industry.

After all, the destinations that will be most negatively impacted by the effects of climate change on global tourism will ultimately be the tourism-dependent countries that depend on tourism for foreign exchange influx and economic growth! Especially seaside and small island destinations will face the unfortunate economic decline and livelihood failure of welfare.

The amount of household waste created surge as a result of the rapid rise in visitors and locals. Besides, in such attractive tourist destinations, there is a significant increase in the number of commercial facilities and increase in car traffic problems brought on by the flood of tourists, thus this will decrease in the destination’s long-term competitiveness and good reputation.

Tourism cannot be considered sustainable until it achieves a degree of decarbonization consistent with the Paris Climate Accord's science-based policy objectives.

According to United Nations Climate Change, Climate change is rapidly and badly harming the very things that travelers travel across the world to see, from wildfires in Greece to sea level rises in the Solomon Islands to coral bleaching off the coast of Australia.