Sustainable tourism development and climate change. A challenge that demands the commitment and participation of all stakeholders in the tourism sector.
In the last decade, tourist destinations in all areas of our Americas have experienced significant growth in visitor demand, reflected in new hotel investments, intensive use of coastal areas, installation of tourist resorts in natural areas, and incorporation of new mountain areas for adventure and ecotourism activities, among others, which…
What role does tourism play following the confinement and climate change?
Although we currently seem to be facing a prosperous scenario for tourism in Peru after the hardest effects of the pandemic, with a high percentage of the population vaccinated and an upward trend worldwide, we are still dealing with an unstable situation reinforced by news and information from various channels…
Challenges of Economic Reactivation in Tourist Destinations
The objective of these lines is to generate a proposal to join efforts in the economic reactivation of tourism, this through a comparative study of the organizations related to providing services to tourism and complementary to have diagnoses that allow decision-making for the benefit of tourist destinations. An exercise that…
Perspectives of tourism in the context of a global socio-environmental crisis
La crisis sanitaria de COVID-19 ha llevado países a implementar medidas que han afectado profundamente las movilidades mundiales. Estudios realizados en el extremo sur de Chile buscan evaluar los impactos de las crisis socioambientales, sanitaria y climática y las perspectivas para la reactivación del turismo. Evaluando tendencias internacionales y entrevistando a actores locales se observa que la región de Aysén podría verse beneficiada con la evolución de los intereses de viajeros para un destino de naturaleza alejado de grandes centros urbanos. Sin embargo la reactivación del turismo se enfrenta a un escenario social y ambiental complejo que obliga a pensar en modelos alternativos adaptados a un escenario de mayor incertidumbre y de la necesaria protección de la naturaleza.
Why is it important to understand the effects of climate change on the tourism sector of the Caribbean?
Climate Change and Tourism: Basic Notions The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) asserts that human activities are responsible for the dramatic increase in greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) in the atmosphere, resulting in anthropogenic climate change that is underway. Evidence of this is seen in records of the world’s average…