Analysis about the impacts and consequences of climate change in the tourist sector at the Mediterranean Sea

Abstract

Today, there are still people who discuss about the existence of climate change, saying the slight but constant changes in temperatures and precipitation of our planet due to different theories because in the periods between glaciations the Earth temperature is increased very softly but constant and that’s part of normality. However, there are many more sources who indicate that climate change is a very real phenomenon, reporting evidence that linking constant temperature increases with increasing pollution levels and emissions of gases that produce the greenhouse effect. Of the factors that influence climate change, it is clear that the most important is human activity. From it derived the major causes like the emissions of greenhouse gases, pollution in overcrowding areas, the indiscriminate use of the petroleum and his by-products, overexploitation of resources... Based on the above discussion, tourism is one of the phenomes that most influences and power climate change because, for example, it foments the massification in different specific points, produce overexploitation of resources and increased pollution, or abuse of the ecosystem of the host country created at the moment to transforming the site to its recreational use for tourism. All these conditions can be traduced in future disaster at the ambient conditions, like the loss of value landscapes or tidy beaches and loss of comfort, like have more warm nights, massification of people in reduced spaces or excessive increased of the costs for the visitor. In particular, knowing the possible impact of a worsening climate change is of particular impact in an area like the coast European Mediterranean, where tourism attracted by the same sea and weather conditions represents one of its main incomes. So it is illustrative observe examples of how they face these problems. The reason for choosing these three populations is based on belonging to three countries other than the Mediterranean coast. Share the weather, but no legislation, culture, ideology, or GDP measures taken concerning good practices, which provide different views on the measures taken, different content and scope. Therefore, a good reason for this study is to prevent and analyze how the characteristics of a problem such as climate change can affect a part of the world where tourism is a basic part of the economy and purpose measures to mitigate or try to revert his negative effects that the same countries or a good coordination of the communities interested in the areas can apply easier.