The impact of climate change on tourism: A SIMULATION STUDY

This paper studies the economic implications of climate-change-induced variation in tourism demand. Tourism is one of the largest and fastest growing economic sectors. Tourism is obviously related to climate, as tourists prefer spending time outdoors and travel to enjoy the sun or landscape. It is therefore surprising that the tourism literature pays little attention to climate and climatic change and it is equally surprising that the climate change impact literature pays little attention to tourism.For some countries is the first source of income and foreign currency, and many local economies heavily depend on tourism. Tourism are sensitive to climate and to climate change, which will affect the relative attractiveness of destinations and hence the motive for international tourists to leave their country of origin.In general, temperature is the strongest indicator of domestic tourism. The relationship between tourism and temperature is generally positive. The climate impact depends as well on destination type.

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Tourism ، weather ، climate ، climate change