Climate change Adaptation Planning: Tourism industry in the Himalaya Region

Having a tourist attraction like a mountain brings in funds that can go towards the bettering of the mountain climbing experience, the accounts of the government, items in the society, and many more advantageous places. The article ”Vanity, Pollution, and Death on Mt. Everest,” expresses, “Despite the well-known dangers of the thin

Global warming and climate change exist and the two have called for a world attention to reduce their impacts. The Great 8 nations, including U.S., have convened various global summits where heads of states come to debate how to counter the increased climate change. Various recommendations have been proposed to counter the effects of climate change and device ways in which the change can be accommodated. This paper will discuss the rhetorical questions asked by the author in the journal article. In addition, the paper will attempt to answer some of the questions posed by Eric Klinenberg, the author of Adaption.

Adapting to climate change. Urban Research & Practice, 1(2), 210-213.

Tourism plays a vital role in economic development in most countries around the world. The industry has not only direct economic impact, but also significant indirect and influential impacts. There is agreement among experts that the travel and tourism sector is the fastest growing of global economy. According to the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer, international tourism receipts surpass US$ 1 trillion in 2011, growing about 3.8%up from 2010 (WTO, 2012).

Globally the tourism and hospitality industry is undergoing and evolving the radical changes. From the past experiences are now advancing at greater pace through faster development of skills and knowledge developed to create and adapt innovation in several ways. Therefore, it is important to have greater understanding of current issues and knowledge in order to cope with future challenges effectively.

Further, analyze and understand the adequacy of the measures taken to adapt future climate change induced hazard risks. I have developed my capacity by doing the Masters’ Degrees in Disaster Management and Emergency Management with a research work.

With the impact of tourism increasing progressively since the 90’s when a natural iconic monument such as Everest is threatened to be changed and altered in a negative way, there is bound to be someone stepping in demanding protection and policy for protection. Luckily, Everest and the surrounding mountains are in a buffer zone, labeling it a national park with the intention of protecting its culture, diversity, and natural resources. Established July 19th, 1976, Sagarmatha National Park would give the Everest region the protection and management it needed to fend of careless travelers and opportunist from destroying such a space of natural beauty and phenomena. This kind of marker designates monies and resources that can go into development

The intervention will help to identify existing adaptive capacity and anticipated adaptive capacity in the context of climate change. The findings will reveal local knowledge, use of traditional practices, need of new interventions, further research and policy recommendations. Overall economic and social burden of climate change induced hazards in coastal area will be

From an environmental perspective, it is apparent that the world is starting to realise that increases in tourism are having a negative impact on the environment. This is due to increases in energy consumption, which in turn heightens the effects of global warming (Neto, 2002). There are many controls that governments are trying to put into place, such as flight rationing (Liverpool Business School, 2009). However, it can be argued that these have not really begun to have a significant effect on tourism, as they are still insufficient to dampen demand. It may become a problem in future years, as the number of controls is likely to increase. Perhaps the largest environmental factor would be natural disasters, like Hurricane Katrina (Cashell, 2005) and the tsunami that hit Asia in December 2004 (Birkland, 2006). These will impact negatively on people’s confidence in visiting places that have been hit severely by such disasters.

The Travel and Tourism industry is still one of the largest single businesses in world commerce and its importance is widely recognized. The tourism industry is now one of the largest sectors earning foreign exchange. In the face of many benefits, many countries have started assigning due weight age to the tourism industry in their national development agenda. Tourism is an industry that operates on a massively broad scale: it embraces activities ranging from the smallest sea-side hotel; to air-lines, multi-national hotel chains and major international tour operators. Originally, non-traditional industries such as tourism emerged as a solution to strike a balance between ecology and industry

Abstract— Climatic conditions of Nepal vary from one place to another in accordance with the geographical features. The country receives almost 80% of its annual rainfall during monsoon season. The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is very likely human-induced and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented in the past 1,300 years. Climate change is changing our economy, health and communities in diverse ways. The effects of rising temperatures are not only melting glaciers and sea ice, it’s also shifting precipitation patterns and setting animals on the move. The main objective of the study is to identify the impacts of climate change on the development paradigm of the country in context of water resources. The prophecy behind this study is to add the future development of Nepal regarding poverty alleviation, social equity, security and welfare. The climate change trends and its impacts may differ in various local regions, it has affected Nepal with less monsoonal rains across the high mountains and more along the southern hills.

Tourism industry has been the major industry of Nepal and a primary ecomony driver. There is direct and indirect relationship between tourism industry and economy of Nepal. More than 2 mil people have been employed by Tourism industry. Nepal generates 60% of its revenue from tourism sector. Tourism industry is a significant source of employment. Also, it encourages foreign investors. Being country like Nepal where tourism industry dominates large portion of economy it is really important to develop tourism industry. Being surrounded by big countries, Nepal have huge opportunities to attract neighbouring tourists and also from around the world.

Despite of the introduction of new security, people still turn away from travel. Those risks and threats had many knock-on effects of the tourism industry and many other industries as the tourists’ attitude to travel changed.

There are many scholars with different viewpoints in climate change adaptation {Adger, 2009 #299;IPCC., 2008 #293;O’Brien, 2012 #290;Pelling, 2011 #292}. Therefore, scoping the definition and magnitude of climate change adaptation will provide the right track to analyse the surrounding matters of adaptation interventions.

Due to the fact that the majority of the activities of Rural Action are allocated in the outdoor environment, unpredictable climate changes could significantly affect the business. Wilson, Becken, and Espiner (2012) indicate that storms could bring multiple effects of weather, including strong wind and rain, and lightning, which are threats for the safe operation for a range of outdoor based tourism businesses. For summer camp’s operation, rainstorm could disturb the activities for days and even for weeks. Moreover, climate change could be a safety hazard of the program’s activities. Research found that both extremely high (often in spring due to snow melt and storms) and low water (often in autumn) pose safety issues for boat operators (Wilson, Becken, & Espiner, 2012). Since the youth environmental stewardship program offers many water entertaining activities, such as swimming, canoeing, and fishing, the negative effects of climate change should be considering as a dangerous threat. Climate change and natural disasters that are caused by extrema whether condition, such as flood, mud-rock flow, and landslide, could become a huge threat for camping