Tourism

Tourism and Sustainability

Assignment 2: Tourism and climate change

Tutor: Francesc Romagosa Casals

Made by: Peter Elek

Date: 20 04 2011

Introduction

In my previous submission I chose Ibiza as my destination now I am going to choose t Ibiza again. In the first part of this short essay I would like to write about the main impacts and threats of the climate changes in Ibiza.

In the second part of this submission I am going to write about what we can do it to avoid the problems what cause the climate change.

First of all let’s see what can cause the climate change, of course it is the global warming.

Greenhouse effect

I would like to try to explain what the greenhouse effect is brief. The greenhouse effect is basically when the accumulation of industrial pollutants, such as carbon dioxide, water vapor and methane, less heat can leave the atmosphere and trapped heat makes the temperature rise. These gases reflect the sun’s long wave radiation back to Earth thus warming the atmosphere. I think the most important effect of this process is to warming up the earth surface that is why the climate always changes and as an effect the iceberg are melting. The melting of the ice caps can cause flood in the populated area and agricultural lands because this course of proceedings rising the sea – levels. I have mentioned above that the greenhouse effect warming up our Earth it is called global warming. If we want to reduce or maybe stop the global warming we have to take care of our planet where we live. We really have to save the Flora and Fauna.

Save the Flora and Fauna

Industrial pollution is resulting in drastic reduction of the forests. Everybody has to know how important the forests are in every touristic destination and our society. If they know maybe they do not waste paper and they use recycle as much as possible. They should also take actions to reduce industrial pollution. Trees should be planted in the empty...