The Beach of Koh Phi Phi Leh in southern Thailand

The UN Environment Programme, the World Meteorological Organisation and the World Tourism Organisation report that climate change will have a serious impact on tourism, producing stay-at-home tourists, changing travel patterns and threatening tourism related jobs over the next few decades. The tourism industry is both challenged by climate change and a contributor to greenhouse gas emissions,” UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director Achim Steiner said at an international conference in Davos, Switzerland. The climate change and tourism report projects that travel will be reduced between northern Europe and the Mediterranean, between North America and the Caribbean, and between northeast Asia and southeast Asia

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