Lately, due to Ciara storm that mainly stroke the north of Europe, many flights cancellations and dis-services to tourists were reported.<\/p>\n
These events, with or without clamor, are\u00a0becoming more frequent: many policy makers, operators and mainly scholars are investigating\u00a0on the costs and effects of these phenomena, such as climate change, the rising\u00a0of the water level\u00a0and, moreover,\u00a0on the carbon footprint of tourist activities.<\/p>\n
Many scenarios are\u00a0being investigated,\u00a0and direct impacts on tourist destinations<\/u> range from redirection of the demand to other potential destinations to the adaptation of the travel seasonality, from the loss of attractiveness and poor quality of experience (also due to the changing of the eco-system), to the reduction of international travels caused by higher costs.<\/p>\n
By consequence, in order to keep on being competitive, tourism destinations are pushed to address several and imminent challenges<\/u>, such as:<\/p>\n At Twissen<\/strong> we are experiencing a growing attention on sustainability for tourism, both from global tour operators that are promoting low-carbon tourist places, and from the same destinations through the diversification of the traditional\u00a0tourism offer or even new forms of community-based tourism that seeks alternatives to mass tourism, favoring low-impact activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There\u2019s a growing attention on sustainability for tourism, both from global tour operators that are promoting low-carbon tourist places, and from the same destinations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[97],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n