Climate change Adaptation Planning: Tourism industry in the Himalaya Region

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.

In the context of Nepal, tourism can be the largest source of income as Nepal is rich in its natural beauty and 8 of the 10 highest mountains are also present here. Nepal can be a great destination even for adventurous tourism. The diversity of Nepal can also be the great source of attraction for tourists. The are various potentiality of tourism in our country as we have so many beautiful hills, lakes, rivers, mountains, different types of cultures representing different

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

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.

In the climate disruption community, the term vulnerability is utilized as an operation to determine consequences, types, and percentages of climate threats to environments. Even more, the term vulnerability includes system exposure, its responsiveness, and capacity to adjust to change. The IPCC SPM report breaks vulnerabilities into regions including Africa, Asia, and North America. In North America, vulnerability associated risks include wildfire-induced loss, public health issues related to heat and morbitity, water quality, various types of flooding, and trends in weather patterns. Since the function of vulnerability includes adaptation issues and prospects, this relm of exposure encompasses agroforestry, urban drainage, outside worker

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

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

Resource forms a major part of implementing climate change adaptation strategies. From the construction of sea defense walls to the amendment of city regulation plans to incorporate adaptation strategies, resource must be made available in order to ensure successful completion of projects. ‘Institutional rules and norms should call for the generation of resources in order that social actors implementing these rules are able to do so’ (Gupta et al, 2008). The absence of resources such as finances, technical knowledge and expertise, human capital and authority may pose of problem for institutions to adapt to climate change as well as aid communities to also adapt (Termeer, Biesbroek, & van den Brink Ma 2009).

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.