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.

Tourism has become a commercial business, which has obvious benefits to the said economy, the environment and society. Often, the positive economic impacts persuade governments, companies and individuals to get involved with the development of tourism. Tourism creates jobs, both

Making tourism more sustainable is not just about controlling and managing the negative impacts of the industry. Tourism is in a very special position to benefit local communities, economically and socially, and to raise awareness and support for conservation of the environment.

Tourism is perceived as one of the leading industries in the world. “The World Travel and Tourism Council (2001) indicated that tourism creates more than ten percent of the global economic output and 1 in 10 jobs worldwide.”

Throughout my academic career, I have taken courses in Research Methods, Public Policy, International Relations and Politics and History of Alternative Tourism. Through this coursework, I have learned the importance

This takes two forms: (i) ensuring that participants have the power to really influence the decision; and (ii) ensuring that participants have the technical capability to engage effectively with the decision (Richards et al., 2004). If a decision has already been made or cannot really be influenced by stakeholders, then participation is not appropriate. It may be less obvious if stakeholders come to the table with non-negotiable positions, for example due to the statutory obligations of some groups that prevent them from compromising with others on certain issues . Such limitations need to be identified and restart the participatory process, which may need to be bounded, to avoid frustration and potential conflict.(Richards et al.,

Involving stakeholders is not a very daunting task. “To develop an effective emergency management system, the local emergency manager must involve all relevant stakeholders in the process” (Lindell et al., 2007, p. 29). Communication with all stakeholders must be established. They have to understand that the emergency management process belongs to them and that they have some control over the processes. These type of assertive communication will enable a good trusting relationship. Stakeholders are also very important in communicating information to the public.

Every stakeholder have their own process and roles, it can affects or can be affects by organization’s action. All stakeholders have own satisfied and unsatisfied (appendix 2).

As mentioned by Rimmington & Morrison (2009), the assistance from different parts of the world presents a new and diverse outlook for future research including theoretical innovations and revelations, cultural and environmental aspects, tourist destination and other ecotourism and recreational aspects of tourism and hospitality industry (Brotherton,

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.

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).

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.

2.3: Prepare a plan on how to involve those identified in the decision making for this project. You may consider a stakeholder communication plan or a decision making action plan.

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

Base on stakeholder participation and tourism sustainability analysis, the main problems current exists can be concluded. Initially, low level local business operators and residents’ participation in decision making process. Secondly, over commercialization and transformation of culture, architecture pollution. Then, in terms of environment, key concerns remain on fishery resource protection and cultivation, without compromise benefits of local residents. In the next section, several recommendations are provided for inspiration, while the feasibility and effectiveness should be further analyzed.