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From Fiji to Kenya, Travel Hot Spots Brace for Global Warming
"The entire tourism product will be affected—every destination has a climate-related component,” said Geoffrey Lipman, assistant secretary general of the UN World Tourism Organization, from a conference in Davos, Switzerland, on the issue earlier this month. “Some people are going to find that they had tourism before and don’t now. In the Canadian Rockies it may be the reverse.” Most at risk are developing nations in Africa and the Pacific that rely heavily on income from tourism. One of those countries, Fiji, has combined its ministires of the environment and tourism to plan for the changes ahead. Remarked one Fiji official: “Tourism is the vehicle for poverty alleviation in Fiji—that’s how important it has become. Without it, our economy would collapse. So we have to plan to mitigate and adapt to climate change.”
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COMMENTSThe weather, in terms of heat, humidity and cyclones, is at its most hospitable in the second half of the year. Light breezes and calm waters should be the order of the day at this time. Luckily, June to August is a time of public holidays and festivals as well. Seven of the country’s nine provinces have their annual holiday at this time, and the Queen’s Birthday and Independence Day - the best times to see traditional dancing - are in June and July respectively. The surfing season runs from October to April. There are no real high and low seasons in the Solomons but at Christmas, Easter and other major holidays, hotels and transport can fill up, and you’ll need to book your accommodation ahead if you’re in a town during one of the cultural shows.
By starsea on 1.16.08 at 08:45 PM
not just the tourism industry, the tourist’s, the government’s, the local’s everyone! By john on 3.18.08 at 02:48 AM
Global warming is a runaway train and not much action is neing taken to stop this. As it is, the Ozone layer is getting depleted at a rapid click and in a few more decades, the hole over south american may well envelop the whole earth! By on 4.12.08 at 04:45 PM
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