Contact usWill Global Warming lead more people to stay at home for their holidays?
A conference held by the UN Environment Programme, the World Meteorological Organisation, and the World Tourism Organisation believes that more travellers will stay at home over the next few decades and travel patterns will radically change.
They cite concerns about weather extremes and calls to reduce emission-heavy travel as the main reasons for this.
They believe that travellers from Europe, Canada, the US and Japan are likely to take advantage of longer summers and spend more holidays in or near their home countries.
They have also projected that there will be reduced travel between northern Europe and the Mediteranean, between North America and the Caribbean, and between North-East Asia and South-East Asia.
Obviously any shift will have implications on destinations which currently rely on tourism and will also need major investment on areas that suddenly experience a tourism boom.
After all this though there is an expectation that overall travel demand will grow between 4 and 5% a year with international arrivals doubling to 1.6 billion by 2020.