The heat is on! New report warns of climate change impact on tourism industry

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A report on the threat posed by climate change to the Australian Tourism industry has been recently released … and it doesn’t make for pretty reading!

The study from Zurich Financial Services Australia (Zurich) and Mandala Partners (Mandala) looked at the impact of climate change on Australia’s top tourism sites – including major airports, national parks, beaches and museums – under different Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scenarios.

It found that half of Australia’s tourism assets are currently in an elevated risk category, facing considerable climate and natural peril risk. And this is set to rise to between 55% and 68% of Australian tourism sites by 2050 under either an intermediate (two degrees Celsius of warming by 2041-2060) or extreme (three degrees) IPCC future climate scenario respectively.

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