Case Study Turkey: Climate change and coastal tourism: impacts of climate change on the Turquoise Coast.

Abstract

This chapter tries to assess the severity of expected climate change impacts on tourism at the Turquoise Coast (Turkey) and build up an adaptation agenda for the concerned parties. First, sea level rise projections are considered to understand the degree of exposure at the immediate coastal zone. A storm and flood risk projection follows to visualize any additional risks on the coasts as well as for the nautical tourism routes. A climate model also provides with outputs for determining the changes in the touristic climate comfort as well as spotting any increase of heatwave events. The changing windiness characteristics are also investigated to determine implications for surf tourism. Lastly, an aridity index and water deficit projections are interpreted to understand a conflicting future where water availability could decrease, whereas the growth of the tourism industry, particularly golf tourism, would imply more consumption of water resources. The assessments are finalized with implications on the future of a major component of diving tourism in the north Aegean - the red coral.

A synthetic approach to the Holiday Climate Index for the Mediterranean Coast of Türkiye

“…temperature in the Mediterranean coasts during May-October can reach 20-28 °C, contributing to their extended holiday season (Zengin 2006). Therefore, the study examined the six months with the highest number of tourist visits, which are considered the summer tourism season for the Mediterranean coasts in Türkiye (Gao and Giorgi 2008;Türkeş et al 2009;Rutty and Scott 2010;Cook et al 2016;Demiroglu et al 2017). The dynamically downscaled MPI-ESM-MR and HadGEM2-ES models were used to analyse these months, along with the annual data.…”

Projected Summer Tourism Potential of the Black Sea Region

“…Climate change alters the climatic attributes, including variables such as sunshine duration, precipitation, humidity, wind speed, and air temperature [19]. The Mediterranean Basin, renowned for its appeal as a vacation spot, is recognized as a region particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change [20][21][22][23][24]. The potential future vulnerability of the Mediterranean Basin's current favorable holiday conditions has been highlighted by several studies [18,25,26].…”