Open AccessENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF TRANSPORTATION IN THE TOURISM INDUSTRY – DIMENSIONS AND ACTIONS
Author(s) -
Mirela Ştefănică
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
studies and scientific researches. economics edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2344-1321
pISSN - 2066-561X
DOI - 10.29358/sceco.v0i25.377
Subject(s) - tourism , climate change , global warming , vulnerability (computing) , work (physics) , business , transportation industry , environmental planning , natural resource economics , environmental resource management , environmental science , transport engineering , economics , political science , engineering , ecology , computer science , mechanical engineering , computer security , biology , law
The development of tourism and the increase in the number of travellers at the level of certain areas of touristic interest brings socio-economic benefits and also leads to the damaging of the quality of the environment. Transportation, as component of the tourism industry, has many side effects on the environment due to carbon dioxide emissions, pollution, etc. The work mainly emphasizes the way in which air, road, rail and water transportation influences the quality of the environment, contributing to global warming at the same time. Climate change, a consequence of global warming, is perhaps the biggest problem of the beginning of the millennium, representing one of the most prodigious forces that will affect the progress of humanity in the 21st century and later. In this sense, our paper tries to draw attention to the adaptation measures meant to diminish the vulnerability of climate change at the level of tourism, in general and transportation, in particular.