Tourism In Cuba

Cuba is by far, the largest and most ecologically diverse island in the Caribbean, with several archipelagos equaling or exceeding the Florida Keys in length. Cuba’s extensive coastal areas are still home to massive mangrove wetlands, tropical wet forests, coastal mountains, and a variety of associated habitats for a diverse range of plants and animals. It has a great variety of marine ecosystems, including many diverse coral reef habitats, extensive grass beds, and more than a dozen enormous estuaries and coastal lagoons. Based on this fact, it can be noted that it has affected the country both positively and negatively since compared to coastal areas in the United States and the Caribbean, Cuba’s coastlines are characterized …show more content…
Climate can impact not just the destination but aspects of it such as food security, longevity of life. Tourism is most vulnerable to the impact of climate change especially if it’s a tourist dependent country. In contrast to that tourism activities such as infrastructure and superstructure developments transportation and water sports and other activities can also adversely impact the natural environment causing a change in climatic conditions. This relationship between both phenomena can be considered reciprocal; tourism impacts climate change and climate change impacts tourism. It is believed that tourism is climate-sensitive and this effect needs to be fully understood, especially since one of its greatest impacts has to do with tourism demand. There are several dilemmas for tropical countries such as Jamaica which states that cold countries will become colder and warm countries will become warmer/hotter while this is truly the opposite for the other dilemma as it relates to cold countries. Since cold countries will become hotter/warmer there will be an increase in their domestic tourism as their residents will have little desire to travel to warmer countries unless motivated by other reasons than climatic conditions. This suggests that destinations in the tropics could possibly be unattractive as the extreme heat can be a deterrent for some travelers. Despite the …show more content…
With facts being the main points of concern, climate change and tourism will affect each other. Tourism-dependent countries as stated are in a doomed stated as no matter the predictions things will turn for the worst if a comprehensive approach in assessing the dynamics of climate change and its various impacts on tourism isn’t acknowledged. Since tourism is climate-sensitive and is apart of a tourist’s decision especially those from temperate and polar zones in which are going to the tropical zones and vice versa. Tourist is one of the various reasons for climate change because tourist travel and the emission of fuels used to transport them to the destination can destroys the natural resources such as our sea, land and air which which leads to the depletes of the ozone causing drastic changes to the earth temperature such as global warming which leads to melting of the ice glaciers and other complications. If the ice glaciers are melting in the colder countries what will happen in the near future is that the temperature zones will become like the tropical zone and the tropical zones will become hotter since its near the equator and will possibly be unattractive as the extreme heat can be a deterrent for some traveler as the reason for travelling wouldn’t be needed unless its of a different reason other than climate such