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DOOM

What is the doom tourism?

Traveling to places that are environmentally or otherwise threatened before it's too late

DOOM TOURISM IS ALSO KNOWN AS:

"niche tourism market where tourists explicitly seek vanishing landscapes or seascapes, and/or disappearing natural and/or social heritage” S. Lemelin

  • last chance tourism
  • climate change voyeurism
  • extinction tourism
  • ego-tourism
  • disappearing tourism

TOURISM

Reasons for doom tourism

Climate change and global warming

Where did Last Chance Tourism begin?

  • Although last chance tourism is becoming a more common trend in the tourism industry, it can date back to early days in America
  • The opening of the railroads to the west opened the tourism market to the wild west
  • The rush of people from the east to the west were out to see the wide open spaces before the miners 'spoiled' the land (Raban)

Reasons for doom tourism

Development that will eradicate old historic areas/structures

The desire to see endangered species in their natural habitat before either the natural area or species disappear

Places to visit before they

disappear

Indigenous peoples

Places to visit before they disappear

Maldives

The Great Barrier Reef

Positive impacts

The Great Barrier Reef is a fifteen hundred mile-long piece of living architecture that supports vast numbers of marine organisms by providing food and protection.

The reef is also dying, and dying quickly. In 2012, scientists estimated that the Great Barrier Reef had already lost more than half of its coral cover since 1985.

As experts estimate, in a few decades these islands may disappear. Global warming is the reason. The increase in global temperatures result in rising sea level. As a result, there is the risk that many lands will be flooded.

The cause is not rising sea levels, but another insidious side effect of climate change: ocean acidification.

- can help to raise awareness on climate change

-Visitation fees, etc., can be reinvested in education and conservation programs

-Economic development opportunities for tourism operators and communities

Negative Impacts

- "an increase in tourism activity is likely to speed up the vanishing of a destination that is already suffering from the effects of climate change."

- long - haul destination

  • Carbon dioxide emission (long-haul air travel are one of the largest emitters of CO2)

-overcrowding

-climate change

Places to visit before they disappear

The Disappearing Snows of Mt. Kilimanjaro

Places to visit before they disappear

Magdalens Islands

Places to visit before they disappear

Alaska and The Arctic Circle

The snows of Mount Kilimanjaro – the highest mountain in Africa – may soon be falling on bare ground following a study showing that its ice cap is destined to disappear entirely within 20 years, due largely to climate change.

The vast ice fields of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania are melting at a faster pace than at any time over the past 100 years and at this rate they will be gone completely within two decades or even earlier according to some of scientists.

Recommendations

The archipelago is regularly pelted by heavy winds and despite a wall of sea ice blunting the worst of the weather, the island's coast curently erodes up to 40 inches a year.

The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, and as a result the area of Arctic land covered by snow in early summer has shrunk by almost 20% since 1966. Climate models predict that the Arctic Ocean could be ice-free by the end of the century.

  • Limit the number of people allowed per year to each destination

  • Increase entry costs of destinations

  • Implement an application process to narrow tourism (waiting lists)

  • Provide more information about how to help prevent the destruction of these places

Cruise passengers pay upwards of £12.000 to see polar bears and humpbacks whales in their natural habitats

Marta

Siluk II C

Image by Tom Mooring

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