Climate Change Is Only Beginning to Mess Up Your Holidays
The travel industry has a lot of adapting to do to deal with scorching summers, mild winters and deadly avalanches.
Anyone kicking off the summer holidays with a trip to the Mediterranean will have been greeted by back-to-back heat waves, starting with Cerberus, aptly named by Italian meteorologists after the three-headed hound of Hades that guards the gates of the underworld in Greek mythology.
This week’s scorcher, called Charon, is pushing temperatures as high as 48C (118F) in Sardinia and Sicily. Greece and Spain are also expected to feel heat into the 40s. Thanks to the climate crisis, these extremes are no longer so unusual. That raises questions over whether our tourist hotspots and peak travel times will remain so in the coming years, and how the industry will cope.