Impacts on SW and
background information
Sectors:
- Agriculture and Forestry
- Biodiversity
- Business and Utilities
- Housing and Construction
- Local Government
- Tourism
- Transport
Warming to the idea*
*SW Climate Change Impact Scoping Study including report summary and technical report
Aim:
To identify, develop and promote opportunities for tourism in the region to become resilient to the impacts of climate change.
Lead contact: Emma Whittlesea (ewhittlesea@swtourism.org.uk) of South West Tourism.
Latest Progress Report - for past papers, see below
The Tourism Sector Group was resurrected in June 2008, with members representing the public, private and academic sectors. The group meets regularly every 3 months and works to an annual action plan.
In February 2010, the group commissioned a survey of tourism businesses to explore attitudes to extreme weather and adaptation. The results are available on this website's tools page.
Other recent work includes ‘Preparing for Change: Climate-proof your tourism business’ ,an interactive web-based version of the Tourism Adaptation Checklist tool, developed in partnership with Climate South East, Tourism South East and South West Tourism - www.climateprepared.com. The toolkit provides information on the potential impacts of climate change on tourism businesses, what actions can be taken to minimise the risks and maximise the opportunities, and links to relevant information and support. It also includes case studies, top tips and an interactive checklist, which enables users to create their own personalised action plan. The ‘Preparing for climate change’ leaflet, which is available from this website's tools page, outlines some of the key information and signposts people towards the toolkit.
In April 2009, the group also produced a video, 'Changing Climate, Changing Business', which is available from this website's tools page. The video, which features 11 tourism business case studies, aims to help raise business awareness of the need to adapt and to demonstrate the practical actions that can be taken. An accompanying booklet with 10 top tips to help tourism businesses adapt is also available.
In January 2010 the group produced a national case study on 'Using UKCP09 to assess the impacts of climate change on tourism in the South West region'; there is a link to this from this website's case studies page.
Tools
Please visit our Tools page for access to relevant tools and reports for the Tourism sector.
Past Papers etc
Please find below meeting notes and presentation slides from the Tourism Sector Group for the last 12 months. Older copies of the minutes can be obtained from Climate SouthWest (contact details on Climate SouthWest home page).
Tourism Sector Group meeting note 10 Mar 2010 (doc). Also "Tourism business climate change survey" (pdf 1Mb) - presentation by Exeter University, and "Managing coastal erosion risk" (pdf 1.2Mb) - presentation by Nick Reed, EA, for 10th March 2010 meeting.
Cost-a South West: What may tomorrow's weather and climate look like for tourism in the SW of England? – presentation by Emma Whittlesea, SW Tourism, to 9th December 2009 meeting (pdf 2.4Mb).
Tourism Sector Group meeting note 10 Dec 2009 (doc).
Tourism Sector Group meeting note 16 Sep 2009 (doc).
Tourism Sector Group meeting note 10 Jun 2009 (doc). Also "A changing climate for business- the insurance perspective" (pdf 685kb) - presentation by Swenja Surminski (Association of British Insurers) for 10th June 2009 meeting.
Tourism Sector Group meeting note 18 Mar 2009 (doc). Also "Tourism-related climate change research underway in the South West of England" (pdf 265kb) - presentation by Anne-Kathrin Zschiegner (University of Exeter Business School) and "Impacts of climate change on tourism in the South West" (pdf 1Mb) presentation by Jen Herbert (University of Plymouth / South West Tourism) to 18th March 2009 meeting.