Question

Which question has been addressed in this step?

What is the trend of climate impacts?

Why has this question been chosen?

• Touristic sector is one of the most important for Tuscan economy
• There is a limited literature on the effects of heat waves on tourism
• There is a scarce awareness of stakeholders and decision makers regarding the topic·

Which methods have been applied?

• analysis of existing data for eventual relationships between climate and tourist presence;
• models.

Why have these methods been selected?

• Is the most used in literature on tourism and climate change

What results have been obtained?

• It should be left to be filled, since we still have no data, but we hope to have:
  • More clear idea regarding the possible effects of climate change, and more specifically heat waves, on health/tourism

Reflections on this step

• Up to date, heat waves seem to have no impact on tourism, while interesting results were obtained with average temperatures