Letters to the EditorFrom trekking guides in Nepal to luxury hotel-resort workers in the Maldives, climate change is dramatically transforming the environment in which people work and live. Yet governments are only talking to business and international agencies about what needs to be done.Climate change affects tourism peak seasons, making employment more insecure and incomes more unstable. Climate disasters like flooding leave tourism workers jobless. There is no tourism without tourists.On World Tourism Day, workers are demanding that governments recognise the impact of climate change on tourism and make protecting the rights and livelihoods of tourism workers part of the response. This needs the independent and democratic trade unions representing tourism workers to be involved in decision-making on climate action plans.

Source: The Nation Bangkok September 22, 2016 18:00 UTC