018: How Warmer Weather and Collapsing Ecosystems are Driving a Tourism Doom Spiral

There’s been a fair amount of coverage of maritime activities at Futur-ish and we’re pleased to bring you another episode where Radha was triggered by being targeted for luxury cruises. It seems hoteliers are pivoting from the land to the sea as insurance and sea levels rise to meet the warming climate. However, this is all triggering a doom loop where the increase in tourism to endangered places drives them into further endangerment. 

Perhaps the people of Croydon, South London hold the answer?

Links

• Four Seasons is launching a luxury yacht experience in 2026, and it's as glamorous as you'd expect, Conde Nast Trarveller: https://www.cntraveller.com/article/four-seasons-launching-luxury-yacht-experience-in-2026
• Four Seasons Yachts Unveils its 2027 Mediterranean Season Featuring 33 New Voyages and More Than 40 New Destinations: https://press.fourseasons.com/news-releases/2025/2027-mediterranean-itineraries/
• Heading to Sea: How the Ritz-Carlton and Four Season’s Entry to Sea Travel can Revolutionize Cruising Sustainability, McGill Business Review: https://mcgillbusinessreview.com/articles/heading-to-sea-how-the-ritz-carlton-and-four-seasons-entry-to-sea-travel-can-revolutionize-cruising-sustainability
• The vulnerability of Caribbean coastal tourism to scenarios of climate change related sea level rise: http://www.caribbeanhotelandtourism.com/wp-content/uploads/data_center/environmental/Journal-of-Sustainable-Toursim-2012.pdf
• Climate change could erase $1.4 trillion in real estate value: report, Axios: https://www.axios.com/2025/02/03/climate-change-insurance-costs-real-estate
• Migration in the Mountains: Why “Progress” in Uttarakhand Is Pushing People Away, UN: https://www.un.org/en/un-chronicle/migration-mountains-why-progress-uttarakhand-is-pushing-people-away
• Hotter Summers and Overcrowdning Threaten Europe’s Tourist Economies, Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-08-20/climate-change-and-overtourism-put-southern-europe-s-economies-under-threat?embedded-checkout=true
• Canadian snowbirds say U.S. politics are ruffling feathers and changing their migration patterns, CBC News: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadian-snowbirds-rethinking-us-travel-plans-9.6980001
• BIO-SEA ballast water treatment chosen for Ritz-Carlton newbuilds, SeatradeCruiseNews: https://www.seatrade-cruise.com/environmental-health/bio-sea-ballast-water-treatment-chosen-for-ritz-carlton-newbuilds
• Aman at Sea, Amangati: https://www.amanatsea.com/