Zmiany klimatu a turystyka – w poszukiwaniu ponadregionalnych i regionalnych uwarunkowań koegzystencji

Scientific research proves that greenhouse-gas emissions amount to climate changes which can cause a number of problems concerning social and economic issues. International initiatives such as Climate Convention and Kyoto Protocol’s proceeding are still not efficient enough to bring on substantial emissions’ cutbacks of carbon dioxide. It seems that global warming along with climate degradation will progress, and the pace of this process in the current century will significantly accelerate. Therefore, there is an urgent need to work out a national programme of adaptation to changes in the environment as well as in the climate. The article’s aim is to trigger off the afterthought about the present and future situation of the tourism business, especially taking into account the fact that West Pomeranian Region is a significant area of tourism distillation on the national scale when we think of tourism in general terms but also in its particular forms e.g. health tourism. This is an important and up-to-date issue as the majority of national and regional treatments and development programmes of tourism sector came into existence before the second Conference in Davos in 2007. During this conference experts and international organizations indicated a range of sins in the world’s tourism industry pointing to the destruction of earth’s climate and indicating probable trends of change in global, European and also in regional tourism. Without any doubt Polish tourism sector will also experience predicted changes and hence this attempt at a diagnosis where in this trio of climate, new ‘clear’ forms of energy, and tourism - national and regional tourism business will find their place. To illustrate this lack of coherent national politics in the discussed matter the example of a particular touristic corporation (health resort) was adopted in reference to the health resorts situation owned by the Polish State Treasury. Bearing in mind that mega social economic processes will influence the activity of single companies and all sectors of economy the last part of the article is devoted to the Polish view on the above mentioned processes of change on the European continent attaching great importance to these issues and leaving it open to further discussion.