Tsunamis could cause beach tourism to lose hundreds of millions of dollars every year


Oahu’s North Shore; Hawaii. Photograph: © SAF — Coastal Care

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European tourists are more frequently going to places all over the world with significant tsunami risk, researchers have found. A global tourism destination risk index for tsunamis was released on April 12, at the 2018 Annual Conference of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) in Vienna, based on a study led by Andreas Schaefer of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

This study examined all prominent tourism destinations globally with regard to the potential tourism loss impact for businesses given the loss of beaches post-tsunami…

Read Full Article, Science Daily (04-12-2018)

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