[Fast Company] May is the new July; Norway is the new Italy: How extreme heat is changing tourism
[Photo: Mischa Bachmann/Unsplash]Climate change could forever alter how people travel. After visiting Sicily last summer, Leora Halpern Lanz, assistant dean of Boston University’s School of Hospitality Administration, immediately decided that she wanted to go back this year. But it turned out to be a very different experience during a summer of record-breaking heat.
Due to fly into Catania Airport, she and her husband arrived at Palermo instead, a three-hour car ride away, due to a fire at the original airport. Palermo was “a sea of suitcases” caused by multiple diverted flights, said Lanz.
