Editing Tourism (section)

===Doom tourism===
[[File:Perito Moreno Glacier 2023.jpg|thumb|[[Perito Moreno Glacier]], [[Patagonia]], [[Argentina]]]]

Also known as "tourism of doom," or "last chance tourism", involves travelling to places that are environmentally or otherwise threatened (such as the ice caps of [[Mount Kilimanjaro]], the melting glaciers of [[Patagonia]], or the coral of the [[Great Barrier Reef]]) before it is too late. The trend emerged in the 21st century, identified in 2007 by travel trade magazine in 2007<ref>{{cite web|last=Shapiro |first=Kenneth |url=http://www.travelagewest.com/Travel-News/Viewpoint/The-Tourism-of-Doom/ |title=The Tourism of Doom |publisher=TravelAge West |date=11 May 2007 |access-date=}}</ref> and explored in ''[[The New York Times]]'',<ref>{{cite news|last=Salkin |first=Allen |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/world/americas/16iht-tourism.1.8762449.html |title='Tourism of doom' on rise|work=[[The New York Times]] |date=16 December 2007 |access-date=30 October 2012}}</ref> This type of tourism has been on the rise. Some see the trend as related to [[sustainable tourism]] or [[ecotourism]] due to the fact that a number of these tourist destinations are considered threatened by environmental factors such as global warming, overpopulation or climate change. Others worry that travel to many of these threatened locations increases an individual's [[carbon footprint]] and only hastens problems threatened locations are already facing.<ref>Lemelin, H., Dawson, J., & Stewart, E.J. (Eds.). (2013). Last chance tourism: adapting tourism opportunities in a changing world. Routledge.</ref><ref>Frew, E. (2008). Climate change and doom tourism: Advertising destinations 'before they disappear'. In J. Fountain & K. Moore (Chair), Symposium conducted at the meeting of the New Zealand Tourism & Hospitality Research Conference.</ref><ref>Hall, C.M. (2010). Crisis events in tourism: subjects of crisis in tourism. Current Issues in Tourism, 13(5), 401–17.</ref> As of 2024, climate change has been making Last Chance Tourism more popular, and riskier. In August 2024, an American was killed visiting an ice cave at the foot of the Breidamerkurjokull glacier.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2024-09-04 |title=Climate Change Is Making 'Last Chance Tourism' More Popular, and Riskier |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/03/briefing/last-chance-tourism.html |work=NYT}}</ref>