
Tourism in Times of Climate Change
Three destinations show how climate change is reshaping travel. In Germany's Ahr Valley, once a wellness and wine tourism draw, the film returns to the site of the 2021 flood that destroyed hotels, restaurants, and roads, and follows local efforts to rebuild the region as a model for low-impact tourism rather than restoring it exactly as it was. On Mallorca, footage of packed beaches and pools sits against interviews about drought, with tourism alone consuming more than a quarter of the island's water even as the Balearics face worsening shortages. In Greenland, melting glaciers are opening land to mining for rare earths, and the film weighs that environmentally damaging option against tourism as a gentler path to economic development, talking to residents on both sides of the question. Shot on location in all three places with interviews with locals, business owners, and officials, the film moves between disaster recovery, overcrowding, and a resource rush to build a picture of an industry forced to reckon with the climate it depends on.