getting uncomfortable in Hawaii: the tourism outlook

Even if the seas don’t rise too much and the hurricanes don’t come through too often, Hawaii might still lose its appeal as a visitor destination. How’sat? According to new research on a ‘Tourism Climate Index’, Hawaii’s TCI is already ‘Marginal’ in the summer months. By 2020, Hawaii will fall into the ‘Poor’ range of the TCI. Of course, the same holds true for other tropical locations, like southern Florida and the Caribbean. The TCI measures things like average temperature and humidity, and this study provides both historical data and simulated results with climate change models for all parts of the planet.