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Abstract
Climate change and global warming have become a significant issue showing its impacts visible even to the naked eye which we can observe all around the world. One consequence of global warming is the damaging impacts it may have on tourism and the destinations it occurs in. The nature and intensity of these impacts will depend on the location, activity, geographic scale. In this case, researchers studied touristic destinations and specifically put Mediterranean Region and Turkey under the scope. For Mediterranean countries, the climate is the main assets, a pull factor attracting tourists, however the future scenarios forecast that the Mediterranean basin in particular would become hotter and drier which could turn preferred touristic destinations into less popular places especially in their peak periods. Turkey also faces global warming issue in the destinations located in the southern part of the country. Boniface and Cooper (2009, p. 68) underlined the fact that the most tourism destinations have to rethink and reevaluate the products that they will offer in the future and effectively reposition themselves in the market place to cope with the changing climate. Scientific reports about climate change projections and the literature encompassing the related scenarios have been analyzed by the researchers in order to determine conceivable compulsory solutions.