CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ON SEASIDE TOURISM. PORTUGAL AND ROMANIA: TWO DIFFERENT CASE STUDIES WITH STRONG PARTICULARITIES

This paper aims to investigate the effects of climate change on the seaside tourism, on the base of two different but interesting case studies namely seaside tourism in Portugal, with is beautiful and very attractive resorts (i.e. Algarve, Madeira, Azores, Estoril, Alentejano) and littoral tourism on the South of Romanian Black Sea Coast also having a chain of tourism resorts (Cap Aurora, Costineºti, Eforie Nord, Eforie Sud, Jupiter, Mamaia, Mangalia, Neptun, Olimp, Saturn, Techirghiol and Venus). Both case studies have strong particularities thus involving specific adaptation and mitigation measures to climate change effects.