Increased demand for air travel can raise the cost of flights by hundreds of euro. Airports become crowded, with long queues for check-in, security clearance and passport control.
Looking at figure 5:
1. Why do you think airports have developed in these locations?
Atlantic Ocean
FRANCE
Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport
Montpellier- Méditerranée Airport
Reus Airport SPAIN
Malaga Airport Costa del Sol
Mediterranean Sea
5. Airports servicing the Mediterranean
How Mediterranean Tourism Affects the Physical Landscape Construction to develop tourism (airports, roads, hotels, holiday homes) has the greatest negative environmental impact on Mediterranean towns and cities.
These negative impacts include:
Hastily built high-rise developments, which take away from the natural beauty of the area
Roads and hotels which take up beach space, leaving less for local people and tourists to enjoy.
High-rise developments in the Mediterranean
ITALY GREECE
Athens International Airport
Antalya Airport
TURKEY CYPRUS
Larnaca International Airport
CROATIA Split Airport
Black Sea
2. Have you ever flown to one of these airports? At what time of year did you fly? Was the airport busy?
1. Describe the Mediterranean’s climate that makes it a popular tourist destination.
2. Tourism can have negative effects on the physical landscape of the Mediterranean. Describe two of these.
3. Compare and contrast how the Alps and the Mediterranean rely on different physical features to attract tourists.