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Summer 2025: Heat and stress - let's look for the joy at home!
Explore the ambivalent summer time 2025: positive experiences, challenges through climate change and sustainable vacation ideas.
Summer 2025: Heat and stress - let's look for the joy at home!
The summer months are often associated with positive experiences: the flowering linden trees, the bright blue sky and the relaxing hours that can be enjoyed with an ice cream in your hand. Many people combine summer with feelings of happiness and an increased activity. Nevertheless, there are also dark sides of this time of year, as reported Blick-Aktuell. Overheated inner cities, risk of forest fires, allergies as well as technological and logistical challenges when traveling give rise to concern.
In Germany, there are frequent traffic jams, especially on public holidays such as Ascension Day and Corpus Christi. The overcrowded trains often fail and air travel is still only partially a sustainable alternative. The tourism sector also has a noticeable negative effects on the environment and the holiday regions, which combines the longing for a "Dolce Vita" in the sun with high costs and challenges.
The influence of climate change
In addition, it can be stated that climate change and the associated rising temperatures are considerably burdening the traditional idea of summer vacation in southern Europe. A study by the European Commission from 2023 predicts that the number of visitors will decrease in popular southern holiday countries such as Spain, Greece and Italy, while northern countries are attracted to attractiveness. Diese Entwicklung steht im Einklang mit einer wachsenden Tendenz, Reisen in der Nebensaison denen in der Hauptsaison vorzuziehen, wie tz feststellt.
More and more Germans, namely 43%, are extreme temperatures as a travel motif. In addition, an overwhelming majority of 90%signals that it wants to travel more sustainably. At the same time, it turns out that natural disasters such as forest fires and heat waves influence the travel behavior. The trend towards "Coolcation" means that vacations are increasingly advertised in cooler regions, such as in Sweden and Denmark. In order to make sunny holiday resorts more attractive, suggestions such as shady areas, drinking water dispensers and parasols are discussed.
a new handling of summer
Against this background, it will be crucial that the tourism providers adapt to the challenges of climate change and invest in sustainable infrastructure in order to remain competitive. This necessity not only affects the summer months, but will also affect winter tourism, as there is a lack of snow. While some countries like Dubai are already taking measures to adapt to the heat, for example by offering air -conditioned leisure activities in the evening, it remains to be seen how tourist regions in Europe will react to the challenges.Summer time is therefore perceived ambivalent. It remains to be considered to find alternative opportunities for a nice summer to avoid the negative side effects. Personal experiences, such as deciding on a vacation in your own home, could offer a positive solution here. An inspiring quote from Muffendorf illustrates this: "Be the reason that someone smiles today!" This message shows that joy and relaxation can also thrive through interpersonal encounters.