El Niño 2026: What Coastal Businesses Need to Know About Coastal Risks

El Niño in 2026 is more than an anxiety-inducing climate headline. For coastal tourism businesses, hotels, marina operators, and waterfront property managers, the phenomenon poses a planning challenge that could affect flooding exposure, storm surge risk, and seasonal operations. While forecast guidance suggests the Pacific may remain neutral in the near term, El Niño may […]

Pacific Northwest: Coastal Erosion in the USA (4/4)

Avid readers of our Resources section will know the big picture: rising seas, eroding shores, communities and businesses weighing difficult choices. The Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, and northern California) tells a more complicated version of that story. And in some ways, an inspiring and useful one. This is the final installment in our series examining […]

Sea Level Rise: An Update in Our Coastal Risk Models

For years, flood zone maps have conveyed a reassuring sense of precision. Forecasting maps displayed clear coastlines, color-coded inundation areas, defined horizons for 2050 and 2100. This was before a study published in this month in the scientific journal Nature. Researchers at Wageningen University and several international institutes reviewed how “coastal flood risk” and “sea-level […]

Gulf Coast : Coastal Erosion in the USA (3/4)

U.S. coastal regions have experienced approximately one foot of sea-level rise over the past century, with another foot expected within the next 30 years. This acceleration affects more than 47,600 coastal sites nationwide, including hotels and tourism facilities. Over 5,500 facilities may face frequent flooding by 2100. Following our examinations of the Atlantic and Pacific […]

Beach Erosion for Hotels: Risks, Costs, and What to Do

Houses have been sliding into the ocean on the Outer Banks, Waikiki’s famous beach is shrinking year after year, Miami Beach is investing millions into sea walls ; examples of coastal erosion’s impact on communities are multiplying. Beach erosion presents a series of threat for hotels. The above stories are a preview of the financial, […]

California : Coastal Erosion in the USA (2/4)

California’s 1,200-mile coastline faces accelerating threats. Sea level rise projections for California show erosion rates that could reshape the state’s coastal economy within decades. What does this mean for hospitality and property professionals? Read on to better understand the West coast’s changing landscape’s impact on the local economy.   The Scale of the Challenge of […]

How Public-Private Partnerships Protect Coastal Communities from Storm Surge and Erosion

Financing coastal protection has become a critical challenge for communities facing erosion and storm surge. Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) provide a proven framework that pools government authority with private capital and expertise, enabling towns to build resilience without waiting for traditional funding cycles.   What Are Public-Private Partnerships? Public-Private Partnerships are long-term agreements, typically spanning 20 […]

The Atlantic : Coastal Erosion in the USA (1/4)

U.S. coastal regions have experienced approximately one foot of sea-level rise over the past century, with another foot expected within the next 30 years. This acceleration affects more than 47,600 coastal sites nationwide, including hotels, resorts, and tourism facilities. Over 5,500 facilities may face frequent flooding by 2100. For coastal property managers and hotel owners, […]

The Insurance Crisis: Is Coastal Erosion Making Hotels Uninsurable?

The United States sustained 27 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in 2024, totaling $183 billion in damage. As weather events with heavy consequences for infrastructure and communities become more frequent and intense, insurance companies are retreating from high-risk markets, raising premiums to unprecedented levels, and leaving property owners, including coastal business operators, struggling to maintain […]

Hotel Revenue Protection: Why Caribbean Resorts Are Losing 30% of Rooms to Sea Level Rise

More than half of the Caribbean’s sandy beaches could disappear by 2100 under current sea level rise trajectories. For hospitality property managers, this is not an abstract environmental risk but a direct threat to revenue. Beach loss is already linked to room loss, with projections showing that around 30% of hotel rooms and nearly 40% […]