I have just got back from France – the heat is making holidays in Europe impossible ...Middle East

It was more than 30°C before you sat down for breakfast, and by midday even mad dogs had taken refuge in the shade. What’s more, it is only the first week of July, still a month before the world (or at least the rest of France) heads to the Midi for their vacances.

Tourism brings with it some environmental and cultural harms, but its economic impact is huge, contributing more than 10 per cent of Europe’s GDP. And those who have protested in Spain, Portugal and Italy against the incursions of tourism into their local culture would be better off worrying about the future financial loss. When temperatures in Portugal reach 46.6°C (as they did last weekend, when it was still June), no one in their right mind will consider it a holiday destination any more.

So it’s not only uncomfortable to expose ourselves to such intense heat – it’s downright dangerous. There are around 175,000 heat-related deaths in Europe every year, according to the World Health Organisation, and this figure is destined to grow in accordance with rising temperatures.

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We Brits have been conditioned to travel to seek the beneficial effects of the sun in boosting our levels of vitamin D and helping skin conditions. But sun does not always mean fun these days, and when it’s more than 30°C on the first day of Wimbledon, we don’t now need to go much further than the end of the District Line for a blast of UV.

We used to come back from our summer breaks refreshed and invigorated, proud of our expensively-acquired tan. I returned from the South of France depressed that this most beautiful part of the world might, in years to come, be beyond our range of experience. Not because it’s too expensive – that has always been a problem – but because it’s just too damn hot.

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