1st Edition

Tourism and Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation

464 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

464 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

464 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Climate change is the single most important global environmental and development issue facing the world today and has emerged as a major topic in tourism studies. Climate change is already affecting the tourism industry and is anticipated to have profound implications for tourism in the twenty-first century, including consumer holiday choices, the geographic patterns of tourism demand, the... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Why is Climate Important for Tourism? The Tourism and Climate Interface  3. Growth in Tourism, Mobility and Emissions of Greenhouse Gases  4. Carbon Management: Climate Change Mitigation in the Tourism Sector  5. Climate Change Impacts on Destinations  6. Government, Industry and Destination Adaptation to Climate Change  7. Consumer Behaviour and Tourism Demand Response to Climate Change  8. Conclusion

Biography

Daniel Scott is a Canada Research Chair in Global Change and Tourism at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

C. Michael Hall is a Professor in the Department of Management, University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Docent in the Department of Geography, University of Oulu; and a Visiting Professor at Sheffield Hallam University, UK and Linneaus University, Sweden.

Stefan Gössling is a Professor at the Department of Service Management, Lund University and the School of Business and Economics, Linnaeus University, both Sweden. He is also research coordinator at the Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism, Western Norway Research Institute.

"Tourism and Climate Change, authored by three leading tourism academics, is a wellwritten and comprehensive text that has the potential to become the standard reference for this research field...this book is a very valuable contribution to the field, providing a detailed and comprehensive overview of available literature up to 2011. The originality of this book lies in its broad concept including impacts, adaptation, and mitigation that cannot be separated from one another. The critical reflection of the literature provides a helpful summary of what we know and do not know (although often stated in the media that we do know) and is an essential basis for own future scientific work and for a correct interpretation of other work in this research field." Annals of Tourism Research

 

"This book presents a clear diagnosis of the climate change dilemma for industrial and non-insdustrial societies. The authors... who do not require introduction - discuss how we can understand the complex connection between tourism and global warming."— Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change