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Climate Change and Tourism in Asia: A Review

Responding to Climate Change: An Examination of Tourism Related Initiatives in Asia and the Pacific

"The chapter here is the final draft of the second overview chapter in the UNWTO publication on tourism and climate change in the Asia-Pacific. For the authoritative version please see the publication. The chapter represents a review of literature on tourism and climate change in the Asian context as of late 2013. "

Bilateral Relationship Between Tourism and Climate Change: Impacts, Vulnerability & Solutions

International Association of Biologicals and Computational Digest

Human activities are directly or indirectly assigned to “Climate change”. Global scenario indicates that changing climate is an influencing phenomenon with wide range of impacts on different levels in societies and industries. In current scenario tourism industry is considered as one of the fastest-growing industries with direct relation to changing climate. Tourism is totally dependent on various climatic conditions over specific destinations. Any effort to separate them will lead to danger. Tourism is one of the fastest-growing industries which is also responsible for excess amount of emissions and also includes large scope to adapt or mitigate changing climate. Tourism has the capability to create beneficial effects on the environment by contributing to environmental protection and conservation. It is a way to raise awareness of environmental values and it can serve as a tool for foreign investments. As tourism is a growing sector it is essential to identify its promising impacts...

Climate Change and Tourism: A Global Challenge

The integrated effects of climate change willhave far-reaching consequences for tourism andthese impacts will vary substantially by market segment and geographic region.Without doubt, climate is one of the essential parameters influencing tourism. Changes in global climate are beyond the control of the tourism industry and may have far-reaching consequences for many current tourist destinations as well as for places contemplating involvement in tourism.

Chapter 10 Tourism and climate change

Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice

While the need to respond to the wide-ranging challenges posed by climate change has been widely emphasized, there is still a relative lack of attention being given to the type, scale, and nature of responses that are taking place in different economic sectors and parts of the world. This chapter provides a review of the tourism-related responses to the implications of climate change in the context of New Zealand. This is a country where tourism is a very important sector of the economy that depends heavily on the credibility of its green and unspoilt destination image. However, due to its relative isolation in the South Pacific, New Zealand requires most international tourists to travel long distances, which results in considerable greenhouse gas emissions. The chapter outlines the private and public sectors' responses to these challenges with particular attention to their collaboration.

International Tourism and Climate Change.

Tourism is a major global economic sector that is undergoing tremendous growth in emerging economies and is often touted as salient for development and poverty alleviation in developing countries. Tourism is recognized as a highly climate-sensitive sector, one that is also strongly influenced by environmental and socioeconomic change influenced by climate change, and is also a growing contributor to anthropogenic climate change. This article outlines the complex interrelationships between climate change and the multiple components of the international tourism system. Five focal themes that have developed within the literature on the consequences of climate change for tourism are then critically reviewed: climatic change and temporal and geographic shifts in tourism demand, climate-induced environmental change and destination competitiveness within three major market segments (winter sports tourism, coastal tourism, and nature- based tourism), and mitigation policy developments and future tourist mobility. The review highlights the differential vulnerability of tourism destinations and that the resultant changes in competitiveness and sustainability will transform some international tourism markets. Feedbacks throughout the tourism system mean that all destinations will need to adapt to the risks and opportunities posed by climate change and climate policy. While notable progress has been made in the last decade, a number of important knowledge gaps in each of the major impact areas, key regional knowledge gaps, and both tourist and tourism operator perceptions of climate change risks and adaptive capacity indicate that the tourism sector is not currently well prepared for the challenges of climate change.

BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TOURISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE: IMPACTS, VULNERABILITY & SOLUTIONS

2022

Human activities are directly or indirectly assigned to "Climate change". Global scenario indicates that changing climate is an influencing phenomenon with wide range of impacts on different levels in societies and industries. In current scenario tourism industry is considered as one of the fastest-growing industries with direct relation to changing climate. Tourism is totally dependent on various climatic conditions over specific destinations. Any effort to separate them will lead to danger. Tourism is one of the fastest-growing industries which is also responsible for excess amount of emissions and also includes large scope to adapt or mitigate changing climate. Tourism has the capability to create beneficial effects on the environment by contributing to environmental protection and conservation. It is a way to raise awareness of environmental values and it can serve as a tool for foreign investments. As tourism is a growing sector it is essential to identify its promising impacts on climate change. With marked increase in tourism industry it is quite easy to understand the flow of tourist by statistical analysis of secondary data, and its relative possible impacts. Lack of research in sustainable tourism and climate change provides us platform to built bilateral approach for solutions using micro observations of destination as well as generation of primary data using socioeconomic methods. This approach for sustainable tourism and its advantages play a major role in global context. Tourism, a highly growing industry is also providing various possibilities to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs) and to stabilize the global threat of 21 st century.

Tourism and climate change: socioeconomic implications, mitigation and adaptation measures

International Journal of Environment, 2015

The relationship between tourism and changing climate has been discussed and studied for a relatively long time in tourism research. Over the past 15 years, more focused studies have begun to appear, and especially recently, the issue of adaptation and mitigation has been emphasized as an urgent research need in tourism and climate change studies. This paper is based on the review of selected articles which discuss the several forms of tourism and climate change and provide recommendations for mitigation and adaptation measures. This review paper assesses the impacts of climate change on the popular forms of tourism such as; mountain tourism, wildlife tourism, adventure tourism, sun/sand tourism; last chance tourism, and describes the extent of tourism vulnerabilities and their implications. The paper concludes that the appropriate adaptation and mitigation measures have to be followed to minimize the risk of climate change while trying to save all forms of tourism. The initiative o...