Tourism and Climate Change: An International Overview (original) (raw)

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.

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...

Chapter 1 Tourism and Climate Change

Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice, 2010

Abridgement: This chapter contextualizes the interrelationships between tourism and climate change and thus provides an introduction to this volume. It commences with a brief but comprehensive overview of the key issues identified by climate change research, including an update since the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as well as a brief discussion of the latest rounds of climate change negotiations. The pursuing discussion is informed by these points and explores climate change's indirect and induced impacts on tourism and possible ramifications. Both of these parts highlight behavioral change as a critical factor to both adaptation and mitigation motivating the psychological contribution in an effort to shed light on the obstacles to behavioral change. In concluding, the chapter syntheses the discussion grounded in multiple disciplines into a set of research themes which the volume subsequently begins to address.

Tourism under climate change scenarios: impacts, possibilities, and challenges

2019

Tourism can be considered an economic sector highly sensitive to climate change and it contributes to the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG), one of the causes of global warming. To mitigate the negative effects, the concept of sustainable tourism development emerges, which should incorporate the externalities derived from climate change. Given this reality, this research aims to examine the impacts, opportunities, and challenges for sustainable tourism development under global climate change scenarios. The methodology has a descriptive/analytical, interdisciplinary, and systemic approach, based on bibliometric and documentary research, and interviews with tourism development and climate change experts. The results include the construction of scenarios that may show the possible impacts and consequences of climate change on the international tourism system, providing information for mitigation purposes, planning for adaptation actions, and minimizing impacts and vulnerability.

Climate Change and Tourism: Assessment and Coping Strategies

Tourism is one of the world's largest, fastest growing and most climate-dependent economic sectors, yet in 2003 the interactions between this industry and climate change had been subject to only sparse and scattered scientific investigation. There was a lack of scientific networks and frameworks to guide future research and make it more efficient. To start filling these gaps, a scientific workshop was held in Warsaw in November 2003 with the following aims: 1. to strengthen the network of scientists and stakeholders working in the field of climate change and tourism; and 2. to develop an agenda for further research, e.g. on impacts, vulnerabilities, adaptation options, emissions, and mitigation potentials. This book is a collection of the best papers from among the more than thirty-five contributions presented to the Warsaw workshop. The selected papers reflect the complex and interdisiplinary nature of the issue, and cover a broad range of topics, including: • tourism's con...

REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE CONCERNING CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS IMPACT ON TOURISM

isara solutions, 2023

Introduction: This paper reviews English-language tourist adaptation to climate change literature. Climate change will plague the 21st century and beyond. Climate change hits tourism hard. Because of this, tourism experts have continued to study tourism's impact on climate change and stakeholders' reaction options. Tourism industry climate change study may stretch back to the 1960s. Over the past 15 years, specialised climate change and tourism study has increased. This review maps tourist adaptation knowledge domains from the early 1960s to 2014. Methodology: This article uses English tourist industry secondary sources for the review. Results-Before 2010, tourism adaptation literature advanced in five theme areas: business adaptation, consumer adaptation, destination adaptation, adaptation policy, and frameworks for adaptation. After 2010, tourism academics began studying "sustainable adaptation" in tourism. This report is the first to highlight sustainable adaptation as a new theme in tourism and climate change adaptation research. When we say this paper is unique, we mean it. Despite a lack of consensus on sustainable adaptation in tourist research, the report finds a growing interest in the knowledge area. So, academics must agree on a definition of "sustainable adaptation" to conduct comparative study and discussion.