This is the first book to provide a comprehensive, thorough overview of the complex interrelationships between tourism and climate change. It achieves this by considering the implications of climate change for tourism sectors and destinations, tourism's global contribution to climate change, adaptation and mitigation responses, and addressing various levels of scale - such as global, national, and regional tourism systems, as well as individual tourism businesses and tourists. It combines a thorough scientific discussion on the climate-tourism interface with practice, showcasing international examples of both adaptation and mitigation responses by the tourism sector as well as other sectors' responses that will have implications for tourism.
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.
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