Title: The climate change transformation of global tourism
Abstract: Evidence of the continuing, rapid warming of the planet continues to accumulate and global leaders understand the imperative to respond to the grand challenge of climate change before dangerous and irreversible impacts become unavoidable. Climate change impacts on environmental and socio-economic systems and policy responses to reduce greenhouse gasses and adapt to the changing climate have far-reaching implications for sustainable tourism. Regardless of whether the current high emission trajectory results in a climate-disrupted +4°C world or a +2°C world is achieved through complete decarbonization of the global economy within 50 years, both outcomes will have transformative influences on global tourism in the 21st century. Neither is a future the tourism sector understands well or is prepared for. The chapter outlines pathways by which climate change influences the tourism system and identifies several research needs to enable tourism to be part of the low-carbon and climate-resilient economy of the future.
Publication Year: 2019
Publication Date: 2019-09-18
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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