Climate Change

Climate change is a significant issue for tourism: It is a phenomenon that is already affecting the sector and its impacts are expected only to grow in magnitude and become ever more pervasive. All forms of tourism depend to some extent on climatic conditions. Climate change thus has the potential to influence all kinds of tourism, wherever it is taking place. At the same time, tourism is increasingly being recognized as a major source of emissions of the greenhouse gases (GHGs) that are responsible for causing climate change. Both adaptation and mitigation strategies are therefore of direct relevance to the tourism industry. Adaptation strategies may be called for to address the impacts of climate change on tourism, for example, the construction of coastal infrastructure to ...