Climate change and global tourism: a research compendium

Abstract

This research compendium lists all current publications in English relevant to climate change and global tourism. It covers articles, books and reports published from 1985 through to July 2011. The articles were located through keyword searches (i.e. climate change; carbon emissions/footprint) of tourism journals; major tourism organisations (e.g. WTC, WTTC, PATA, ETC); academic publishers; key databases (i.e. Google Scholar, OAIster, Scopus); environmental agencies; and research centres. This comprehensive review of published research about tourism and climate change provides a wide range of global case studies about the impacts of climate change on key tourism sectors and regions. These cover both adaptation and mitigation responses to climate change by the tourism industry.