Climate Change and Tourism: Impacts and Responses
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 June 2024 | Viewed by 1063
Special Issue Editor
Interests: geography; tourism; environmental global change; rural areas; regional geography
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Dear Colleagues,
Despite the recent economic, political, and social problems that have complicated the tourism business for numerous resorts and destinations, tourism is a sector with continual growth and acts as an important engine of development.
Climate and weather are important factors for many aspects of tourism, so any changes in atmospheric conditions can have very significant impacts on the sector. On the other hand, the leisure and travel sector is itself an intensive emitter of large amounts of CO2 and other greenhouse gases, and as such is an important modifier of climate conditions. This can have negative effects on the future of this sector. The nature and signs of the impact of climate change on tourism will depend on each tourism subsector and the adaptation and/or mitigation strategies that are carried out.
In this Special Issue, we welcome articles that tackle the scientific challenges arising in the field of tourism climatology given the bidirectional relationship between leisure and recreational activities and the climate. We will consider theoretical and conceptual reflections on this issue, methodological contributions, and case studies relating, amongst other things, to the evaluation of the potential of climate resources for different types of tourism and segments of demand; the necessary consideration of climate in the organization and planning of tourism due to its links to key aspects of the sector, such as water supply, artificial snow production, energy costs, etc.; the repercussions of extreme meteorological phenomena on the safety of tourist destinations; the importance of providing climate and meteorological information adapted to different uses and needs to enable tourist activities to be carried out as well as possible; and the direct and indirect impacts of climate change on this sector and the challenges arising in terms of the adaptation to and mitigation of this phenomenon.
Dr. M. Belén Gómez Martín
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- climate change
- tourism
- vulnerability
- impacts
- adaptation
- mitigation
- resilience
