Tourism and Climate Change in Asia: Challenges and Opportunities
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 285
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Interests: land resource management; climate change; ecosystem service; town and country planning; ecohydrology; remote sensing
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Interests: land use and management; urban climate; regional development and sustainability; environmental economics
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Interests: extreme droughts; heat weaves; global warming; thermal comfort; risk assessment
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Interests: thermal comfort; temporal and spatial variation; high temperature alert; social development
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are excited to announce a request for submissions to the Special Issue "Tourism and Climate Change in Asia: Challenges and Opportunities". This Special Issue aims to bring together the latest research on the interplay between tourism and climate change, highlighting the impacts, risks, and opportunities posed by climate change for the tourism industry.
Climate change is increasingly acknowledged as a critical global challenge that not only impacts the environment but also profoundly influences the tourism sector. As a significant contributor to the economy, the tourism industry in Asia confronts a multitude of challenges in response to climate change. These challenges encompass changes in tourist behavior, shifts in destination attractiveness, and modifications to the physical and environmental attributes of tourist sites. Moreover, the sector plays an indispensable role in climate change mitigation and adaptation, positioning it as a pivotal area for research, policy formulation, and sustainable practices.
We invite scholars to contribute to a multi-disciplinary discourse that explores how tourism is both affected by and contributes to climate change, with a focus on sustainable development, climate adaptation, and mitigation strategies.
We sincerely invite scholars to concentrate research efforts primarily on Asia and engage in interdisciplinary exchanges and collaborations, encompassing, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Impacts of climate change on tourist destinations;
- Climate vulnerability assessments and strategies for the tourism sector;
- Interaction between climate change and tourism behavior;
- Evaluation of climate comfort degree for hotspot cities and tourist attractions;
- Enhancement of the climate tourism resource index and the evaluation of climate tourism resource quality;
- Green tourism technologies, including low-carbon transport and sustainable hotel management;
- Climate policy and global tourism sustainability;
- Predictive models and impact assessments of climate change on tourism patterns;
- Climate change trend analysis and tourism demand forecasting based on climate scenarios;
- The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and other smart technologies to optimize tourism operations and enhance climate resilience.
Dr. Pengtao Wang
Dr. Maomao Zhang
Dr. Jie Zhang
Dr. Wenli Lai
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- sustainable tourism
- urban climate
- climate comfort degree
- climate resilience
- climate tourism resource
- extreme weather events
- tourist destinations
- adaptation strategies
- tourist behavior
- tourism resource
- tourism policy
- tourists' environmental responsibility behavior
- green technologies
- destination management
- carbon emissions
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