Current Issues in Climate Change and Tourism

Dear Colleagues,

Tourism is highly vulnerable to climate change and, at the same time, generates large amounts of greenhouse gases (GHG) that contribute to global warming. Accelerating climate action in tourism is crucial to ensuring the resilience and sustainability of tourism territories. Therefore, knowledge of impacts and vulnerabilities at the local and regional scale, the measurement of emissions, the development of climate services for tourism, the design of climate policies or a greater role for governance in the field of climate change are aspects of great interest for achieving the reduction of greenhouse gases and for strengthening the capacity of the tourism sector to adapt to the climate-induced impacts.

This Special Issue is open to contributions on climate change and tourism that provide knowledge, approaches, or methodologies that support adaptation and mitigation. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

• Assessment of the tourist potential of the climate;
• Microclimate and tourism;
• Climate Services in the tourism sector;
• Perceptions of weather, climate, and climate change on outdoor recreation;
• Weather Extremes: Mapping the exposure of tourism to weather extremes; effects of extreme weather events on tourism; extreme weather events in tourism climate indices; tourism managers’ perspectives on weather extremes prevalence, etc.;
• Integrating geospatial intelligence, spatio-temporal modeling, big data, and others in the research of climate change and tourism;
• Climate change and adaptation;
• Tourism carbon emissions;
• Tourism, climate change, and decarbonization.

Dr. María Belén Gómez Martín
Guest Editor

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