Climate Change-Induced Tourism Destination Shifts and Strategies for the Sustainable Adaptation
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 36
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Interests: consumer behavior; urban green spaces; sustainable development; environmental management; ecosystem services
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2. Institute of Civil Engineering, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: sediment transport; alluvia; water management; hydraulic structures; local scouring; erosion; accumulation; river
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In response to the growing and undeniable impacts of climate change on natural and economic systems, we are honored to invite you to submit your work to the Sustainability Special Issue “Climate Change-Induced Tourism Destination Shifts and Strategies for the Sustainable Adaptation”.
(1) The central focus (a) of this Special Issue is to investigate the inextricable link between the physical transformations of natural landscapes and the resulting spatial and structural shifts in global nature tourism. Its scope (b) is intentionally broad and interdisciplinary to capture the complexity of this phenomenon. We welcome contributions from geography, environmental science, economics, sociology, and tourism studies, covering topics that include, but are not limited to, modeling shifts in tourist flows, analyzing the socio-ecological resilience of destinations, adaptation strategies, new business models, and the role of policy and governance in managing this transformation. The purpose (c) of this Issue is to assemble cutting-edge, groundbreaking research to create a comprehensive knowledge base that will support stakeholders—from policymakers to local communities—in building a more resilient and sustainable future for the nature tourism sector.
(2) This Special Issue aims to usefully supplement the existing literature by explicitly bridging the gap between research documenting biophysical changes (e.g., melting glaciers, coastal degradation) and studies analyzing socio-economic responses to these changes (e.g., shifts in demand, destination decline, and emergence). While much of the literature focuses on either climate impacts or general adaptation strategies, we seek to synthesize these two domains. We wish to promote a geographical approach that analyzes the concrete, place-based dynamics of “destination substitution” and the formation of “new routes”. In doing so, this Issue will offer a more holistic and forward-looking perspective on the future of tourism, moving beyond static vulnerability assessments toward a deeper understanding of the dynamic processes driving transformation.
We look forward to your contributions enriching the discourse on this highly relevant and topic.
Dr. Dagmara Stangierska-Mazurkiewicz
Dr. Marta Kiraga
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nature-based tourism
- climate change adaptation
- tourism geography
- destination resilience
- tourism shifts
- landscape change
- sustainable tourism
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