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Climate Change Impacts and Sustainable Tourism

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2025 | Viewed by 2691

Special Issue Editors

Dr. João Vasconcelos

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Polytechnic of Leiria, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: bioclimatology; climate change; heat stress; human health; thermal comfort; tourism and leisure
Dr. António Saraiva Lopes

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IGOT—Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, Center of Geographical Studies, University of Lisbon, Rua Branca Edmée Marques, 1600-276 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: urban climatology; urban planning; climate guidelines; human comfort and health; thermal remote sensing; climate services
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Dear Colleagues,

Climate change is having a significant impact on tourist destinations around the world. Rising temperatures are transforming landscapes and affecting natural attractions such as beaches, forests, and glaciers. Coastal areas are facing an increased risk of rising sea levels, leading to erosion and flooding that threaten tourist infrastructure. Extreme weather events including heatwaves, hurricanes, cyclones, and wildfires are also disrupting travel plans and damaging tourism facilities, leading to financial consequences and endangering people's wellbeing. These changes in the biophysical environment not only affect competitiveness between tourist destinations, but also cause fluctuations in international tourist flows.

This Special Issue compiles interdisciplinary research on climate change and tourism, aiming to foster sustainable practices that promote adaptation and mitigation within the tourism sector in many countries or regions across the world.

Relevant topics include but are not limited to the following areas:

  • Climate Vulnerability in Tourist Destinations;
  • Adaptation Strategies for Tourism Businesses;
  • Community-Based Tourism for Climate Resilience;
  • Technologies for Climate Mitigation in Tourism;
  • Policy Frameworks for Sustainable Tourism;
  • Tourism Carrying Capacity in Changing Climates;
  • Climate Education in Tourism

Dr. João Vasconcelos
Dr. António Saraiva Lopes
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • climate vulnerability
  • tourism adaptation
  • community resilience
  • climate policy
  • tourism development

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Does Low-Carbon City Transition Empower Tourism Economy? Evidence from China
by Qi Yue, Yang Zhang, Yinchao Liao, Lei Liao and Juntai Yu
Sustainability 2025, 17(3), 1238; https://doi.org/10.3390/su17031238 - 4 Feb 2025
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The tourism economy is inseparably linked to the ecological environment, serving as a “green engine” in the promotion of the low-carbon transition of cities and the realization of high-quality economic development. Taking the implementation of a low-carbon city pilot (LCCP) policy as a [...] Read more.
The tourism economy is inseparably linked to the ecological environment, serving as a “green engine” in the promotion of the low-carbon transition of cities and the realization of high-quality economic development. Taking the implementation of a low-carbon city pilot (LCCP) policy as a quasinatural experiment, we assess the impact of a low-carbon transition on the urban tourism economy using a time-varying difference-in-differences identification strategy based on the panel data of 279 Chinese cities covering the period from 2007 to 2019. The results indicate that LCCPs have a favorable effect on the development of the tourism economy. Compared to non-pilot cities, the implementation of LCCPs has led to an average increase of approximately CNY 1918 in tourism receipts per inhabitant in pilot cities. The mechanism analysis reveals that the implementation of LCCPs promotes the tourism economy by energizing the tourism market and accumulating ecological wealth. Specifically, LCCPs have not only optimized the supply of tourism products and related services but have also improved the competitiveness of regional tourism by energizing the tourism market. Meanwhile, LCCPs have improved the ecological environment and enriched natural resources through the accumulation of urban ecological wealth, thereby enhancing urban tourism attractiveness and environmental carrying capacity. The heterogeneity results show that the impact of LCCPs on the tourism economy varies significantly by tourism resource endowment, border-crossing status, and ecological landscape division. Our findings provide empirical evidence that can be used to promote the tourism economy in other countries and facilitate the industrial transformation during the process of a low-carbon transition. Full article
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Measurement of Tourism Ecological Efficiency and Analysis of Influencing Factors under the Background of Climate Change: A Case Study of Three Provinces in China’s Cryosphere
by Yubin Wu, Feiyang He, Zhujun Sun and Yongyu Wang
Sustainability 2024, 16(14), 6085; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16146085 - 16 Jul 2024
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Against the backdrop of climate change and the “dual carbon” goals, enhancing the ecological efficiency of cryospheric tourism is crucial not only for the high-quality development of the tourism industry itself but also for the protection of the ecological environment and the promotion [...] Read more.
Against the backdrop of climate change and the “dual carbon” goals, enhancing the ecological efficiency of cryospheric tourism is crucial not only for the high-quality development of the tourism industry itself but also for the protection of the ecological environment and the promotion of green sustainable development in the cryospheric region. In light of this, this study, taking climate change as its background and based on the perspective of carbon emission constraints, integrates multidimensional factors such as “climate change, carbon emission constraints, and cryospheric resources” into a unified measurement framework to construct a model for evaluating the ecological efficiency of tourism in the cryosphere. Specifically, the model considers inputs, expected outputs, and unexpected outputs. Subsequently, employing the super-efficiency slack-based measure (SBM) model, this study measures the tourism ecological efficiency (TEE) of three provinces (Xinjiang, Qinghai, Tibet) in the cryosphere from 2013 to 2021 and utilizes the Malmquist–Luenberger index and gray correlation model to reveal their dynamic changes, efficiency decomposition, and influencing factors. The results indicate that: (1) The overall mean of TEE in the cryosphere is between 0.2428 and 1.2142, Over the study period, the average annual growth rate and corresponding confidence interval were 14.74%, (−8.61%, 64.23%), showing a significant fluctuating growth trend. Among them, Xinjiang stands out, with its mean scores ranging from 0.2418 to 1.6229, surpassing the overall average level of the cryosphere. (2) During the study period, the overall dynamic efficiency of tourism ecology in the cryosphere increased by 21.54%, driven by the synergy of technological progress (TC), pure technical efficiency (PET), and scale efficiency (SE). For each province, the dynamic efficiency of tourism ecology has improved, but to varying degrees. (3) Regarding the driving factors of TEE in the cryosphere, each driving factor is closely related to TEE, ranked from large to small as follows: carbon emission structure, level of economic development, infrastructure, intensity of technological input, industrial structure, resource endowment, and environmental regulation. This article holds theoretical and practical significance for promoting the high-quality development of polar tourism and achieving synergistic progress between the economy and environment. Full article
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