Both risks and opportunities arise from the many and increasingly important interactions between tourism and climate. Tourism and Climate Change is not only highly relevant to individuals with an interest in tourism operations and management but also to those keen to explore the links between tourism and the technical and policy dimensions of climate change mitigation and adaptation. The book compiles and critically analyses the latest knowledge in this field of study, making it accessible to tourism practitioners and other stakeholders in the future health and vitality of the tourism industry.

The first three chapters of the book provide a general overview of the interactions between tourism and climate change. Four case studies of relevance to a wide audience of tourism stakeholders help unravel the many relationships. The following seven chapters include a more detailed description of the tourism-climate system as well as in-depth discussions of greenhouse accounting for tourism, mitigation, climate risk management and tourism–climate policies.