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The tourism industry can contribute significantly to developing countries' economic development due to the increase in tourist demand that has occurred in recent decades. However, the industry is highly sensitive to the effects of climate change and destinations in developing countries, especially, should aim to ensure that their tourism operations and products are sustained through the implementation of suitable climate change adaptation strategies. The purpose of this article is to examine the existence and nature of adaptation strategies that have been adopted by tourism businesses in Maun (Botswana), in the Okavango Delta area in order to gauge their preparedness to the estimated impacts of climate change. This will be based on the tourism business operators' perceptions and knowledge about climate change. Qualitative data were collected by means of semistructured interviews and analysis of the results reveals that while tourist operators have perceived and expect negative environmental changes linked to climate, the majority of interviewees had not experienced negative impacts to their own business operations. As a result, the interviewed operators have not adopted climate change adaptation strategies. the continuation of this situation is a potential threat to the future success of nature-based tourism in Botswana, a sector of tourism that contributes the most to the industry, making it the second important economic sector in the country.

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Tourism is an important economic sector in the Global South, but it is also among the sectors most vulnerable to the risks and variations associated with global climate change.The paper investigates how issues surrounding uncertainty in the climate change discourse have influenced policy makers' response to climate change in Botswana with respect to the tourism sector. A number of constraints hamper progress in policy response measures including inadequate knowledge and the extent to which climate science can be trusted. A qualitative approach comprising in-depth interviews was adopted for the study. The analysis of the empirical data demonstrates that some policy makers are still sceptical about climate change and its impacts on tourism despite growing evidence from scientific studies and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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