College Students’ Knowledge and Perceptions of Tourism Climate Change Impacts: Do Major, Grade and Gender Matter?

Pre-service chemistry teachers’ understanding of knowledge related to climate change

“…First, senior-level pre-service chemistry teachers have a more scientific and in-depth understanding of many climate changerelated aspects compared with freshman-level pre-service chemistry teachers. This suggests that college courses, especially chemistry-related courses, greatly impact the pre-service chemistry teachers' cognition and understanding of climate change (Zhao and Ewert, 2021). This indicates that studying relevant knowledge in college chemistry courses positively affects pre-service chemistry teachers' understanding of climate change issues.…”

“…College students also lack a particle-level understanding of greenhouse gases and have difficulty understanding the greenhouse effect's mechanism and its correspondence with increased CO 2 concentration and climate change impacts (Versprille and Towns, 2015). Research shows that college major, gender, and grade level influence students' understanding of climate change, which has implications for teaching and curriculum development that will improve students' understanding of climate change (Zhao and Ewert, 2021). For example, students can improve their understanding of climate change by taking related courses (Klapp and Bouvier-Brown, 2021), such as ecological society courses, which help students to better understand climate change (Prasad and Mkumbachi, 2021).…”

Exploring educational tourists' perceptions of climate change on a small Mediterranean island: a qualitative analysis

“…Tourism students are one of the main actors in addressing the climate change issue among tourism stakeholders because they are not only future tourism employees, but they will also contribute to tourism decisionmaking and policy-making (Lee et al, 2020). According to Zhao and Ewert's (2021) research in Exploring edu-tourists' climate change views the United States found that tourism college students perceive climate change as a natural process on the earth, and they believe that these changes are not the result of human activities or the tourism industry. Against the above-mentioned backdrop, there is a gap in climate change education in developing nations.…”

“…As a result, climate change education serves as an effective catalyst for climate action and pro-environmental behavior among students in combating climate change issues. Although climate change education has been studied in various disciplines, few studies have focused on climate change education for tourism students (Zhao and Ewert, 2021). Tourism students, as future tourism decision-makers, will have a significant impact on the industry; therefore, climate change education is critical in shaping their climate and environmental behavior (Lee et al ., 2020).…”

“…Climate change education is recognized as a necessary solution to enrich a desirable scenario in climate change discourse (Greer et al, 2023) The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available on Emerald Insight at: https://www.emerald.com/insight/1755-4217.htm education for tourism students (Zhao and Ewert, 2021). Tourism students, as future tourism decision-makers, will have a significant impact on the industry; therefore, climate change education is critical in shaping their climate and environmental behavior (Lee et al, 2020).…”