Tourism and Climate Change: Proposals for a Research Agenda

Dubois, Ghislain; Céron, Jean-Paul

doi:10.2167/jost539.0

Cited by 111 publications

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“…This suggests that tourists do not seem to believe in a relationship between tourism impacts on climate change and climate change impacts on tourism (Becken, 2007;Dawson, Stewart, Lemelin, et al, 2010;. Despite tourism being widely discussed as part of the problem which causes climate change, tourists perhaps lack awareness or knowledge of climate change impacts, from rising temperatures and increased precipitation to melting ice and rising sea-levels (Dubois & Ceron, 2006;Gössling, 2002;Scott, Dawson, & Jones, 2008).…”

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Ethics and influences in tourist perceptions of climate change

Hindley

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2014

Current Issues in Tourism

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Ethical decisions to visit disappearing destinations are self-serving and influences feed into self-interest. Data was collected from a sample of pre, during and post visit tourists to Venice and Svalbard, using expressive techniques and scenarios using the HuntVitell Model to understand ethical decisions, and the constructive technique and collage to understand influences. The results show that travel decisions are driven by individual selfishness, and any threat to freedom (i.e. the right to travel) is underplayed. The preferred scenario for long term benefit for planet and people is via short-term economic and social negative impacts on the destination's locals, rather than the tourists' own experience. Respondents believe that they are blameless for their purchasing habits as they lack perceived behavioural control, and instead corporations ought to be providing sustainable products as the norm and not sell products that harm.In the scenarios where respondents express concern for the locals in a disappearing destination (i.e. if we don't visit, they will not benefit from our expenditure) could be driven by individual selfishness to visit, rather than an altruistic act to provide support.Theoretical and policy implications are discussed.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Ethics and influences in tourist perceptions of climate change

Hindley

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2014

Current Issues in Tourism

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“…Many authors including Dubois and Ceron (2006) argued that the tourism companies such as international hotels were considered as environmentally responsible only if they drafted and implemented sound policies which aid sustainable development. Of course, it is in the hotel enterprises' interest to communicate and raise awareness of their activities and procedures with their stakeholders.…”

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Advancing the Sustainable Tourism Agenda Through Strategic CSR Perspectives

Camilleri

2013

Tourism Planning & Development

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This paper links the corporate social responsibility (CSR) paradigms to the sustainability agenda. The objective is to sharpen the strategic base of responsible behaviour in tourism enterprises. The design follows a comprehensive literature review about sustainable tourism from a hospitality industry perspective. Theoretical underpinnings suggest that the tourism and hospitality industries are continuously witnessing changing attitudes on the part of both the consumers and the enterprises. This contribution provides some details about the sustainability agenda as it explains how it emerged following Brundtland's report. Afterwards, it identifies key contributors who raised the issue of sustainable tourism as well as CSR policies, including intergovernmental committees and non-governmental organisations. It is believed that synergistic and shared value approaches are relatively straightforward and uncomplicated. Therefore, such notions are more easily taken up by academics or by tourism and hospitality stakeholders. There is continuous discourse in many international fora, conferences, seminars and colloquia about sustainable tourism, responsible behaviour and the related subjects. However, the discussions are usually characterised by presentation of theories which define the concepts, rather than being practical workshops which identify the business case and how to trigger active participation in the tourism industry. Relevant literature indicates that value-driven approaches focus on improving tourism and hospitality business performance through effective and efficient practices in their workplace environments. This contribution suggests that long-term sustainability can be reached if industry practitioners successfully address their societal and community deficits.

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“…Dubois and Ceron (2006) accordingly regard adaptation and mitigation as two sides of the same coin. I question the assumed complementarities of the two approaches and suggest the possibility of expanded future conflict between "adaptationists" and "mitigationists" as decisions are made to allocate scarce resources in response to climate change scenarios.…”

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Can sustainable tourism survive climate change?

Weaver

2011

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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This opinion piece contends that tourism's expanding engagement with climate change, as it is currently unfolding, is not necessarily conducive to the interests of tourism sustainability. Inherent unpredictability, long-term timeframes, lack of directly tangible consequences or clearly identifiable villains, issues with credibility and vested interests and cost implications in an era of chronic economic uncertainty all combine to increase the likelihood of unsuccessful climate change policies and strategies. Additional complications arise within the tourism sector from the rudimentary state of knowledge about the relationships between the tourism and climate change, an apathetic and fickle travelling public and a reciprocally uncommitted tourism industry. I argue that adaptation is a rational business response to climate change that is not directly related to environmental and sociocultural sustainability, and that mitigation measures should be supported to the extent that they yield practical and tangible short-and medium-term benefits and address local sustainability issues such as air quality and biodiversity protection.

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Tourism and Climate Change: Proposals for a Research Agenda

Cited by 111 publications

References 25 publications

Ethics and influences in tourist perceptions of climate change

Ethics and influences in tourist perceptions of climate change

Advancing the Sustainable Tourism Agenda Through Strategic CSR Perspectives

Can sustainable tourism survive climate change?

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