RESOURCES
RESOURCES: PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS
| Author : | B. Bynum Boley |
|---|---|
| School/Work Place : | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA |
| Contact : | bbboley@vt.edu |
| Year : | 2012 |
Tourism’s growing contribution to climate change has come to the forefront of the sustainable tourism literature as evidenced by the Journal of Sustainable Tourism’s (JOST) 2010 publication of a special issue titled “Tourism: Adapting to Climate Change and Climate Policy,” and the recent debates pertaining to “sustainable tourism and flying” on the tourism list serve ‘TRINET’. Recent statistics recognize tourism as contributing 5% of all global CO2 emissions and 14% of all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (UNWTO-UNEP-WMO, 2008). With projections of around 5% annual growth in air travel (Airbus, 2004; Boeing; 2005), Scott, Peeters, and Gössling (2010) predict that tourism could become the largest world contributor to GHG emissions if other leading industries take the initiative to reduce their GHG emissions and the tourism industry does not.
