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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.


List of Articles
No. Subject Viewssort Date
3 Think Tank XII Virtual Mobilities and Sustainable Tourism: Virtual Fi... file 3013 Nov 06, 2013

Due to the financial constraints on the part of the educational institution as well as the student, offsetting the GHG emissions generated by the fieldtrip is often not regarded as financially feasible, or subject to doubts about the integri...

Author: Christian Schott 

Year: 2012 

» Think Tank XII Sustainable Tourism: Is it better to travel or not to ... file 5063 Nov 06, 2013

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 Cli...

Author: B. Bynum Boley 

Year: 2012 

1 Think Tank XII The Climate Footprint of Nature-based Tourism - The ca... file 20260 Nov 06, 2013

Nature-based tourism is a form of travel that is often believed to lend itself more to sustainable development than other tourism segments. In fact, the concept of ecotourism – defined as nature tourism that is sustainable – was developed in...

Author: Wolfgang Strasdas 

Year: 2012 

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