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Author : Nancy Scanlon
School/Work Place : University of Hawaii, USA
Contact : nscanlon@hawaii.edu
Year : 2005

This study addresses the threat of climate change impacts on the sustainability of the economic benefits for, and environmental assets of, tourism destinations. It discusses the challenges for both the demand and supply side of tourism to forecast climate change effects and related weather activity. As tourism represents an increasing percentage of national, regional and local economics, the stability of this contribution becomes increasingly important as measured in tax income, employment rates and financial multiplier effects. Climate change effects on the sustainability of the environment of a destination is discussed relative to both the direct and indirect impacts to natural resources and the inconsistent availability of such for recreational purposes. This study offers strategies to help tourism destinations respond to three major issues of climate change; the emergence of unpredictable weather patterns, the impact of severe weather and the challenge to deliver a consistent ‘experience’ during changing weather patterns. In addition, this paper offers a visitor/stakeholder education activity model for the protection of natural resources. This model places the visitor in two categories, observer and active participant. Destination stakeholders are directed to commit to core strategies that at once protect natural resources and simultaneously develop alternative activities and products consistent with the destination experience. This model considers protecting natural resources as asset protection and the demonstration to both the local and visitor community of socially responsible business practices.


List of Articles
No. Subject Views Datesort
414 Think Tank IV Aboriginal Cultural Tourism and Sustainability: Socioc... file 10366 Oct 09, 2013

This paper describes a qualitative study, which investigated local residents' perceptions of the sociocultural impacts of tourism on the Manyallaluk community, an Australian Aboriginal community located near Katherine in the Northern Territo...

413 Think Tank IV The Benefits of Visitor and Non-Visitor Research in th... file 4602 Oct 13, 2013

Our premise in this paper is that if sustainable tourism development and management is to meet the needs of both the present and the future then it is equally important to prioritise research on those who visit tourism destinations (and incl...

Author: Pat Sterry & Debra Leighton 

Year: 2004 

412 Think Tank IV Sustainability in a Mature Mass-Tourism Destination: T... file 5076 Oct 13, 2013

Most destinations are struggling to achieve sustainability for their economies, their environments, their cultures and their tourism industries. This laudatory, idealistic and complex process involves many sectors of the industry, the commun...

Author: Pauline Sheldon, John Knox & Kem Lowry 

Year: 2004 

411 Think Tank IV Sustainability and Mass Destinations: Challenges and P... file 4905 Oct 13, 2013

In year 2001, the Government of the Balearic Islands decided to establish a tourism tax, named "ecotax", as an important measure to achieve a more sustainable tourism model for the islands. This paper analyses the background of the ecotax, t...

Author: Antoni Serra Cantallops 

Year: 2004 

410 Think Tank IV Environmental Attitudes of Tourism Activity Providers ... file 3828 Oct 13, 2013

This paper looks at the issue of environmental awareness and the related topic of 'ecolabels' in a New Zealand context, adopting a supplier's perspective to gain a greater insight into the attitudes of those managing and providing tourism pr...

Author: Christian Schott 

Year: 2004 

409 Think Tank IV After the Sydney Olympic Games: Sustainable Infrastruc... file 3478 Oct 13, 2013

Olympic Games epitomize the definition of a mega event, due to the size and scope that these events have in terms of participation, worldwide viewing and infrastructure development. However with the commercialization of these events over the...

Author: Sacha Reid 

Year: 2004 

408 Think Tank IV Impediments to Sustainable Service Quality in Luxury H... file 16195 Oct 13, 2013

In order for tourism to be sustainable in the long term, there must be continued viability of tourism related entities (Tesone 2004), that is business operations must be sustainable. Hotels are major tourism entities and play an important ro...

Author: Rayka Presbury 

Year: 2004 

407 Think Tank IV Cultural Tourism as a Means for Sustainability in a Ma... file 4534 Oct 13, 2013

Tourism has become for many islands a means of social, economic and cultural development through the creation of jobs, raising standards of living and through the development of local resources for culture and heritage. Thus, many of these d...

Author: Chryso Panayidou 

Year: 2004 

406 Think Tank IV Sustainable Tourism and Innovation in Mobile Tourism S... file 4192 Oct 13, 2013

This paper presents a joint public and private sector research project entitled Mobile Digital City and Nature Walks - the development of content and software for a mobile tourism device. Focusing on sustainable tourism, marketing and innova...

Author: Janne J. Liburd 

Year: 2004 

405 Think Tank IV A Framework for the Development of Social and Socio-Ec... file 4003 Oct 13, 2013

This paper presents the background thinking to a CRC for Sustainable Tourism project that develops social and socio-economic indicators for tourism communities. The project emanates from the Green Globe 21 Standard that incorporates indicato...

Author: Margaret Deery, Leo Jago & Liz Fredline 

Year: 2004 

404 Think Tank IV Integration of Theory and Practice in Hospitality Sust... file 8878 Oct 13, 2013

This brief paper describes a new educational model developed at Ecole hoteliere de Lausanne (EHL) to link theory and practice, or more specifically, coordinate learning opportunities between the classroom (Sustainable Tourism) and current pr...

Author: James Holleran 

Year: 2004 

403 Think Tank IV A Theoretical Perspective of Triple Bottom Line Report... file 2746 Oct 13, 2013

Triple Bottom Line is defined and explained within the context of a broad philosophical approach to business and a more narrow perspective of reporting performance. The impact of the broader notion of sustainable development, with its macro ...

Author: Jeffrey Faux 

Year: 2004 

402 Think Tank IV It's Mostly About Me: Reasons why Volunteers contribut... file 5804 Oct 13, 2013

This paper contributes to the debate by reporting on inital findings from a wider study of volunteers in museums and art museums that was designed to empirically explore volunteer motivation, expectations, values and commitment. The aim of t...

Author: Deborah Edwards 

Year: 2004 

401 Think Tank IV Tourism focused NGO's - An Online Content Analysis file 3457 Oct 13, 2013

The number of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) increased from 31,246 to 37,281 (19.3%) between 1990 and 2000, (Human Development Report, 2002). The importance of NGOs is documented in United Nations Local Agenda 21 Chapter 27, 'Strength...

Author: Meng-Mei Chen & James Holleran 

Year: 2004 

400 Think Tank IV Evaluating Environmental Initiatives of German Hotels file 3589 Oct 13, 2013

Following a vigorous environmental protection movement trigging in Germany over thirty years ago, the German hotel industry is gradually moving in line with other sections of its society. This study attempts to present a snapshot of the asse...

Author: Joseph S. Chen, Willy Legrand, Philip Sloan & Josephine Zho 

Year: 2004 

399 Think Tank IV Evaluation of Tourism Events: A Critical Review with a... file 2628 Oct 13, 2013

This presentation will critically review the three main sources of error in tourism event evaluation, related to the limited temporal, geographic and economic scope of current event evaluation approaches. In doing so, it will draw the attent...

Author: Jack Carlsen 

Year: 2004 

398 Think Tank IV Mass-ski Tourism in the Dolomites and Sustainability: ... file 4030 Oct 13, 2013

The aim of this paper is to highlight the impact of mass-ski tourism on the environment in the Dolomites (Italian Alps), where in winter the principal activities are snow sports. In implementing this development model the Dolomite region has...

Author: Mariangela Franch, Umberto Martini, Pier Luigi Novi Inverardi, Federica Buffa, Pietro Marzani & Maria Della Lucia 

Year: 2004 

OPA: 2004 Runner Up 

397 Think Tank IV Attitudes towards Environmental Responsibility among S... file 6228 Oct 13, 2013

The first step in creating a more environmentally sound hotel industry should be a performance analysis of the hotel sector from an environmental perspective. An assessment measuring the level of environmental awareness among hoteliers and t...

Author: Paulina Bohdanowicz, Vlasta Zanki-Alujevic & Ivo Martinac 

Year: 2004 

396 Think Tank IV Possibilities for Sustainable Tourism Management in Ac... file 4938 Oct 13, 2013

Sustainability is an inevitable concept in tourism which heavily depends on natural resources and environment with its products and services. Here prevention and controlling water, air and noise pollution, habitat degradation is more importa...

Author: Meryem Atik, Türker Altan & A. Akin Aksu 

Year: 2004 

» Think Tank V Response Strategies to Climate Change Impacts file 1771 Oct 13, 2013

This study addresses the threat of climate change impacts on the sustainability of the economic benefits for, and environmental assets of, tourism destinations. It discusses the challenges for both the demand and supply side of tourism to fo...

Author: Nancy Scanlon 

Year: 2005 

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