Climate Change and Tourism Policy in OECD Countries [electronic resource] / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and UNEP
Series: OECD Studies on TourismPublication details: Paris : OECD Publishing, 2011.Description: 100 p. : ill. ; 21x28cmISBN:- 9789264119598

Foreword -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Executive summary -- Conclusions and policy recommendations -- Climate change -- Mitigation -- Adaptation -- Proposed agenda for further research and development -- Annex A: OECD Country Pledges to UNFCCC -- Annex B: National Documentation -- Annex C: UNEP Biofuels Documents and Tools.
Undertaken jointly with United Nations Environment Programme, the report analyses policies and issues related to climate change adaptation and mitigation in the tourism sector. It provides policy recommendations, with the objective to identify priority areas to be included in a framework for action in the area of climate change and tourism. A review of the state of policy-making on this important issue clearly indicates that greater efforts could be made by countries to understand the likely impacts of climate change on tourism; there is a low awareness of the tourism sector's climate change mitigation and adaptation needs; and that current policy, with few exceptions, is inadequate to the scale of the challenge, both on mitigation and adaptation.