ABSTRACT
‘Last chance tourism’, closely aligned to other similar terms such as ‘climate tourism’, ‘disappearing destinations tourism’, ‘climate sightseeing’, ‘doom tourism’ or ‘doomsday tourism’, 1 has slowly become a popular catch-phrase in the media, the private tourism industry, and to a lesser extent tourism academics, to describe the phenomena of vanishing tourism destinations and amenities and the need for people to travel to and consume these destinations before it is too late (Dawson et al. 2010; Eijgelaar et al. 2010; Lemelin et al. 2010). The cause of these vanishing destinations can range from global warming and the accompanying future rise in sea-levels and drought conditions to urbanization and other forms of development to human neglect or the purposeful destruction of natural and human-built environments (Salkin 2007; Ruiz 2008; Frank 2009; Lemelin and Johnson 2008; Smith 2008).
