ABSTRACT
Since tourism is largely dependent on natural resources, namely beaches, coastlines, mountains, forests, lakes, oceans and scenery, these elements are central to the attraction potential of most destinations, with most tourism based on stable and favourable environmental conditions (Gossling and Hall 2006). In the early twenty-first century, the greater populous became more aware of the impacts of climate change, possibly influenced by high-profile, accessible forms of media such as Al Gore's 2006 movie An Inconvenient Truth which included dramatic time-lapse photography, images of polar bears stranded on melting ice, and Mount Kilimanjaro denuded of ice and snow.
