ABSTRACT
Sustainable development, and the response to climate change in particular, has emerged as a central problem for tourism. The search to find “solutions” has led to the publication of numerous government, industry, institutional and academic reports as well as the adoption of “sustainable” tourism policies (Bramwell and Lane, 2012; Scott and Becken, 2010). Yet despite such actions tourism is empirically demonstrably less sustainable than ever, and continues to increase its absolute contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and therefore climate change (Gössling, 2009; Hall, 2011a; Peeters and Landré, 2011; Scott et al., 2012a, 2012b).
