ABSTRACT
Tourism involves first-hand knowledge and cultural exchanges between different communities at different scales of interaction in different parts of the world. These exchanges and interactions take place in diverse domains like Nature, wild-life, adventure, the built heritage, and pilgrimage and leisure sectors amongst many others. With its close connections to the environment and climate itself, tourism is considered to be a highly climate-sensitive economic sector similar to agriculture, insurance, energy, and transportation (Simpson et al., 2008). This demands that the sector adapts to climate change, and, more importantly, lessens its contribution to climate change through reduced emissions of greenhouse gasses, and brings down the overall environmental footprint of the industry (Simpson et al., 2008).
