ABSTRACT
The connections between tourism, climate change and sustainability have been emphasized in recent tourism literature and policy documents (see Gössling and Hall 2006, Bramwell and Lane 1993, UNWTO and UNEP 2008, UNWTO 2009, Scott 2011). In many respects, however, the discussions on sustainability and climate change issues in tourism development and research have been operating in separate fields and on separate scales (see Holden 2003, Macbeth 2005, Saarinen 2006), and there are even contradictory views between the objectives of sustainable tourism development and adaption needs to climate change in tourism (see Weaver 2011). However, as indicated by Bramwell and Lane (2008), climate change can also be seen as a priority area for the sustainable tourism research agenda and a new and timely issue in the study of tourism–environment relations (see also Peeters 2009, Scott 2011).
