ABSTRACT
This chapter explores emerging tensions in a number of inter-related ways, drawing on literatures from tourism and transport studies, geography, sociology and psychology. It aims to demonstrate the ways in which climate change is altering the ways in which researchers, policy makers and consumers are relating issues of consumption, mobility and practice to the seemingly all-encompassing issue of climate change. The chapter examines the ways in which climate change has implications for tourism and travels and in particular for tourists and travellers, progressively viewed by politicians as the appropriate focus for policies aimed at reducing carbon emissions. In framing the issue through the notion of consumer-citizenship, the chapter examines how the focus on behavioural change has been implicated in debates concerning the role of personal mobility. The chapter concludes with a call for greater synergies between research on transport, tourism and mobilities and the wider environmental social sciences.
