Climate and carbon risk of tourism in Europe

Robert Steiger (), O. Cenk Demiroglu, Marc Pons and Emmanuel Salim ()
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Robert Steiger: Leopold Franzens Universität Innsbruck - University of Innsbruck
O. Cenk Demiroglu: Umeå University = Umeå Universitet
Marc Pons: UPC - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya = Université polytechnique de Catalogne [Barcelona]
Emmanuel Salim: EDYTEM - Environnements, Dynamiques et Territoires de Montagne - USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry] - Université Savoie Mont Blanc - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Fédération OSUG - Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble

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Abstract: Europe accounts for 51% of international tourist arrivals and the tourism industry provides about 10% of workplaces in Europe. Tourism will be impacted by climate change in a diverse number of ways. At the same time, tourism is also a significant contributor of greenhouse gas emissions. The aim of this article is, therefore, to provide an assessment of climate and carbon risks for the European tourism industry based on a systematic literature review. Climate risk is the dominant category with 313 papers (74%), while 110 papers (26%) were on carbon risks. The following gaps were identified: geographical gaps, especially in countries of the former Soviet Union and former Yugoslavia; a lack of coherent studies on national tourism's and its sub-sectors' emissions; research addressing how climate policies might affect tourism demand; assessments of the integrated carbon and climate risks; lack of evidence on the link between tourism climate indicators and tourism demand; lack of climate change and tourism studies addressing policy and institutional tools for adaptation and implementation of adaptation measures in destinations; and research on rising sea levels and coastal erosion and its impacts on tourism destinations and demand.

Keywords: Climate risk; carbon risk; tourism; Europe; systematic review; adaptation; mitigation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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Published in Journal of Sustainable Tourism, inPress, ⟨10.1080/09669582.2022.2163653⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/09669582.2022.2163653

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