THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON TOURISM AND RECREATION

Jacqueline Hamilton and Richard Tol

No FNU-52, Working Papers from Research unit Sustainability and Global Change, Hamburg University

Abstract: Tourism is one of the largest and fastest growing economic sectors. Tourism is obviously related to climate, as tourists prefer spending time outdoors and travel to enjoy the sun or landscape. It is therefore surprising that the tourism literature pays little attention to climate and climatic change and it is equally surprising that the climate change impact literature pays little attention to tourism. The number of studies on tourism and climate change is, however, starting to grow. This paper reviews this literature, discussing shortcomings and recent developments in global modeling of tourism flows are presented. The range of methods used and issues studied in the literature is large, and findings are correspondingly diverse. However, all studies agree that climate change matters to tourism and recreation. Future avenues of inquiry are also discussed.

Keywords: Tourism; recreation; weather; climate; climate change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L83 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2004-11, Revised 2004-11
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