Tourism and climate change: socio-cultural aspects

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Tourism and climate change socio-cultural aspects

• Peter Burns, University of Brighton
• Lyn Bibbings, Oxford Brookes University (members
  of e-clat)

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International Tourist arrivals 1950-2020 (UNWTO )
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Snow and ice disappearing Mount Kilimanjaro,
Tanzania, 1993 and 2000
http//earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImage
s/images.php3?img_id10856
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the Carteret Islands, 100 km north east of
Bougainville, having heard that they were
suffering badly from rising seas caused by global
warming. All 6 of the islands in the group are
being badly damaged and the islands look like
making history as the first atoll to be abandoned
due to rising seas. Food crops have been
destroyed, houses have been washed away and
malaria is now the most common cause of children
dying (Pip Starr 2006)
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Ski Dubai It's basically a huge refrigerated
metal tube that pokes out of the roof of a
shopping mall, chilled by 23 blast coolers. It's
weird pulling on ski boots, clumping up an
escalator and stepping into snow and freezing air
while outside in the desert it's 40C in the
shade.. (http//www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/0
5/24/ski_pg8.jpg)
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These spindly threads of condensation may not
seem important but some persist for hours and
behave in the same way as high altitude cirrus
clouds, trapping warmth in the atmosphere and
exacerbating global warming.(www.sciencedaily.com/
.../ 02/050204213009.htm 2005) Image
http//www.eos-chaos.com/images/20051130083814_loo
k20daddy.jpg)
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changes in tourism

• Massive post-war growth in leisure travel
• Tourism decision making does not follow rational
  decision models
• Search for authenticity, inspiration,
  rejuvenation
• Tourism mobility as a social desire
• Democratised travel
• Importance of tourism as development

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change in society

• Demographics
• developed vs. developing worlds
• aging population/ baby boomers
• Fragmented and single family units
• Shift to urban living (2007 crossed the 50
  threshold)
• Culture of mobility
• liquid modernity
• Consumptive lifestyles (but new puritans?)
• This is a mainly middle class debate

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The future

• Change can only come about through a partnership
  between supplier consumer governed by a
  regulatory framework that provides clear
  guidelines for stakeholders and a level playing
  field for businesses the resulting sets of
  interactions are cultural phenomena