The carbon cost of polar bear viewing tourism in Churchill, Canada

Dawson, Jackie; Stewart, Emma; Lemelin, Harvey; Scott, Daniel

doi:10.1080/09669580903215147

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“…Individual concern for the environment tends to be unrelated to holiday behaviour (Becken, 2007;Gössling & Peeters, 2007;Harrison, Newholm, & Shaw, 2005;Miller, Rathouse, Scarles, Holmes, & Tribe, 2010). This suggests that tourists do not seem to believe in a relationship between tourism impacts on climate change and climate change impacts on tourism (Becken, 2007;Dawson, Stewart, Lemelin, et al, 2010;. Despite tourism being widely discussed as part of the problem which causes climate change, tourists perhaps lack awareness or knowledge of climate change impacts, from rising temperatures and increased precipitation to melting ice and rising sea-levels (Dubois & Ceron, 2006;Gössling, 2002;Scott, Dawson, & Jones, 2008).…”

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Ethics and influences in tourist perceptions of climate change

Hindley

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2014

Current Issues in Tourism

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Ethical decisions to visit disappearing destinations are self-serving and influences feed into self-interest. Data was collected from a sample of pre, during and post visit tourists to Venice and Svalbard, using expressive techniques and scenarios using the HuntVitell Model to understand ethical decisions, and the constructive technique and collage to understand influences. The results show that travel decisions are driven by individual selfishness, and any threat to freedom (i.e. the right to travel) is underplayed. The preferred scenario for long term benefit for planet and people is via short-term economic and social negative impacts on the destination's locals, rather than the tourists' own experience. Respondents believe that they are blameless for their purchasing habits as they lack perceived behavioural control, and instead corporations ought to be providing sustainable products as the norm and not sell products that harm.In the scenarios where respondents express concern for the locals in a disappearing destination (i.e. if we don't visit, they will not benefit from our expenditure) could be driven by individual selfishness to visit, rather than an altruistic act to provide support.Theoretical and policy implications are discussed.

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Ethics and influences in tourist perceptions of climate change

Hindley

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2014

Current Issues in Tourism

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“…It has even been identified as the major reason tourists conduct last chance tourism [19], but tourism businesses seldom mention this concept in their daily operations [20,21]. Hence, tourism has actually become a major contributor of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide [22] despite the many forms of tourism, such as coastal tourism [23], ski tourism [24,25], and animal watching tourism [26,27] Major studies have examined the climate change that tourism brings from the perspective of tourists. For example, studies have been conducted on the difficulty of adopting low-carbon vacations [29,30], the profile of travelers who have actually paid for the carbon emissions generated by their air travel [31,32] and those who intend to pay [33], the role of values in influencing tourists to reduce air travel [34], and the reasons behind their reluctance to change their behavior to better address the issue of climate change [35].…”

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Research in Sustainable Tourism: A Longitudinal Study of Articles between 2008 and 2017

2018

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Abstract:The influence of tourism on the environment has led to research on the development of sustainable tourism. Scholars from popular destinations and their governments are actively conducting sustainable tourism research, and their contributions to the field have achieved global renown. Without data from the natural sciences, knowledge from tourism dominates this area. This work utilizes content analysis to systematically review these studies to present the current state of existing research with the aid of visualization tools. The findings delineate the development of research on sustainable tourism in terms of collaboration, impact, knowledge base, and thematic coverage. Six major themes are selected to showcase recent trends in sustainable tourism research and guide future studies. Accordingly, this study can contribute to the development of sustainable tourism research and guide industry practices.

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“…From a supply side perspective, tourists have demonstrated their capacity to make personal travel adaptations to changing weather and climatic conditions (Becken, 2008;Hall, 2008a;Scott, 2008) and thus have little vested interest in the long-term survival of specific destinations at least. Climate change concerns might even be stimulating travel among some segments, with the perverse phenomenon of "last chance tourism" evident, for example, among visitors to Churchill (Canada) who feel that future opportunities to view polar bears in their natural habitat may not exist (Dawson, Stewart, Lemelin, & Scott, 2010; see also Eijgelaar, Thaper, & Peeters 2010). Anaemic levels of public awareness and responsiveness to tourism-related certification schemes are another indicator that no groundswell of support for deep climate change action within the travel/mobility arena is forthcoming (Weaver, 2006).…”

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Can sustainable tourism survive climate change?

Weaver

2011

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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This opinion piece contends that tourism's expanding engagement with climate change, as it is currently unfolding, is not necessarily conducive to the interests of tourism sustainability. Inherent unpredictability, long-term timeframes, lack of directly tangible consequences or clearly identifiable villains, issues with credibility and vested interests and cost implications in an era of chronic economic uncertainty all combine to increase the likelihood of unsuccessful climate change policies and strategies. Additional complications arise within the tourism sector from the rudimentary state of knowledge about the relationships between the tourism and climate change, an apathetic and fickle travelling public and a reciprocally uncommitted tourism industry. I argue that adaptation is a rational business response to climate change that is not directly related to environmental and sociocultural sustainability, and that mitigation measures should be supported to the extent that they yield practical and tangible short-and medium-term benefits and address local sustainability issues such as air quality and biodiversity protection.

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The carbon cost of polar bear viewing tourism in Churchill, Canada

Cited by 142 publications

References 31 publications

Ethics and influences in tourist perceptions of climate change

Ethics and influences in tourist perceptions of climate change

Research in Sustainable Tourism: A Longitudinal Study of Articles between 2008 and 2017

Can sustainable tourism survive climate change?

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