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Tourism Professionals’ Attitudes towards Climate Change and their Strategies to Respond to Global Warming

Author :	Xavier Matteucci & Dagmar Lund-Durlacher
School/Work Place :	MODUL University Vienna, Austria
Contact :	xavier.matteucci@modul.ac.at
Year :	2008

This paper discusses three aspects of the interrelationship between tourism and climate change: the perception of the problems related to global warming by tourism professionals, their suggestions concerning possible actions that can be taken to reduce tourism's impacts on the world climate and the actual actions implemented by their organizations.

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Tag :: tourism; climate change; industry perceptions; global warming

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