Climate Change and Tourism - Responding to Global Challenges

This publication contains the key proceedings and technical report of the Second International Conference on Climate Change and Tourism, held in Davos, Switzerland, 1-3 October 2007, including the Davos Declaration and summary of the conference debates. The extensive technical report was commissioned to an international team of experts by UNWTO, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Word Meteorological Organization (WMO). It provides a synthesis of the stage of knowledge about current and future likely impacts of climate change on tourism destinations around the world, possible implications for tourist demand, current levels and trends in GHG emissions from the tourism sector, and an overview of policy and management responses adopted by the key stakeholder groups (international organizations, public administrations, the tourism industry) with respect to adaptation to and mitigation of climate change.