The tourism sector in the age of climate change: The implementation of a climate-protecting tourist destination – A case of Kleve.
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2020-11-20
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The tourism sector experiences an increasing global growth, which consequently also leads to an increase in tourism-induced anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. As a result, it is inevitable for the tourism sector to focus more on climate change and climate protection. Accelerating climate change makes it difficult to simply ignore the impacts and reactions on it. Taking climate protection into account in tourism policy requires a significant rethink in the tourism sector, as the primary goal of tourism ministries and offices is to maximize revenue. Rooted in the neoliberal paradigm, it is a challenge but also an extreme necessity at the same time to integrate climate protection more and more into the tourism sector in order to keep the natural destination capital, on which the tourism sector highly depends on, safe and attractive in future. In that context, a climate-protecting destination will be a central step for the future to compensate greenhouse gas emission and hence mitigate climate change and to generate generational justice for safe travelling in future. Therefore the present thesis examines, if it is feasible and practicable for the destination of Kleve to become climate-protecting among the entire tourism service chain.
My research findings indicate that in the short-term the destination of Kleve cannot reach the status “climate-protecting tourism destination through the entire tourism sector”. This is mainly due to a low implementation-level of cross-sectional climate change mitigation measures with regard to commercial and private small-sized accommodation providers. Moreover psychological-driven mitigation measures in the local transport sector have failed to be enforced in Kleve. In addition, there is currently a weak database for calculating transport-induced greenhouse gas emissions, what in turn is very important in order to control the emission production with regard to set emission reduction targets.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen