Tourism and Climate Change

This book by Becken and Hay represents the most comprehensive synthesis of tourism and climate change issues thus far. Becken and Hay have made a significant contribution to the literature that will stimulate policy discourse and empirical research on the tourism-climate system. Highly recommended.

* Y.-F. Leung, North Carolina State University, Choice, February 2008 *

I fully expect this book to become required reading for tourism and ecotourism courses in universities around the world. As an up-to-date summary of a rapidly expanding area of tourism research it deserves a wide readership and, unusually for an academic book, will be genuinely useful to practitioners and planners.

-- Richard Ladle, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, in Environmental Conservation, Volume 35/1, 2008

This is the most comprehensive book on climate change and tourism that I’m aware of. It is a substantial and useful contribution to the literature. It is packed with valuable information.

* Geoffrey Wall, University of Waterloo, Canada in Tourism Recreation Research 33(3), 2008 *

This is a very valuable volume, and one which researchers in all areas of tourism studies could well keep close to hand as a routine reference.

* Ralf Buckley, Griffith University, Australia in Tourism Recreation Research 33(3), 2008 *

This book is a welcome addition given the dearth of climate change studies in the tourism literature. The authors have managed to pull together a vast amount of information in such a way that the reader is inspired to contribute to solutions, whether that is by learning, researching, or planning for the future. Most importantly, they provide for a way forward.

* Caroline Winter, La Trobe University in Annals of Tourism 35 (2008) *

The book is an authoritative and comprehensive overview of a rapidly evolving area of tourism research. The fresh thinking on the complexities of climate change and tourism interactions makes the book essential reading for scholars and decision-makers throughout the tourism community that are seriously interested in the sustainability of tourism in the 21st century.

* Dr. Daniel Scott, University of Waterloo, Cana