Tourism and climate change: risks and opportunities

摘要

The library shelves of most universities arc packed with books on global wanning. The problem is identifying which ones are worth reading. Tourism and Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities is one of these, not because it is a definitive treatment of the tourism-climate theme, but because the coverage of the topic is broad, its treatment is sound and the book is well written in a style that suits an informed but non-specialist audience.rnTourism and Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities is the first in the series "climate change, economies and society", by Channel View Publications. The professional backgrounds of the two authors are different but complementary. John Hay is veteran climaternimprovement, farming techniques and the like. Normal year-to-year variations in climate are one to two orders of magnitude greater than the gradual change predicted. Tourism sensitivities to climate variability may be many times greater than tourism sensitivities to small, gradual changes in climate, especially given that planning and management are continually adjusting to changed circumstances.