Tourism and Climate Change in the 21st Century: Challenges and Solutions

This book explores the effects of climate on tourism and the effectiveness of climate adaptation in this sector. Taking into account the spatial dimension of tourism and climate change, it highlights the need for more detailed information, the weak interaction between stakeholders, and the limitation of resources in the context of rapid changes, brought on by the necessary implementation of the third-order stage of tourism. The book focuses on adaptation, mitigation, and resilience to climate change, including topics such as human thermal comfort of visitors, the water resources in tourism areas, the circular economy, the mobility and transports, the psychological aspects of weather and climate in recreational practices. The book concludes an assessment of the status, challenges, and prospects for the adaptation of the tourism sector to climate change. The book appeals to scholars and students of economic geography, regional and spatial science, tourism economics, and related fields.

Paula Remoaldo is Full Professor at the Department of Geography and works in the Department of Geography at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Minho. She obtained her PhD in Human Geography in 1999 at the University of Minho, with the collaboration of the University of Louvain-La-Neuve (Belgium). She is Author or Co-author of 155 papers published in Portuguese and international journals (62 indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus). She published also 20 books and participated in further 72 books as Author.

Hélder Lopes is Professor in the Department of Geography at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Minho. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography and Regional Planning at the University of Minho and Geography, Environmental Management and Territorial Planning at the University of Barcelona. He has also received 9 awards. He carried out training at national and international level to update skills, in some of the most prestigious universities inthe world, in the areas of urban tourism, climate change, geographic information systems, qualitative and quantitative methods, and health and urban and environmental design techniques.

Vítor Ribeiro is Professor in the Department of Geography at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Minho and at Paula Frassinetti’s School of Education. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography and Regional Planning from the University of Minho/Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). He is Integrated Member of the Laboratory of Landscapes, Heritage and Territory (Lab2PT) at the University of Minho. His main subjects of research are in the area of Transport Geography, Geographic Information Systems, Tourism and Regional and Local Development, Crime Geography and Geographical Education, having in such fields several research publications in journals and books.

Juliana Alves is Geographer and Researcher in Landscape, Heritage and Territory Laboratory (Lab2PT)at the University of Minho (Portugal). She holds a Ph.D. in Human Geography from the same university in 2017. Her main subjects of research are in the area of Tourism and Local Development, Health and Environment, and Cultural and Creative Tourism.