Climate Change Policies and Australian Tourism: A Scoping Study of the Economic Aspects

This paper is a report of a scoping study on climate change and its economic impacts on tourism. The study addresses the direct and indirect costs of climate change for the Australian tourism industry including the costs of adaptation to climate change, the impacts of tourism on the production of greenhouse gas emissions (GGE) and the impact on tourism of climate change policies, such as the proposed Australian emissions trading scheme (ETS). The study concludes that since Australia relies heavily on nature based tourism, which is most at risk from direct climate change impacts, Australia is likely to be a net loser from changing international patterns of tourism as a result of climate change.

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