Paper short abstract:

Climate change has become a key area of public concern and questions have been raised regarding the relationship between tourism and climate change. This paper explores what policy framework is in place in Peru to prepare the sector against the challenges of climate change.

Paper long abstract:

Climate change has become a key area of public debate and concern and is now widely recognised within the international community as 'a significant social and environmental issue facing the global population and its resources' (Amelung, Nichollis and Viner, 2007: 286). In 2003 the first international conference on Tourism and Climate Change was held Djerba acknowledging 'the need to align the tourism sector's activities with the concerns, objectives and activities of the United Nations system in relation to climate change, and more generally with respect to sustainable development' (Becken and Hay, 2007: xvii). Since then, questions have been raised regarding the relationship between tourism and climate change and the urgent need for the tourism sector to adapt to and take preventative measure against the ever changing climate conditions and to address tourism's contribution to climate change. This paper explores what policy framework has been put in place in Peru to assess (i) the impacts of climate change on tourism and (ii) to prepare the tourism sector against the challenges and issues that climate change and global warming present. It will also consider the level of political interest in adopting and financing a framework to cope with these adverse changes on tourism.

References

Amelung, B. Nicholas, S. and Viner, D. (2007) 'Implications of Global Climate Change for Tourism Flows and Seasonality', Journal of Travel Research 45 (2) 285 - 296.

Becken, S. and Hay, J. E. (2007) Tourism and Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities, Clevedon: Channel View Publications.