Chapter 3 Tourist Mobility Is transport a necessary evil
DOI: 10.23912/9781915097880-5997 | ISBN: 9781915097880 |
Published: April 2025 | Component type: chapter |
Published in: Sustainable Value Creation in Hospitality 2nd edition | Parent DOI: 10.23912/9781915097880-5937 |
Abstract
Tourism and hospitality create value for both consumers and providers of tourism and hospitality-related activities. Though current consumers and providers of tourist activities can appropriate this value in terms of respite, renewal, and happiness for consumers, and economic development, income and job generation for providers, future generations may well be prevented from being able to appropriate the same value (Becken, 2006; McKercher et al., 2010; Nawijn & Peeters, 2010; Jones, 2014). Climate change makes tourism and hospitality, as we currently know them, victims since global warming and loss of biodiversity threaten the attractiveness of many currently popular tourist locations. However, tourism and hospitality simultaneously contribute a relatively large extent to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Ram et al., 2013). A rough 8% of global GHG emissions were attributed to tourist activities, in a 2022 report by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), based on calculations by Lenzen et al. (2018). A large part of the tourism sector’s share in global GHG emissions comes as a result of tourist transport activities.
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- Matthias Olthaar, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences (Author) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8039-5916
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- Elena Cavagnaro, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences (Editor) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5347-2509
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Olthaar, M. (2025) "Chapter 3 Tourist Mobility Is transport a necessary evil" In: Cavagnaro, E. (ed) . Oxford: Goodfellow Publishers http://dx.doi.org/10.23912/9781915097880-5997
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