This publication includes contributions presented and discussed at the conference, “Facing Climate Change and the Global Economic Crises: Challenges for the Future of Tourism”, organised by the European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC Research) together with the Department of Strategic Management, Marketing and Tourism of the University of Innsbruck and the University of Applied Sciences HTW Chur. The scholarly papers, which have passed a two-stage, double-blind peer review process, are divided in two main sections: the first section includes contributions related to the effects of climate change on tourism worldwide, while the second focuses on the impacts of climate change and possible adaptation strategies in the Alpine tourism sector.The conference and this publication have been financed by the Alpine Space project ClimAlpTour.

Environmental, social and economic sustainability is an important topic of today’s decision makers in tourism. This book, Harald Pechlaner, Peter Keller, Sabine Pichler and Klaus Weiermair, provides profound insights into current concepts and challenges of sustainable tourism development – with particular regard to mountain destinations worldwide.

Environmental, social and economic sustainability is an important topic of today’s decision makers in tourism. This book, Harald Pechlaner, Peter Keller, Sabine Pichler and Klaus Weiermair, provides profound insights into current concepts and challenges of sustainable tourism development – with particular regard to mountain destinations worldwide.