Abstract
Climate change is having significant impacts to many facets of everyday life, and the commercial recreation and tourism fields are many times at the forefront of these impacts as consumers are faced with making difficult decisions with discretionary income. Understanding how these impacts are changing the way people engage in recreation and tourism activities is essential to maintaining successful business and providing satisfying opportunities for consumers.
This paper will provide information from surveys with commercial recreation and tourism providers across the mid-Atlantic region. Summary information will describe their perceptions of how climate change is: affecting their business; having significant impacts; affecting economic outcomes; changing visitor behaviors; and what future trends in the discipline can be expected as a result of climate change.
Keywords
Climate Change, Tourism
Recommended Citation
Carroll, Joshua Ph.D.; Brennan, Allison; Huff, Ashley; and Thornburg, Mary Kate
(2019)
"Effects of Climate Change on Tourism in the Mid-Atlantic,"
Journal of Tourism Insights:
Vol. 9:
Iss.
1, Article 1.
Available at: https://doi.org/10.9707/2328-0824.1095
Available at:
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/jti/vol9/iss1/1