Dear Colleagues,

The tourism sector has undergone major transformations in the last few years. These changes have been caused by the increasing awareness of climate change as well as sanitary and social issues. Although there have been numerous studies on the impacts of climate change on the tourism sector, the interventions addressing these are still highly fragmented. In fact, the development of tourism as a strategic area has proven the need for more sustainable tourism planning.

Both rural and urban tourism need major adaptations in order to face new challenges. In the varying contexts, sustainability must be improved, new creative tourism practices must be promoted, and innovative governance instruments must be generated. Rural areas contain unique cultural resources (e.g., gastronomy and small festivals) that can be transformed into new tourist products, contributing to creating a balance of tourism activity between urban and rural areas. This Special Issue aims to contribute to tourism sustainability practices, considering examples of sustainability-oriented policies and practices; innovative and disruptive governance tools and methods; and new theoretical insights and models with managerial implications for policymakers.

Thia Special Issue will welcome both theoretical and empirical proposals dealing with:

1) New tourism practices for sustainable development;

2) The planning and management of tourism destinations in a climate change scenario;

3) Climate change mitigation strategies used in various destinations and the descriptions, causes, implications, and interactions among them;

4) The use of big data in planning sustainable destinations based on green and blue infrastructures;

5) The use of methodological triangulation to promote resilience and sustainability in tourism destinations;

6) Tourism and climate change education and transformation;

7) The role of citizen science in promoting individual and collective climate change action in the tourism sector;

8) Successful case studies of the adaptation of the tourism sector to climate change (e.g., rural tourism, urban tourism, wine tourism, sun and beach tourism, equestrian tourism, cultural tourism, creative tourism);

9) Other tourism-related policies and practices aimed at improving the sustainability of destinations.

Prof. Dr. Paula Remoaldo
Dr. Hélder da Silva Lopes
Prof. Dr. Vítor Patrício Rodrigues Ribeiro
Dr. Juliana Araújo Alves
Guest Editors

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• tourism
• climate change
• sustainability
• regional and local development
• challenges and practices
• education