Tourism and climate change – a framework for action
The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) National Climate Change Adaptation Framework identified tourism as one of many sectors and areas vulnerable to climate change.
The COAG framework identified that "the impact of climate change on infrastructure and the natural environment has the potential to affect the tourism industry. In some cases this could result in social and economic impacts in regions with a high dependency on tourism as a source of income and employment”.
The COAG framework gave the Tourism Ministers' Council (TMC) responsibility for the implementation of the 'action plan'. If you require further details then you can read about the tourism and climate change: a framework for action here.
All State Tourism Organisations, including Tourism Western Australia are working together to implement the 22 recommended actions that will cover the following five areas:
- Understanding vulnerability and building adaptive capacity
- Preparing the Australian tourism industry for a carbon constrained future
- Climate Change and Australian tourism marketing
- Communications and industry outreach
- Future development and oversight.