Dickinson, J. E. and Robbins, D. and Filimonau, V. and Hares, A. and Mika, M. (2013) Awareness of Tourism Impacts on Climate Change and the Implications for Travel Practice: A Polish Perspective. Journal of Travel Research, 52 (4). pp. 506-519. ISSN 0047-2875
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Air travel is forecast to grow globally at around 5% per annum over 30 years, in direct conflict with targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by between 60% and 80% by 2050. Many authors identify individual behavioral change, with consumers choosing fewer flights, as a contributor to reducing growth. An increasing number of studies examine knowledge about climate change and how this influences decisions to take holidays by air, although these have focused on tourists from developed countries where aviation growth is slowing, whereas future high growth will come from emerging economies. This article explores attitudes to flying from one emerging economy, Poland. A survey of Polish nationals conducted in Cracow in 2010 revealed concern over climate change although knowledge of its causes was poor. Analysis, using a social representations perspective, showed significant societal structures embed air travel as the norm and identified both internal and external barriers to behavioral change.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | climate change behavioral change travel practice Poland |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Human and Digital Sciences > School of Computer Science and the Environment |
| Depositing User: | Users 3 not found. |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Jan 2014 15:32 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Jan 2025 10:26 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/383 |
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