Sustainable Tourism – A Comprehensive Measure for Counteracting Climate Change

Abstract

Climate change or global warming has become the matter of discussion around the world. There are a variety of reasons that contribute to the climate change. It is the human activity that has pushed our globe towards this vulnerable situation. Trees have
been cut on large scale the past three decades to improve the infrastructure and to accommodate the huge growing population. Industrial growth is another reason for this climate change as pollution is created by the industrial wastage. Plastic usage, hydrocarbon emissions and increase in vehicles have also brought negative impacts on the environment.Now-a-days experts argue that tourism also contributes to the negative impact of the environment as the stakeholders like tourists, local people, private and public tourism business owners deviate from their responsible behavior.This study is going to address the aim of identifying the major causative agents that contributes towards climate change and the strategies that can be identified in the mitigation of the negative impacts of these causative agents. The methodology adopted for this study is area sampling. Both descriptive and analytics is used in the study by the researcher. The research approaches like quantitative and qualitative techniques are used.The findings of the study are that tourism is identified as an important reason for the negative impact of the environment. It is also found that all the stakeholders have equal responsibility in re-establishing the lost pleasant climate and that government’s role is proved to be vital for the responsible behavior as legislations must be enforced for controlling the negative impacts. The study suggests that it is the responsible behavior of the stakeholders for which awareness must
be created on the long -term impact of climate change and the ways for the effective mitigation.