Author:
UNWTO
Language:
English

Climate Action in the Tourism Sector

March 2023
Sustainability

This report provides an overview of GHG emissions measurement in tourism alongside an assessment of the sector’s climate action efforts. It summarises current methodologies, establishing the approaches and frameworks guiding measurement and the tools available for practitioners to measure emissions. It also explores how the development of such methodologies and tools has progressed and what more needs to be done to support the sector to measure its emissions. In doing so, it advances the implementation of the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism, for which measurement is the first pathway that signatories are requested to adopt.

Contents:

  1. Introduction
  2. Chapter 1: Current Status of Tourism Emissions Measurement
  3. Chapter 2: Current Status of Methodologies and Tools for Accommodation Providers
  4. Chapter 3: Current Status of Methodologies and Tools for Tour Operators
  5. Chapter 4: Current Status of Methodologies and Tools for Destinations
  6. Chapter 5: Recommendations for the Way Forward
  7. Conclusion

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Climate Action in the Tourism Sector

March 2023
Sustainability

This report provides an overview of GHG emissions measurement in tourism alongside an assessment of the sector’s climate action efforts. It summarises current methodologies, establishing the approaches and frameworks guiding measurement and the tools available for practitioners to measure emissions. It also explores how the development of such methodologies and tools has progressed and what more needs to be done to support the sector to measure its emissions. In doing so, it advances the implementation of the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism, for which measurement is the first pathway that signatories are requested to adopt.

Contents:

  1. Introduction
  2. Chapter 1: Current Status of Tourism Emissions Measurement
  3. Chapter 2: Current Status of Methodologies and Tools for Accommodation Providers
  4. Chapter 3: Current Status of Methodologies and Tools for Tour Operators
  5. Chapter 4: Current Status of Methodologies and Tools for Destinations
  6. Chapter 5: Recommendations for the Way Forward
  7. Conclusion