Editorial: Contemporary Challenges of Climate Change, Sustainable Tourism Consumption, and Destination Competitiveness

This book is based on the assumption that the dynamics of modernization, globalization, migration and social change are creating challenges in the contemporary tourism industry. It will highlight especially the interrelationship between climate change, sustainable consumption and destination competitiveness, and will seek to illuminate these processes of social and spatial restructuring for tourism markets. This book is an attempt to provide an outline for a debate within this growing field of research.

The eight chapters presented are the outcome of an international conference. The editors and contributors to this book are the organizers and presenters of the ‘2nd International Conference on Tourism and Business (ICTB) 2017’, held at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland, in September 2017. The conference was jointly organized by the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Switzerland) and Mahidol University International College (Thailand). The ICTB is an international forum for the presentation of research findings in the broad fields of tourism and business. Through its bi-annual meetings, this open network brings together and links American, European and Asian researchers from various disciplinary backgrounds working on tourism research and related fields. The second conference attracted 75 delegates from 14 countries.