Stefan Gößling
Biographic Data
| ID | 3588937 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefan Gößling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefan |
| FAMILY NAME | Gößling |
| SIGNATURE | GÖSSLING S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0505-9207 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 92 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 540 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 91 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
The influence of price inflation on emissions intensity
Tourist demand and destination development under climate change: Complexities and perspectives
Climate change is becoming increasingly impactful on global tourism, including climate patterns and weather extremes, degraded and lost assets (snow, water, biodiversity, beach), business disruption and damage, rises in travel and hospitality cost, as well as deteriorating socio-economic stability. Based on a narrative review of the literature, the paper develops a series of conceptualizations that represent the complexities and implications for …
The geographies of Instagram: Travel influencers and benign travel envy
Building on travel envy and influence in tourism as conceptual frameworks, this study analyses the geographical mobility of social media travel influencers and how they select, represent tourism destinations, and inspire their followers to visit them. Through a mixed-methods approach, including netnography, quantitative and spatial analysis, a total of 34,698 posts from influencers and 9,615 comments from followers, covering a period of three yea…
Tour operators and climate change: Net-zero goals and carbon risks
Trump vs. Europe: Critical roles for tourism
Beyond ambition: A review of tourism climate change declaration outcomes and prospects from Baku
As the international community gathered in Baku, Azerbaijan at the 29th United Nations climate conference (COP-29) tourism holds a new place of prominence, being included in the host Presidency strategic agenda for the first time. The series of initiatives and high-level meetings culminated in the Baku Declaration on Enhanced Climate Action in Tourism. This is the fifth such declaration by the tourism sector over the past two decades. This paper …
Boomer tourism and climate change: An emerging conflict
A growing number of older adults have the financial means to travel extensively. This expanding travel market could have significant climate implications, as older travellers often prefer energy-intensive tourism, such as cruises. To explore the consequences of this trend, this paper examines the current and planned travel behaviours of a representative sample of the Boomer generation in Germany. The analysis is based on data from Reiseanalyse, a…
Are emissions from global air transport significantly underestimated
Air transport is energy-intense, and considerable attention has been paid to the sector's use of fuel and emissions of greenhouse gases.Commercial aviation is believed to currently emit about 1 Gt CO 2 per year, if considering global bunker fuel use (scope 1 in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol).A growing database is becoming available on scope 1-3 emissions; this is, including up-and downstream emissions, and it is now possible to assess the aviation …
AI and sustainable tourism: An assessment of risks and opportunities for the SDGs
As AI applications begin to penetrate tourism, there is a growing need to better understand the opportunities and risks AI poses to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To address this, the paper combines a narrative review of the literature for the years 2019–2024 (n = 148 papers) with three targeted queries of ChatGPT, an advanced language model developed by OpenAI. Queries explore how AI is currently used in tourism, its future applicatio…
Economic leakage to reservation platforms: Norway
Assesses economic leakage associated with reservation platforms • Uses experimental Eurostat data and Norwegian national statistics • Includes Booking, Expedia, Tripadvisor and Airbnb • Finds that economic leakage has been in the order of €39.5 million in 2023 • Suggests strategies to reduce leakage
Macro-scale decarbonisation of tourism: Insights from Australia
Governments and businesses have pledged to rapidly decarbonise tourism to achieve net-zero by 2050. While mitigation initiatives are implemented by individual businesses, destination managers need information to track sectoral mitigation progress and identify areas that require policy interventions. To support evidence-based tourism climate decision making, this study proposes a decomposition framework that assesses changes of tourism emissions b…
Accelerating small and medium sized tourism enterprises’ engagement with climate change
Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) within the tourism sector play crucial yet often underestimated roles in climate change mitigation, contributing to approximately half of the sector's greenhouse gas emissions. Although the existing literature has examined barriers to climate change action and potential drivers for the involvement of small firms, these aspects have not been comprehensively explored within the context of tourism. The artic…
Climate change and tourism geographies
Climate change is no longer in the future, it is an evolving business and policy reality for tourism. Extreme weather events including heavy rainfall and flooding, drought, heat waves, storms, and wildfires have become more frequent and intense, affecting tourism destinations and demand everywhere in the world. Climate change also affects important tourism assets. Snowfall has become less reliable in many winter destinations, while sea level rise…
Drivers of global tourism carbon emissions
Tourism has a critical role to play in global carbon emissions pathway. This study estimates the global tourism carbon footprint and identifies the key drivers using environmentally extended input-output modelling. The results indicate that global tourism emissions grew 3.5% p.a. between 2009-2019, double that of the worldwide economy, reaching 5.2 Gt CO2-e or 8.8% of total global GHG emissions in 2019. The primary drivers of emissions growth are…
A review of the IPCC Sixth Assessment and implications for tourism development and sectoral climate action
The Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change represents the state of knowledge of anthropogenic disruption to the climate system, its diverse ecosystem and societal impacts, and the imperative for and challenges of mitigation and adaptation responses. It is foundational for global climate policymaking. This paper examines the place of tourism in AR6 and reviews its key findings for tourism’s future. Overall, …
The economic cost of a 130 km/h speed limit: Insights for cost-benefit analyses
Urban transport system changes in the UK: In danger of populism
Many cities seek to change their transport systems to reduce negative outcomes. This generally involves measures supporting active and public transport, restricting vehicle use. Infrastructure modification and legislative developments are often perceived as ‘attacks’, and lead to resistance by specific groups. This paper uses critical discourse analysis to evaluate a convenience sample of 185 social media threads opposing Ultra-Low Emission Zones…
The tourism fire exposure index for the European Union
On track to net-zero? Large tourism enterprises and climate change
Much recent research on climate change mitigation has focused on carbon intensities, i.e. emissions per unit of economic value, to better understand interrelationships of decarbonization with value. This paper studies large tourism enterprises, which account for a large share of tourism's emissions. Based on annual reports, the paper evaluates greenhouse gas emission and revenue interrelationships for a total of n = 29 large tourism companies inc…
National tourism organizations and climate change
There is a consensus that the global tourism system needs to undergo decarbonization and achieve net-zero emissions by mid-century. However, given the anticipated growth in the most energy-intensive subsector of tourism, air transport, achieving this goal seems unlikely. This paper focuses on the role of distance in the global geography of tourism, against evidence that National Marketing Organizations (NTOs) often seek to attract visitors from a…
A review of air travel behavior and climate change
Air transport challenges the world's net‐zero carbon ambitions. The sector has consistently grown and causes warming as a result of both CO 2 and other, short‐lived emissions. Two principal solutions have been proposed to reduce the contribution of aviation to climate change: innovations of technology and the development of interventions to trigger behavioral change. Technological innovations include new propulsion technologies and the use of sus…
A review of tourism and climate change mitigation: The scales, scopes, stakeholders and strategies of carbon management
Tourism needs to reduce emissions in line with other economic sectors, if the international community's objective of staying global warming at 1.5°-2.0 °C is to be achieved. This will require the industry to half emissions to 2030, and to reach net-zero by mid-century. Mitigation requires consideration of four dimensions, the Scales, Scopes, Stakeholders and Strategies of carbon management. The paper provides a systematic review of these dimensio…
Aeromasculinities and the fallacy of sustainable aviation
Despite growing recognition of the material impacts of fossil fuel extraction and use, many economic sectors remain highly dependent on these fuels. Amid growing pressure to - at a minimum - appear to be doing something, businesses increasingly communicate the actions they (seek to) take to reduce their environmental impacts. Oftentimes they aim to build a sense of compatible coexistence of the sector with particular modes of sustainability. For …
The economic cost of a 130 kph speed limit in Germany
Germany remains the only large country in the world without a general speed limit on highways. One of the main arguments for this policy is that lower speeds represent a travel time cost that is not outweighed by benefits, such as a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. As transport decision making in the European Union is based on cost -benefit analysis (CBA), this paper compares the value of travel time, fuel consumption, infrastructure, crash…
Cruise emissions and economic feasibility of biofuels
Pandemics, transformations and tourism: Be Careful What You Wish For
Disease outbreaks and pandemics have long played a role in societal and economic change. However, the nature of such change is selective, meaning that it is sometimes minimal and, at other times, and change or transformation may be unexpected, potentially even reinforcing contemporary paradigms. A comprehensive overview of pandemics and their effects is provided. This is used to help contextualise the COVID-19 pandemic, its impact on tourism and …
Global environmental consequences of tourism
The global scale, distribution and growth of aviation: Implications for climate change
Prior to the COVID-19 crisis, global air transport demand was expected to triple between 2020 and 2050. The pandemic, which reduced global air travel significantly, provides an opportunity to discuss the scale, distribution and growth of aviation until 2018, also with a view to consider the climate change implications of a return to volume growth. Industry statistics, data provided by supranational organizations, and national surveys are evaluate…
Consumer behaviour and demand response of tourists to climate change
A darker side of hypermobility
Since the formulation of the mobilities paradigm, research has shown that movement is increasingly at the heart of our social identities. This paper argues that mobility, and indeed, hypermobility, constitutes to a growing extent who we are, whilst societal perspectives on mobility increasingly dictate how we need to move in time and space in order to accrue network capital. In this critical review, deeply embedded mechanisms of the social glamor…
Global tourism vulnerability to climate change
The Future of Tourism: Can Tourism Growth and Climate Policy be Reconciled? A Mitigation Perspective
Tourism is an increasingly significant contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Emissions growth in the sector is in substantial conflict with global climate policy goals that seek to mitigate climate change through significant emission reductions. This article discusses the role of various tourism sub-sectors in generating emissions, and technical and management options in reducing these. It concludes that given observed and anticipated em…
International tourism and climate change
Tourism is a major global economic sector that is undergoing tremendous growth in emerging economies and is often touted as salient for development and poverty alleviation in developing countries. Tourism is recognized as a highly climate‐sensitive sector, one that is also strongly influenced by environmental and socioeconomic change influenced by climate change, and is also a growing contributor to anthropogenic climate change. This article outl…
A socio-psychological conceptualisation of overtourism
Tourism-Related Migration in Zanzibar, Tanzania
Tourism induces migration for economic and social reasons, a process leading to socio-cultural, economic and ecological change. Tourism infrastructure development often attracts migrants over long distances, particularly in developing countries where tourist numbers have increased rapidly in recent years and where relative and absolute poverty in economic terms is a widespread phenomenon. In order to analyse the scale and importance of such touri…
Human–environmental relations with tourism
Consequences of Climate Policy for International Tourist Arrivals in Developing Countries
One of the major implications of climate change for tourism destinations is the potential impact that mitigation policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the rapidly growing aviation sector could have on travel costs and tourist mobility. Such impact is particularly salient for long-haul destinations. Recently tourism organisations such as the unwto have also expressed concern that aviation sector-focused mitigation policies in we…
Celebrities, air travel, and social norms
Tourism, economic transition and ecosystem degradation: Interacting processes in a Tanzanian coastal community
In this article, tourism development in the village of Kiwengwa on the east coast of Unguja Island (Zanzibar), Tanzania is investigated. The results show that tourism has caused complex changes in the coastal community. Economically, local income has increased substantially, but tourism has also led to a focus on indi vidual benefit and dissolving kinship relationships, encouraged the abandonment of traditional resource-use strategies, contribute…
Frequent Flyer Programmes and the Reproduction of Aeromobility
It is now increasingly recognized that aviation is an important driver of individual and global mobility. Growth in mobility is not evenly distributed, however: recent studies indicate that a relatively small, highly mobile part of society may account for a large share of the total distances travelled. In reviewing one of the processes that may lead to growth in individual aeromobility, the paper focuses on frequent flyer programmes (FFPs) as an …
Social Networking, Mobilities, and the Rise of Liquid Identities
This research focuses on representations of mobilities and their role in social networking on Facebook. Based on an ethnographic research design embedded in a grounded theory approach, the study investigates the mobility patterns of one Generation Y network. The analysis of 50 profiles in this network, including texts, photographs, photo albums and check-ins, suggests that Facebook fosters corporeal as well as imaginative mobility, ultimately lea…
Aeromasculinities and the fallacy of sustainable aviation
Despite growing recognition of the material impacts of fossil fuel extraction and use, many economic sectors remain highly dependent on these fuels. Amid growing pressure to - at a minimum - appear to be doing something, businesses increasingly communicate the actions they (seek to) take to reduce their environmental impacts. Oftentimes they aim to build a sense of compatible coexistence of the sector with particular modes of sustainability. For …
Climate change and tourism geographies
Climate change is no longer in the future, it is an evolving business and policy reality for tourism. Extreme weather events including heavy rainfall and flooding, drought, heat waves, storms, and wildfires have become more frequent and intense, affecting tourism destinations and demand everywhere in the world. Climate change also affects important tourism assets. Snowfall has become less reliable in many winter destinations, while sea level rise…
On track to net-zero? Large tourism enterprises and climate change
Much recent research on climate change mitigation has focused on carbon intensities, i.e. emissions per unit of economic value, to better understand interrelationships of decarbonization with value. This paper studies large tourism enterprises, which account for a large share of tourism's emissions. Based on annual reports, the paper evaluates greenhouse gas emission and revenue interrelationships for a total of n = 29 large tourism companies inc…
Accelerating small and medium sized tourism enterprises’ engagement with climate change
Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) within the tourism sector play crucial yet often underestimated roles in climate change mitigation, contributing to approximately half of the sector's greenhouse gas emissions. Although the existing literature has examined barriers to climate change action and potential drivers for the involvement of small firms, these aspects have not been comprehensively explored within the context of tourism. The artic…
Extraterrestrial transitions: Desirable transport futures on earth and in outer space
Denying bogus skepticism in climate change and tourism research
What could the next 40 years hold for global tourism
Over the past 40 years, tourism has developed to become a sector of global economic, social and environmental significance. This paper provides a retrospective overview of the massive expansion and evolving geography of international and domestic tourism over the last 40 years, including the factors that enabled and challenged this growth, in order to contextualize a discussion of what the next 40 years may hold for global tourism. Social, techni…
Macro-scale decarbonisation of tourism: Insights from Australia
Governments and businesses have pledged to rapidly decarbonise tourism to achieve net-zero by 2050. While mitigation initiatives are implemented by individual businesses, destination managers need information to track sectoral mitigation progress and identify areas that require policy interventions. To support evidence-based tourism climate decision making, this study proposes a decomposition framework that assesses changes of tourism emissions b…
Subjectively safe cycling infrastructure: New insights for urban designs
Sustainable Tourism Development in Developing Countries: Some Aspects of Energy Use
Tourism has, in recent years, received increasing attention as a low-impact, non-consumptive development option, in particular for developing countries. This positive view contrasts with the fact that major parts of the tourist industry have remained harmful to the environment and that some aspects, like the use of energy and its global consequences have virtually been excluded from the discussion on sustainable tourism development. In this artic…
Tourism Development in Sri Lanka: The Case of Ethukala and Unawatuna
Sri Lanka was one of the first developing countries in the tropics that focused on tourism to generate additional jobs, raise foreign exchange earnings, and to diversify the economy. Coastal zones in the South and the West of the island have been on the forefront of tourist infrastructure development. Here, large hotels were built, which today dominate over the traditional character of many villages. This development was accompanied by a subseque…
Tourism, economic transition and ecosystem degradation: Interacting processes in a Tanzanian coastal community
In this article, tourism development in the village of Kiwengwa on the east coast of Unguja Island (Zanzibar), Tanzania is investigated. The results show that tourism has caused complex changes in the coastal community. Economically, local income has increased substantially, but tourism has also led to a focus on indi vidual benefit and dissolving kinship relationships, encouraged the abandonment of traditional resource-use strategies, contribute…
Ecological footprint analysis as a tool to assess tourism sustainability
Global environmental consequences of tourism
Human–environmental relations with tourism
Market Integration and Ecosystem Degradation: Is Sustainable Tourism Development in Rural Communities a Contradiction in Terms
Tourism, Biodiversity and Information
The eco-efficiency of tourism
Tourism-Related Migration in Zanzibar, Tanzania
Tourism induces migration for economic and social reasons, a process leading to socio-cultural, economic and ecological change. Tourism infrastructure development often attracts migrants over long distances, particularly in developing countries where tourist numbers have increased rapidly in recent years and where relative and absolute poverty in economic terms is a widespread phenomenon. In order to analyse the scale and importance of such touri…
Uncertainties in Predicting Tourist Flows Under Scenarios of Climate Change
Tourism and Global Environmental Change: Ecological, Economic, Social and Political Interrelationships
This fascinating book is the first comprehensive analysis of the economic, social and political interrelationships between tourism and global environmental change: one of the most significant issues facing humankind today. Its contributors argue that the impacts of these changes are potentially extremely serious both for the tourism industry, and for the communities dependent upon it. Integrating knowledge from the social and physical sciences, t…
‘It Does Not Harm the Environment!’ An Analysis of Industry Discourses on Tourism, Air Travel and the Environment
While a substantial part of the population in Europe seems well informed about the phenomenon of climate change, uncertainty seems to prevail in terms of its seriousness, its consequences for society and action that needs to be taken in order to prevent ‘dangerous interference with the climate system’. Many people seem to believe that there is no scientific consensus about climate change and that individual behavioural change is irrelevant in the…
Consequences of Climate Policy for International Tourist Arrivals in Developing Countries
One of the major implications of climate change for tourism destinations is the potential impact that mitigation policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the rapidly growing aviation sector could have on travel costs and tourist mobility. Such impact is particularly salient for long-haul destinations. Recently tourism organisations such as the unwto have also expressed concern that aviation sector-focused mitigation policies in we…
Sustainable Tourism Futures: Perspectives on Systems, Restructuring and Innovations
Stephen Page, I. Yeoman, Chris Greenwood, 'Transport and tourism in Scotland: A case study of scenario planning at VisitScotland', in Stefan Gossling, Michael Hall, David Weaver Eds., Sustainable Tourism Futures Perspectives on Systems, Restructuring and Innovations, (Abingdon: Routledge 2008), ISBN: 0415996198
Can tourism deliver its “aspirational” greenhouse gas emission reduction targets?
This review paper examines the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets postulated by a range of organizations seeking to reduce the consequences of global climate change and how, or if, the global tourism sector can achieve its share of those targets. It takes both existing estimates of current tourism GHG emissions and emissions projected in a business-as-usual scenario through to 2035 and contrasts them with the “aspirational” emission …
The Future of Tourism: Can Tourism Growth and Climate Policy be Reconciled? A Mitigation Perspective
Tourism is an increasingly significant contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Emissions growth in the sector is in substantial conflict with global climate policy goals that seek to mitigate climate change through significant emission reductions. This article discusses the role of various tourism sub-sectors in generating emissions, and technical and management options in reducing these. It concludes that given observed and anticipated em…
Frequent Flyer Programmes and the Reproduction of Aeromobility
It is now increasingly recognized that aviation is an important driver of individual and global mobility. Growth in mobility is not evenly distributed, however: recent studies indicate that a relatively small, highly mobile part of society may account for a large share of the total distances travelled. In reviewing one of the processes that may lead to growth in individual aeromobility, the paper focuses on frequent flyer programmes (FFPs) as an …
Forests, climate change and tourism
Forests are an important store of carbon within the global carbon cycle and increasingly play a role in climate change adaptation and mitigation. The review illustrates that the cultural, economic and environmental services of forests that are utilized for tourism and recreation are being affected by climate change. In addition to the changes to the distribution and composition of forests as a result of climate change, forest tourism is also affe…
Tourism and Climate Change
Climate change is the single most important global environmental and development issue facing the world today and has emerged as a major topic in tourism studies. Climate change is already affecting the tourism industry and is anticipated to have profound implications for tourism in the twenty-first century, including consumer holiday choices, the geographic patterns of tourism demand, the competitiveness and sustainability of destinations and th…
International tourism and climate change
Tourism is a major global economic sector that is undergoing tremendous growth in emerging economies and is often touted as salient for development and poverty alleviation in developing countries. Tourism is recognized as a highly climate‐sensitive sector, one that is also strongly influenced by environmental and socioeconomic change influenced by climate change, and is also a growing contributor to anthropogenic climate change. This article outl…
Conservation tourism
Consumer behaviour and demand response of tourists to climate change
Conceptualizing the Survival Sector in Madagascar
This article calls for the recognition of a subsector of the informal economy, which is conceptualized as the “survival sector”. Based on empirical evidence from Antananarivo, Madagascar it is suggested that beggars, street children and other marginalized people constitute a separate, non‐productive subsector of the economy, which is also distinguishable from formal and informal economies because of other aspects, such as the character of its soc…
National emissions from tourism: An overlooked policy challenge?
Tourism (66 works) · Business (57 works) · Economics (57 works) · Geography (56 works) · Political science (48 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (43 works) · Natural resource economics (35 works) · Climate change (34 works) · Engineering (22 works) · Environmental resource management (22 works)