TY - THES AU - Caminada-Mwaura, Anitah Chughu T1 - Adaptation Strategies of Tourism Industry to Climate Change T4 - A comparison of Alpine-Mediterranean Region DA - 2011 CY - Chur PB - Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft HTW Chur A3 - Wyss, Romano AB - Climate change is no longer a deception. Many economic sectors have already encountered its impact. Alternatively, unlike other sectors, tourism industry is among the most climatesensitive economic sector. This is due to its close relationship to climate, as it determines tourists holiday times and destinations, the length of peak seasons; also, most of the tourism activities are weather dependent. Therefore, due to its sensitivity and vulnerability to climate change that will cause direct and indirect impacts, it is imperative for the tourism industry to respond and adapt. Since, the Alpine and Mediterranean regional economies depends on tourism, Winter and Coastal, which are extremely vulnerable to climate change, the focal point of this study was on the adaptation strategies of these systems. Firstly, to get the potential and implemented adaptation strategies relevant literature was reviewed. Through the expert interviews, further information, which was not available on the literature, could be revealed. Also, a SWOT analysis of the adaptation strategies was completed, finalising with a comparison of the strategic directions of both systems’ strategies, and a gap analysis of the implementation status and the adaptive capacity. M3 - Bachelorarbeit Tourismus M4 - Citavi ER -