See It Before It’s Too Late? Last-Chance Travel Lists and Climate Change

• Main Authors: Lyn McGaurr, Elizabeth Lester
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Tourism management; Tourism marketing; Media studies; environment; tourism; last-chance tourism; environmental communication; Canada; Greenland; Maher; glacier*
• Online Access: https://figshare.com/articles/chapter/See_It_Before_It_s_Too_Late_Last-Chance_Travel_Lists_and_Climate_Change/23121872

In an era of rapidly increasing human population and global travel, ‘last-chance tourism’ is attracting considerable media attention (Dawson, Lemelin, Stewart, & Taillon, 2015). This phenomenon is defined by scholars as commercial tourism that exploits ‘vanishing landscapes or icescapes, and/or...