Today, more than ever, communities need to develop resilience strategies to adapt to the varied and often unpredictable forces of global change. The focus of this collection of articles from Tourism Geographies is on global change in tourism places. Global change incorporates social and economic globalization, which is arguably the most important process to have shaped the development of modern tourism since the nineteenth century, and climate change, which is likely to be the most significant factor influencing human behavior and livelihood in the coming decades. The organization of these articles reflects a traditional geography approach, which starts with an emphasis the physical geography foundations of the human condition, especially through the issue of climate change. This is then broadened by a series of insightful comparative studies of how tourism communities react, adapt and relate to their changing natural and social conditions. This collection of papers addresses major issues and adaptive paths for tourism destinations as they face the challenges of our contemporary world.

This bookw as published as a special issue of Tourism Geographies.

1. Introduction: managing and adapting to global change in tourism places  Alan A. Lew

2. Thermal range of coastal tourism resort microclimates  Michelle Rutty and Daniel Scott

3. Hurricane impacts on southeastern United States coastal national park visitation  Kyle M. Woosnam and Hyun Kim

4. A cluster analysis of climate change mitigation behaviours among SMTEs  Tim Coles, Anne-Kathrin Zschiegner and Claire Dinan

5. Climate change perceptions and responses in Scotland¿s ski industry  Debbie Hopkins and Kate Maclean

6. Perceptions of trekking tourism and social and environmental change in Nepal¿s Himalayas  Gyan P. Nyaupane, Alan A. Lew and Kevin Tatsugawa

7. Asset-based community development as applied to tourism in Tibet  Mao-Ying Wu and Philip L. Pearce

8. Understanding local innovation systems in peripheral tourism destinations  Doris Anna Carson, Dean Bradley Carson and Heidi Hodge

9. Tourism-conservation enterprises as a land-use strategy in Kenya  Machiel Lamers, Rita Nthiga, Rene van der Duim and Jakomijn van Wijk

10. Community perceptions to place attachment and tourism development in Finnish Lapland  Eva Kaj¿/EM>