Climate change threatens Australian tourism more than is widely believed. Here’s why
- Written by Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, Adjunct professor and adjunct senior lecturer in tourism management, University of South Australia
idiz/ShutterstockRight now, Australia is one of the top five tourist destinations in the world, a distinction the World Economic Forum says it shares with only the United States, France, Spain and Japan.
So important is tourism to Australia’s economy that the best estimates are it employs 655,000 people, 12 times as many as Australia’s...
