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Tourism managers' beliefs about the severity of climate change and levels of responsibility for implementing mitigation measures in the tourism sector

Threatening the balance of the global ecological system and the increasing climate change are one of the most important features of the 20th century and the turn of the two millennia. Changes in the global climate over the last hundred years have been associated with changes in several elements of the climate system, and primarily with changes in surface temperature, altitude and coverage of the northern hemisphere with snow. Climate change is recognized by most governments and scientists around the world as a significant social and environmental problem facing the global population and its resources. Not only is climate change a unique challenge for humanity, it affects all aspects of human life, including tourism, but is also becoming a leading global environmental problem. Climate change will change the conditions in which tourist destinations will operate and significantly affect the successful operation of tourism businesses.Therefore, all measures taken to reduce the impact of climate change on the tourism business are extremely important, and their implementation depends on the beliefs of key decision makers - managers, primarily related to understanding their own level of responsibility for making plans and securing funds, both material and human for their implementation. The results of the survey show a very high level of acceptance of claims in which the government or the state is directed to expect national targets to increase the use of renewable energy at national level, such as wind or solar energy, and to continuously provide material support for energy efficiency improvement programs. At the same time, there was a high level of powerlessness and denial of responsibility for taking an active role in combating the effects of climate change in tourism. The survey of tourism managers' beliefs in Croatia was conducted during 2019 and focused on 1084 objects, which represents the total population of all categorized objects. The research focused on the beliefs and attitudes of tourism managers on climate change and the impact of climate change on the shaping of tourism supply. Respondents were required to express their degree of agreement with each statement on a Likert scale of 1-7 where a score of 1 meant "strongly disagree", 4 meant "neither agree nor disagree", and a score of 7 meant "strongly agree " with the assertion offered. There was an extremely high expectation and reliance on the Government's contribution through material support to programs to improve energy efficiency, ie to seek solutions from the so-called "Third parties" which can be linked through the very low acceptance of the claim that "an individual is not powerless and helpless in the fight against climate change". The severity of the effects of climate change and the inevitability of their occurrence in the near future does not allow the transfer of responsibility to other entities and the passive waiting for the causes and consequences of climate change to be addressed beyond the active involvement of tourism workers.

attitudes ; climate change ; managers ; tourism

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