Climate Change and Tackling Policies in Tourism Industry

Extended Abstract
Introduction
This study aims to investigate attitudes of tourism residence owners towards climate change and their support of mitigation and adaptation policies. This study is the first investigation on the subject of climate change and policies to support the tourism sector in Iran.
Materials and Methods
 A total of 121 tourist residence owners in the cities of Noor, Mahmudabad and Babolsar in Mazandaran province were selected by simple random sampling. The method was survey and questionnaires were used to collect the data.
Discussions and Results
This study has shown that small-scale and local community are sensitive towards global change and climate change and to some extent aware of the consequences. However, the sensitivity and awareness of its implications provide an opportunity for policy makers in tourism and climate change issues. Research findings suggest that owner’s tourism resorts were supportive of the policies to tackle climate change. Furthermore,  reduction of the number of tourists was the most important job outcomes of climate change. Rising costs of air conditioning system in the summer was the most important local message of climate change in tourism. Finally, the local message of climate change and the attitude towards climate change were the most important factors that explain the tackling policies support.
Conclusions
 
 
Overall, the present study is the first investigation in connection with the issue of climate change and policies to support the tourism sector in Iran ,  it Shows that although small-scale and local community are sensitive towards global change and climate change and somewhat aware of the consequences. However, the sensitivity and awareness of its implications provide an opportunity for policy makers in tourism and climate change issues, until with continuous communication with owners provide necessary fields for to take practical action to tackle climate change.