Different types of accommodation also have different carbon footprint. Full-service hotels have the largest footprints, emitting an estimated 20.6 kg of CO2 per guest night.
Many tourists who were sceptical about the link between tourism and climate change. This attitude is due in part to denial and part is attributable to the belief that one's own actions play such an insignificant role that they do not need to change and that instead, others must change first.
Some tourists participating in a polar bear viewing experience believed that climate change was negatively affecting the bear population, but they failed to realize that when they were flying to the destinations, they were actually producing CO2 emissions.