Climate change, aviation and the attitude-behaviour chasm

![CDATA[Tourism transportation is a significant contributor to human-induced climate change. This paper addresses the relationship between climate change concerns, the energy-intensive nature of tourist consumption, and tourist air travel behaviour. It seeks to provide insights into public climate concern within the context of routine everyday (‘home’) lives and occasional tourist (‘away’) decision-making, with a specific focus on air travel. It draws upon 20 in-depth semi-structured interviews conducted in Australia. The findings highlight the contradictory nature of environmental concerns and consumption decisions in everyday and tourist contexts. This is evident in widespread domestic consumer practices that are motivated, all or in large part, by climate concerns, set against almost complete disregard and neglect of responsibility to modify existing air travel practices. Our results highlight the magnitude of the challenge involved in shifting deeply entrenched air travel behaviours despite the growing urgency of emission reductions.]]