Tourism is an important economic sector in the Global South. It is however
vulnerable to the risks and variations associated with global climate
change. The paper qualitatively investigates how issues surrounding
uncertainty in the climate change discourse have influenced policy
makers’ response to climate change in Botswana’s tourism sector. The
analysis of the empirical data derived from in-depth interviews demonstrates
that some policy makers remain skeptical about climate change
and its impacts on tourism despite growing evidence from regional
scientific research and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC). Constraints that hamper progress in policy response measures
include inadequate knowledge of, and the extent to which, climate
science can be trusted.

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