As we begin the final countdown to the International Conference on Tourism, Climate Change and Sustainability, held at Bournemouth University, we take a look a Keynote Speaker Paul Peeters.

Paul Peeters is an associate professor at the NHTV Breda University of Applied Science, the Netherlands, and the head of the Centre for Sustainable Tourism & Transport since 2003.

He was educated as an aircraft engineer. His current work concentrates on the impacts of tourism and tourism transport on climate change and his publications cover topics like technological development of aircraft fuel efficiency, the carbon footprint analysis, eco-efficiency of tourism, and long term scenarios for tourism.

More information can be found on the NHTV Breda website.

For more information on the conference please visit http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/tourism/news-and-events/events/conferences/climate-change-2012.html