These global drivers of change can interact with local drivers, such as political crises and affect the tourism sector . Hence, because of its importance in many coastal regions, there is a growing urgency to understand the factors that enable the marine tourism sector, and agents within it, to cope with and positively adapt to global change and associated crises (Hall et al., 2004). Although, at a global scale tourist numbers continue to grow (UNWTO 2013), at a local destination scale, impacts associated with global and local