The emerging body of literature has reported the impact of climate change on tourism destination. Although it is recognized that tourism-dependent destination communities will be heavily affected by climate change, very little research has been undertaken in developing countries. Moreover, our understanding of how CSR of tourism businesses plays a role in building community adaptive capacity to climate change remains limited. To address these fundamental gaps, this thesis --- i. Combines theoretical advances from climate change, CSR and adaptive capacity research to develop a conceptual framework; and  --- ii. Uses this framework to guide a case study to allow a better understanding of how CSR practices can enhance tourism community adaptive capacity to climate change.