This paper aims to study the progress of research on the challenges of climate change towards Sustainable Tourism and to outline and identify the key disciplines, journals, articles and authors. This is carried out through a wide, in-depth, and structured examination of published scholarly papers. In recent decades, sustainable tourism has been one of the most significant subjects among academics and practitioners. In this paper, a classification scheme and a comprehensive literature review are presented in order to clarify, categorize, and interpret the current research on sustainable tourism definitions and the challenges employed to it by the phenomenon of climate change. The classification scheme for this review contains 102 scholarly papers from 37 journals since the year 1996 up to 2016 categorized into 14 application areas. The scholarly papers are also sorted by (1) year of publication; (2) publication journal; (3) subject area citations.