A critical review of climate change risk for ski tourism

R Steiger, D Scott, B Abegg, M Pons… - Current Issues in …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Ski tourism is a multi-billion dollar international market attracting between 300 and 350
million annual skier visits. With its strong reliance on specific climatic conditions, the ski …

Glacier tourism: A scoping review

JT Welling, Þ Árnason, R Ólafsdottír - Tourism Geographies, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Many glaciers worldwide have become popular tourist destinations where a broad range of
outdoor recreation-or adventure-based activities, such as glacier hiking, ice climbing or …

[PDF][PDF] The role of climate information in tourist destination choice decision making

JM Hamilton, MA Lau - Tourism and global environmental change, 2006 - library.oapen.org
The impact of climate change on tourism has been examined quantitatively in several
different ways. There are economic theory-based studies that involve estimating the demand …

Sustainable tourism in practice: Promoting or perverting the quest for a sustainable development?

C Aall - Sustainability, 2014 - mdpi.com
Sustainable tourism has achieved the status of being the superior goal in Norwegian
government tourism policy, and is attaining much attention in the international scientific and …

Questioning complacency: climate change impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation in Norway

K O'Brien, S Eriksen, L Sygna, LO Naess - AMBIO: A Journal of the Human …, 2006 - BioOne
Most European assessments of climate change impacts have been carried out on sectors
and ecosystems, providing a narrow understanding of what climate change really means for …

New lakes in deglaciating high-mountain regions–opportunities and risks

W Haeberli, M Buetler, C Huggel, TL Friedli, Y Schaub… - Climatic change, 2016 - Springer
In connection with the ongoing disappearance of glaciers in cold mountains, a great number
of new lakes come into existence. The sites and approximate formation time of such …

Effects of climate change on alpine skiing in Sweden

J Moen, P Fredman - Journal of sustainable tourism, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Climate change has already affected and will continue to affect physical and biological
systems in many parts of the world. For example, annual snow cover extent in the northern …

Implications of climate change for glacier tourism

EJ Stewart, J Wilson, S Espiner, H Purdie… - Tourism …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
For more than 100 years, the Fox and Franz Josef Glaciers in Westland Tai Poutini National
Park have attracted thousands of tourists annually and have emerged as iconic destinations …

Perceptions and adaptation strategies of the tourism industry to climate change: the case of Finnish nature-based tourism entrepreneurs

J Saarinen, K Tervo - International Journal of Innovation …, 2006 - inderscienceonline.com
Climate change-related processes have emerged as major issues in tourism development
and management, particularly with respect to nature-based tourism, which is seen as …

Glacier retreat and tourism: Insights from New Zealand

H Purdie - Mountain Research and Development, 2013 - BioOne
Glacier tourism, a multimillion-dollar industry in New Zealand, is potentially under threat by
ongoing glacial retreat. Surface morphology changes associated with retreat and thinning …