Pan-European meteorological and snow indicators of climate change impact on ski tourism
Climate Services, 2021 Ski tourism plays a major socio-economic role in the snowy and mountainous areas of Europe such as the Alps, the Pyrenees, Nordic Europe, Eastern Europe, Anatolia, etc.
Samuel Morin +17 more
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The last resort? Ski tourism and climate change in Arctic Sweden [PDF]
Journal of Tourism Futures, 2020 Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to discuss the external and internal factors that support or challenge a possible transformation of Arctic Sweden into a major ski destination under a changing climate.
Osman Cenk Demiroglu +3 more
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Influencing factors of destination choice of ski tourism enthusiasts: A means-end chain analytical perspective [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Ski enthusiasts are a unique group of travelers whom many travel businesses and destinations market to. Drawing on a means-end chain analytical perspective, this study explores the main factors affecting the destination choice of ski tourism enthusiasts.
Hui Sun +8 more
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Facts About Ski Tourism. The Case of Ski Resorts in Romania and Bulgaria [PDF]
Annals of Dunarea de Jos University. Fascicle I : Economics and Applied Informatics, 2020 The research focuses on the tourism planning specific to winter sports in Romania and Bulgaria, detailing the tourism specific to alpine skiing in Poiana Brașov, Predeal and Sinaia (Romania), Bansko, Borovets and Pamporovo (Bulgaria).
Razvan Tiberiu Radu, Razvan Tiberiu Radu
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Climate change effects on ski tourism
Apstract: Applied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce, 2017 Nowadays, climate change poses a common recurring problem in our everyday life. The weather forecasts tend to be inaccurate, the swiftly changing weather often makes fun of the people.
Piroska Béki
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The Moderating Effect of Ski Influencer on Ski Tourism Intention
SAGE OpenThe 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games has made more people focus on skiing. How to promote the development of ski tourism is the focus of this study. This study explores the relationship between skiers’ motivation and tourism intention.
Chen Zhao, Huawen Shen
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Hedging by using weather derivatives in winter ski tourism [PDF]
Ekonomika Poljoprivrede (1979), 2018 Tourism, as one of the main driving forces of economic development, is exposed to many risks. Besides frequent fluctuations in foreign currency exchange, prices of fuel and transportation, the tourism industry has become more sensitive to weather ...
Đorđević Bojan S.
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Ski Tourism Shapes the Snow Microbiome on Ski Slopes in the Italian Central Alps. [PDF]
Environ Microbiol RepABSTRACT Winter sports exert significant anthropogenic pressures on the snow microbiome, affecting the entire alpine ecosystem. The massive usage of artificial snow, human occupation, and the release of xenobiotics like microplastics or ski wax components on ski tracks can profoundly alter snow microbial ecology ...
Dell'Acqua AN +11 more
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Impacts of ski pistes preparation and ski tourism on vegetation [PDF]
Ekológia (Bratislava), 2018 Vegetation of the ski slopes in the Low Tatras National Park in Slovakia was evaluated through the environmental variables and species composition caused by human impact assessment. We compared the grasslands located on pistes, off pistes and on the edge
Kňazovičová Lýdia +3 more
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Perceived quality symbols in short-video social media drive ski tourism behavior [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe rise of short-video social media platforms has transformed consumer decision-making in tourism, particularly in high-risk activities such as ski tourism.
Qi Yang +3 more
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