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Evaluating the Competitiveness of Iran’s Winter Tourism Destinations [PDF]

Muṭāli̒āt-i Mudīriyyat-i Gardishgarī
With increasing competition in tourism and rising tourist expectations, destination competitiveness has become crucial. However, no comprehensive assessment of Iran’s ski resorts had been conducted.
Hooman Sabzavi, Amin Dehghan
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Climate Change and (Mal)Adaptation in Tourism‐Intensive Alpine Regions

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Tourism, especially in winter, accounts for a large share of economic income in Alpine regions. At the same time, these regions are more severely affected by climate change, leading to shorter winter seasons and reduced snow cover. This presents a pressing issue for areas reliant on income from winter tourism through activities such as skiing.
Valentina Ausserladscheider
wiley   +1 more source

Chinese ski sports tourism development research under grey model [PDF]

2016 National Convention on Sports Science of China, 2017
In recent years, drift, ski, golf and other series of sports tourism modes have gradually organized. As people’s request on spiritual life increases, sports tourism has been developed to a certain degree. The paper takes ski sports tourism as an example to study on Chinese sports tourism future status.
Bing Zhang, Kunling Qin
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Glaciers, snow and ski tourism in Austria's changing climate [PDF]

Annals of Glaciology, 2011
AbstarctThis study illustrates the relevance of cryospheric changes for, and their impact on, ski tourism in Austria. The results of several case studies on snow reliability, snow production and mass balance in glacier ski resorts in the Ötz and Stubai valleys are summarized. Climate data from Obergurgl (1936ma.s.l.) in the Ötz valley are analyzed with
Andrea Fischer, Marc Olefs, Jakob Abermann   +2 more
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The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
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Climate Change Adaptation of Alpine Ski Tourism in Spain [PDF]

Climate, 2018
Mountain ecosystems are considered to be vulnerable to climate change, with potential detrimental effects including the reduction of the snow seasons, the gradual retreat of glaciers, and changes in water storage and availability. One vulnerable sector to climate change is winter tourism, with some resorts likely to experience a significant reduction ...
Luís Campos Rodrigues, Jaume Freire-González, Aina González Puig, Ignasi Puig-Ventosa   +3 more
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Selected Aspects of the Tourist Space of the Lublin Region (Case Study) [PDF]

, 2014
The article presents the results of studies on the tourist space of the Lublin Region conducted so far by employees of the Department of Regional Geography and Tourism at the Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska ...
Brzezińska-Wójcik, Teresa, Jóźwik Marta, Jolanta, Krukowska, Renata, Skowronek, Ewa, Tucki, Andrzej, Świeca, Andrzej   +5 more
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Psychological drivers of decision making in ski tourists: Impact of destination attractiveness, satisfaction, and place attachment

Acta Psychologica
A comprehensive literature review revealed that most scholars in the field of ski tourism have examined destination attractiveness as an external factor and that the pathway from cognitive evaluation to emotional attachment to behavioral intention ...
Shuai Zhang, Kyungsik Kim
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Artificial snowmaking possibilities and climate change based on regional climate modeling in the Southern Black Forest

Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 2012
Winter sport, especially ski tourism - is one of those sectors of tourism that will be affected by climate change. Ski resorts across the Alps and in the adjacent low mountain ranges react to warm winter seasons by investing in artificial snowmaking. But
Philipp Schmidt, Robert Steiger, Andreas Matzarakis   +2 more
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FINANCIALIZED GREEN STATE ENTREPRENEURIALISM AND THE URBANIZATION OF MOUNTAINS: Chongli’s Consumption‐based Territorial Business Model for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the concept of a territorial business model (TBM) to renew the analysis of the production of the urban built environment beyond established urban cores. Based on the case of Chongli, a site for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, this article provides a double decentering of the ways in which a mountain region was urbanized
Thierry Theurillat, Mengke Zhang
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