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.
Marc Pons +2 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 +2 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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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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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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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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Ski Tourism and Web Marketing Strategies: The Case of Ski Resorts in France and Spain [PDF]
Sustainability, 2018 The impacts of climate change are affecting ski tourism in Europe’s southernmost ski resorts, such as those in France, and Spain. This is leading to changes in the scheduling of activities which, in turn, imply changes in how ski resorts are managed.
JOSÉ Ramon Cardona +2 more
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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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Overloaded! Critical revision and a new conceptual approach for snow indicators in ski tourism. [PDF]
Int J Biometeorol, 2021 Indicators are widely used in climate variability and climate change assessments to simplify the tracking of complex processes and phenomena in the state of the environment.
Abegg B +5 more
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How Ski Tourism Involvement Promotes Tourists’ Low-Carbon Behavior?
Sustainability, 2023 China’s ski tourism industry has grown tremendously in the past few years, leading to an increasing amount of tourism-related carbon emissions with negative environmental impacts.
Xiaodong Sun
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