An inter-comparison of the Holiday Climate Index (HCI: Beach) and the Tourism Climate Index (TCI) to explain Canadian tourism arrivals to the Caribbean

M Rutty, D Scott, L Matthews, R Burrowes, A Trotman… - Atmosphere, 2020 - mdpi.com
Through an empirical investigation of the historical relationship between the destination
climate and tourist arrivals in the Caribbean, this study presents the first revealed preference …

Improving the suitability of selected thermal indices for predicting outdoor thermal sensation in Tehran

M Haghshenas, M Hadianpour, A Matzarakis… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Most of thermal indices were developed based on the European/North American subjects
and climates, while they should be investigated in other regions as well. This study aims to …

Future Holiday Climate Index (HCI) performance of urban and beach destinations in the Mediterranean

OC Demiroglu, FS Saygili-Araci, A Pacal, CM Hall… - Atmosphere, 2020 - mdpi.com
Tourism is a major socioeconomic contributor to established and emerging destinations in
the Mediterranean region. Recent studies introducing the Holiday Climate Index (HCI) …

The Camping Climate Index (CCI): The development, validation, and application of a camping-sector tourism climate index

S Ma, CA Craig, S Feng - Tourism Management, 2020 - Elsevier
Camping is a nature-based tourism activity where individuals spend one or more night away
from home in an outdoor setting. Inherent in the definition are time and space, as well as …

Weather-related human outdoor behavior with respect to solar ultraviolet radiation exposure in a changing climate

G Laschewski, A Matzarakis - Atmosphere, 2022 - mdpi.com
Climate-related changes in human sun exposure behavior can be an important influence on
future ultraviolet radiation (UVR) related disease risks. In particular, active leisure mobility …

Tourism & climate change in North America: Regional state of knowledge

M Rutty, M Hewer, N Knowles, S Ma - Journal of Sustainable …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Climate change will have profound implications for North America's tourism industry, which
is one of the largest tourism markets globally with respect to international tourism arrivals …

A comparison of the holiday climate index: beach and the tourism climate index across coastal destinations in China

DD Yu, M Rutty, D Scott, S Li - International journal of biometeorology, 2021 - Springer
Climatic resources are vitally important for tourism, driving major intra-and inter-regional
travel flows for sun-sand-surf (3S) tourism around the world. The development of climate …

Impact of climate change on hiking: quantitative evidence through big data mining

J Liu, L Yang, H Zhou, S Wang - Current issues in tourism, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This study measures quantitatively the impact of climate change on hiking across 100 cities
in China by analyzing tourist-generated big data with a hybrid method involving the …

Climate resources at United States National Parks: A tourism climate index approach

S Ma, CA Craig, S Feng, C Liu - Tourism Recreation Research, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Nature-based tourism is beholden to weather, extreme weather, and climate change (ie
climate resources), though researchers have yet to longitudinally explore the influence of …

Accelerated contraction of future climate comfort zones in the southern subtropics: Insights from analysis and simulation of hiking big data

S Wang, Y Tan, R Law, L Yang, H Liu, Y Liu… - Global Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Many people are highly exposed to climate change through tourism activities. However,
conventional evaluations of tourism climate suitability have consistently relied on uniform …