Impacts of climate change on mountain tourism: A review

R Steiger, N Knowles, K Pöll, M Rutty - Journal of Sustainable …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Mountain landscapes and communities are highly sensitive and vulnerable to climate
change. Tourism in mountain regions is highly dependent on natural resources and …

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 …

Overloaded! Critical revision and a new conceptual approach for snow indicators in ski tourism

B Abegg, S Morin, OC Demiroglu, H François… - International journal of …, 2021 - Springer
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. Apart …

A tourist business in a state of sustained uncertainty. An exploratory study of barriers to ski resort development in Poland

K Krzesiwo, M Mika - Current issues in Tourism, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The paper aims to examine the issue of ski resort development in Poland from the
perspective of its limitations. In the study, we consider the uncertainty of snow and …

Impacts of climate and demographic change on future skier demand and its economic consequences–Evidence from a ski resort in the German Alps

M Witting, J Schmude - Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 2019 - Elsevier
Over the next decades the ski tourism industry in the Alps must deal with two major
challenges. First, demographic change will lead to aging skiers and declining skier demand …

Sport and environmental sustainability

G Dingle, C Mallen - New YorN, 2020 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Drawing on recent work in sport studies, business and management, health, science, and
law, this book offers a critical examination of the latest published research on sport and …

Global reduction of snow cover in ski areas under climate change

V Mitterwallner, M Steinbauer, G Mathes… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Ongoing climate change substantially alters snowfall patterns with severe but diverging
consequences for global ski areas. A global assessment as well as the investigation of …

Importance of early snowfall for Swedish ski resorts: Evidence based on monthly data

M Falk, E Hagsten - Tourism management, 2016 - Elsevier
Since the early 1970s, Sweden has experienced an almost uninterrupted surge in demand
for downhill skiing. However, from the 2009/2010 season, lift ticket sales have stagnated …

New policy approaches for increasing response to climate change in small rural municipalities

T Bausch, K Koziol - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Although nearly half of the world population lives in rural small municipalities, research on
climate change policy at this level is widely neglected. Frequently climate change adaptation …

Snowmaking in a warmer climate: an in-depth analysis of future water demands for the ski resort Andermatt-Sedrun-Disentis (Switzerland) in the twenty-first century

M Vorkauf, R Steiger, B Abegg… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Rising air temperatures threaten the snow reliability of ski resorts. Most resorts rely on
technical snowmaking to compensate lacking natural snow. But increased water …