Climate and the Destination Choice of German Tourists

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The attractiveness of a tourist destination is partly dependent on its environmental and climatic resource base. Climate change can be expected to have an effect on this attractiveness and will subsequently alter patterns of demand. An application of the pooled travel cost model using survey data on the destination choices of German tourists is presented in this study. Data on the climate, beach length and indicators of cultural, natural resource and economic attractiveness of the destination countries are used in the regression analysis. Optimal climate values were calculated and a climate index was used to examine the change in climatic attractiveness under an arbitrary scenario of climate change. It was found that, for European countries during the summer months, there would be an increase in attractiveness. However, the northern European countries become relatively more attractive closing the gap on the currently popular southern European countries.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Nota di Lavoro ; No. 21.2004

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Sports; Gambling; Restaurants; Recreation; Tourism ; Recreational Aspects of Natural Resources ; Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming
• Thema: Tourism demand ; Climate change ; Travel cost model ; Internationaler Tourismus ; Deutsche ; Umweltbewertung ; Klima ; Welt

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Hamilton, Jacqueline M.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
• (wo): Milano
• (wann): 2004

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/117903
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ