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dc.contributor.authorPickering, Catherine
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T13:21:21Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T13:21:21Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.date.modified2012-02-17T05:13:23Z
dc.identifier.issn0966-9582
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09669582.2010.544741
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/42925
dc.description.abstractTourism in ski resorts depends on snow cover which is expected to decline with climate change. This paper explores hypotheses about demand side responses to climatic change by analyzing patterns of visitation in recent years with differing snow cover. Snow cover and visitation patterns to six resorts which differ in altitude and size in Victoria, Australia, were compared between a slightly warm and much drier year (2006, +0.6?C and -50% precipitation to longer-term averages) to a more typical year (2007) and to nine earlier years. Snowmaking partly offset declines in natural snow cover in 2006, although there were still fewer days with snow on the ground. The number of visitor days was much lower in 2006 than the previous nine years for the three lowest-altitude resorts (-69%), while it actually increased (+10%) in the highest altitude resort where there were fewer visitors (-17%), but they stayed longer. Snowmaking is already critical for ski resorts in low snow years. With warmer conditions, lower-altitude resorts may not receive enough income due to reduced visitation to offset snowmaking costs, while higher-altitude resorts may have a short-term gain, but become uneconomical in the longer term
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom767
dc.relation.ispartofpageto781
dc.relation.ispartofissue6
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Sustainable Tourism
dc.relation.ispartofvolume19
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchGlobal change biology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchTourism
dc.subject.fieldofresearchTourism management
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHuman geography
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode319902
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3508
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode350803
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4406
dc.titleChanges in demand for tourism with climate change: A case study of vitiation patterns to six ski resorts in Australia
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Sciences, Griffith School of Environment
gro.date.issued2011
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorPickering, Catherine M.


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