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Bruno Abegg
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Abegg
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Bruno
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bruno.abegg@unisg.ch
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PublicationOverloaded! Critical revision and a new conceptual approach for snow indicators in ski tourism(Springer, 2020)
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PublicationThe Ski Climate Index (SCI): fuzzification and a regional climate modeling application for TurkeyClimatology has increasingly become an important discipline for understanding tourism and recreation, especially in the era of contemporary climate change. Climate indices, in this respect, have been useful tools to yield the climatic attractiveness of tourism destinations as well as in understanding their altering suitability to various tourism types along with the changing climates. In this study, a major gap for a comprehensive climate index tailored for ski tourism is aimed to be fulfilled. For this purpose, initially the Ski Climate Index (SCI) is specified, based on fuzzy logic and as informed by literature and through extensive co-creation with the ski tourism industry experts, and applied to an emerging destination, Turkey, based on regional climate modeling projections. The index is designed as a combination of snow reliability and aesthetics and comfort facets, the latter of which includes sunshine, wind, and thermal comfort conditions. Results show that the Eastern Anatolia region is climatically the most suitable area for future development, taking account of the overriding effects of natural and technical snow reliability. Future research suggestions include the incorporation of more components into the index as well as technical recommendations to improve its application and validation.Type: journal articleJournal: International Journal of Biometeorology
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PublicationType: journal articleJournal: Zeitschrift für TourismuswissenschaftVolume: 11Issue: 2DOI: 10.1515/tw-2019-0013
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PublicationA critical review of climate change risk for ski tourism(Taylor & Francis Group, 2019)
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PublicationFollowing the ice: adaptation processes of glacier tour operators in Southeast IcelandThe growing recognition that global climatic change is a pressing reality and that its impacts on humans and ecological systems are inevitable makes adaptation a core topic in climate change research and policymaking. The glacier tourism sector that is highly sensitive towards changing climatic conditions is among the most relevant in this respect. This study aims to examine empirically how adaptation to climate change impacts is practiced by small- and middle-scale glacier tour operators. Data was collected by means of a set of semi-structured interviews with the managers or owners of nine small- or middle-scale tour companies operating in the Vatnajökull National Park in Southeast Iceland and observations of glacier sites where the respondents’ companies are operating. The results indicate that all entrepreneurs consider climate change to be a real phenomenon that affects their present daily operations, but they perceive these implications not as significant threats to their business. The interaction of operator’s attributes of agency such as firsthand experiences, risk perceptions, and abilities to self-organize, with structural elements of the glacier destination system such as economic rationales and hazard reduction institutions, has shaped and consolidated operators’ adaptation processes in the form of a wait-and-see strategy combined with ad hoc reactive adaptation measures and postponed or prevented proactive long-term adaptation strategies.Type: journal articleJournal: International Journal of Biometeorology
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PublicationAlternative outdoor activities in alpine winter tourism(CABI, 2019)
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PublicationAlpine winter tourists’ view on climate change and travel mobility.(CABI, 2019)