Wintertourismus in deutschen Mittelgebirgen und Mittelgebirgslagen im Kontext des Klimawandels

Wölfle Felix (), Schnorbus Linda (), Klein Anna (), Wittmann-Wurzer Annegret (), Neumann Peter () and Oven-Krockhaus Ina Zur ()
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Wölfle Felix: IUBH Internationale Hochschule – Duales Studium, Hildebrandtstraße 24c, D-40215Düsseldorf, Germany
Schnorbus Linda: Professorin für Tourismuswirtschaft an der IUBH Internationale Hochschule – Duales Studium, Hanauer Landstr. 147-149, D-60314Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Klein Anna: Professorin für Tourismuswirtschaft an der IUBH Internationale Hochschule – Duales Studium, Berg-am-Laim-Str. 47, D-81673München, Germany
Wittmann-Wurzer Annegret: Professorin für Tourismuswirtschaft an der IUBH Internationale Hochschule – Duales Studium, Berg-am-Laim-Str. 47, D-81673München, Germany
Neumann Peter: Professorin für Tourismuswirtschaft an der IUBH Internationale Hochschule – Duales Studium, Juri-Gagarin-Ring 152, D-99084Erfurt, Germany
Oven-Krockhaus Ina Zur: Professorin für Tourismuswirtschaft an der IUBH Internationale Hochschule – Duales Studium, Siemensstr. 10, D-30173Hannover, Germany

Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft, 2018, vol. 10, issue 2, 303-317

Abstract: Due to climate change, winter tourism in low mountain ranges faces big challenges. This paper presents the results of a survey which focused on the importance of snow-reliability for the travel decision of tourists in winter times in these regions. The survey could identify that snow-reliability was most important for skiers and snowboarders (together 45 percent of the interviewees), other tourists didn’t place great importance on snow-reliability on their travel decision. With increasing age of the tourists, the importance of snow-reliability decreased and snow-reliability is not crucial for visiting these regions in the future again. Therefore, low mountain ranges can be attractive winter destinations in the future if they adapt their tourism products according to climate change and future customer needs.

Keywords: snow-reliability; average mountains; climate change; travel decision; Schneesicherheit; Mittelgebirge; Klimawandel; Reiseentscheidung; snow-reliability; average mountains; climate change; travel decision (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1515/tw-2018-0018

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