Quantitative Models Evaluating the Effect Climate Change Effects on Tourism - State of the Art

Jaume Rosselló

2013

Abstract

In a context of climate change, many destinations are considering what effects can be predicted on the tourist demand and how they should be tackled. This work analyses the most relevant perspectives presented in the literature evaluating the effect of climate change on tourism. A review is made by showing the results that rise from a triple point of view: the consideration of physical changes, the analysis of the tourist attractiveness through climatic indexes and modeling tourism demand. The review suggests that, although some methodologies are on a primary stage of development, results from the different perspectives agree in presenting a similar map of the main affected areas (positively and negatively) in terms of tourism demand and/or tourism attractiveness.

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Rosselló J. (2013). Quantitative Models Evaluating the Effect Climate Change Effects on Tourism - State of the Art . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: MSCCEC, (SIMULTECH 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-69-3, pages 479-488. DOI: 10.5220/0004591404790488


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@conference{msccec13,
author={Jaume Rosselló},
title={Quantitative Models Evaluating the Effect Climate Change Effects on Tourism - State of the Art},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: MSCCEC, (SIMULTECH 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={479-488},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004591404790488},
isbn={978-989-8565-69-3},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: MSCCEC, (SIMULTECH 2013)
TI - Quantitative Models Evaluating the Effect Climate Change Effects on Tourism - State of the Art
SN - 978-989-8565-69-3
AU - Rosselló J.
PY - 2013
SP - 479
EP - 488
DO - 10.5220/0004591404790488