Demand for downhill skiing in subarctic climates

Falk, Martin; Vieru, Markku

doi:10.1080/15022250.2016.1238780

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“…The country-specific examples of climate change and ski tourism demand research have been carried out in various destinations such as Australia (König, 1998;Pickering, Castley, & Burtt, 2010), New Zealand (Hopkins, 2014;Hopkins, Higham, & Becken, 2013;Prince, 2010), the US (Dawson et al, 2011;Vivian, 2011), Austria (Landauer, Haider, & Pröbstl-Haider, 2014;Landauer, Pröbstl, & Haider, 2012;Unbehaun, Pröbstl, & Haider, 2008), Switzerland (Behringer, Buerki, & Fuhrer, 2000), Germany (Dehnhardt & Kalisch, 2010), Slovenia (Vrtacnik-Garbas, 2007), and Finland (Falk & Vieru, 2017;Landauer, Haider, et al, 2014;Landauer, Pröbstl, et al, 2012;Landauer, Sievänen, & Neuvonen, 2009;Pouta, Neuvonen, & Sievänen, 2009).…”

Section: Climate Change and Ski Tourism Demandmentioning

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Climate change acknowledgement and responses of summer (glacier) ski visitors in Norway

Demiroglu

Dannevig

Aall

2018

Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism

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The mutual interaction of climate change and the highly weatherdependent ski tourism business is drawing increasing attention from the academic, commercial and political arenas. Changes in the cryosphere are becoming major determinants of the sustainability of ski areas. Therefore, there is a great deal of literature entailing impact and adaptation studies regarding ski areas, resorts, and destinations; however, research on the demand side of the issue is relatively limited. In this paper, the relationship between climate change and a niche segment of ski tourism, summer skiing, is discussed with regard to the awareness, perceptions, and mitigation and substitution behaviours of visitors to the summer downhill ski centres in Norwayan underresearched country, despite its recognition as the cradle of skiing. For this purpose, a comprehensive survey was administered to a sample of 224 subjects. The results revealed high climate change awareness but limited climate friendliness, and a strong emphasis on the immediate climate impacts on summer skiing that create a tendency towards ski activity substitution within Norway. Individual profiles also played a significant role in the anticipated mitigation and substitution behaviours. The implications of the results involving demand attitude and behaviour are further discussed with regard to the suppliers.

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Section: Climate Change and Ski Tourism Demandmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate change acknowledgement and responses of summer (glacier) ski visitors in Norway

Demiroglu

Dannevig

Aall

2018

Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism

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“…Falk () shows the significant effect of elevation on the survival of ski lift companies in Austria. In addition, Falk () underlines that the impact of natural snow on demand in high altitude is low in France, and Falk and Vieru () indicate the same for Finland. Furthermore, a lack of natural snow can be addressed using snowmaking strategies.…”

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Evaluating the performance drivers of French ski resorts: A hierarchical approach

2019

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This paper aims to analyse the operational performance of French ski resorts by using data envelopment analysis models. The findings show that the hierarchical category data envelopment analysis is more appropriate than the standard one as it takes into account heterogeneity. The impact of the business environment (size, ownership, elevation, and location) on performance level is assessed with efficiency scores that are significantly higher for smaller ski resorts, those that are public managed, and those located at medium elevations. In addition, the results highlight a statistical relation between ski resort location and performance. Finally, the implications of the results and future research perspectives are discussed.

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“…The relationship of weather and climate with ski area/resort/destination performance had been reported in a total of 22 papers at the time of the preparation of this manuscript. These studies provide us with statistical and econometric models for France [19], Switzerland [20], Austria [21][22][23][24], Italy [25], Germany, and Slovenia in the Alps [26], Sweden [27,28], Norway [29], and Finland [30,31] in Nordic Europe [26], Czechia, Slovakia [32], and Romania [33,34] in Eastern Europe [26], Spain in Western Europe [26], the USA [13,[35][36][37], Australia [6], and Japan [38].…”

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“…In Nordic Europe, several recent studies [27][28][29][30][31] provided findings for a traditional, yet under-researched, ski tourism region. In Finland, snow depth was revealed to be a major estimator for ski lift revenues by Falk and Vieru [30], but the sensitivity turned out to be minimal in the north, partly confirming the insignificance of SWE levels on overnight stays as identified by Damm et al [26]. The same study also reports that early snowfall had positive impacts on ski lift revenues for the whole season, and a positive impact was also confirmed for accommodation demand for the Lapland region from the neighbors Sweden and Russia [31].…”

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“…As evident in the state of the art research on climate and skiing relationship, most models, so far [6,13,[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38], have utilized indicators based on weather and climate variables such as snow depth, snow water equivalent, snowfall, snow density, avalanche index, temperature, wind chill, visibility, and cloudiness as the main regressors, whereas other variables such as precipitation (rain, freezing rain, etc.) and wind speed have also been mentioned as important in consumer surveys with winter [49] and summer [50] skiers.…”

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Microclimatic Volatility and Elasticity of Glacier Skiing Demand

2018

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The effects of climate conditions and weather on ski tourism have become a hot topic as the negative impacts of climate change on ski tourism become increasingly visible. This study aims at measuring the significance and magnitude of long-term diurnal and daily weather conditions on lift frequentation at an Austrian glacier ski area in terms of the winter and the summer skiing offers. In doing so, it utilizes an autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (ARCH) model to reveal and quantify any volatility associated with ski area visitation and then employs regression models to account for any microclimatic elasticity of glacier skiing demand. The main findings reveal a significant volatility in ski area visitation, especially during the summer seasons. While this study does not aim for an ultimate determination on the reasons for such volatility, skiing demand models illustrate the importance of thermal comfort, especially wind chill factor (WCF), as a major determinant of demand sensitivity for glacier skiing as well as non-skier visits during the summer season. Significant, albeit inelastic, relationships between other microclimatic characteristics, such as snow depth and relative humidity, with visitation and lift frequentation are also identified. Based on these findings, implications according to a changing climate and practical suggestions on the sustainability of winter and summer skiing activities are provided.

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Demand for downhill skiing in subarctic climates

Cited by 26 publications

References 39 publications

Climate change acknowledgement and responses of summer (glacier) ski visitors in Norway

Climate change acknowledgement and responses of summer (glacier) ski visitors in Norway

Evaluating the performance drivers of French ski resorts: A hierarchical approach

Microclimatic Volatility and Elasticity of Glacier Skiing Demand

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