Greenland winter tourism in a changing climate

Geobibliography and Bibliometric Networks of Polar Tourism and Climate Change Research

“…The 84 keywords that were used at least three times in the 93 articles agglomerate into six clusters according to their distances to each other (Figure 3a), yielding 1259 links. The largest cluster with 20 items (red) stems from a wider theme on climate change adaptation of Arctic tourism from all the policy [53,56], community [53,56,71,76,77], business [33,39,53,56,80,101,106], and visitor [38,56] perspectives. Cluster 2 (n: 16, green) covers mostly combined impacts of climate change and polar tourism, with a spatial focus on the Antarctic [41,92,96,109].…”

“…This might be due to the multi-scenario approach of these studies, where tourism is only one component analyzed without much reference to climate change. That being said, many of the newer co-authors [39,41,47,48,79,90,101,102] also seem isolated from the main sets, while some others [33,41,56,67,79] have formed their connections with the well-linked pioneers.…”

“…As noted earlier, some studies yield denser results when they refer to different tourism types and case locations or polar tourism and climate change research themes within smaller regions. An example to the first group is the study by Schrot et al [101], where the impacts of climate change (only one frequency of research themes) on downhill skiing (two spots), ski-touring (one spot), heliskiing (one spot), cross-country skiing (four spots), dog sledding (two spots), and snowmobiling (one spot) in West Greenland are researched, multiplying the study's representation by 11 times on the map. When the tourism types and/or case locations are not specified, as in the Northern Sweden study [18] that categorizes "winter tourism" as activity-based and venue-based with almost no finer detail, the cartographic representation becomes limited.…”

“…The new hot spots, which are locations that become statistically significant in the final time step (2019), are found along Churchill and West Greenland. In West Greenland, the Schrot et al study [101] contributes to this pattern by adding on to the older studies [62,72,94]. In Churchill, where polar bear tourism is a unique selling proposition for both watching [31,32,49,51,54,67] and sport hunting [49,59] interests, Groulx et al [67] establish the new hot spot by revisiting the polar bear tourism issues from a last chance perspective after almost a decade of interruption since the earliest studies [31,51].…”

20 years of Nordic climate change crisis and tourism research: a review and future research agenda

“…A substantial body of research has focused on the actual and potential implications of climate change for winter-oriented tourism businesses (Brouder & Lundmark, 2011) as well as specific products, including skiing (Demiroglu et al, 2018;Falk & Hagsten, 2017Falk & Vieru, 2017;Haanpää et al, 2014;Landauer et al, 2015;Neuvonen et al, 2015;Schrot et al, 2019;Scott et al, 2019b;Steiger et al, 2019), glacier tourism (Furunes & Mykletun, 2012), Christmas tourism (Hall, 2014), cruising (Palma et al, 2019), geotourism (Hall & Saarinen, 2010c), rural tourism (Nicholls & Amelung, 2015), and nature-based tourism (Saeþórsdóttir et al, 2019;Tervo-Kankare, 2008;Tervo-Kankare, 2019). A special issue of the Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism was produced on Nordic Perspectives on Tourism and Climate Change Issues in 2014 (Vol.14(1)).…”