Managing cross-country skiing destinations under the conditions of climate change - Scenarios for destinations in Austria and Finland

Tourism Management

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 741-751

  Landauer, Mia ^a   Pröbstl, Ulrike ^a   Haider, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross country skiing; Decision support tool (DST); Discrete choice experiment (DCE); Latent class model; Ski area management

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TOURISM MARKET; TOURIST DESTINATION;

AUSTRIA; FINLAND;

EID: 84856442073     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2011.08.007     Document Type: Article

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