Perceptions of climate change in a tourism governance context

Tourism Management Perspectives

Volumn 11, Issue , 2014, Pages 69-76

  Wyss, Romano ^a,b   Abegg, Bruno ^c,d   Luthe, Tobias ^a  

^a University of Applied Sciences HTW Chur   (Switzerland)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EICHSTÄTT INGOLSTADT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d AlpS Center for Climate Change Adaptation Technologies   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Alps; Climate change; Cooperation; Destination governance; Mountain tourism; Perception; Resilience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901305590     PISSN: 22119736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmp.2014.04.004     Document Type: Article

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