Advancing ski tourism transformations to climate change
A multi-stakeholder participatory approach in diverse Canadian destinations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13136476 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Natalie Lb Knowles (0000-0002-5605-5954, University of Waterloo, corresponding author), Daniel Scott (0000-0003-0999-0963, University of Waterloo) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 100139-100139 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2666-9579 • E-ISSN: 2666-9579 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.annale.2024.100139 |
| OpenAlex | W4398178182 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 27 |
Canadian ski tourism destinations face increasing climate and carbon risks yet are not currently prepared to adapt to climate change or a decarbonized future. Considering the urgency of climate change and complexity of tourism systems, ski destinations need research identifying stakeholder-held climate and carbon risk perceptions, wider socioeconomic determinants of climate preparedness, and opportunities to accelerate climate decision-making and responsiveness. Using socioeconomic system frameworks, this study analyses secondary research including academic literature, climate action plans, alongside primary qualitative research collected from industry, government and community stakeholder narratives to investigate climate change and climate responsiveness in five Canadian ski tourism destinations. Despite localized climate and carbon risks, results highlight patterns impeding climate preparedness including rapid tourism growth, recreation resource corporatization, externalized climate action and sustainability, inequities, and lack of aspirational collective visioning. Conversely, stakeholders' pluralistic tourism and recreation values, sense-of-place, and interdependent relationships reveal pathways for mountain tourism destinations to transform towards climate resilient, sustainable, and just futures
Business · Citizen journalism · Climate change · Destinations · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Political science · Public relations · Stakeholder · Stakeholder engagement · Tourism · Conferences and Exhibitions Management · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Environmental Science · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management · Ecology
Tourism and degrowth
A critical review of climate change risk for ski tourism
Contemporary perspectives in leisure
Sustainability of snowmaking as climate change (mal)adaptation
Behavioural change or “business as usual”? Characterising the reaction behaviour of winter (sport) tourists to climate change in two German destinations
Impacts of climate change on mountain tourism
‘Overtourism’? – Understanding and Managing Urban Tourism Growth beyond Perceptions
Tourism, sustainable development and the theoretical divide
Transformative roles in tourism
A research agenda for sustainable tourism
Adaptation pathways
Engaging with uncertainty and ambiguity through participatory ‘Adaptive Pathways’ approaches
Monetary valuation of the social cost of CO 2 emissions
Values, rules and knowledge
Reconceptualising adaptation to climate change as part of pathways of change and response
Destructive creation
Degrowing tourism
Pathways to post-capitalist tourism
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |