Experiencing pressures
The transition of ski resorts into year-round sustainable mountain destinations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21699337 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicolas Chevrollier (0000-0002-5212-3462, Nyenrode Business University, corresponding author), Arjen de Graaf (Nyenrode Business University), Fatjon Kaja (University of Amsterdam) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 1-18 |
| Publication date | 2025-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Issues in Tourism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-3500 • E-ISSN: 1747-7603 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13683500.2025.2485369 |
| OpenAlex | W4409154720 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 53 |
The ski resort industry faces increasing challenges due to the impact of climate change, pushing many resorts to rethink their traditional operations. This article examines the transition of ski resorts into sustainable and year-round mountain resorts, and how isomorphic pressures (normative, coercive, and mimetic) influence this transition. Using a qualitative exploratory research methodology and focusing on ski resorts in the Alps in Austria, France, Italy, and Switzerland, this study engages at the nexus of sustainable tourism, institutional theory, and transition theory. Our findings show that ski resorts are reaching a high-maturity synergy phase of market transformation. While isomorphic pressures differ through the phases of sustainable market transformation, normative pressures (based on intrinsic and extrinsic factors) play the dominant role in the transformation. Resorts change from just complying to legislation to being leaders and innovators in sustainability involving local communities
Advertising · Archaeology · Business · Destinations · Geography · Sustainable tourism · Tourism · Conferences and Exhibitions Management · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
Applied Thematic Analysis
A critical review of climate change risk for ski tourism
More evolution than revolution
The structuration of socio-technical regimes—Conceptual foundations from institutional theory
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
The multi-level perspective on sustainability transitions
The effects of ecosystem of business environment on tourism
A legitimacy perspective on sharing economy consumption in the accommodation sector
Pathways to tourism eco-efficiency
Rethinking growth orientation
Impacts of climate change on mountain tourism
Business Models for Sustainability
Tourism development level and tourism eco‐efficiency
Institutional carriers
Developing institutional logics in the tourism industry through coopetition
Ski tourism in a warmer world
Convinced, ambivalent or annoyed
Does the tourism industry co-evolve
Product diversification and isomorphism
The practice of transition management
Is Greener Whiter? Voluntary Environmental Performance of Western Ski Areas
Institutional Isomorphism and Public Sector Organizations
Sustainable market transformation
An agenda for sustainability transitions research
From 'sustainable tourism' to 'sustainability transitions in tourism
Climate Change Impact Assessment of Ski Tourism in Tyrol
The Iron Cage Revisited
The Sociology of Markets
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |