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Impact of Climate on Tourist Demand

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Wietze Lise
Richard S.J. Tol () (Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin)

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Tourism, being volatile and situation-specific, is responsive to climate change. A crosssection analysis is conducted on destinations of OECD tourists and a factor and regression analysis on holiday activities of Dutch tourists, to find optimal temperatures at travel destination for different tourists and different tourist activities. Globally, OECD tourists prefer a temperature of 21ºC (average of the hottest month of the year) at their choice of holiday destination. This indicates that, under a scenario of gradual warming, tourists would spend their holidays in different places than they currently do. The factor and regression analysis suggests that preferences for climates at tourist destinations differ among age and income groups.

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Paper provided by Research unit Sustainability and Global Change, Hamburg University in its series Working Papers with number FNU-1.

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Length: 34 pages
Date of creation: Aug 2000
Date of revision: Aug 2000
Publication status: Published, Climatic Change, 55 (4), 429-449
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Keywords: tourist demand; climate variability; climate change; factor analysis; regression analysis; cross-section analysis;

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L83 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Sports; Gambling; Recreation; Tourism
Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters

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