Impact of Climate on Tourist Demand |
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| Authors: | Wietze Lise Richard S J Tol |
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| Institution: | (1) Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1115, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands;(2) Center for Marine and Climate Research, Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany;(3) Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1115, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;(4) Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A |
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| Abstract: | Tourism, being volatile and situation-specific, is responsive to climate change. A cross-section 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 21 °C (average of the hottest month of the year) at theirchoice 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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