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Prof. Daniel Scott
University of Waterloo, Canada

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Journal article
Published: 30 July 2021 in Current Issues in Tourism
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Climate change is increasingly influencing tourism policy and practice and there is a growing need to assess climate risk for destinations and the potential implications for global tourism demand patterns. Climate-dependent tourism markets, such as beach tourism, are particularly sensitive to changes in climate, and understanding the future redistribution of tourism climate resources remains a gap in many world leading tourism regions. This paper presents the first climate change assessment of tourism climate resources in China. The Holiday Climate Index:beach (HCI:beach) and Holiday Climate Index:urban (HCI:urban) are calculated for 775 climate stations across China for the 1981–2010 baseline and mid and late-twenty-first century using projections from six CMIP5 Global Climate Models under low and high emission futures. The projected geographic and seasonal redistribution of tourism climate resources are advantageous for many climate-limited destinations but pose high heat risks for some major city destinations. The differential results for the HCI:beach and HCI:urban reinforce the importance of utilising market-specific indices to assess future climate risk. The results provide new decision-relevant climate information for tourism managers and destination planners throughout China.

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D. D. Yu; L. Matthews; D. Scott; S. Li; Z. Y. Guo. Climate suitability for tourism in China in an era of climate change: a multiscale analysis using holiday climate index. Current Issues in Tourism 2021, 1 -16.

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D. D. Yu, L. Matthews, D. Scott, S. Li, Z. Y. Guo. Climate suitability for tourism in China in an era of climate change: a multiscale analysis using holiday climate index. Current Issues in Tourism. 2021; ():1-16.

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D. D. Yu; L. Matthews; D. Scott; S. Li; Z. Y. Guo. 2021. "Climate suitability for tourism in China in an era of climate change: a multiscale analysis using holiday climate index." Current Issues in Tourism , no. : 1-16.

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Published: 11 February 2021 in Sustainability
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Global climate change represents a grand challenge for society, one that is increasingly influencing tourism sector investment, planning, operations, and demand. The paper provides an overview of the core challenges climate change poses to sustainable tourism, key knowledge gaps, and the state of preparedness in the tourism sector. As we begin what is widely considered a decisive climate decade, low sectoral preparedness should be highly disconcerting for the tourism community. Put bluntly, what we have done for the past 30 years has not prepared the sector for the next 30 years of accelerating climate change impacts and the transformation to a decarbonized global economy. The transition from two decades of awareness raising and ambition setting to a decade of determined collective response has massive knowledge requirements and necessitates broad sectoral commitments to: (1) improved communications and knowledge mobilization, (2) increased research capacity and interdisciplinary collaboration, and (3) strategic policy and planning engagement. We in the tourism and sustainability communities must answer this clarion call to shape the future of tourism in a decarbonized and post +3 °C world, for there can be no sustainable tourism if we fail on climate change.

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Daniel Scott. Sustainable Tourism and the Grand Challenge of Climate Change. Sustainability 2021, 13, 1966 .

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Daniel Scott. Sustainable Tourism and the Grand Challenge of Climate Change. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (4):1966.

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Daniel Scott. 2021. "Sustainable Tourism and the Grand Challenge of Climate Change." Sustainability 13, no. 4: 1966.

Research article
Published: 25 December 2020 in Current Issues in Tourism
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Skiing is an important part of Norwegian culture, but as climate change leads to warmer, more variable winters, the ski industry needs to adapt. Despite the growing literature on climate change impacts on ski tourism, adaptation options, particularly beyond snowmaking, barriers and the financial and visitor experience implications remain under-researched. Employing projections for future snow and snowmaking conditions, this paper investigates adaptive capacity among seven Western Norwegian ski resorts. Adaptive capacity is examined in terms of physical situation, technology, economic resources, innovative ability, networks and institutions. We find that smaller resorts make up for poor economic performance by drawing on local community support and by implementing innovative efforts to diversify income. Nonetheless, despite high adaptive capacity with respect to networks, institutions and innovative ability, increased snow production costs will make operations in three low-lying resorts unviable as early as the 2030s, with salient implications for winter tourism patterns, small community economies and future participation in the sport. The results also suggest that studies using snow production model projections that represents physical and technical adaptive capacity only, may be conservative in their estimated impact of future climate change.

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Halvor Dannevig; Ida M. Gildestad; Robert Steiger; Daniel Scott. Adaptive capacity of ski resorts in Western Norway to projected changes in snow conditions. Current Issues in Tourism 2020, 1 -16.

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Halvor Dannevig, Ida M. Gildestad, Robert Steiger, Daniel Scott. Adaptive capacity of ski resorts in Western Norway to projected changes in snow conditions. Current Issues in Tourism. 2020; ():1-16.

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Halvor Dannevig; Ida M. Gildestad; Robert Steiger; Daniel Scott. 2020. "Adaptive capacity of ski resorts in Western Norway to projected changes in snow conditions." Current Issues in Tourism , no. : 1-16.

Journal article
Published: 18 December 2020 in Sustainability
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Climate change is an evolving business reality influencing the sustainability of ski tourism worldwide. A new integrated model of the co-evolution of supply (27 ski areas) and demand-side (skier behaviour) climate change adaptation in the ski tourism market of Ontario, Canada is presented. Ski area operations are modeled under a high-emission 2050s scenario, with skier responses to altered operations informed by a survey of 2429 skiers. These market adaptive dynamics reveal new insights into differential climate risk, capturing patterns not apparent when considering only operational conditions of ski resorts. A decoupling of ski season length and skier visitation was found at four ski areas, where, despite average season length losses, visitation increased as a result of reduced competition. Simulated skier visit losses were smaller than reductions in season length, contributing to an increase in crowding. Growing the market of skiers was also identified as a critical adaptation strategy that could offset skier visit losses from shortened seasons. Climate change challenges the future sustainability of ski areas in this market in several ways: profitability of ski areas with substantially shorter seasons, increased snowmaking costs, crowding impacts on visitor experience, and potential overtourism at the few most climate resilient destinations.

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Daniel Scott; Robert Steiger; Michelle Rutty; Marc Pons; Peter Johnson. Climate Change and Ski Tourism Sustainability: An Integrated Model of the Adaptive Dynamics between Ski Area Operations and Skier Demand. Sustainability 2020, 12, 10617 .

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Daniel Scott, Robert Steiger, Michelle Rutty, Marc Pons, Peter Johnson. Climate Change and Ski Tourism Sustainability: An Integrated Model of the Adaptive Dynamics between Ski Area Operations and Skier Demand. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (24):10617.

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Daniel Scott; Robert Steiger; Michelle Rutty; Marc Pons; Peter Johnson. 2020. "Climate Change and Ski Tourism Sustainability: An Integrated Model of the Adaptive Dynamics between Ski Area Operations and Skier Demand." Sustainability 12, no. 24: 10617.

Articles
Published: 10 September 2020 in Current Issues in Tourism
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Climate indices have a long history of use to combine multi-faceted climate information for tourism resource evaluation. Traditionally, indices have been used to assess tourists’ sensitivity to destination climatic pull factors, not tourists’ sensitivity to source market climate as a push factor for seasonality-driven markets. This study addresses this gap by using tourism climate indices to assess the influence of climatic push and pull factors for seasonal fluctuations in arrivals to Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, and Saint Lucia, from the province of Ontario, Canada (from January 2008 to December 2017). Building on the conceptual foundation of the Holiday Climate Index:Beach (HCI:Beach), this study uses an optimization algorithm to develop two indices: (1) an optimized in-situ index that estimates the climatic pull-factor of the destination, and (2) an optimized ex-situ index that estimates the climatic push-factor from the source market. Findings reveal the optimized ex-situ (push) index explains 83% (R 2 = 0.830) of the variability in total monthly arrivals from Ontario and has greater predictive accuracy than the in-situ (pull) index. The research advances understanding of climatic influences on Caribbean tourism arrivals and provides the foundation for new seasonal forecast-based Climate Services (CS) for destination managers and marketers.

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Lindsay Matthews; Daniel Scott; Jean Andrey; Roché Mahon; Adrian Trotman; Ravidya Burrowes; Amanda Charles. Developing climate services for Caribbean tourism: a comparative analysis of climate push and pull influences using climate indices. Current Issues in Tourism 2020, 24, 1576 -1594.

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Lindsay Matthews, Daniel Scott, Jean Andrey, Roché Mahon, Adrian Trotman, Ravidya Burrowes, Amanda Charles. Developing climate services for Caribbean tourism: a comparative analysis of climate push and pull influences using climate indices. Current Issues in Tourism. 2020; 24 (11):1576-1594.

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Lindsay Matthews; Daniel Scott; Jean Andrey; Roché Mahon; Adrian Trotman; Ravidya Burrowes; Amanda Charles. 2020. "Developing climate services for Caribbean tourism: a comparative analysis of climate push and pull influences using climate indices." Current Issues in Tourism 24, no. 11: 1576-1594.

Journal article
Published: 05 August 2020 in International Journal of Biometeorology
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Climatic resources are vitally important for tourism, driving major intra- and inter-regional travel flows for sun-sand-surf (3S) tourism around the world. The development of climate indices to measure the suitability of climate for major tourism market segments has evolved over three decades. This study provides the first application of the holiday climate index (HCI):Beach specification in the Asia-Pacific tourism region. The HCI is designed from international tourist climate preference studies and is compared with the tourism climate index (TCI), which is widely applied, but not based on tourist climate preferences. The index inter-comparison is conducted at 14 of the most popular beach resort destinations in China, which include four geographic regions of China with four different Köppen classifications. The results show key differences between the two indices in rating the climatic suitability of the selected beach destinations in China, with the TCI rating beach destinations in the north and south higher during the spring and fall seasons, which is not consistent with beach tourism visits. During the summer months, southern destinations have much higher HCI:Beach rating, reflecting the 3S tourists’ desire for higher temperatures. The findings reinforce those from other tourism regions that indicate the TCI is not appropriate for assessing 3S tourism potential and that additional cross-cultural studies of tourist climate indices are needed to better inform market segment climate service development and to understand the potential impacts of future climate change.

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D D Yu; M. Rutty; D. Scott; S Li. A comparison of the holiday climate index:beach and the tourism climate index across coastal destinations in China. International Journal of Biometeorology 2020, 65, 741 -748.

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D D Yu, M. Rutty, D. Scott, S Li. A comparison of the holiday climate index:beach and the tourism climate index across coastal destinations in China. International Journal of Biometeorology. 2020; 65 (5):741-748.

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D D Yu; M. Rutty; D. Scott; S Li. 2020. "A comparison of the holiday climate index:beach and the tourism climate index across coastal destinations in China." International Journal of Biometeorology 65, no. 5: 741-748.

Articles
Published: 27 April 2020 in Journal of Sustainable Tourism
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The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is challenging the world. With no vaccine and limited medical capacity to treat the disease, nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPI) are the main strategy to contain the pandemic. Unprecedented global travel restrictions and stay-at-home orders are causing the most severe disruption of the global economy since World War II. With international travel bans affecting over 90% of the world population and wide-spread restrictions on public gatherings and community mobility, tourism largely ceased in March 2020. Early evidence on impacts on air travel, cruises, and accommodations have been devastating. While highly uncertain, early projections from UNWTO for 2020 suggest international arrivals could decline by 20 to 30% relative to 2019. Tourism is especially susceptible to measures to counteract pandemics because of restricted mobility and social distancing. The paper compares the impacts of COVID-19 to previous epidemic/pandemics and other types of global crises and explores how the pandemic may change society, the economy, and tourism. It discusses why COVID-19 is an analogue to the ongoing climate crisis, and why there is a need to question the volume growth tourism model advocated by UNWTO, ICAO, CLIA, WTTC and other tourism organizations.

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Stefan Gössling; Daniel Scott; C. Michael Hall. Pandemics, tourism and global change: a rapid assessment of COVID-19. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 2020, 29, 1 -20.

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Stefan Gössling, Daniel Scott, C. Michael Hall. Pandemics, tourism and global change: a rapid assessment of COVID-19. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 2020; 29 (1):1-20.

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Stefan Gössling; Daniel Scott; C. Michael Hall. 2020. "Pandemics, tourism and global change: a rapid assessment of COVID-19." Journal of Sustainable Tourism 29, no. 1: 1-20.

Journal article
Published: 20 April 2020 in Atmosphere
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Through an empirical investigation of the historical relationship between the destination climate and tourist arrivals in the Caribbean, this study presents the first revealed preference evaluation of a climate index informed by tourists’ stated climatic preferences for coastal-beach tourism (i.e., a sun-sand-surf or 3S travel market). The goal of this multi-organization collaboration was to examine the potential application of a newly designed climate index—the Holiday Climate Index (HCI):Beach—for three Caribbean destinations (Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Saint Lucia). This paper provides an overview of the evolution of climate indices, including the development of the (HCI):Beach. To test the validity of climate indices for a beach travel market, daily climate ratings based on outputs from the Tourism Climate Index and the HCI were correlated with monthly arrivals data from Canada (a key source market) at an island destination scale. The results underscore the strength of the new index, with each destination scoring consistently higher using the HCI:Beach, including a stronger relationship (R2) between index scores and tourist arrivals. These findings demonstrate the value of combining stated and revealed preference methodologies to predict tourism demand and highlight opportunities for future research.

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Michelle Rutty; Daniel Scott; Lindsay Matthews; Ravidya Burrowes; Adrian Trotman; Roché Mahon; Amanda Charles. An Inter-Comparison of the Holiday Climate Index (HCI:Beach) and the Tourism Climate Index (TCI) to Explain Canadian Tourism Arrivals to the Caribbean. Atmosphere 2020, 11, 412 .

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Michelle Rutty, Daniel Scott, Lindsay Matthews, Ravidya Burrowes, Adrian Trotman, Roché Mahon, Amanda Charles. An Inter-Comparison of the Holiday Climate Index (HCI:Beach) and the Tourism Climate Index (TCI) to Explain Canadian Tourism Arrivals to the Caribbean. Atmosphere. 2020; 11 (4):412.

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Michelle Rutty; Daniel Scott; Lindsay Matthews; Ravidya Burrowes; Adrian Trotman; Roché Mahon; Amanda Charles. 2020. "An Inter-Comparison of the Holiday Climate Index (HCI:Beach) and the Tourism Climate Index (TCI) to Explain Canadian Tourism Arrivals to the Caribbean." Atmosphere 11, no. 4: 412.

Articles
Published: 01 April 2020 in Journal of Sustainable Tourism
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Climate change poses complex challenges and addressing these requires increasing integration across policy domains. This research developed a framework to assess policy integration between the tourism and climate change domains by examining coverage, scope, materiality and alignment. A database of 101 policy documents was compiled, representing 61 countries over 17 years. Only 37 documents covered the tourism-climate nexus substantially, suggesting climate change has not yet become a priority for tourism policy makers. Considering that tourism makes considerable contributions to and is substantially impacted by climate change, the observed gaps in tourism policy needs to be addressed. The paper concludes with some minimum expectations for policy integration, including examples of good practice, and suggests that more effort is required to achieve climate change policy integration in tourism.

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Susanne Becken; Emma Whittlesea; Johanna Loehr; Daniel Scott. Tourism and climate change: evaluating the extent of policy integration. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 2020, 28, 1603 -1624.

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Susanne Becken, Emma Whittlesea, Johanna Loehr, Daniel Scott. Tourism and climate change: evaluating the extent of policy integration. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 2020; 28 (10):1603-1624.

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Susanne Becken; Emma Whittlesea; Johanna Loehr; Daniel Scott. 2020. "Tourism and climate change: evaluating the extent of policy integration." Journal of Sustainable Tourism 28, no. 10: 1603-1624.

Journal article
Published: 18 February 2020 in Current Issues in Tourism
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Natalie L. B. Knowles; Daniel Scott. Media representations of climate change risk to ski tourism: a barrier to climate action? Current Issues in Tourism 2020, 24, 149 -156.

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Natalie L. B. Knowles, Daniel Scott. Media representations of climate change risk to ski tourism: a barrier to climate action? Current Issues in Tourism. 2020; 24 (2):149-156.

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Natalie L. B. Knowles; Daniel Scott. 2020. "Media representations of climate change risk to ski tourism: a barrier to climate action?" Current Issues in Tourism 24, no. 2: 149-156.

Journal article
Published: 13 November 2019 in Tourism Management
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Climate change risk has gained considerable attention within the ski industry and its investors. Several past studies have overlooked the adaptive capacity of snowmaking and within-season demand variation and therefore overestimated climate change impacts. This study of the Austrian ski market (208 ski areas) including snowmaking found impacts are substantial and spatially highly differentiated, but nonetheless manageable (season length losses of 10–16%) for the majority of ski areas until the 2050s under a high emissions pathway (RCP 8.5) or even the 2080s in a low emission pathway (RCP 4.5). The economic impacts of reduced operations are largely concentrated in regions less dependent on tourism. Preserving this sector in high-risk areas can be considered maladaptive, but may be important to maintain demand. A sustainable end-of-century future for a high proportion of Austria's ski areas is dependent on achieving the low-emission future set out in the Paris Climate Agreement.

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Robert Steiger; Daniel Scott. Ski tourism in a warmer world: Increased adaptation and regional economic impacts in Austria. Tourism Management 2019, 77, 104032 .

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Robert Steiger, Daniel Scott. Ski tourism in a warmer world: Increased adaptation and regional economic impacts in Austria. Tourism Management. 2019; 77 ():104032.

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Robert Steiger; Daniel Scott. 2019. "Ski tourism in a warmer world: Increased adaptation and regional economic impacts in Austria." Tourism Management 77, no. : 104032.

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Published: 04 November 2019 in Journal of Sustainable Tourism
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Climate change has become a business planning reality in the ski industry, with differential impacts and adaptive capacity important for intra- and inter-regional market competitiveness. Potential climate change impacts are examined at 171 ski areas in Ontario, Québec and the US Northeast using the SkiSim2 model with regional parameterizations of snowmaking capacity. With advanced snowmaking, mid-century season length losses are limited to 12–13% under a low emission pathway (RCP 4.5), increasing to 15–22% under high emissions (RCP 8.5). By late-century, low and high emission pathways diverge creating very different futures for the ski industry. Season length and skiable terrain losses increase only marginally in the low emission pathway, while transformational impacts occur under a high emission pathway, with only 29 ski areas in Québec and high-elevation areas of the US Northeast able to maintain a 100-day season and open regularly for the economically important Christmas-New Year holiday. A low emission future, where current national pledges to Paris Climate Agreement are achieved, is crucial to preserve the Eastern North America ski tourism marketplace. The results are compared with previous studies that have neglected the adaptive capacity of snowmaking and substantially overestimated the impact of mid-century and lower emission climate change scenarios.

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Daniel Scott; Robert Steiger; Natalie Knowles; Yan Fang. Regional ski tourism risk to climate change: An inter-comparison of Eastern Canada and US Northeast markets. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 2019, 28, 568 -586.

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Daniel Scott, Robert Steiger, Natalie Knowles, Yan Fang. Regional ski tourism risk to climate change: An inter-comparison of Eastern Canada and US Northeast markets. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 2019; 28 (4):568-586.

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Daniel Scott; Robert Steiger; Natalie Knowles; Yan Fang. 2019. "Regional ski tourism risk to climate change: An inter-comparison of Eastern Canada and US Northeast markets." Journal of Sustainable Tourism 28, no. 4: 568-586.

Journal article
Published: 01 July 2019 in Annals of Tourism Research
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Daniel Scott; C. Michael Hall; Stefan Gössling. Global tourism vulnerability to climate change. Annals of Tourism Research 2019, 77, 49 -61.

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Daniel Scott, C. Michael Hall, Stefan Gössling. Global tourism vulnerability to climate change. Annals of Tourism Research. 2019; 77 ():49-61.

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Daniel Scott; C. Michael Hall; Stefan Gössling. 2019. "Global tourism vulnerability to climate change." Annals of Tourism Research 77, no. : 49-61.

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Published: 05 June 2019 in Journal of Sustainable Tourism
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National parks in Canada operate under the dual mandate of conservation and visitor use, which involves balancing ecological integrity and nature-based tourism activities. Climate-induced environmental change may increase the existing tension between conservation and visitor use as major tourism resources located in protected areas (PAs) are projected to undergo large-scale changes. This study draws upon the behavioural approach, scenario planning, and landscape visualizations to examine the relationship between climate change impacts, visitor perceptions, and visitor experience management at the Athabasca Glacier in Jasper National Park, Canada. Four tourism development scenarios defined by two management drivers (ecological integrity and visitor demand) with corresponding storylines and visualizations were developed for 2050. The visualized scenarios were presented to visitors (n = 304) in a survey to understand potential implications on visitor satisfaction. The results suggest that park managers need to find a balance between ecological integrity and visitor use in a way that ensures commercialized tourism development is limited, educational material is prioritized, and ecological integrity is maintained. While understanding the behaviour of future tourists is complex, it is a critical component of climate change adaptation planning and decision-making processes that needs to be prioritized by policymakers and PAs managers.

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Melissa Weber; Mark Groulx; Christopher J. Lemieux; Daniel Scott; Jackie Dawson. Balancing the dual mandate of conservation and visitor use at a Canadian world heritage site in an era of rapid climate change. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 2019, 27, 1318 -1337.

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Melissa Weber, Mark Groulx, Christopher J. Lemieux, Daniel Scott, Jackie Dawson. Balancing the dual mandate of conservation and visitor use at a Canadian world heritage site in an era of rapid climate change. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 2019; 27 (9):1318-1337.

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Melissa Weber; Mark Groulx; Christopher J. Lemieux; Daniel Scott; Jackie Dawson. 2019. "Balancing the dual mandate of conservation and visitor use at a Canadian world heritage site in an era of rapid climate change." Journal of Sustainable Tourism 27, no. 9: 1318-1337.

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Published: 24 April 2019 in Current Issues in Tourism
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The demand for foresight on how climate change will alter the competitiveness of ski destinations continues to increase. Norway is often considered the country where modern skiing began, yet its climate change risk remains largely unknown. The SkiSim2 model is run with RCP 4.5 and 8.5 emission climate futures to analyse implications for ski season at 110 alpine ski areas in Norway in the 2030s, 2050s, and 2080s with only natural snow and with advanced snowmaking. A considerable shortening of the ski season in projected as early as the 2030s for the half of ski areas that currently lack snowmaking. Naturally snow reliable ski areas decline from approximately half in the 2030s to a third in the 2050s. With snowmaking, ski season losses are substantially reduced and the majority of ski areas remain snow reliable until the end of the twenty-first century in a lower emission future. A substantial shortening of the ski season (up to 40 days) nonetheless begins in the 2050s under a high emission scenario. The need to invest in snowmaking will continue to increase, with attendant financial and sustainability implications. The differential climate risk among five regions of Norway and the European Alps is also discussed.

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Daniel Scott; Robert Steiger; Halvor Dannevig; Carlo Aall. Climate change and the future of the Norwegian alpine ski industry. Current Issues in Tourism 2019, 23, 2396 -2409.

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Daniel Scott, Robert Steiger, Halvor Dannevig, Carlo Aall. Climate change and the future of the Norwegian alpine ski industry. Current Issues in Tourism. 2019; 23 (19):2396-2409.

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Daniel Scott; Robert Steiger; Halvor Dannevig; Carlo Aall. 2019. "Climate change and the future of the Norwegian alpine ski industry." Current Issues in Tourism 23, no. 19: 2396-2409.

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Published: 13 April 2018 in Journal of Flood Risk Management
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One of the central tenets of the flood risk management paradigm is that responsibility for flood mitigation and recovery must be shared with stakeholders other than governments, including property‐owners themselves. However, existing research suggests that this imperative is unlikely to be effective unless property‐owners demonstrate a sense of personal responsibility and are willing to undertake protective behaviours. In Canada, several recent policy changes have effectively transferred more responsibility to homeowners, but it is unclear whether Canadians are ready to accept this obligation. This article presents results from a national survey of Canadians living in high‐risk flood areas, which probed their attitudes concerning the division of responsibility for flood mitigation and recovery among governments, insurers and homeowners, as well as their willingness to adopt protective behaviours. The survey, which received 2,300 responses from all ten provinces, indicates that Canadians are willing to accept some responsibility, but for most this perceived responsibility is insufficient to influence their decisions on mitigation and recovery. Governments in Canada could learn from jurisdictions that have addressed this disconnect through policies designed to improve awareness of flood risk management among property‐owners.

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Daniel Henstra; Jason Thistlethwaite; Craig Brown; Daniel Scott. Flood risk management and shared responsibility: Exploring Canadian public attitudes and expectations. Journal of Flood Risk Management 2018, 12, e12346 .

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Daniel Henstra, Jason Thistlethwaite, Craig Brown, Daniel Scott. Flood risk management and shared responsibility: Exploring Canadian public attitudes and expectations. Journal of Flood Risk Management. 2018; 12 (1):e12346.

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Daniel Henstra; Jason Thistlethwaite; Craig Brown; Daniel Scott. 2018. "Flood risk management and shared responsibility: Exploring Canadian public attitudes and expectations." Journal of Flood Risk Management 12, no. 1: e12346.

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Published: 12 December 2017 in Environmental Management
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Canada is a country in the midst of a flood management policy transition that is shifting part of the flood damage burden from the state to homeowners. This transition—as well as the large financial losses resulting from flooding—have created a window of opportunity for Canada to implement strategies that increase property owners' capacity to avoid and absorb the financial and physical risks associated with flooding. This work presents foundational research into the extent to which Canadians' flood experience, perceptions of flood risks and socio-demographics shape their intentions and adoption of property level flood protection (PLFP). A bilingual, national survey was deployed in Spring 2016 and was completed by 2300 respondents across all 10 Canadian provinces. The survey was developed using assumptions in existing literature on flood risk behaviours and the determinants of flood risk management in similar jurisdictions. The paper argues that property owners are not willing to accept greater responsibility for flood risk as envisioned by recent policy changes. This finding is consistent with other OECD jurisdictions, where flood risk engagement strategies have been developed that could be replicated in Canada to encourage risk-sharing behaviour.

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Jason Thistlethwaite; Daniel Henstra; Craig Brown; Daniel Scott. How Flood Experience and Risk Perception Influences Protective Actions and Behaviours among Canadian Homeowners. Environmental Management 2017, 61, 197 -208.

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Jason Thistlethwaite, Daniel Henstra, Craig Brown, Daniel Scott. How Flood Experience and Risk Perception Influences Protective Actions and Behaviours among Canadian Homeowners. Environmental Management. 2017; 61 (2):197-208.

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Jason Thistlethwaite; Daniel Henstra; Craig Brown; Daniel Scott. 2017. "How Flood Experience and Risk Perception Influences Protective Actions and Behaviours among Canadian Homeowners." Environmental Management 61, no. 2: 197-208.

Journal article
Published: 08 December 2017 in Current Issues in Tourism
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Daniel Scott; Robert Steiger; Michelle Rutty; Yan Fang. The changing geography of the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in a warmer world. Current Issues in Tourism 2017, 22, 1301 -1311.

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Daniel Scott, Robert Steiger, Michelle Rutty, Yan Fang. The changing geography of the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in a warmer world. Current Issues in Tourism. 2017; 22 (11):1301-1311.

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Daniel Scott; Robert Steiger; Michelle Rutty; Yan Fang. 2017. "The changing geography of the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in a warmer world." Current Issues in Tourism 22, no. 11: 1301-1311.

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Published: 01 December 2017 in Case Studies on Transport Policy
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Stefan Gössling; Martin Lohmann; Bente Grimm; Daniel Scott. Leisure travel distribution patterns of Germans: Insights for climate policy. Case Studies on Transport Policy 2017, 5, 596 -603.

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Stefan Gössling, Martin Lohmann, Bente Grimm, Daniel Scott. Leisure travel distribution patterns of Germans: Insights for climate policy. Case Studies on Transport Policy. 2017; 5 (4):596-603.

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Stefan Gössling; Martin Lohmann; Bente Grimm; Daniel Scott. 2017. "Leisure travel distribution patterns of Germans: Insights for climate policy." Case Studies on Transport Policy 5, no. 4: 596-603.

Original articles
Published: 21 November 2017 in Current Issues in Tourism
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The international ski tourism industry is highly vulnerable to inter-annual climate variability and climate change. Accordingly, there is a strong need to advance our understanding of climate risk for this multi-billion tourism market that is so important to mountain regions around the world. This study addressed major limitations in the ski tourism literature, while concurrently supporting priority information needs of ski tourism stakeholders. An improved version of SkiSim 2.0 is applied to all 34 alpine ski areas in southern Ontario (Canada) to examine potential changes in the capacity of this regional marketplace. Model improvements include differential snowmaking capacities of individual ski areas, updated snowmaking decision rules, as well as a new indicator, termed ‘terrain-days’, to estimate changes in system capacity. The results project two fundamentally different futures for this ski tourism marketplace under climate change. If the international community succeeds in achieving the + 2°C Paris Agreement policy goal, then losses in system capacity can be limited to less than 10% in the mid- and late-century. In contrast, a high-end emission scenario (RCP 8.5) would severely disrupt this ski tourism market by mid-century, with system capacity losses between 28% and 73%.

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Daniel Scott; Robert Steiger; Michelle Rutty; Marc Pons; Peter Johnson. The differential futures of ski tourism in Ontario (Canada) under climate change: the limits of snowmaking adaptation. Current Issues in Tourism 2017, 22, 1327 -1342.

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Daniel Scott, Robert Steiger, Michelle Rutty, Marc Pons, Peter Johnson. The differential futures of ski tourism in Ontario (Canada) under climate change: the limits of snowmaking adaptation. Current Issues in Tourism. 2017; 22 (11):1327-1342.

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Daniel Scott; Robert Steiger; Michelle Rutty; Marc Pons; Peter Johnson. 2017. "The differential futures of ski tourism in Ontario (Canada) under climate change: the limits of snowmaking adaptation." Current Issues in Tourism 22, no. 11: 1327-1342.