A comparison of the holiday climate index:beach and the tourism climate index across coastal destinations in China
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DOI: 10.1007/s00484-020-01979-w
Abstract: 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… read more here.
Keywords: tourism; beach; climate index; destinations china ... See more keywords
Quantifying climatic suitability for tourism in Southwest Indian Ocean Tropical Islands: Applying the Holiday Climate Index to Réunion Island
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DOI: 10.1007/s00484-024-02700-x
Abstract: Climate is a key resource for tourists and tourism providers. Varied approaches to quantifying climate resources for tourism have been developed in the last 40 years, computing indices from a range of meteorological variables to… read more here.
Keywords: tourism; climatic suitability; climate index; suitability ... See more keywords
A Questionnaire-based examination of the validity of the tourism climate index for application in South Africa
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DOI: 10.1007/s00484-025-02965-w
Abstract: Tourism Climate Indices have been developed over the past four decades to quantify and classify the climatic suitability of a given destination. However, their development and testing has primarily been conducted in the Global North.… read more here.
Keywords: validity; climate index; tourism climate; climate ... See more keywords
A Climate Index Optimized for Longshore Sediment Transport Reveals Interannual and Multidecadal Littoral Cell Rotations
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DOI: 10.1029/2018jf004689
Abstract: This work would not have been possible without funding from the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) through NSF grant DGE-1314109, the Coastal and Ocean Climate Applications (COCA) program through NOAA grant NA15OAR4310243, NOAA’s Regional… read more here.
Keywords: index optimized; climate index; longshore sediment; optimized longshore ... See more keywords
Italian urban tourism predictions using the holiday Climate Index
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DOI: 10.1177/13548166241277858
Abstract: The tourism sector is a source of sustenance for local communities, a driver of fiscal revenues and a way to connect local sites to international guests. Its dependence on climate change exposes it to chronic… read more here.
Keywords: tourism; climate index; climate; using holiday ... See more keywords