A review of melting ice adaptation strategies in the glacier tourism context

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Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Publications
Title
A review of melting ice adaptation strategies in the glacier tourism context
Journal
Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism
Author(s)
Salim Emmanuel, Ravanel Ludovic, Deline Philip, Gauchon Christophe
ISSN
1502-2250
1502-2269
Publication state
Published
Issued date
15/03/2021
Volume
21
Number
2
Pages
229-246
Language
english
Abstract
Globally, tourism is being deeply impacted by glacial retreat caused by climate change. However, research on stakeholders’ adaptation to climatic change and its threat to the industry on tourism niche is currently inadequate. Thus, through a literature review of 61 glacier peer-reviewed papers, this paper highlights the advancement in research on glacier tourism and provides some basis for understanding stakeholders’ adaptation strategies to climate change. The review shows that glacier tourism research publications increased between 2015 and 2020. It also identifies some impacts of climate change on the glacier tourism industry as well as 27 adaptation strategies to climatic change, which are classified under seven main themes: changes to access, activities, tourism planning, educational activities, temporal substitutions, spatial substitutions, and glacier shrinkage attenuation. We discuss the relevance of the resilience concept in the tourism industry and recommend that tourists’ experiences should be enhanced by applying the findings of research on tourists’ motivations and landscape perception and developing more adaptation-oriented research. The findings suggest that the glacier tourism industry can reduce its vulnerability to climate change through increased collaboration between tourism operators and climate and tourism researchers.
Keywords
Climate change glacier tourism adaptation resilience sustainability
Web of science
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