Abstract
Climate change leads to a variety of extreme weather conditions such as heat waves, unusual cold weather, and heavy rain, which always ends up with serious disasters. It could have a tremendous impact on a lot of industries in the world. The tourist industry, that plays a vital role in the global economy, has faced serious impacts from climate change in many tourist attractions, e.g., national parks, mountain areas, and beaches. The travel behavior of visitors has been changed under various climate change conditions. To understand the influence degrees of tourists on climate change factors, this study aimed to analyze whether there is difference in the influence of climate change on socio-demographic background, travel activities, travel intention, and the revisit intention attitude of tourists with different degrees of place attachment to Wuling National Forest Recreation Area. This study further investigated whether the climate change adaptation strategies offered by the park manager would have a positive influence on travel intention of tourists. The results of this study showed that except for heat waves, events related to climate change such as stronger typhoon, heavy rain, unusual cold weather condition, mud sliding, forest fire, and the appearance of mosquitos would have a negative influence on travel intention, especially for the tourists with a low degree of place attachment. In addition, if the park manager offers strategies to adapt to climate change conditions, these strategies would have a positive influence on travel intention.
Highlights
Global climate change is a problem of grave concern
As global climate conditions continue to be worsened in the foreseeable future, tourism resources will inevitably become subject to the effects of climate conditions, altering tourists’ frequency and travel intention [4,5,6]
The questionnaire survey was conducted between 4 August and 6 August 2018, at Wuling National Forest Recreation Area, and web-based questionnaires were administered between 15 August and 29 August 2018
Summary
Global climate change is a problem of grave concern. The General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) identified it as the most pressing issue that the world must address this century. The frequency of extreme weather conditions such as heatwaves, droughts, rainstorms, and hurricanes has increased [1]. These factors affect the time and location of outdoor tourism and nature sightseeing activities [2,3]. Climate change has different consequences across different parts of the world, which results in the variation of tourism destination attractiveness and tourist activities [5]. Earlier research studied how tourism demand in different locations would be affected by climate change conditions, such as in national parks [7,8], mountain trails and ski resorts [9,10,11], and beaches and shorelines [12,13].
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