Abstract
The evaluation of climate comfort for tourism can provide information for tourists selecting destinations and tourism operators. Understanding how climate conditions for tourism evolve is increasingly important for strategic tourism planning, particularly in rapidly developing tourism markets like China in a changing climate. Multidimensional climate indices are needed to evaluate climate for tourism, and previous studies in China have used the much criticized “climate index” with low resolution climate data. This study uses the Holiday Climate Index (HCI) and daily data from 775 weather stations to examine interregional differences in the tourist climate comfortable period (TCCP) across China and summarizes the spatiotemporal evolution of TCCP from 1981 to 2010 in a changing climate. Overall, most areas in China have an “excellent” climate for tourism, such that tourists may visit anytime with many choices available. The TCCP in most regions shows an increasing trend, and China benefits more from positive effects of climate change in climatic conditions for tourism, especially in spring and autumn. These results can provide some scientific evidence for understanding human settlement environmental constructions and further contribute in improving local or regional resilience responding to global climate change.
Highlights
As tourism becomes one of the largest and fastest growing global industries, it has been playing an extremely important role in promoting national and leisure economic development around the world [1]
Spatial Pattern of tourist climate comfortable period (TCCP) in China. e area-weighted mean TCCP (HCI ≥ 80) for the regions of mainland China was obtained by iessen polygon through ArcGIS 10.2 software. e TCCP lasts for 131.38 days, of which the summer (June-August) has the highest TCCP, with the TCCP reaching 53.83 days, accounting for 41% of the annual climate comfort period (Table 4)
Conclusion. e Holiday Climate Index (HCI) is a widely used indicator to assess the climate comfortable period on tourism. is paper presents an empirical analysis of the climate impact on tourism in China during the period of 1981–2010, by combining high-quality national meteorological datasets with ArcGIS
Summary
As tourism becomes one of the largest and fastest growing global industries, it has been playing an extremely important role in promoting national and leisure economic development around the world [1]. As shown in the International Tourism Highlights Report (UNWTO, 2019), Travel and Tourism is a key sector in promoting economic development and job creation throughout the world. From China tourism statistics in 2019, the direct contribution of travel and tourism to China’s economy and society employment reached 11.04% and 10.31%, respectively. Along with its steady economic development, China steps into a period of fast development in tourism. Climate change fundamentally influences the pattern of global tourism development, and climate change-related tourism issues have attracted more and more attention [4,5,6]
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