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Exploring the Impact of Tourism to the Sustainable Development of Mountain Regions: Implications of the Climatic Conditions
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Author(s): Stefanos Tsiaras (Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Environment, School of Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece)
Copyright: 2017
Volume: 8
Issue: 1
Pages: 15
Source title:
International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems (IJAEIS)
Editor(s)-in-Chief: Frederic Andres (National Institute of Informatics, Japan), Chutiporn Anutariya (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand), Teeradaj Racharak (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)and Watanee Jearanaiwongkul (National institute of Informatics, Japan)
DOI: 10.4018/IJAEIS.2017010102
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Abstract
Sustainable development is difficult to be achieved in mountain regions because of their sensitivity to climate change. The rapid development of mountain tourism worldwide during the last years makes the goal for sustainable mountain tourism even more challenging. Key factor to the development of mountain tourism in Europe was the function of ski centres. According to the spirit of the Brundtland Report ski centres are not in general sustainable, because they may have economic benefits but they negatively affect the other two pillars of sustainability: environment and society. The present paper focuses on a ski resort in Greece, attempting to assess the impact of mountain tourism on the sustainable development of the area. Ski resorts played a crucial role to the bloom of mountain tourism in Greece. Its evolution is a relatively recent phenomenon which has been affected by the economic crisis that afflicts the country in the past years. Demographic data compared with tourism indicators were used to assess the environmental impact of tourism in the area. Moreover, meteorological data were used in order to examine the correlation of climatic conditions and the number of visitors. The results show that the ski centre in Elatohori despite the economic benefits has a major environmental impact, especially because of the increased carbon emissions caused by the visitors of the area. Additionally, the climatic conditions (precipitation and temperature, especially the absolute maximum air temperature) affect the number of visitors.
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