Tourist Perceptions of Climate Change Impacts on Mountain Ecotourism in Southern Mexico

IF 1.2 Q3 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Tourism and Hospitality Management-Croatia Pub Date : 2023-08-23 DOI:10.3390/tourhosp4030028

Ginger G. Deason, E. Seekamp, A. Terando, Camila Rojas

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Climate change impacts on tourism are well documented, with most studies focusing on challenges facing ski or beach tourism. While non-ski, mountain tourism accounts for almost one fifth of tourism worldwide, there is a dearth of research on tourists’ perceptions of climate change impacts and their effects on tourism demand in these areas. This study, conducted at the ecotourism destination of the Pueblos Mancomunados in the Sierra Norte Mountains of southern Mexico, helps to fill that gap by identifying important tourist decision factors and determining how tourists’ decisions to visit may change under different climatic conditions. Using on-site intercept survey research methodology involving 188 tourists, we found that some climate change scenarios affect tourists’ perceptions of the desirability of visiting nature-based tourism sites. Results indicate that community-based ecotourism businesses, such as the one that operates in the Pueblos Mancomunados, need to specifically plan for climate change impacts, as they may need to alter tourism offerings to sustain demand.

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气候变化对墨西哥南部山地生态旅游影响的游客认知

气候变化对旅游业的影响有很好的记录，大多数研究都集中在滑雪或海滩旅游面临的挑战上。虽然非滑雪山地旅游占全球旅游的近五分之一，但缺乏关于游客对气候变化影响及其对这些地区旅游需求影响的看法的研究。这项研究是在墨西哥南部Sierra north Mountains的Pueblos Mancomunados生态旅游目的地进行的，通过确定重要的旅游决策因素和确定游客在不同气候条件下的旅游决策如何变化，有助于填补这一空白。通过对188名游客的现场拦截调查研究方法，我们发现一些气候变化情景会影响游客对自然旅游景点的可取性的感知。结果表明，以社区为基础的生态旅游企业，如在普韦布洛人曼科纳多斯经营的生态旅游企业，需要专门规划气候变化的影响，因为他们可能需要改变旅游产品以维持需求。

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1.90

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15 weeks

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