About this Research Topic
Climate and landscape are essential priorities for many tourists when choosing a destination and anticipating its attractiveness. The negative impacts of climate change on destination landscapes and the potential to influence tourists' destination choices pose a severe threat to the viability and sustainability of many destinations worldwide. Destination landscape change and choice are new features of tourism marketing and management organizations in response to the increasingly complex challenges and opportunities of climate change. These features change the supply and demand among destination resources, industries, and tourists, further significantly impacting the tourist experiences. In addition, destination impact, marketing, landscape management, and environmentally responsible behavior of tourists may contribute to the importance of competition in the tourism and hospitality industries.
To address the changes in the destination landscape and tourist behavior due to climate change, tourism and hospitality, academia, and industry must consider several potentially important issues. These include the concepts and theoretical frameworks, the impact of possible changes in destination landscapes on destination choice, tourism planning and management in response to landscape risk in tourism destinations, the relationship between tourists’ destination choices and sustainability under the influence of climate change, tourist experience, and environmentally responsible behavior, and big data collection and data mining of tourism resources. Therefore, this collection aims to understand the impact of climate change on destination landscapes and tourist destination choices. Its ultimate goal to improve the benefits and incomes of tourism stakeholders and local communities, thus enhancing the tourism’s and hospitality industries’ sustainability.
The scope of the collection is to promote a multi- or interdisciplinary perspective on the relationship between climate change and destination landscape change/choice. This collection welcomes original, conceptually and empirically qualitative and quantitative research articles that offer significant contributions to knowledge on, but not limited to, the following topics:
• Sustainable destination development
• Climate change and destination management
• Destination landscape change
• Destination choice
• Tourist behavior
• Tourist experience
• Destination landscape aesthetics, perception and values
• Community industry development in tourism
• Natural and cultural landscapes in tourism
• Destination landscape value and perception
• Entrepreneurship in tourism
• Landscape visualization and stimulation
• Sustainable landscape
• Big data and data mining
To address the changes in the destination landscape and tourist behavior due to climate change, tourism and hospitality, academia, and industry must consider several potentially important issues. These include the concepts and theoretical frameworks, the impact of possible changes in destination landscapes on destination choice, tourism planning and management in response to landscape risk in tourism destinations, the relationship between tourists’ destination choices and sustainability under the influence of climate change, tourist experience, and environmentally responsible behavior, and big data collection and data mining of tourism resources. Therefore, this collection aims to understand the impact of climate change on destination landscapes and tourist destination choices. Its ultimate goal to improve the benefits and incomes of tourism stakeholders and local communities, thus enhancing the tourism’s and hospitality industries’ sustainability.
The scope of the collection is to promote a multi- or interdisciplinary perspective on the relationship between climate change and destination landscape change/choice. This collection welcomes original, conceptually and empirically qualitative and quantitative research articles that offer significant contributions to knowledge on, but not limited to, the following topics:
• Sustainable destination development
• Climate change and destination management
• Destination landscape change
• Destination choice
• Tourist behavior
• Tourist experience
• Destination landscape aesthetics, perception and values
• Community industry development in tourism
• Natural and cultural landscapes in tourism
• Destination landscape value and perception
• Entrepreneurship in tourism
• Landscape visualization and stimulation
• Sustainable landscape
• Big data and data mining
Keywords: Destination sustainability, sustainable tourism, destination management, destination marketing, destination attractiveness, tourism experience, tourism impact, landscape management, environmentally responsible behavior, tourism stakeholder, local communities
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