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Transnational Expertise and Local Policies for the Architecture of Spanish Tourism Industry

This chapter discusses the political, economic and spatial encounters between transnational networks and national structures behind the raise of international tourist trade and local industry in the 1960s Spain. Through a cross-reading between the privatiz ...

Routledge2022

Wet Markets and Food Safety: TripAdvisor for Improved Global Digital Surveillance

Sharada Prasanna Mohanty, Martin Mathias Müller

Background: Wet markets are markets selling fresh meat and produce. Wet markets are critical for food security and sustainable development in their respective regions. Due to their cultural significance, they attract numerous visitors and consequently gene ...

2019

Cost and benefits of climate change in Switzerland

Philippe Thalmann, Marc Vielle, Frank Vöhringer, Boris Thurm, Dario Stocker, Wolfgang Knoke, Anita Frehner

Understanding the economic magnitude of climate change impacts is a prerequisite for developing adequate adaptation strategies. In Switzerland, despite new climate scenarios and impact studies, only few impacts have been monetized. Our objective is to asse ...

2019

A General Equilibrium Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Swiss Winter Tourism with Adaptation

Marc Vielle, Camille Gonseth

Winter alpine tourism has been repeatedly identified as one of the economic sectors most at risk from climate change in Switzerland. However, all of the costs that have been estimated so far for the Swiss tourism sector are, to some extent, misleading as t ...

SPRINGER2019

The commodification of alternative cultural spaces

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Letícia Cabeçadas Do Carmo

The commodification of "alternative" cultural spaces is a process that started to take place in several European cities, like Lisbon, for instance. This has happened due to the pressure of the real estate market, tourism trends or the austerity measures im ...

2018

Impacts of climate change for Swiss winter and summer tourism: a general equilibrium analysis

Marc Vielle, Frank Vöhringer, Boris Thurm

Tourism could be greatly affected by climate change due to its strong dependence on weather. In Switzerland, the sector represents an appreciable share of the economy. Thus, studying climate effects on tourism is necessary for developing adequate adaptatio ...

2017

Assessing the impacts of climate change for Switzerland

Philippe Thalmann, Marc Vielle, Frank Vöhringer, Boris Thurm, Sophie Maire, Wolfgang Knoke, Dario Stocker, Anita Frehner

Understanding the economic magnitude of climate change impacts is a prerequisite for developing adequate adaptation strategies. In Switzerland, despite new climate scenarios and impacts studies, only few impacts have been monetized. Our objective is to ass ...

2017

Mitigating the impact of errors in travel time reporting on mode choice modelling

Michel Bierlaire, Aurélie Glerum, Amanda Blomberg Stathopoulos, Giovanni Longo, Silvia Francesca Varotto

Travel time is a major component in understanding travel demand. However, the quantification of demand and forecasting hinges on understanding how travel time is perceived and reported. Travel time reporting is typically subject to errors and this paper fo ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2017

360-Degree Video Head Movement Dataset

Francesca De Simone, Xavier Corbillon

While Virtual Reality applications attract the attention of developers and business analysts, the behavior of users watching 360-degree videos with Head-Mounted Display (HMD) has still to be understood. This paper introduces a dataset of the head movements ...

2017

Impact of snow variability on the Swiss winter tourism sector: implications in an era of climate change

Camille Gonseth

With its numerous mountain regions and its well developed winter tourism infrastructures, Switzerland is a country whose tourism sector is known to be sensitive to snowpack variability. With climate change—which is predicted to have negative impacts on sno ...

Springer Verlag2013

Swiss tourism in the age of climate change : vulnerability, adaptive capacity, and barriers to adaptation

Cecilia Matasci

This thesis analyses the impacts of climate change on Swiss tourism. It looks in particular at the regional vulnerability, adaptation, and barriers that hinder this process. The final goal of the work is to make a contribution in bringing about a smoother ...

EPFL2012

The vulnerability of Swiss Alpine tourism to climate change. An analysis of its causes, its magnitude, and its spatial heterogeneity

Cecilia Matasci

In this work, we analyze the vulnerability of tourism to climate change in 53 Swiss alpine regions. We analyzed in particular the impacts generated by changes in climate suitability for tourism activities, snowpack reduction, glaciers melting, permafrost m ...

Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften2011

Relationship between tourism demand in the Swiss Alps and hot summer air temperatures associated with climate change

Martine Rebetez, Gaëlle Serquet

We quantified the impacts of hot summer air temperatures on tourism in the Swiss Alps by analysing the relationship between temperature and overnight stays in 40 Alpine resorts. Several temperature thresholds were tested to detect the relationship between ...

Springer Netherlands2011

Climate Change and Tourism in Switzerland : Impacts, Vulnerability and Possible Adaptation Measures

Cecilia Matasci, Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera

Climate change is a global phenomenon, but its effects occur on a local scale. An example is provided by tourism. Tourism is closely interlinked with climate change both as culprit and as victim. On the one hand, it is responsible for a large portion of GH ...

Innsbruck University Press2009