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Urban Tourism in the Global SouthClimate Change Threats to Urban Tourism in South Africa

Urban Tourism in the Global South: Climate Change Threats to Urban Tourism in South Africa [A growing body of research has explored the climate change tourism nexus. Changes in climate are posited to result in winners and losers within the tourism sector, as regions, attractions and seasons become increasingly better or worse suited to attracting visitors. Much of this literature has ignored urban tourism. This is in part because the urban setting plays host to many other tourism subsectors which have been considered in the climate change and tourism literature. It is also because urban tourism is often erroneously conflated with business tourism, which is posited to be less, or potentially non-, climate sensitive. This chapter explores the case of ten major cities in South Africa, first considering their climatic suitability for tourism as calculated using the Tourism Climate Index (TCI), demonstrating that nine of the ten destinations are classified as ‘excellent’ in their suitability for tourism. This is followed by tourists’ experiences of weather in these cities as documented in TripAdvisor reviews, where the greatest sensitivity to climate is recorded for Nelspruit at 10% of reviews, and temperature mentioned most frequently in reviews for each city. The chapter then explores the major climate threats to urban tourism in South African cities in the decades to come based on their regional threats. Finally, prospects and challenges for adaptation and resilience-building are considered. Urban tourism in South Africa is indeed at risk of climate change, but the improvements in climatic suitability for individual cities should be maximized in tourism planning.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Urban Tourism in the Global SouthClimate Change Threats to Urban Tourism in South Africa

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Editors: Rogerson, Christian M.; Rogerson, Jayne M.
Fitchett, Jennifer M.
Urban Tourism in the Global South — Jul 14, 2021
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-71546-5
Pages
77 –91
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-71547-2_3
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Abstract

[A growing body of research has explored the climate change tourism nexus. Changes in climate are posited to result in winners and losers within the tourism sector, as regions, attractions and seasons become increasingly better or worse suited to attracting visitors. Much of this literature has ignored urban tourism. This is in part because the urban setting plays host to many other tourism subsectors which have been considered in the climate change and tourism literature. It is also because urban tourism is often erroneously conflated with business tourism, which is posited to be less, or potentially non-, climate sensitive. This chapter explores the case of ten major cities in South Africa, first considering their climatic suitability for tourism as calculated using the Tourism Climate Index (TCI), demonstrating that nine of the ten destinations are classified as ‘excellent’ in their suitability for tourism. This is followed by tourists’ experiences of weather in these cities as documented in TripAdvisor reviews, where the greatest sensitivity to climate is recorded for Nelspruit at 10% of reviews, and temperature mentioned most frequently in reviews for each city. The chapter then explores the major climate threats to urban tourism in South African cities in the decades to come based on their regional threats. Finally, prospects and challenges for adaptation and resilience-building are considered. Urban tourism in South Africa is indeed at risk of climate change, but the improvements in climatic suitability for individual cities should be maximized in tourism planning.]

Published: Jul 14, 2021

Keywords: Cities; Flooding; Droughts; Urban heat island; Tourism climate index

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