Implications of Climate Change on Nature-Based Tourism Demand: A Segmentation Analysis of Glacier Site Visitors in Southeast Iceland

Publisher's version (útgefin grein) Since the end of the 20th century, glaciers are shrinking at an accelerated pace worldwide. This fuels the concern that increased glacier recession will lead to changes in the accessibility, safety, and amenity of many popular glacier tourist destinations—whi...

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Published in:Sustainability
Main Authors: Welling, Johannes, Árnason, Þorvarður, Olafsdottir, Rannveig
Other Authors: Líf- og umhverfisvísindadeild (HÍ), Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences (UI), Rannsóknasetur á Hornafirði (HÍ), Research Centre in Hornafjörður (UI), Verkfræði- og náttúruvísindasvið (HÍ), School of Engineering and Natural Sciences (UI), Háskóli Íslands, University of Iceland
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/2134
https://doi.org/10.3390/su12135338
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spelling ftopinvisindi:oai:opinvisindi.is:20.500.11815/2134 2023-05-15T16:21:35+02:00 Implications of Climate Change on Nature-Based Tourism Demand: A Segmentation Analysis of Glacier Site Visitors in Southeast Iceland Welling, Johannes Árnason, Þorvarður Olafsdottir, Rannveig Líf- og umhverfisvísindadeild (HÍ) Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences (UI) Rannsóknasetur á Hornafirði (HÍ) Research Centre in Hornafjörður (UI) Verkfræði- og náttúruvísindasvið (HÍ) School of Engineering and Natural Sciences (UI) Háskóli Íslands University of Iceland 2020-07-01 5338 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/2134 https://doi.org/10.3390/su12135338 en eng MDPI AG Sustainability;12(13) https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/13/5338/pdf Welling, J.; Árnason, Þ.; Ólafsdóttir, R. Implications of Climate Change on Nature-Based Tourism Demand: A Segmentation Analysis of Glacier Site Visitors in Southeast Iceland. Sustainability 2020, 12, 5338. doi:10.3390/su12135338 2071-1050 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/2134 Sustainability doi:10.3390/su12135338 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Glacier tourism Climate change Tourism demand Sustainable tourism Visitor segmentation Loftslagsbreytingar Jöklaferðir Ferðamennska Sjálfbær ferðaþjónusta info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2020 ftopinvisindi https://doi.org/20.500.11815/2134 https://doi.org/10.3390/su12135338 2022-11-18T06:52:02Z Publisher's version (útgefin grein) Since the end of the 20th century, glaciers are shrinking at an accelerated pace worldwide. This fuels the concern that increased glacier recession will lead to changes in the accessibility, safety, and amenity of many popular glacier tourist destinations—which may, in turn, affect the number of tourists visiting these areas. However, tourist responses to climate-induced environmental changes are still not well understood. Therefore, this study assesses the effects of the implications of glacier recession for glacier site visitation demand and examines the heterogeneity of tourists’ responses to these implications for visitation, combining a contingent behavior approach with multivariate cluster analysis. Data were generated from a quantitative survey of 565 visitors to Vatnajökull National Park in southeast Iceland. The results show that climate change induced environmental changes greatly affect nature-based tourism demand, and that the responses of glacier visitors to those changes vary considerably across visitation implications and visitor segments. In order to facilitate future glacier site visitation demand in a sustainable manner, decision-makers and practitioners need to act more proactively and incorporate visitor segment differences into their planning, education, communication efforts and product development. This research was supported by the University of Iceland Eimskip Fund [Háskólasjóðir Eimskipafélags]. Peer Reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper glacier Iceland Vatnajökull Opin vísindi (Iceland) Vatnajökull ENVELOPE(-16.823,-16.823,64.420,64.420) Sustainability 12 13 5338
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topic Glacier tourism
Climate change
Tourism demand
Sustainable tourism
Visitor segmentation
Loftslagsbreytingar
Jöklaferðir
Ferðamennska
Sjálfbær ferðaþjónusta
spellingShingle Glacier tourism
Climate change
Tourism demand
Sustainable tourism
Visitor segmentation
Loftslagsbreytingar
Jöklaferðir
Ferðamennska
Sjálfbær ferðaþjónusta
Welling, Johannes
Árnason, Þorvarður
Olafsdottir, Rannveig
Implications of Climate Change on Nature-Based Tourism Demand: A Segmentation Analysis of Glacier Site Visitors in Southeast Iceland
topic_facet Glacier tourism
Climate change
Tourism demand
Sustainable tourism
Visitor segmentation
Loftslagsbreytingar
Jöklaferðir
Ferðamennska
Sjálfbær ferðaþjónusta
description Publisher's version (útgefin grein) Since the end of the 20th century, glaciers are shrinking at an accelerated pace worldwide. This fuels the concern that increased glacier recession will lead to changes in the accessibility, safety, and amenity of many popular glacier tourist destinations—which may, in turn, affect the number of tourists visiting these areas. However, tourist responses to climate-induced environmental changes are still not well understood. Therefore, this study assesses the effects of the implications of glacier recession for glacier site visitation demand and examines the heterogeneity of tourists’ responses to these implications for visitation, combining a contingent behavior approach with multivariate cluster analysis. Data were generated from a quantitative survey of 565 visitors to Vatnajökull National Park in southeast Iceland. The results show that climate change induced environmental changes greatly affect nature-based tourism demand, and that the responses of glacier visitors to those changes vary considerably across visitation implications and visitor segments. In order to facilitate future glacier site visitation demand in a sustainable manner, decision-makers and practitioners need to act more proactively and incorporate visitor segment differences into their planning, education, communication efforts and product development. This research was supported by the University of Iceland Eimskip Fund [Háskólasjóðir Eimskipafélags]. Peer Reviewed
author2 Líf- og umhverfisvísindadeild (HÍ)
Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences (UI)
Rannsóknasetur á Hornafirði (HÍ)
Research Centre in Hornafjörður (UI)
Verkfræði- og náttúruvísindasvið (HÍ)
School of Engineering and Natural Sciences (UI)
Háskóli Íslands
University of Iceland
format Article in Journal/Newspaper
author Welling, Johannes
Árnason, Þorvarður
Olafsdottir, Rannveig
author_facet Welling, Johannes
Árnason, Þorvarður
Olafsdottir, Rannveig
author_sort Welling, Johannes
title Implications of Climate Change on Nature-Based Tourism Demand: A Segmentation Analysis of Glacier Site Visitors in Southeast Iceland
title_short Implications of Climate Change on Nature-Based Tourism Demand: A Segmentation Analysis of Glacier Site Visitors in Southeast Iceland
title_full Implications of Climate Change on Nature-Based Tourism Demand: A Segmentation Analysis of Glacier Site Visitors in Southeast Iceland
title_fullStr Implications of Climate Change on Nature-Based Tourism Demand: A Segmentation Analysis of Glacier Site Visitors in Southeast Iceland
title_full_unstemmed Implications of Climate Change on Nature-Based Tourism Demand: A Segmentation Analysis of Glacier Site Visitors in Southeast Iceland
title_sort implications of climate change on nature-based tourism demand: a segmentation analysis of glacier site visitors in southeast iceland
publisher MDPI AG
publishDate 2020
url https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/2134
https://doi.org/10.3390/su12135338
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Welling, J.; Árnason, Þ.; Ólafsdóttir, R. Implications of Climate Change on Nature-Based Tourism Demand: A Segmentation Analysis of Glacier Site Visitors in Southeast Iceland. Sustainability 2020, 12, 5338. doi:10.3390/su12135338
2071-1050
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