Regional resilience and dependence on tourism in a changing climate

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2024

Authors

Arvela, André Samora (Author) FLUP; Pinto, Patrícia (Author) Other; Panagopoulos, Thomas (Author) Other; Vaz, Eric (Author) Other; Ferreira, Jorge (Author) Other; Pina, Helena (Author) FLUP; Pinto, Diogo Miguel (Author) FLUP

Book

Title: Tourism and climate change in the 21st century: challenges and solutions

Pages: 117-142

ISBN: 978-3-031-59430-4 (hbk); 978-3-031-59433-5 (pbk)

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-031-59431-1

Publisher: Springer Nature

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-59431-1_6

Abstract (EN): The Algarve region, which socio-economy is mostly based on Sun and Sea tourism, may experience a decline due to the loss of beach area as a tourist resource because of sea level rise. As such, an adaptation pathway to enhance the regional resilience of Mediterranean regions such as the Algarve is necessary in a changing climate. Thereby, knowing that the sector diversification conduces to a regional resilience enhancement, a reduction in the Sun and Sea tourism suitability in the Algarve region could be compensated by a strategy of economic diversification, supported by sustainable touristic products, inherently contributing to increment regional resilience and to avoid the decline considering future degradations. Therefore, a paramount opportunity lies in finding nature-based, cultural, and creative tourism products to be promoted to ensure resilient long-term prosperity through economic diversification. This chapter aims to present strategic guidelines for tourism diversification for other tourism products for the Algarve region in a changing climate. Thus, a survey was applied to 400 tourists and to 400 residents, and a Delphi survey was conducted to 3 experts, 7 decision-makers, and 15 tour operators in order to assess which tourism pathways should be followed for the sustainable development of this region.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

Notes: Abstracted and indexed in: 1. Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series; 2. Research Papers in Economics (RePEc); 3. SCImago; 4. SCOPUS; 5. zbMATH