Object's details: Tourist perceptions and attitudes regarding the impacts of climate change on Victoria Falls

Provider:Akademicka Platforma Czasopism

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Title:
Tourist perceptions and attitudes regarding the impacts of climate change on Victoria Falls
Creator:
Dube, Kaitano;
Nhamo, Godwell
Description:
Tourist perceptions are critical in shaping tourism development at a destination. Regardless of the centrality and vulnerability of the tourism industry, tourism geographers have been shying away from perception studies, and more so in Africa. Some of the destinations most vulnerable to climate change and related weather activities are water-based natural resorts. Recent droughts have ignited an intense debate that has brought the future viability of tourism in Victoria Falls into question. Using a mixed-method approach, the study sought to document tourist perceptions and attitudes regarding the impact and future of the Victoria Falls World Heritage Site. It emerged that Victoria Falls is categorised as last-chance tourism. Going forward there is need for continuous resort monitoring, tourism product diversification, and transparency and proper communication, particularly during years of extreme droughts, in order to avoid tourism disruption. Climate change action is a must for all tourism stakeholders to save the resort.
Object availability:
free access
Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ;
Prawa autorskie (c) 2020 Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series
Date:
2020.03.16
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
Mixed Method
Language:
English
Source:
Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series; No. 47 (2020): March; 27-44;
Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series; Nr 47 (2020): March; 27-44;
2083-8298;
1732-4254
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/BGSS/article/view/19152/25081
Subject:
Climate change;
tourism;
perceptions;
waterfalls drying up;
Victoria Falls;
Climate Change
Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/BGSS/article/view/19152
Data provider:
Akademicka Platforma Czasopism

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