Weather, weekday, and vacation effects on webcam recorded daily visitor numbers in the alpine winter season.

ABSTRACT: Winter tourism is an important economic factor in the European Alps, which could be exposed to severely changing meteorological conditions due to climate change in the future. The extent to which meteorology influences winter tourism figures has so far been analyzed mainly based on monthly or seasonal data and in relation to skier numbers. Therefore, we record for the first time daily visitor numbers at five Bavarian winter tourism destinations based on 1518 webcam images using object detection and link them to meteorological and time-related variables. Our results show that parameters such as temperature, cloud cover or sunshine duration, precipitation, snow depth, wind speed, and relative humidity play a role especially at locations that include other forms of winter tourism in addition

SUBMITTER: Kloos S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10794479 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature