Development of summer skiing days in Austrian glacier ski areas in the first two decades of the twenty-first century.

ABSTRACT: Summer skiing on glaciers is a leisure activity highly dependent on natural factors like weather and glacier conditions. While the literature agrees that climate change is shaping the fate of summer skiing, longer time series covering both the supply and demand side of glacier/summer skiing, and research that combines natural and non-natural factors affecting the summer ski market are missing. To close this research gap, we conducted a detailed supply-side analysis of nine Austrian glacier ski areas focusing on the number of operating days (in the summer half-year, as well as for meteorological and astronomical summer ski definitions), show how these numbers evolve over time, test how they correlate with meteorological and glaciological data using time-series regression models on a yearly

SUBMITTER: Mayer M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9525926 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature