Editorial Office, Journal of Climatology and Weather Forecasting, United Kingdom
Opinion
Analyzing China's Most Comfortable Changing Climate
Author(s): Joew Bedon*
Tourists and tourism operators might choose destinations based on information from an evaluation of climate comfort. Strategic tourist planning is becoming more and more dependent on an understanding of how climate conditions for tourism change, especially in quickly rising tourism markets like China in a changing climate. Prior studies in China employed the widely criticised "climate index" with low-resolution climate data. Multidimensional climate indices are required to evaluate the climate for tourism. This study examines interregional variations in the Tourist Climate Comfortable Period (TCCP) across China using the Holiday Climate Index (HCI) and daily data from 775 weather stations. It also analyses the spatiotemporal evolution of TCCP from 1981 to 2010 under a changing climate. The majority of China's regions have "great" weather for tourism so travelle.. View More»
DOI:
10.35248/2332-2594.22.10(7).359
