ABSTRACT

Globally, tourism is being deeply impacted by glacial retreat caused by climate change. However, research on stakeholders’ adaptation to climatic change and its threat to the industry on tourism niche is currently inadequate. Thus, through a literature review of 61 glacier peer-reviewed papers, this paper highlights the advancement in research on glacier tourism and provides some basis for understanding stakeholders’ adaptation strategies to climate change. The review shows that glacier tourism research publications increased between 2015 and 2020. It also identifies some impacts of climate change on the glacier tourism industry as well as 27 adaptation strategies to climatic change, which are classified under seven main themes: changes to access, activities, tourism planning, educational activities, temporal substitutions, spatial substitutions, and glacier shrinkage attenuation. We discuss the relevance of the resilience concept in the tourism industry and recommend that tourists’ experiences should be enhanced by applying the findings of research on tourists’ motivations and landscape perception and developing more adaptation-oriented research. The findings suggest that the glacier tourism industry can reduce its vulnerability to climate change through increased collaboration between tourism operators and climate and tourism researchers.

摘要

在全球范围内，旅游业正受到气候变化导致的冰川退缩的深远影响。但是，有关利益相关者对气候变化的适应及其对旅游业对生态位的威胁的研究目前尚不充分。因此，通过对61篇冰川同行评审论文的文献综述，本文强调了冰川旅游研究的进展，并为了解利益相关者对气候变化的适应策略提供了基础。审查显示，冰川旅游研究出版物在2015年至2020年之间有所增加。它还确定了气候变化对冰川旅游业的一些影响以及27种适应气候变化的战略，这些战略归纳为以下七个主要主题：获取，活动的变化，旅游规划，教育活动，时间替代，空间替代，和冰川收缩衰减。我们讨论了韧性概念在旅游业中的相关性，并建议应通过应用有关游客动机和景观感知的研究结果并开展更多面向适应的研究来增强游客的体验。研究结果表明，冰川旅游业可以通过增加旅游经营者与气候和旅游研究人员之间的合作来减少其对气候变化的脆弱性。