Originally published:2010-05 as Land Environment and People Research Report ; no. 20 by Lincoln University. Faculty of Environment, Society and Design. and available at https://researcharchive.lincoln.ac.nz/handle/10182/578
This report is part of a larger project “Preparing the tourism sector for climate change”, which seeks
to identify which parts of the tourism sector are most vulnerable to climate variability and change,
and what adaptation measures could be put in place to reduce vulnerability. Climate and weather
are important factors in tourists’ decision making and also influence the successful operation of
tourism businesses. While tourists might expect certain climatic conditions, they will experience the
actual weather, which might deviate quite substantially from the average conditions. Hence, in the
first place tourists and tourism businesses are likely to be affected by weather conditions, although in
the long term these will follow systematic changes as projected under different climate change
scenarios. Some of the changes in New Zealand include warmer temperatures, less frost and snow,
more precipitation in the West and drier conditions in the East, as well as an increase in heavy
precipitation in many regions.[Show full abstract]
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