Quantifying climatic suitability for tourism in Southwest Indian Ocean Tropical Islands: Applying the Holiday Climate Index to Réunion Island.

Climatic suitability Holiday Climate Index (HCI) Réunion Island SWIO Urban and beach tourism

Journal

International journal of biometeorology

ISSN: 1432-1254

Titre abrégé: Int J Biometeorol

Pays: United States

ID NLM: 0374716

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Date de publication:
14 May 2024

Historique:

received: 29 09 2023

accepted: 07 05 2024

revised: 27 02 2024

medline: 15 5 2024

pubmed: 15 5 2024

entrez: 14 5 2024

Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Climate is a key resource for tourists and tourism providers. Varied approaches to quantifying climate resources for tourism have been developed in the last 40 years, computing indices from a range of meteorological variables to measure the comparative climatic suitability of different destinations through time. This study provides the first application of a tourism climate index in the tropical southwest Indian Ocean, applying the recently developed Holiday Climate Index (HCI) for Réunion Island. The suitability of this index is evaluated for the case of this French department, with a particular focus on air conditioning availability in tourism accommodation establishments as this index excludes night-time thermal comfort. Both iterations of the HCI (HCI

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DOI: 10.1007/s00484-024-02700-x PMID: 38744706

pubmed: 38744706

doi: 10.1007/s00484-024-02700-x

pii: 10.1007/s00484-024-02700-x

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eng

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