Artificial Snowmaking: Winter Sports Between State-Owned Company Policy and Tourist Demand
| Autor: | Snežana Vujadinović, Vladimir Malinić, Jelena Milenković, Mirjana Gajić, Marko Joksimović |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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State owned
Natural resource economics artificial snowmaking 05 social sciences public Investment (macroeconomics) price Education Tourism Leisure and Hospitality Management correlation 0502 economics and business 050211 marketing Kopaonik Business Snowmaking Adaptation (computer science) 050212 sport leisure & tourism Tourism ski pass Ski resort policy |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research |
| Popis: | Due to changing climatic conditions, artificial snowmaking has become a major method of ski resort adaptation globally. It is a financially intensive operation requiring high start-up investment and involving operating costs that are dependent on weather conditions. Operational costs and the expansion of artificial snowmaking systems increase the price of ski passes. In our work, we analyzed the operations of a public company that operates the largest ski resorts in Serbia and directs the flow of winter sports tourism. We tried to determine, by means of correlation, the extent to which ski pass prices in the biggest winter resort in Serbia are influenced by factors such as natural snow cover, number of tourist overnights, ski run length, and local wages. The results of the survey indicate an increasing transformation of the ski resort into a thematic attraction independent of climatic factors in terms of determining ski pass prices. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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