Contemporary Challenges of Climate Change, Sustainable Tourism Consumption, and Destination Competitiveness

Timo Ohnmacht is a sociologist at the Institute of Tourism atthe Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. His research focuses onthe interrelation of tourism mobilities and modernity, and leisure and tourismtravel. He studied transportation and sociology at the Technical University ofBerlin, University of Lancaster (UK), and ETH Zurich.Julianna Priskin is a lecturer at the Institute of Tourism at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. She is an expert in sustainable tourism management, having 15 years applied research and consulting experience from Australia, Canada, and Switzerland. She is currently involved with various projects focusing on understanding the demand side of sustainable tourism, including how to effectively market and communicate sustainable tourism products to different tourism markets.Jürg Stettler is a lecturer, Deputy Dean, Head of Institute, and Head of Research at the Institute of Tourism at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. He studied business administration and political economy at the University of Berne. One of the projects he has been involved with in past years includes the analysis of the sustainable effects of the UEFA EURO 2008 tournament in Switzerland.

Researchers examine how cultures and behavior of tourists influence decisions by tourism companies and by local and national governments, at the same time that steps by companies and governments are influencing the actions of tourists. The studies reflect the shift in tourism research from studying relationships to studying outcomes using statistical methods. The topics include antecedents to the performance of mountain ropeway companies: empirical evidence for Switzerland, willingness-to-pay versus actual behavior: sustainable procurement at festivals, territorial planning as a creative tool for the upgrading of cultural tourism, and sustainable tourism development and Thai cultural heritage.

• Chapter 1. 'Sommerfrische' in Times of Climate Change: AQualitative Analysis of Historical and Recent Perceptions of the Term; Fabian Weber, Maria Juschten, Carina Fanninger, Wiebke Unbehaun, Christiane Brandenburg, AlexandraJiricka-Pürrer and Christina CzachsChapter 2. Antecedents to the Performances of MountainRopeway Companies: Empirical Evidence for Switzerland; Philipp Luetolf and Gabrielle WanzenriedChapter 3. Perceived Social–Environmental andEmotional Well-Being as a Benefit of Sustainable Tourism Products and Services; Friederike Vinzenz, Werner Wirth, Julianna Priskin, Sindhuri Ponnapureddy and Timo OhnmachtChapter 4. Willingness to Pay vs. Actual Behaviour: SustainableProcurement at Festivals; Rachel Dodds, Brittany Jenkins, Wayne Smith and Robert E. PittsChapter 5. Tourists' Perceptions of and Intentions toStay at a Capsule Hotel in Bangkok; Natrawan Amornpornwiwat and Supara KapasuwanChapter 6. Territorial Planning as a Creative Tool forthe Upgrading of Cultural; Aleksandra Djukić, Vladan Djokić and Branislav AntonićChapter 7. AConceptual Framework of Commercial Hospitality: Perception of tourists inThailand and Switzerland; Jürg Stettler, Barbara Rosenberg-Taufer, LukasHuck, Anna Amacher Hoppler, Julia Huilla, Jürg Schwarz and Chanin YoopetchChapter8. Sustainable Tourism Development andThai Cultural Heritage; Roberto B. Gozzoli