Do changes in snow conditions have an impact on snowmaking investments in French Alps ski resorts?

This study investigates the relationship between snow conditions and snowmaking investments for over 100 French Alps ski resorts. Investment trends represent a critical issue in capital-intensive sectors such as the ski industry. The data are based on snow reliability indicators and snowmaking inves...

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Autores principales: Berard-Chenu, Lucas, Cognard, Jonathan, François, Hugues, Morin, Samuel, George, Emmanuelle
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020
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Special Issue: Climate, Tourism and Recreation
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8116227/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32462226
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00484-020-01933-w
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author Berard-Chenu, Lucas
Cognard, Jonathan
François, Hugues
Morin, Samuel
George, Emmanuelle
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description This study investigates the relationship between snow conditions and snowmaking investments for over 100 French Alps ski resorts. Investment trends represent a critical issue in capital-intensive sectors such as the ski industry. The data are based on snow reliability indicators and snowmaking investments covering 1997–2014. Descriptive statistics reveal that snowmaking has been the second investment item for ski resorts regardless of the elevation or ski resort size. The study finds that snowmaking investments are highly negatively correlated to snow conditions of the prior year for small and medium-sized ski resorts. Other factors are also likely to play a significant role in driving snowmaking investment dynamics.
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spelling pubmed-81162272021-05-13 Do changes in snow conditions have an impact on snowmaking investments in French Alps ski resorts? Berard-Chenu, Lucas Cognard, Jonathan François, Hugues Morin, Samuel George, Emmanuelle Int J Biometeorol Special Issue: Climate, Tourism and Recreation This study investigates the relationship between snow conditions and snowmaking investments for over 100 French Alps ski resorts. Investment trends represent a critical issue in capital-intensive sectors such as the ski industry. The data are based on snow reliability indicators and snowmaking investments covering 1997–2014. Descriptive statistics reveal that snowmaking has been the second investment item for ski resorts regardless of the elevation or ski resort size. The study finds that snowmaking investments are highly negatively correlated to snow conditions of the prior year for small and medium-sized ski resorts. Other factors are also likely to play a significant role in driving snowmaking investment dynamics. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-05-28 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8116227/ /pubmed/32462226 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00484-020-01933-w Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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title_short Do changes in snow conditions have an impact on snowmaking investments in French Alps ski resorts?
title_sort do changes in snow conditions have an impact on snowmaking investments in french alps ski resorts?
topic Special Issue: Climate, Tourism and Recreation
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8116227/
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