Major events have increasingly become the subject of tourism destination promotion and have grown in importance in driving
tourism demand in recent years. However, the staging of major tourist events has not only led to increased CO2
emissions in Austria, the events themselves have also been affected by climate change. The paper at hand is based on a data
collection and review process which covered the relevant peer reviewed and grey literature. This comprehensive process was
based on, and was open to, contributions by the full scientific community of relevant Austrian researchers and experts. The
compilation process of the report followed quality standards such as the involvement of international partners as review editors
within the review process. In addition, the literature was surveyed to integrate the international state of the art. The paper
discusses the relationship between events and climate change by looking at mitigation measures on the one hand as well as
adaptive strategies taken by event organizers on the other. However, a significant lack of objective information and data
as well as appropriate scientific studies also became obvious in this process. Against this background main tasks and challenges
for further research are identified and discussed. The paper closes with managerial implications for the organization of major
events.
The aim of this case study was to conduct a participatory approach to socioeconomic scenario development in the city of Lienz
(East Tyrol) and to suggest this process-oriented approach as an element of an integrated guiding and decision support tool
for local resilience and risk management to policy makers, business leaders, and civil society. The paper takes a socio-economic
perspective and describes the settings of the case study, the process, and approach taken for co-creating two distinct normative
socio-economic scenario narratives for the city of Lienz: a desirable or resilient future and an undesirable or stagnant future.
Results are presented as sector-specific scenario narratives. Matching the local scenario narratives with the global shared
socioeconomic pathways, it derives that local peculiarities such as population decline due to outmigration trends or decentralised
manufacturing industry and educational institutions were judged to be critical factors in securing local resilience for a
prospering future.
Die Untersuchung der verfügbaren und von den Wiener Tourismusunternehmen genutzten Unternehmensförderungen umfasst neben einer
Beschreibung der Förderinstrumente verschiedener Institutionen auch eine deskriptive statistische Analyse der in der Vergangenheit
gewährten Fördermittel. Qualitative und quantitative Informationen dienen in der Folge einer ersten groben Bewertung des bestehenden
Fördersystems. Die volkswirtschaftliche Bedeutung der Tourismusaufwendungen und der daraus generierten direkten Wertschöpfungseffekte
in Wien wird auf der Basis des Tourismus-Satellitenkontos dargestellt und mit den Ergebnissen für Österreich insgesamt verglichen.
This paper is the first to apply an econometric shift-share model to tourism. The approach allows us to isolate the growth
contributions of changes in regional touristic attractiveness from those induced by the structure of visitors, but does not
share the caveats of the conventional shift-share approach. Our application to regional tourism in Austria reveals important
results: First, differences in long-run performance between regions are mostly related to idiosyncratic changes in the tourist
appeal of individual regions rather than a result of more or less favourable structures of visitors. Second, none of several
mega-events during the period observed seem to have left prolonged positive effects on the tourist performance of the host
regions. And third, performance appears uncorrelated with tourism intensity of a region. Thus, from a policy and destination
management perspective, tourism authorities and local suppliers should mainly focus on upgrading the permanent destination
attractiveness rather than investing too much effort into landing mega-events or targeting the visitor mix toward promising
source markets.
