The 8th CCTR took place at Thompson Rivers University and online in April 2024.
Details of the two and a half day program of research presentations are below.
PRE-MEETING: pick-up at YVR airport on Monday April 22nd, tour of Vancouver on Monday, tour of the Interior from Vancover to Kamloops via Lilloet on Tuesday, return to YVR on Friday.
April 24th 2024
Breakfast 7:30 - 8:30
breakfast at Hello Toast
8:30 - 8:45am
from the 'Delta Hotels by Marriott Kamloops' hotel
9:00am - 10:30
Welcome to the territory, to TRU, and opening keynote
Keynote Presentation: Professor Daniel Scott
Tourism in a Climate Change Disrupted World: Lessons from the 2023 Stocktake
Break 10:30 - 11:00
refreshments courtesy of TRU's Dean of Adventure, Culinary Arts & Tourism
11:00am - 12:30pm
Courtney Mason & Pate Neumann
Climate change and technological innovation: evolving tourism and recreation policy in British Columbia's backcountry
Harvey Lemelin
Winter is not coming. Hosting winter recreational activities in northwestern Ontario and northeastern Minnesota in the 21st century
Douglas Booth
The power of nature (sports)? From anthropocentrism to ecocentrism
Lunch 12:30 - 1:30
lunch at Taste Kitchen Inc.
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Isabelle Falardeau & Louise Laigroz
"Are we going to push our children towards skiing?" Quebec's ski resorts' climate change adaptation
Cenk Demiroglu, Dorothee Bohn, Pamela Bachmann-Vargas, & Sebastian Ruiz-Pereira
Climate change and cryotourism in South America: a research agenda for ski tourism
Mave Rubiano & Michelle Rutty
Tourism and climate in the global news media
3:15pm - 3:45pm
short tour of TRU campus with focus on sustainability
3:45pm - 4:00pm
from TRU to Delta Hotels by Marriott Kamloops
dinner at the 'Delta Hotels by Marriott Kamloops' hotel 5:00 - 7:00
April 25th 2024
7:00am - 7:15am
information about the journal and the conference special issue
7:15am - 8:45am
Bernard Musyck
Climate change and the development of winter tourism: the case of Kyrgystan
Robert Steiger
How climate change is damaging the US ski industry
Linda Lundmark & Cenk Demiroglu
Shrinking geographies of opportunity, changing mobilities, and a lifestyle at risk of becoming extinct? The case of the "ski bum"
Break 8:45 - 9:00
9:00am - 10:00am
Vivian Cardenas-Hernandez, Jaume Rossello Nadal, & Camilo Melo-Aguilar
Assessing the impacts of extreme weather events on tourism: a storm-based approach using tourism climate indexes
Robert Steiger
Preferences and barriers for public transport use when traveling to a ski destination
Brunch 10:00 - 11:30
brunch at the 'Delta Hotels by Marriott Kamloops' hotel
11:30am - 11:45am
from Delta Hotels by Marriott Kamloops
12:00 - 12:05pm
short overview of 'Livable Cities, Collaborative Communities'
12:05pm - 1:35pm
Kate Hanly
Climbing through climate change in the Canadian Rockies: Guides' experiences of route transformation on Mt. Athabasca
Kerstin Heuwinkel
The role of women in community-based tourism: one starting point to fight climate change?
Emmanuel Salim, Jeanne Fournier, Ephraim Gerber, & Emmanuel Fragniere
Adaptation of summer glacier ski destinations to climate change: a systemic approach in Saas-Fee and Zermatt
Break 1:35- 2:00
2:00pm - 3:45pm
Allison Williams
Nature-based tourism as therapeutic landscapes in a COVID era: Autoethnographic learnings from a visitor's experience in Iceland
Jake Ferguson, Grant Gunn, & Michelle Rutty
Simulated effects of changing climate on viability of over-lake Ontario snowmobiling trails
Kyara Simoes, Daniel Scott, & Michelle Rutty
The climate change readiness of Canadian sports organizations
David Perkins & Susan Phuyal
Utilizing synoptic scale climate data within sustainable tourism development
Break 3:45 - 3:50pm
3:50pm - 5:20pm
Emmanuel Salim, Anne-Sophie Crepeau, Jacques Mourey, & Philipp Sacher
Climate change impacts on motivations, perceptions and adaptation of recreational alpinists
Scott Peters
The tourism-water-management nexus
Michelle Rutty, Francesca Cardwell, & Grant Gunn
Snowmobiling and record warm winters: Industry impact and snowmobiler adaptation
5:30pm - 5:45pm
from TRU to the 'Delta Hotels by Marriott Kamloops' hotel
Social Event Downtown Kamloops 7:00 - 9:00
food and drinks at Red Collar Brewing & Distilling Co.
April 26th 2024
7:00am - 9:00am
Ayse Selin Dulger & Selma Meydan Uygur
Building Adaptive Capacities to Climate Change in UNESCO Turkey World Heritage Sites through Sustainable Tourism
Pauline Metzinger
Climate change and winter sports tourism: types of adaptation to climate change in Bavarian ski areas
Vera Vinogradova & Tatyana Titkova
Climate change and snow cover at Russian ski resorts at the beginning of the 21st century
Ankit Kumar, Sumiran Maheshwari, & Ranjeet Kumar Raman
Mapping stakeholders' perception of destination resilience to climate change: a case study of the Andaman Islands
Breakfast 9:00 - 10:00
breakfast at the Delta Hotels by Marriott Kamloops hotel
10:00am - 12:00pm
Martin Falk & Eva Hagsten
Current and potential threats from climate change are increasing for natural World Heritage Sites
Attila Kovacs
Assessment of observed and expected climate exposure of tourism sector in Hungary
Robert Nilsson
Climate change vulnerability of dogsledding recreation and tourism in time of Arctification: a case study of Arctic Sweden
Hiran Roy, Michael Lever, & Subhajit Das
Tourism, climate change, and adaptation: a study on British Columbia, Canada
11:55am - 12:00pm
short closing comments reflecting on the conference
Lunch 12:00 - 1:00
lunch at the The Art We Are Cafe