Artificial Snowmaking: Winter Sports Between State-Owned Company Policy and Tourist Demand
Abstract
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.
Keywords:
artificial snowmaking / correlation / ski pass / price / public / policy / KopaonikSource:
Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, 2021, 45, 7, 1170-1187Publisher:
- Sage Publications Inc, Thousand Oaks
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DOI: 10.1177/1096348020957072
ISSN: 1096-3480
WoS: 000570674600001
Scopus: 2-s2.0-85091063100
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Geografski fakultetTY - JOUR AU - Joksimović, Marko AU - Gajić, Mirjana AU - Vujadinović, Snežana AU - Milenković, Jelena AU - Malinić, Vladimir PY - 2021 UR - https://gery.gef.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/4 AB - 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. PB - Sage Publications Inc, Thousand Oaks T2 - Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research T1 - Artificial Snowmaking: Winter Sports Between State-Owned Company Policy and Tourist Demand VL - 45 IS - 7 SP - 1170 EP - 1187 DO - 10.1177/1096348020957072 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_gery_4 ER -
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Joksimović, M., Gajić, M., Vujadinović, S., Milenković, J.,& Malinić, V.. (2021). Artificial Snowmaking: Winter Sports Between State-Owned Company Policy and Tourist Demand. in Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research Sage Publications Inc, Thousand Oaks., 45(7), 1170-1187. https://doi.org/10.1177/1096348020957072 https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_gery_4
Joksimović M, Gajić M, Vujadinović S, Milenković J, Malinić V. Artificial Snowmaking: Winter Sports Between State-Owned Company Policy and Tourist Demand. in Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research. 2021;45(7):1170-1187. doi:10.1177/1096348020957072 https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_gery_4 .
Joksimović, Marko, Gajić, Mirjana, Vujadinović, Snežana, Milenković, Jelena, Malinić, Vladimir, "Artificial Snowmaking: Winter Sports Between State-Owned Company Policy and Tourist Demand" in Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, 45, no. 7 (2021):1170-1187, https://doi.org/10.1177/1096348020957072 ., https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_gery_4 .