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JOURNAL OF MOUNTAIN SCIENCE
Volume 9, Issue 3, Pages 403-413Publisher
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s11629-009-2161-5
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Tourism climate; Tourism climate suitability index (TCSI); Comprehensive evaluation; Qinghai Province; Qinghai-Tibet Plateau; China
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- National Science and Technology Support Plan of China [2009BAH50B01-03]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41171435]
- National Social Science Foundation of China [10zd051]
- Research on Ecotourism Development Planning of Three Rivers Sources Region in Qinghai Province
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Qinghai Province is an important component of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China. Scientific evaluation of the suitability of Qinghai's climate for tourism can contribute to overcoming obstacles posed by climate on sustainable tourism development in Qinghai Province, including disparities between the low and high seasons, high altitude health concerns, and weather events. A tourism climate suitability evaluation model of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is constructed (Tourism Climate Suitability Index, or TCSI), and tourism climate suitability is comprehensively evaluated for Qinghai Province from climate data from 1960 to 2009. Results show that: (I) There is clear distributional characteristics of spatial-temporal variability of TCSI values in Qinghai Province. (II) Tourism climate suitability in Qinghai Province has significant seasonal and regional differences. The year is divided into a very suitable period (July and August), suitable tourism periods (from April and October), less suitable periods (From Nov to Mar). June to August is the most suitable tourism period in Qinghai. Qinghai Province is divided into five levels of tourism climate suitability: most suitable regions, very suitable regions, suitable regions, less suitable regions, and unsuitable region. (III) The key factor which influences regional differences in tourism climatic suitability is atmospheric oxygen. And the key factors which chiefly influence seasonal differences of tourism climate suitability are temperature and humidity, the wind chill factor, and barrier weather.
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