Author Identifier

Ghialy Yap: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7996-8019

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Title

Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

School

School of Business and Law

Publication Unique Identifier

10.1080/10941665.2025.2480097

RAS ID

78465

Funders

2020 Small Seed Grant from the Markets and Services Research Centre (MASRC), School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University

Comments

Yap, G., & Bassil, C. (2025). The effect of climate change on different types of international visitors in Western Australia. Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10941665.2025.2480097

Abstract

This paper examines the effects of climate change on tourist arrivals to Western Australia, which we classify according to the purpose of their visit (business, education, holiday, visitors of friends and relatives (VFR), and employment). We construct a temperature variability indicator that measures the deviation of extreme temperatures from the average temperature. Overall, the results reveal that temperature variabilities have long-term diminishing effects on tourist arrivals, specifically VFR, visitors for employment and education. Surprisingly, unusually low-temperature variability negatively affects tourist arrivals more than unusually high-temperature variability. This suggests that cooler temperatures than expected could lead to tourists’ dissatisfaction and reduce the perceived attractiveness of the destination.

DOI

10.1080/10941665.2025.2480097

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

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