In line with the 2030 Agenda of Sustainable Development initiated by the United Nations, a climate-resilient development strategy is in a need for the South African tourism. Following the principles of sustainable tourism development, the empirical analysis in this study intends to discover the dynamic relationship between climate change and tourism demand in South Africa. With the adoption of the “Triple Bottom Line” framework, our findings revealed the essential steps for South Africa to address the environmental, social, and economic factors necessary for the development of a sustainable tourism. By adopting the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach, the present study confirmed that carbon emission leaves a negative impact on the tourism industry in South Africa. Therefore, it is crucial for the tourism practitioners and policy makers to improve the economic efficiency by paying more attention on the carbon dioxide emissions to balance the tourism development and environmental protection for long term sustainable growth for the South African tourism.

In Nederland streven het ministerie van VWS en het ZonMw ondersteuningsprogramma Gezonde Slagkracht bij overgewichtpreventie op lokaal niveau naar een samenhangend en integraal beleid, bij voorkeur volgens de beginselen van de EPODE aanpak. In dit onderzoek is gekeken hoe de EPODE aanpak zich verhoudt tot de praktijk, met als voorbeeld de via Gezonde Slagkracht gesubsidieerde gemeente Raalte. De EPODE aanpak is gestoeld op vier pijlers: politiek draagvlak, stevige wetenschappelijke steun, sociale marketing en publiek-privaat partnerschap. De gemeente Raalte heeft, met de ondersteuning van GGD IJsselland, een goede stap gezet om aansluiting te vinden bij EPODE. De pijlers bestuurlijk draagvlak en publiek-privaat partnerschap blijken relatief eenvoudig ingevuld te kunnen worden. De gemeente is bewust van het belang van deze pijlers en heeft er concrete ideeën voor. De moeilijkste pijlers om te realiseren, blijken wetenschappelijke steun en sociale marketing. Daar heeft de gemeente dan ook extra ondersteuning nodig. De EPODE aanpak biedt via de vier pijlers een nuttig framework om initiatieven te ordenen en mogelijkheden te signaleren. Maar om de aanpak ten volle te kunnen benutten, is een betere en concretere beschrijving van de pijlers nodig, en meer ondersteuning bij de praktische invulling. Voor de ontwikkeling van een succesvolle, lokale, integrale aanpak en het daarvoor benodigde ondersteuningsaanbod is het waardevol om meer te weten over de ontwikkelingen in verschillende gemeenten die met de EPODE aanpak (of de Nederlandse variant: JOGG) bezig gaan met het bevorderen van een gezonde leefstijl.Trefwoorden: EPODE, integrale aanpak, overgewichtpreventie, praktijk Inleiding De prevalentie van overgewicht en obesitas is de afgelopen decennia wereldwijd toegenomen.

In recent years, the competition in the tourism market has become more and more fierce. Tourism destinations need to ensure they have sufficient sources of tourists, and thus, improving their market competitiveness, image, and reputation are particularly important. For this reason, tourism academia has always attached great importance to the study of tourism destination image. Many studies have shown that tourists’ travel behavior is largely influenced by their perception of tourism destinations. Research on heritage tourism from the supply perspective is relatively abundant, whereas not much research has been conducted on the demand side, and the influence of heritage tourism on the perception of a destination’s image has rarely been discussed. This study examines destination image perceptions through three components: cognition, affection, and quality of experience. We propose a conceptual model that clarifies how the quality of experience mediates the formation of cognition and affection with regard to emerging destinations in mainland China. This study employed the PLS-SEM discontinuous two-stage approach, which involved the examination of higher-order constructs (HOCs). The results from a sample of 475 visitors to the ancient city of Qingzhou in mainland China showed that cognition positively influences affection, and they both positively influence the overall image. Quality of experience was shown to be a mediating factor between cognition and affection. Moreover, the variables under quality of experience were confirmed to be consistent with those under cognition.

This study aims to investigate the impacts of climate change on tourism demand in Malaysia. To date, this is the first study to employ the tourism climate index (TCI) and the holiday climate index (HCI) to examine the linkage between climate variables and tourism demand in Malaysia. Both the TCI and the HCI were constructed by integrating several climatic variables – temperature, humidity, precipitation, cloud cover, duration of sunshine, and wind speed into a single numerical index. The climate indexes were theoretically based on the biometeorological literature to reflect human thermal comfort. This paper utilized the effective temperature to measure human thermal comfort based on the ASHRAE-55 standard and employed monthly data from 2010 through 2020. The weather data were gathered from The Weather Online. Meanwhile, the number of international tourist arrivals to Malaysia was collected from the Ministry of Tourism Malaysia. The empirical outcomes of this study show that both the TCI and the HCI illustrated similar trends with the tourist visitation pattern in Malaysia. These results indicate that the climatic conditions potentially affect demand in Malaysia’s tourism industry. Therefore, both the TCI and HCI provide valuable insights to the Malaysian government and key industry players to design tourism policies and products. Lastly, this study also contributes to the literature related to tourism studies.