Climate services for tourism: Insights from Caribbean Small Island Developing States

Mahon, Roché; Petrie, Jodi-Ann; Trotman, Adrian; Eyzaguirre, J; Burrowes, Ravidya; Matthews, Lindsay; Meerbeeck, Cédric J. Van; Charles, Amanda

doi:10.1016/j.cliser.2021.100262

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“…Everything that reaches the Orinoco River affects the water quality and species of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean (Rivero and Liu, 2020) including marine litter. According to Hardestry et al (2021), Venezuela (Orinoco), is ranked eighth in the list of topmost polluted countries globally.…”

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“…While the influx of tourists generates income and employment it also threatens St. Lucia's coastal and marine ecosystems and economy. Harasymiw (2021), describes the litter situation in St Lucia as an "environmental headache" for the country. The author uses cruise lines as an example to portray the connections between tourism and litter in the marine environment.…”

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The marine litter issue in the Windward Islands- a pathway to responses using the DPSIR framework

Graham

2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Marine litter is an important and worldwide concern that should be deeper analysed. It also requires information from all over the world and especially in less studied areas like small islands developing states, e.g., the Windward Islands of the Eastern Caribbean. This study analyses the issue of marine litter in the English-speaking Windward Islands using the Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework. The research is based on a bibliographical review and analysis of scientific and grey literature regarding these islands and the Wider Caribbean Region at large. The Windward Islands present a unique situation because of their geographic location in the south-eastern Caribbean, socio-economic status, and strong external influences. The DPSIR Framework was used to frame and assess the major types, causes and effects of marine litter for the Windward Islands by reviewing current scientific and grey literature. The major solid waste item retrieved from the coastal and marine environment is fishing gear in the case of Dominica and plastic waste for the other islands. The challenges in current and proposed management measures were identified. Proposed solutions in the form of responses were tailored to meet each casual and effect component of the DPSIR framework. The study strongly recommends that the islands make use of their existing participation in global agreements and initiatives, participate more actively in the negotiations for the upcoming Global Plastics Treaty set to launch in 2024, and tackle their mutual need for effective solid waste management systems and infrastructure and increased recycling efforts or opportunities. These measures could undoubtedly pave a way to the achieving a cleaner and healthier ocean.

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Section: Overview Of Geographical Vulnerabilitiesmentioning

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The marine litter issue in the Windward Islands- a pathway to responses using the DPSIR framework

Graham

2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…In this way, agricultural yields can be improved through weather forecasts by providing farmers with timely information. Moreover, attendance at tourist sites is highly dependent on weather conditions (Mahon et al 2021 ). Also, attendance varies depending on temperature and sunshine or rainfall.…”

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Modeling and implementation of a low-cost IoT-smart weather monitoring station and air quality assessment based on fuzzy inference model and MQTT protocol

Fahim

Mhouti

Boudaa

et al. 2023

Model. Earth Syst. Environ.

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The automatic weather system serves to inform farmers, tourists, planners, and others with precise information to help them take the appropriate action. Today, with the advancement of smart technologies, the system has evolved into many sensing methods to gather real-time climate data. This article investigates the modeling and implementation of a low-cost weather station device that also functions to measure air quality. The proposed system based on the Internet of Things (IoT) allows access to real-time climate data for a given area. This system monitors environmental conditions such as ambient temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, altitude, and levels of harmful atmospheric gases like CO 2 and NO 2 . This real-time telemetry device uses MQ-135, DHT-11 and BMP280 sensors to gather data. The ESP32 board processes the obtained data from all sensors. Additionally, we present a model for a fuzzy inference system (FIS) that performs parameter categorization using a reasoning procedure and incorporates the results into an air quality index (AQI) that describes the levels of pollution for Al Hoceima city. The FIS takes CO 2 and NO 2 values as input and returns the AQI. The AQI for Al Hoceima city is categorized into six levels: Excellent , Good , Regular , Bad , Dangerous , and Very Dangerous . Furthermore, the suggested system's block hardware employs the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol to broadcast collected data to a mobile and web application via the Internet. The suggested IoT-embedded device was tested in real life, and the results were promising.

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“…Equally important is the targeted 'market' segment, namely the characteristics of the final users (tourists) (e.g., what type of destinations are preferred; which are the preferred climate characteristics during vacation; influence of knowledge on climate at destination on selecting travel period and/or destination). The studies regarding the development of climates services for tourism investigate similar aspects, but with attention to stakeholders needs or considering as end-users the (local) authorities and investors in tourism (e.g., Martinez et al, 2022;Mahon et al, 2021;Swart et al, 2021). An overview of climates services providers in Europe (independent of the targeted socio-economic sector) is provided by (Cortekar et al, 2020) and it highlights that the main targets of climate services are public decisionmakers, followed by researchers, general public and industry.…”

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Rating Tourists' Interest in Tourism-Tailored Climate and Environmental Products

Velea

Gallo

Udriștioiu

et al. 2022

JoTS

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The scientific literature comprises a relatively large palette of studies focusing on tourist preferences regarding the weather and climate at the destination. However, the findings do not allow for establishing a hierarchy of climate and environmental features of interest for tourism based on destination type (urban/rural/mountain/seaside), but mainly to list them. We aim to identify some characteristics of a potential climate service targeting tourists by addressing in particular three aspects: 1. which are the weather, climate and/or environmental features most commonly marked as of interest in the general case of 'any destination type' and for the particular case of rural destinations; 2. which are the delivery and presentation forms of greatest interest; 3. how willing would be the tourists to pay for such a service. To this end, we used a questionnaire with five closed questions regarding these aspects, disseminated in Romania and Italy. The results confirm some expectations based on scientific literature and highlight the user interest in information encompassing several climates and/or environmental aspects, preferably in one single product. The results may be valuable for developing and providing effective tourism-oriented climate and environmental products and contribute to a better user uptake of such products and services.

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Climate services for tourism: Insights from Caribbean Small Island Developing States

Cited by 17 publications

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The marine litter issue in the Windward Islands- a pathway to responses using the DPSIR framework

The marine litter issue in the Windward Islands- a pathway to responses using the DPSIR framework

Modeling and implementation of a low-cost IoT-smart weather monitoring station and air quality assessment based on fuzzy inference model and MQTT protocol

Rating Tourists' Interest in Tourism-Tailored Climate and Environmental Products

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