A Questionnaire-based examination of the validity of the tourism climate index for application in South Africa.

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Article in International journal of biometeorology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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2 authors.

Carmen K KgananeSchool of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Jennifer M FitchettSchool of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Jennifer.Fitchett@wits.ac.za.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0854-1720

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tourism Climate Indices have been developed over the past four decades to quantify and classify the climatic suitability of a given destination. However, their development and testing has primarily been conducted in the Global North. The Tourism Climate Index (TCI) was developed based on subjective judgement of scientists, the Holiday Climate Index (HCI

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ClimateTourismCitiesHumansSouth AfricaSurveys and QuestionnairesClimateClimate variablesPreferencesQuestionnairesTourism

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PMID40549192

DOI10.1007/s00484-025-02965-w

PMCPMC12540560

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