Tourism-CCIA tool

The Tourism-CCIA tool provides a platform for the analysis of climate change impacts on tourism focusing on trends, seasonality, income and water demand. It serves as: (i) a well-organized repository for storing and visualizing data related to climate and tourism, and (ii) a GIS-based tool for analysing data and performing calculations on the basis of the Tourism Climate Index (TCI, Mieczkowski, 1985), as a measure of the attractiveness of a region for tourism.

The tool has been developed within the framework of the WASSERMed (Water Availability and Security in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean) EC-FP7 Project, Work Package 4.3 .

• Display and spatial analysis of climate and tourism-related data
  • Time series and gridded data
  • Comparison of datasets (different time periods or climate projections for different IPCC scenarios)
• Calculation of the Tourism Climate Index (TCI)
  • Current and projected values
• Assessment of climate change impacts on the tourism sector
  • Regression analysis of TCI to tourism-related parameters
  • Estimation of future tourism pattern (trends and seasonality)
  • Associated impacts on income generation and water demand
• Two scales for analysis: Mediterranean and local

The Tourism-CCIA tool is a Windows Application developed using the Visual Basic .NET programming language. The software requirements are:

• Microsoft® Windows XP Service Pack 2 (32bit or 64bit), Microsoft® Windows Vista (32bit or 64bit) or Microsoft Windows 7 (32bit or 64bit)
• .NET framework 4.0 or above.
• Any version of Microsoft Office Access
• Microsoft Scientific Dataset (SDS) version 1.2.6754.0