International projects
Transitions to Sustainable Ski Tourism in the Alps of Tomorrow
Researchers (5)
Organisations (1)
Abstract
Nowadays, Mountain Resort StakeHolders face a common challenge in coping with climate change
effects on the socio-economic fabric, while often feeling isolated, due to a lack of frame of reference
for action.
Given the strong dependence of the winter tourism industry on climatic conditions and the effects
climate change on mountains, the TranStat project aims to facilitate the adoption of co-constructed
transition processes in Mountain Resorts (MR), understood as ski resorts and their territory. It aims
to promote the implementation of new touristic, economic, social and environmental development
models to enhance a lively future in alpine mountain areas, with the aim of sustainability. TranStat
will address this overall issue through the development of a physical & digital network of resorts in
transition (comprising a diversity of ski resorts, including small (vulnerable) and large MRs) to share
knowledge and experience and to reduce the isolation of resort managers and local StakeHolders
(SH). This original project will bring Academics and StakeHolders, including citizens, to work together
in a few MRs, called Living Labs (LL) in a participatory approach in order to identify the challenges to
be addressed, and to elaborate scenarios and co-constructed solutions. In each LL, we will build
future development scenarios based on economic evaluation, ecological solutions, social behaviour
analysis, climate change monitoring and implement and test solutions. We will also create new tools
and methodologies adressing the needs of MR in transition as well as reproducible processes of
transition for other mountain regions.Having a holistic vision of the Alps, this transnational project
will propose policy briefs at local and at alpine scale. It will support the adoption of policies at
regional and national levels to foster the implementation of transition processes in order to integrate
economic diversification and quality of life for the population.
