title: Tourism climate and thermal comfort in Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan.
abstract: Bioclimate conditions at Sun Moon Lake, one of Taiwan's most popular tourist destinations, are presented. Existing tourism-related climate is typically based on mean monthly conditions of air temperature and precipitation and excludes the thermal perception of tourists. This study presents a relatively more detailed analysis of tourism climate by using a modified thermal comfort range for both Taiwan and Western/Middle European conditions, presented by frequency analysis of 10-day intervals. Furthermore, an integrated approach (climate tourism information scheme) is applied to present the frequencies of each facet under particular criteria for each 10-day interval, generating a time-series of climate data with temporal resolution for tourists and tourism authorities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Leisure Planning, National Formosa University, 64 Wen-hua Rd, Huwei, Yunlin 632, Taiwan. tplin@nfu.edu.tw
authors.forename: Tzu-Ping
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Matzarakis
mesh_terms: D002980:Climate; D005618:Fresh Water; D006801:Humans; D008685:Meteorological Concepts; D013624:Taiwan; D013696:Temperature; D014195:Travel