Abstract ID: 3.13880 | Accepted as Talk | Talk | TBA | TBA

Thanks to the support of the Interreg Alpine Space ‘BeyondSnow’ project, in the last two years a group of ten mountain winter destinations at low-medium altitude, conjointly devised new sustainable development paths and transition processes to increase their socio-ecological climate resilience. These are mainly small tourist destinations and communities, spatially distributed across six Alpine countries, differing in size, development level and criticalities, which are very dependent economically and socially on the presence of snow. They opted for these adaptation path because, due to Climate Change (CC), it is very likely that snow cover in the Alps will continue to decrease in the future. In addition to the ecological impacts, they must therefore also consider the socio-economic consequences of decreasing snow cover. They need to maintain or increase their attractiveness for inhabitants and tourists. Authors aim at presenting the summary of the ten strategies, one of the main outputs of the BeyondSnow project, including an overview of the CC adaptation measures developed in each of ten areas as well as a summary of the processes undertaken for their development. Indeed, authors believe that what emerged may stimulate further research steps and serve as blueprints for the initiation and continuation of transition processes in other winter destinations and mountain communities for decreasing the snow-dependency of their respective tourism system, strengthening their resilience regarding CC-induced ecologic & socioeconomic effects.