#IMC: September 14 – 18 2025

Overtourism and Mountain Huts.

About

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Since 1997, he has been involved in the field of Mountain tourism, with a focus on Mountain huts. He had the opportunity to extend the research scope to territorial areas (Nepal, 2003) and alpine expeditions (K2-2004, Shishapangma, 2005).
In the last decade he has invented the Scatol8® System, a remote sensing network to monitor, display and elaborate environmental and management variables.

Riccardo Beltramo

Prof. @ University of Turin
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Since 1997, he has been involved in the field of Mountain tourism, with a focus on Mountain huts. He had the opportunity to extend the research scope to territorial areas (Nepal, 2003) and alpine expeditions (K2-2004, Shishapangma, 2005).
In the last decade he has invented the Scatol8® System, a remote sensing network to monitor, display and elaborate environmental and management variables.

Riccardo Beltramo

Prof. @ University of Turin

Keynote Details

  • Full Title

    Overtourism in Mountain Huts. A journey in search of evidence.

  • Place of Presentation

    Congress Center Innsbruck

  • Date of Presentation

    TBA

There has been a sharing of news on the media and on social networks relating to an increase in tourism in mountain areas and in particular in alpine refuges. The news reported, in alarming tones, evidence of overexploitation of mountain territories.
In some cases, mountain hut managers have intervened directly in the debate, reporting their experiences and expressing concern about the trend they are witnessing.
This debate arouses the interest of those involved in mountain tourism and has led us to the following questions:

  • Is climate change influencing mountain tourism in mountain huts?
  • Are there new tourists? If yes, is there a change in the demand for services?
  • Is climate change affecting mountain huts? In what way? Are there evidences of it?
  • Is the new demand, if any, sustainable within the climate change constraints?

These are the questions at the base of a survey that has been conducted recently with the collaboration of mountain huts managers over the Italian mountain territories, whose results will be shared and commented.

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