Abstract:
In this study, the development and characteristics of different tourism attractions in Beijing were reviewed to analyze the weather service needs. According to the results, the classical scenic spots have three demands for meteorological service including the forecast in the ornamental period, the characteristic landscape forecast and some other specialized meteorological service. All the three kinds of needs were considered to be equally important. However, the weather service for “special-topic tourism” are somewhat different. The primary demand is to avoid the weather and secondary disaster. The second requirement is to provide more accurate weather forecasts. The third is improvement of existing products, recommending tourism projects and some other appropriate characteristic service, according to the travel themes, based on the weather conditions. What’s more, we suppose that the different needs for weather service between classical scenic spots and “special-topic tourism” come from mainly the two sources: one is the managers of scenic spots hold different responses to meteorological disasters , another is the level of tourists perceive to the risk, which is influenced by the tourism destination.