The Mountain Tourism Fresko
A climate education game for tourism stakeholders in the Alps
The Mountain Tourism Fresco raises awareness about climate change implications in alpine destinations and promotes behavioral change. Our project addresses both adaptation and root causes of tourism-related emissions (including inbound/outbound tourism, construction, food, equipment). In this game, participants actively engage to increase their climate literacy and co-create solutions for their tourism destination.
"Collective intelligence at the service of regions in transition towards low-carbon tourism"
What can we expect?
Facilitators teams explore cards representing climate change causes and impacts. They collaboratively place these cards on a tourism map, revealing real life cause-effect and adaptation-mitigation relationships. The game concludes with participants defining a shared transition vision and selecting specific climate solutions. The map visualizes climate action concretely, at a local level and in a visual and personalized way, turning them into future-proof climate actors in tourism destinations.
Our interdisciplanary team
We are an interdisciplinary team of social scientists, engineers, energy and tourism managers affiliated with various institutes at HES-SO Valais-Wallis. From right to left:
- Fiona Zimmermann, Senior research associate (IEE)
- Anne Sophie Fioretto, Associate professor HES (ITO)
- Tristan Loloum, Associate professor HES (IEE)
- Ivan Minguez, Research associate (IEE)
