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. The successful bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics (Beijing2022, officially known as the XXIV Olympic Winter Games) has greatlystimulated Chinese enthusiasm towards winter sports participation.Consequently, the Chinese ski industry is rapidly booming due to enormousmarket demand and government support. However, investing in ski areas inunreasonable locations will cause problems from an economic perspective (interms of operation and management) as well as geographical concerns (such asenvironmental degradation). Therefore, evaluating the suitability of a skiarea based on scientific metrics has become a prerequisite for thesustainable development of the ski industry. In this study, we evaluate thelocational suitability of ski areas in China by integrating their naturaland socioeconomic conditions using a linearly weighted method based ongeographic information system (GIS) spatial analysis combined with remotesensing, online, and field survey data. The key indexes for evaluatingnatural suitability include snow cover, air temperature, topographicconditions, water resources, and vegetation, whereas socioeconomicsuitability is evaluated based on economic conditions, accessibility oftransportation, distance to a tourist attraction, and distance to a city. Assuch, metrics ranging from 0 to 1 considering both natural and socioeconomicconditions are used to define a suitability threshold for each candidateregion for ski area development. A ski area is considered to be a dismalprospect when the locational integrated index is less than 0.5. The resultsshow that 84 % of existing ski areas are located in areas with anintegrated index greater than 0.5. Finally, corresponding developmentstrategies for decision-makers are proposed based on the multicriteriametrics, which will be extended to incorporate potential influences fromfuture climate change and socioeconomic development. However, the snowmakingmodel with local data should to be used to further analyze the suitabilityfor a specific ski area.

Suitability analysis of ski areas in China: an integrated study based on natural and socioeconomic conditions