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03 March 2025
WUITIPS guidelines: Enhancing tourist safety in wildfire-prone areas
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The WUITIPS project published a comprehensive guide in May 2025 to enhance tourist safety during wildfire emergencies in wildland-urban interface zones, focusing on understanding and improving human behaviour and decision-making.
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Coordinated information on travelling
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Governance of tourism destinations
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The WUITIPS project, which aims to advance a harmonised understanding of wildfire issues in tourist areas, has released a comprehensive guide to enhance human protection in wildland-urban interface zones. This guide, published in May 2025, focuses on the safety of tourists during wildfire emergencies. It includes analyses of tourist behaviour, empirical data collection, archetypes of tourist behaviour, a tourist polygon vulnerability assessment tool, and guidelines for best practices in human protection. The document emphasises the importance of understanding human behaviour and decision-making during emergencies.
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