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WUITIPS guidelines: Enhancing tourist safety in wildfire-prone areas

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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.

Authors

WUITIPS project

Related Organisation

Lund University

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Geographical descriptors

Austria

Belgium

Bulgaria

Croatia

Cyprus

Czechia

Denmark

Estonia

EU-27

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Ireland

Italy

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malta

Netherlands

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

Organisation Type

Academic/Research and VET Institutions

Company with 250 or more employees

Consumer / tourist organisation

Destination Management & Marketing Organisations

Local authorities

NGOs / Non-profits

SMEs (a company with less than 250 employees)

  • Specific types of tourism

    • Coastal, maritime and inland water tourism

    • Rural tourism

    • Urban/city tourism

  • Transition Pathway Strategic Areas

    • Coordinated information on travelling

    • Governance of tourism destinations

    • Well-being of residents

  • Business activities

    • Activities of amusement parks and theme parks

    • Activities of associations and other organisations supporting tourism

    • Air passenger transport

    • Camping grounds, recreational vehicle parks and trailer parks

    • Events catering and other food services

    • Festivals, cultural and entertainment activities

    • Gardens and nature reserves activities

    • Holiday Housing / Apartments and other short stay accommodation

    • Hotel and similar accommodation

    • Mobile beverage services

    • Mobile food services

    • Museums

    • Operation of historical sites

    • Other

    • Other accommodation

    • Other amusement and recreation activities

    • Other food and beverage services

    • Other holiday reservation services

    • Other tourism transportation activities

    • Rail Passenger transport

    • Recreational and sport activities

    • Restaurants, cafes and bars (Food and Beverage serving activities)

    • Road passenger transport

    • Tour operator activities

    • Travel agency activities

    • Water (sea, coastal and inland) passenger transport

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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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