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ISGlobal, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), C/ Doctor Aiguader 88, 08003, Barcelona, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), C/ Doctor Aiguader 80, 08003, Barcelona, Spain; CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, c/ Monforte de Lemos 3-5, 28029, Madrid, Spain. Electronic address:

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School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag X3, Wits, 2050, South Africa. Electronic address:

Questionnaires exploring tourists' perceptions of ideal climatic conditions are argued to be a more suitable data source for the development of tourism climate indices than the utilization and integration of expert opinion and pre-established thresholds. This assumes that those tourist respondents can accurately quantify meteorological conditions at a given point in time, and effectively discriminate between meteorological thresholds of suitable and unsuitable conditions. For variables such as rainfall and sunshine hours, this assumption is fairly reasonable.

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