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Managing weather risk has become a crucial issue in the tourism sector, especially due to the rising weather volatility derived from the Climate Change. Precisely, this uncertainty has lead irrevocably to the need of implementing hedging measures among tourism firms, such as weather derivatives, which represent a novel and promising tool to manage meteorological risk. This paper shows how the use of these instruments can be a suitable option for the tourism sec