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Amending the Emotional Solidarity Theoretical Framework Through the Addition of Perceived Similarity, Empathy, and Narcissism Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Kyle Maurice Woosnam, Shavneet Sharma, Dimitrios Stylidis, Gurmeet Singh
As tourism rebounds globally, a growing need persists to understand the complex social dynamics between residents and tourists and how these dynamics shape residents’ support for the industry. By e...
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The Experience of Video Interpretation and Satisfaction Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Yung-Shoon Yang, Min-Jung Seo, Jaemun Byun
Travel videos have become an effective means of promoting destinations. Video clips on platforms such as YouTube emerged as an alternative way of interpreting attractions such as national parks, wi...
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Development of a Vegan-Friendly Destination—The Case of Didim Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Ceren İlayda Başol, Maria D. Alvarez
Veganism is growing and more people are adhering to their vegan lifestyle while travelling. However, there is a lack of research that investigates vegan tourism in terms of destination development....
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Prioritizing Influential Factors on Tourist Decision-Making for Choosing Destinations Using Parsimonious Analytical Hierarchy Process (PAHP) Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Ali Jamal Mahdi, Domokos Esztergár-Kiss
The increasing number of touristic attractions and destinations within urban environments has led to an escalation in the complexity of decision-making processes for visitors. This study provides i...
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Towards Sustainable Tourism Development in a Small Protected Area: Mapping Stakeholders’ Perceptions in the Alvão Natural Park, Portugal Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Luís Filipe Silva, José Cadima Ribeiro, Francisco Carballo-Cruz
The Alvão Natural Park (PNAL) is the smallest natural park in Portugal. The PNAL is currently in the process of implementing its co-management model, abandoning the old centralized top-down model, ...
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A Critical Analysis of How Central European Spas Create Health Tourism Experiencescapes Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Diana Dryglas, Melanie Kay Smith
This research examines the ways in which Central European spas create health tourism experiencescapes. A two-round Delphi study was undertaken in the so-called Visegrád countries: Czechia, Hungary,...
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A New Insight on Tourism-Entrepreneurship Nexus: The Role of Tourism Market Diversification Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Syed Abidur Rahman, Behnaz Saboori, Seyedeh Khadijeh Taghizadeh
ABSTRACT This study investigates the causality from Tourism Market Diversification (TMD) to entrepreneurial ecosystem and its sub-indexes (attitudes, abilities, and aspirations), across four sub-groups including high-rank, upper-middle-rank, middle-rank, and low-rank countries over the period 2006–2018. Employing the system-Generalized Method of Moments (sys-GMM) estimator of panel data, the result
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Influence of Economic Policy Uncertainty on Tourism SME Performance: The Spanish Case Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Jessica Paule-Vianez, Carmen Orden-Cruz, Daniel Vélez-Serrano
ABSTRACT This paper studies the influence of Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) on the performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) involved in the Spanish Tourism Sector and analyzes the role that company characteristics can play in this relationship. To achieve this objective, a sample of 5,529 Spanish tourism SMEs has been taken from 2012 to 2020. Applying panel data analysis, it is found
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Women’s Role in Africa’s Tourism Industry: Overcoming Gender Disparities, Empowerment, and Entrepreneurship Challenges at a UNESCO World Heritage Site Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2023-07-08 Kayode D. Aleshinloye
ABSTRACT Undoubtedly, gender inequality is the bane of women’s underachievement in attaining financial independence in most African countries due to the patriarchal cultural norms that have deprived them socially, economically, and politically. Empowerment and entrepreneurship opportunities through the tourism sector offer women an opportunity to contribute to national development and economic growth
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How Online Travel Reviews Sources Affect Travelers’ Behavioral Intentions? Analysis with Source Credibility Theory Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Gobinda Roy, Biplab Datta, Srabanti Mukherjee, Alex Eckert, Saurabh Kumar Dixit
ABSTRACT This study used Source Credibility Theory (SCT) to examine the effect of the source credibility factors (SCFs) of travelers’ electronic word of mouth (eWOM) and their adoption on tourists’ hotel booking and review sharing intention. This study used Structure Equation Modeling (SEM) and artificial neural network (ANN) approaches to validate the effect of SCFs on tourists’ behavioral intentions
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What is a Smart Destination in Practice? The Interpretation of DMO Managers from Spanish World Heritage Cities Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Juan Vicente Calle-Lamelas, María García-Hernández, Fernando E. García-Muiña
ABSTRACT This work intends to identify how Spanish World Heritage Cities (SWHC) are interpreting and implementing the Smart Destination Spanish Model (SD). The model has been created as a new paradigm of tourist management, and it is being sponsored by the Spanish public administration in different destinations, including Spanish World Heritage Cities. SWHC are historic, major tourist destinations
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A Bibliometric Analysis of Residents’ Perceptions in Rural Tourism Development Using CiteSpace Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Liu Lulu, Sridar Ramachandran, Sheena Bidin, Thanam Subramaniam, Cao Chaoyi
ABSTRACT Resident perception has been confirmed as a critical field in rural tourism research, and it has aroused extensive attention since the 1970s. In this study, existing publications of residents’ perceptions in the rural tourism field from 303 bibliographic records over two decades (2002–2021) in Web of Science are visualized through bibiliometric analysis. This study aims to analyze the existing
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Tourism Innovation and Resilience during Uncertainty Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Nikolaos Pappas, Eleni Michopoulou, Anna Farmaki
Published in Tourism Planning & Development (Vol. 20, No. 2, 2023)
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Destination Crisis Management Communications During Uncertainty: The Case of Athens Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Christina Karadimitriou, Alkiviadis Panagopoulos
ABSTRACT During periods of high uncertainty and volatility it is important for tourism destinations to have the ability to employ effective crisis management communications. The study concerns the examination of the derived chaordic (chaos vs order) systems formulating the tourism crisis communications in metropolitan areas, with special reference to the city of Athens. The research uses a sample of
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Global Perspective on Tourism-Economic Growth Nexus: The Role of Tourism Market Diversification Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Yi-Ting Peng, Behnaz Saboori, Omid Ranjbar, Muhlis Can
ABSTRACT The tourism industry is well-known as a powerful driver of the economic growth of destinations. However, socio-political and financial fluctuations in the countries of origin and destination make the tourism industry more volatile and less beneficial to economic growth. The tourism market diversification (TMD) strategy supports the stabilizing of the industry and spurs the economic growth
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Social Innovation Project and Tourism Lifestyle Entrepreneurship to Revitalize the Marginal Areas. The Case of the via Francigena Cultural Route Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Simone Splendiani, Fabio Forlani, Antonio Picciotti, Angelo Presenza
ABSTRACT Cultural Routes (CRs) are gaining increasing interest among both researchers and policymakers as an innovative form of sustainable tourism. However, the benefits that the territories crossed by a Route obtained are poorly studied. The aim of this paper is to fill this gap by evaluating the improvements that CRs as social innovation projects (SIP) cause to the local tourism ecosystem. The empirical
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Tourism Destination Competitiveness in Italy: A Stakeholders’ Perspective Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Gianluca Goffi, Marco Cucculelli, Giacomo Del Chiappa
ABSTRACT The paper aims to evaluate the competitiveness of one of the world’s leading tourism countries from a stakeholders’ perspective. A survey questionnaire has been submitted to relevant tourism stakeholders from 370 outstanding Italian destinations. The results show that Italy is more competitive in its natural and cultural resources, but less competitive in tourism policy and planning, and in
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Access to Nature for Persons with Disabilities: Perspectives and Practices of Swedish Tourism Providers Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-12-24 Sandra Wall-Reinius, Kristin Godtman Kling, Dimitri Ioannides
ABSTRACT Despite the growing popularity of outdoor recreation, nature is not equally accessible to everyone. In the case of persons with disabilities, access to nature remains a largely under-researched area, especially in terms of the role of private and public providers of products and facilities for a diverse range of visitors. This study investigates the challenges and opportunities for developing
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Why are Unfavorable Signs of Overtourism Ignored by Urban Politics? An Attention-based Explanation of No Intervention Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Szabolcs Szilárd Sebrek, Betsabé Pérez Garrido, Gábor Michalkó
ABSTRACT As the return of overtourism can be predicted with the dying down of the COVID-19 pandemic, the purpose of this study to explore the factors of its emergence. To achieve the research objective, we draw on the attention-based view for the first time in urban tourism research. This paper argues that the attention of city decision-makers can be severely diverted from problems such as overtourism
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Does Tourism Matter to National Innovation Capability? Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Pedro Torres, Pedro Godinho
ABSTRACT Tourism is not frequently recognized in national innovation policies, but important innovations have occurred in tourism throughout history. Many countries compete to increase both inbound tourism and national innovation capability. However, tourism policies and innovation policies rarely intersect. Taking a configurational approach and using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis, this
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Resilience Strategies of Tour Operators During the Uncertainty of COVID-19: Evidence from Bangladesh Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Md Saiful Islam, Md. Mishkatul Kabir, Kamrul Hassan
ABSTRACT Since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, tour operators have been going through uncertain times as they depend directly on supply-side (e.g. airlines, hotels) and demand-side (e.g. tourists) of tourism as well as on destination management organizations. This study explores resilience strategies made by tour operators in Bangladesh that ultimately helped them survive through the COVID-19 pandemic
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COVID-19 and Inland Tourist Destination: A Tourism-related Enterprise View of the Effects and Policy Measures Adopted Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-11-12 Marcelino Sánchez-Rivero, Esteban Pérez-Calderón, Gema Morales-Cortijo
ABSTRACT The public health crisis caused by COVID-19 has been particularly devastating due to its rapid spread and the strict measures that governments have had to take. From a business resilience approach, a total of 707 opinions were collected during May-April 2020. The owners and managers of the main tourist enterprises valued the effects and measures adopted by politicians. In order to identify
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Quality Dimensions of Augmented Reality-based Mobile Apps for Smart-Tourism and its Impact on Customer Satisfaction & Reuse Intention Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Komal Anand, Vikas Arya, Sheena Suresh, Anshuman Sharma
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected the tourism industry, with national lockdowns aimed at curbing the spread of the virus mandating travel restrictions and prohibiting events and gatherings. The shift to online video conferencing tools, which offer limited interactivity, has spurred the need to integrate augmented reality (AR) in various contexts, such as meetings, exhibitions, museums
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Reconciling Scientific, Political and Participatory Perspectives on Sustainable Tourism Indicator Development for Destination Sustainability Assessment Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Elena Eckert
ABSTRACT Sustainable tourism indicators (STI) are widely recognized as a useful tool for assessing the sustainability level of a tourism destination. Methods for STI development, however, are still inconsistent and often characterized by a debate between approaches proposed by three parties: scientists, policy-makers and supporters of participatory decision-making. Despite the development of approaches
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Foreign Direct Investments and Tourism: A Cross-Sectional Analysis Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Seymur Ağazade, Burcu Karasakaloğlu
ABSTRACT This study investigates the effect of foreign direct investments (FDI) on tourism using cross-sectional data for 135 countries and their high- and middle-income subgroups. The study takes three different tourism performance indicators into account: travel and tourism GDP, international tourism receipts, and international tourist arrivals. The findings support that FDI positively affects all
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Community Empowerment in Nigeria’s Tourism Industry: An Analysis of Stakeholders’ Perceptions Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-10-01 Adenike D. Adebayo, Jim Butcher
ABSTRACT This paper explores community empowerment in tourism development in Nigeria through an analysis of the perceptions of key stakeholders. Community empowerment is essential to ensure local community members benefit from tourism development. The study uses a qualitative approach to evaluate the degree of local community participation and empowerment in tourism in South-West Nigeria. Findings
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Assessing the potential of snow leopard tourism-related products and services in the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-09-12 Jonathan H. Hanson, Maurice Schutgens, Nabin Baral, Nigel Leader-Williams
Conservation Enterprise is increasingly promoted to support the conservation of species and landscapes through incentives, such as ecotourism, including in the Annapurna Conservation Area (ACA), Ne...
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Fruiturisme: The Boost of Fruit Tourism in Catalan Rural Areas Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-09-12 Montserrat Crespi-Vallbona, Manel Plana-Farran
This research involves an in-depth study of tourism as an economic driver in rural areas. We base it on a case study of Fruiturisme, a tourism project being developed in the small town of Aitona (C...
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Business Modeling for Resilient Destination Development: A Multi-Method Approach for the Case of Destination Franconia, Germany Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-09-12 Hannes Thees, Elina Störmann, Harald Pechlaner
ABSTRACT Crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, can be an opportunity to re-think destination business models. Developing resilience can guide destinations through times of uncertainty and into innovative transformation. This study was a multi-method approach, in which exploratory interviews and the Delphi survey were vital for understanding multi-stakeholder involvement. This case study on Destination
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Just Survive or Thrive? Effect of Psychological and Organizational Resilience on Adoption of Innovative Strategies by Hospitality Sector Post Covid-19 Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-09-12 Mahfuzuar Rahman Barbhuiya, Devlina Chatterjee
ABSTRACT Several small and medium-scale businesses within the hospitality sector have suffered significant losses due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We aim to understand the role of psychological and organizational resilience in the perceived negative impact, as well as adoption of coping strategies. Data was collected from 549 managers of small and medium-sized hotels across 28 states and three union territories
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Smart Healthcare System (SHS): Medical Tourism Delivering, Consumption, and Elevating Tool in the Ages of Smart Technologies Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-09-12 Hafizullah Dar, Kirti Kashyap
ABSTRACT Medical tourism has seen a tremendous rise in recent years. At present, technologies are giving a stronger push to medical tourism and integrating its stakeholders under the smart healthcare system (SHS). This study determines the applications of the SHS for medical tourism and how the integration of networks is happening in SHS to benefit medical tourism. The results of this study explain
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Nature and Impacts of Tourism Development Facilities and Activities on the Livelihoods of Communities in Musina Municipality Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-08-29 Azwindini Isaac Ramaano
ABSTRACT The paper examines the imports of nature and the impacts of tourism development initiatives in Musina Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa. Data was garnered via questionnaire surveys, interviews, focus group discussions, document reviews, and physical observations. The study revealed the plentiful nature of tourism potential, manifesting both actual and potential tourism initiatives. However
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Service Quality Assessments of Cultural Heritage Sites by Residents and Tourists: Application of Four Complementary IPA Techniques Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Azadeh Karimi, Bynum Boley
ABSTRACT Despite growing calls to include important stakeholder groups in order to ensure the sustainable management and marketing of tourism, there has been little concurrent research on residents and tourists’ perceptions of cultural heritage sites. This study aims to compare tourists’ and residents’ perceptions for tourism attributes in Shandiz, one of northeastern Iran’s most popular tourist destinations
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Volunteer Tourism or Global Justice? An Autoethnography Examining My Roles as a Leader and Teacher Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Kristina E. Medero
ABSTRACT Volunteer tourism has grown immensely in the last decade, and many participants are white students from predominantly Western universities. This autoethnography examines the cognitive dissonance I felt working as a leader within a US-based non-profit organization operating in Cape Town, South Africa. I systematically explore how my Latine and US cultures exacerbated the conflict between my
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Health and Hygiene as a Factor of Destination Competitiveness: A Comparative Study Using Synchronic and Diachronic Data Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Saad Al-Saad, Osama AlWohoush, Metin Kozak, Reem AlMasri
ABSTRACT Health and hygiene is a provision of conditions to maintain public health, and make tourists feel safer and tourism destinations become more competitive. The existing research has been conceptual or critical, and scarce empirical studies focus mainly on single-case studies. Therefore, this study came to fill a knowledge gap and analyse the importance and relationship between health and hygiene
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Innovative Mobile Technology in Hotels and the Use of Gamification Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-08-06 Demos Parapanos, Eleni Michopoulou
ABSTRACT Innovations are often introduced to inspire people’s motivation and help them develop beneficial behaviour, both individually and collectively, and gamification is currently considered to be one of the most promising in that respect. Whilst technology adoption studies have explored users’ attitudes towards various technologies, scarce knowledge exists on users’ behavioural intention to try
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The Case of Sustainable Tourism Development in Alpine Destinations: Importance, Implementation, and the Role of the Local DMO Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Urs Wagenseil, Melanie Wyss, Lukas Huck
ABSTRACT Sustainable tourism development asks for coordinated and collective action where destination management organisations (DMOs) are considered a crucial steering stakeholder. The aim of this study is to explore the current state of implementation of the internationally renowned destination sustainability standards from the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) in Alpine destinations (Switzerland
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A Dynamic Capabilities Approach to Business Model Innovation in Times of Crisis Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Samira Sahebalzamani, Eva Jenny Benedikte Jørgensen, Giovanna Bertella, Etty Ragnhild Nilsen
ABSTRACT This study explores how tourism entrepreneurs change their business models during a crisis. By adopting dynamic capabilities as integral to business model change, this qualitative study explores how entrepreneurs change business models to meet a crisis, and proposes a taxonomy of important entrepreneurial practices underlying dynamic capabilities. This study empirically examines seven small
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Tour Guide and Tourist Loyalty Toward Cultural Heritage Sites: A Signaling Theory Perspective Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-07-08 Mohammad M. Alazaizeh, Malek M. Jamaliah, Yahya A. Alzghoul, John T. Mgonja
ABSTRACT Built upon the signaling theory and the well-documented stimulus-organism-response framework, the purpose of this study is to examine how tour guides at Petra World Heritage Site act as a signal to influence tourists’ experience and satisfaction, which in turn influence tourists’ loyalty. Using the structural equation modeling technique, the study empirically tested a conceptual model with
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A Tale of Two Cultural Values in Airbnb: Long-Term Orientation and Indulgence Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-06-12 Lacey K. Wallace, Joanne T. Cao, Wei Wang
ABSTRACT Sharing economy services (SES) provide consumers with an alternative to ownership by obtaining, offering, and exchanging products and services typically through an online platform. As sharing practices continue to develop globally, research has only recently begun to explore how cultural differences influence SES at the individual level. Therefore, this study examines the influence of long-term
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Understanding Tourism Suppliers’ Resilience to Climate Change in a Rural Destination in Maine Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Lydia Horne, Sandra De Urioste-Stone, Parinaz Rahimzadeh Bajgiran, Erin Seekamp
ABSTRACT Supplier characteristics influence destination resilience to climate change, but there is limited research applying social resilience theories to this group. Using socio-ecological and psychology resilience theories, we examined how a group of rural, nature-based tourism suppliers enhanced their resilience to climate change. We conducted 17 interviews in the Bay of Machias, Maine, USA to examine
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Alternatives to Development in Surfing Tourism: A Diverse Economies Approach Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Tara Ruttenberg
Responding to the socio-ecological impacts associated with conventional surfing tourism, the field of sustainable surf tourism (SST) promotes the sustainable development of Global South surfing des...
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Indicators for Tourism Competitiveness from the Society’s Perspective: A Delphi Study Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-05-07 Amanda de Paula Aguiar-Barbosa, Adriana F. Chim-Miki
ABSTRACT There are several perspectives to studying Tourism Destination Competitiveness (TDC). Nevertheless, society’s point of view received less attention from scholars. From theories of tourism competitiveness and social management, we defined a list of variables to analyze competitiveness as a tool to achieve social progress. Posteriorly, we used a Delphi method to validate and optimize the proposition
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Operationalising Tourism Sustainability at the Destination Level: A Systems Thinking Approach Along the SDGs Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Kyriaki Glyptou
The adoption of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set the strategic vision for the next decade. Yet, their operationalisation, more so, at the tourism industry and destination level is fr...
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Towards a Framework for the Morphology of Tourism Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-05-07 Philip Feifan Xie
ABSTRACT Urban morphology and tourism are interwoven, but their respective fields have remained unengaged with each other. This paper seeks to define the morphology of tourism as a multidimensional concept that reinforces physical transformation through different temporalities. It highlights some key elements of urban morphology, the characteristics of tourism, and their impacts documented in existing
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A Dynamic Relationship Between Global Economic Policy Uncertainty and Tourism Using a Three-dimensional Wavelet Analysis Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Tsung-Pao Wu, Hung-Che Wu, Cheng-Feng Wu, Yu-Yu Wu
ABSTRACT Global economic policy uncertainty (GEPU) has various implications for tourism activities. This study examines the effect of GEPU on tourism activities of the fragile five (F5) countries for the period of 1997 through 2017. Results of GEPU in the F5 countries have significant, generally negative effects on tourism activities but change over time, displaying long-run to short-run cycles. The
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Smart-Solutions for Handling Overtourism and Developing Destination Resilience for the Post-Covid-19 Era Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-03-27 Martin Fontanari, Anastasia Traskevich
ABSTRACT The article addresses perspectives to mitigate overtourism through introduction of the integrative concept of destination resilience and its innovative implementation with the help of smart-solutions applied to management of Covid-19-related risks, as well as to overall destination governance, regionally-based networking, destination infrastructure and entrepreneurial resilience for tourism
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Disempowering Minority Communities: Tourism Development in the Siwa Oasis, Egypt Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Mina Kamal Asham, Kumi Kato, Adam Doering
ABSTRACT Tourism planning and development is a complex, multifaceted, and highly politicised phenomenon, particularly in the context of economic development for rural minority communities. This paper discusses such a case in the context of a remote rural community, Siwa Oasis in the western desert of Egypt, which was one of the destinations identified in the development policy termed Infitāḥ, or “openness”
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Understanding the Effect of Place Image and Knowledge of Tourism on Residents’ Attitudes Towards Tourism and Their Word-of-Mouth Intentions: Evidence from Seville, Spain Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Dimitrios Stylidis, Ana Maria Dominguez Quintero
ABSTRACT As places are greatly shaped and reshaped by tourism, the way residents perceive their place and their knowledge of tourism gradually transform and become more complex and influential. Drawing on the social exchange and social representations theory, this research aimed to explore the effect residents' place image and knowledge of tourism have on perceived tourism impacts, which were subsequently
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Gender Perspectives in Tourism Studies: A Comparative Bibliometric Analysis in the MENA Region Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Moaaz Kabil, Mohamed Abouelhassan Ali, Ahmed Marzouk, Lóránt Dénes Dávid
ABSTRACT Recently tourism appears to be an effective economic tool to enhance gender equality and women's empowerment. This study analyzed the gendered-oriented articles concerning the tourism sector in the MENA region. This study focused on the articles that used structured methods such as interviews, questionnaires, surveys, and observations. 203 articles were extracted from the Scopus and Web of
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A Reflection on the Work and Legacy of Professor David Harrison (1941–2021) Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-03-05 Raoul Bianchi, Richard Sharpley, Hazel Andrews
(2022). A Reflection on the Work and Legacy of Professor David Harrison (1941–2021) Tourism Planning & Development: Vol. 19, Special Issue in honour of Professor David Harrison (1941-2021), pp. 75-80.
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Tourism Policy Values in Serbia—From Equity to Competition Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-02-27 Ivana Volić
ABSTRACT This paper examines two Serbian strategic tourism documents in order to make explicit their underlying values. The methods used in this paper are corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis. First, tourism policy values are derived from the disciplinary literature; these are growth, competitiveness, and development. Second, both of the Serbian tourism strategic documents are scrutinized
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Tourism and Development Theory: Which Way Now? Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2021-12-28 Richard Sharpley
ABSTRACT Tourism has long been explored through the lens of development theory. David Harrison was one of the earlier academics to do so, subsequently turning his attention to critiquing the relevance of such theory to tourism, concluding that although much tourism research has been framed within it, development theory has contributed little if anything to knowledge and understanding of the tourism-development
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Pro-Poor Tourism's Evolution and Implications Arising from the COVID-19 Pandemic Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Anna Spenceley
ABSTRACT Building on David Harrison's critique of the concept, this essay describes the emergence of pro-poor tourism as a banner for development interventions focusing on poverty reduction. It reviews the application of the approach in practice, including through community-based tourism and encouraging the sector to benefit the poor through equity, employment and supply chains. Two decades on, while
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Sustainable Tourism Development: Critically Challenging Some Assumptions Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2021-12-26 Stephen Pratt
ABSTRACT Tourism has long been perceived as a passport to development in Pacific Island Countries and Territories. That much is generally accepted. But how it contributes to sustainable development and what type of tourism is most appropriate to contribute to sustainable tourism development in a globalised world is much more contested. This contribution may well be significantly reshaped through existential
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Critical Approaches to Tourism, Heritage and Culture Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Hyung yu Park
ABSTRACT This paper elucidates upon ways in which my critical perspectives on tourism, heritage and culture have been shaped and underpinned by David’s academic contributions and mentorship. His own challenges on existing norms and values throughout his academic career have unmistakably influenced me to approach tourism and heritage as an area of critical enquiry in both research and teaching. Contrary
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Tourism and Politics: Responses to Crises in Island States Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Apisalome Movono, Regina Scheyvens
ABSTRACT Power and politics are crucial but often neglected topics in tourism scholarship. Issues of power particularly come to the fore when looking at what happens when the tourism sector responds to crises: this was very clear in the work that Professor David Harrison did examining the aftermath of several coup d’état in Fiji. His work provides a pathway to consider the more recent shocks in Fiji
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Tourism and the Capitalocene: From Green Growth to Ecocide Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2021-12-28 C. Michael Hall
ABSTRACT Tourism makes substantial contributions to the Anthropocene. However, the Anthropocene is highly uneven over space and time reflecting the uneven processes of capital accumulation. As a result, the Anthropocene, and tourism's role within it, is best understood as a system of power, profit and re/production in the web of life, what is referred to as the capitalocene. In other words, it is the
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Itinerary, Information, Denial: Local Travel Agents and Tourist Flows Governance in Yogyakarta, Indonesia Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-01-20 Sarani Pitor Pakan, Intan Purwandani
ABSTRACT Tourism-caused overcrowding is often projected as the failure of governance. While tourism governance consists of myriad aspects and actors, this paper focuses on aspects of tourist flows from the perspective of tourism entrepreneurs. The question of how local travel agents govern tourist flows is addressed by acknowledging their power in influencing the (un)crowdedness and (un)sustainability
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Visitor satisfaction of Zoo tourism in Ghana Tourism Planning & Development Pub Date : 2022-01-19 Yaw Boakye Agyeman, Paul Asebah
Zoos provide recreation, education, and scientific research opportunities. In providing these opportunities, they rely on funds from several resources, including visitors to cover the high cost of ...