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Su, Lujun, Yinghua Huang, and Maxwell Hsu. "Unraveling the impact of destination reputation on place attachment and behavior outcomes among Chinese urban tourists." Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights 1, no. 4 (November 12, 2018): 290–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jhti-11-2017-0026.
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Purpose The impact of destination reputation on tourists’ behavior has not received sufficient attention in the tourism literature. Built upon the signaling theory and the well-documented stimulus-organism-response framework, the purpose of this paper is to propose and assess a theoretical model that captures relationships among destination reputation, place attachment, tourist satisfaction, and the search for alternative destinations. Design/methodology/approach Using the covariance-based structural equation modeling technique, this study empirically tested the conceptual model with a convenience sample of Chinese tourists who visited a popular coastal urban tourism destination in China. Findings Findings reveal that destination reputation positively impacts perceived place dependence, place identity, and tourist satisfaction. In addition, place dependence positively affects tourist satisfaction, but place identity has no significant impact on tourist satisfaction. As expected, tourist satisfaction negatively influences tourists’ search for alternative destinations; however, place identity positively influences tourists’ search for alternative destinations. Originality/value Few studies in the tourism literature explore the role of destination reputation in the tourist decision-making process. The present study’s unique contribution lies in its examination of destination reputation on tourists’ behavior. In addition, this study includes the search for alternative destinations as an important behavioral outcome into the proposed model. Some tourists explore alternative destinations even though they are willing to revisit and spread positive messages about the destination they already visited. Therefore, the continuous searching behavior is worthy of investigation in tourism studies.
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Zhang, Tonghao, Ping Yin, and Yuanxiang Peng. "Effect of Commercialization on Tourists’ Perceived Authenticity and Satisfaction in the Cultural Heritage Tourism Context: Case Study of Langzhong Ancient City." Sustainability 13, no. 12 (June 17, 2021): 6847. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13126847.
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Although some studies claim that tourism commercialization can promote the authentic experience and behaviour of tourists, there is a lack of empirical support. The main purpose of this study is to identify whether tourism commercialization can positively impact tourists’ perceived authenticity and tourist satisfaction in the context of cultural heritage tourism. We divide tourism authenticity into objective authenticity, constructive authenticity, existential authenticity and postmodern authenticity and propose a relationship model of tourism commercialization, the four authenticities, tourist satisfaction and loyalty. A survey was conducted in Langzhong Ancient City, a representative millennium-old county in China. A total of 618 valid domestic tourist questionnaires were collected. The partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) suitable for theory development was used for the conceptual model validation. The results indicate that tourism commercialization positively affects objective, constructive, existential and postmodern authenticity and tourist satisfaction; the four authenticities positively affect tourist satisfaction, while only objective and existential authenticity and tourist satisfaction positively affect tourist loyalty. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
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Khazaei Pool, Javad, Masood Khodadadi, and Ali Asadi. "The impact of congruence between self-concept and destination personality on behavioural intentions for visiting an Islamic-historical destination." Tourism and Hospitality Research 18, no. 3 (August 11, 2016): 378–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1467358416663820.
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Today, understanding the reason for tourists choosing an Islamic destination over other destinations is considered a vital aspect of Islamic tourism studies. In this paper, an attempt is made to analyse the factors influencing the behavioural intentions including congruence between self-concept and destination personality, destination personality and tourist’s satisfaction and perceived experience. The targeted respondents of the present research consist of foreign tourists who chose a historical-Islamic destination. Data were analysed through structural equation modelling. Results show that the tourists’ perceived experience and satisfaction influence the behavioural intentions of the tourist. Furthermore, the congruence between self-concept and destination personality influences the tourists’ perceived experience and satisfaction and finally, perceived experience influences tourist satisfaction.
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Karyatun, Subur, Kadek Wiweka, Ramang H. Demolingo, Putu Pramania Adnyana, and Iffatunnisa Nurfikriyani. "TOURIST VILLAGE MULTIPLIER EFFECT STUDIES: SMALL SCALE APPROACH." International Journal of Management, Innovation & Entrepreneurial Research 6, no. 2 (January 1, 2021): 139–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.18510/ijmier.2020.6213.
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Purpose of the Study: Tourism stakeholders and academics have begun to question the benefits of developing tourism in rural areas. This study aims to identify tourists, tourism entrepreneurs, and employees' characteristics and measure the multiplier effect for local communities in Nglanggeran tourist village, Yogyakarta. Specifically, this study measures income generation (direct, indirect, and induced), employment generation, and the multiplier effect of both.
Methodology: This research uses a descriptive quantitative approach. Primary data collection was carried out by the non-participant observation method (for four months). While the technique of determining the sample size (100 tourists, 51 entrepreneurs, and 62 employee respondents) used is non-probability sampling, referring to the Slovin formula with a margin of error of 10%.
Main Findings: This study found that local entrepreneurs can be categorized as small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Data analysis results show that tourism village had an important economic impact for local communities with a Keynesian income multiplier effect value of 2.57, 1.74 for the Income multiplier type I ratio, and 2.23 for the type II. While the employment multiplier value is 0.0000041.
Implication/Applications: This study's results can answer doubts about the economic benefits received by local communities from the development of the Tourism Village.
The originality of the study: This study is the latest research, especially considering the implementation of the multiplier effect formula on a small scale. However, this study has some limitations, such as the sample area used (Desa Wisata Nglanggeran) and the context of the tourism impacts studied. Further research is expected to reach other tourist villages and expand its studies to environmental and socio-culture issues.
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Gadah Atiq, Alamer, and Zainon Binti Mat Sharif. "Malaysia Environment and Atmosphere with Arab Tourist Loyalty and Satisfaction." International Journal of Engineering & Technology 7, no. 4.35 (November 30, 2018): 917. http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.35.27394.
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With the persistent development of tourism in Malaysia, tourist loyalty has become a vital topic in tourism studies. Researchers often examine this with little focus on the relations and interaction between tourist loyalty and the factors of tourism satisfaction. This study was conducted to examine the factors influencing Arab tourists’ loyalty towards tourism in Malaysia. Questionnaires were delivered conveniently to 30 Arab tourists at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA). From the overall results of this study, it can be concluded that the regression model revealed that the independent variables entered into the regression model were significant predictors of tourist loyalty. The coefficient of destination (R2) showed that about 76.00% of variance in tourist loyalty was explained by the predictor variable.
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DUNETS, Aleksandr N., and Inna G. ZHOGOVA. "Significant Changes of Tourism Industry in the Altai-Sayan Mountainous Region." Journal of Environmental Management and Tourism 9, no. 4 (October 29, 2018): 868. http://dx.doi.org/10.14505//jemt.9.4(28).21.
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This paper considers the significant changes that have occurred in the tourist space of the Altai-Sayan mountainous region. In fact, it is a cross-border area and an important tourist region in the Russian Federation. It should be mentioned that the structure of the tourist space can be studied properly while using the model of the territorial tourist system. The authors examine the common features of tourism systems in the mountainous environments of the region. The study examines the tourist infrastructure, organizers of tourist services, local people’s attitudes and tourists’ preferences in the tourist industry. Studies in the field of tourist space enable to distinguish the types of tourism and their distribution in the Altai-Sayan region. It is worthwhile noting that health tourism has become one of the fastest growing subfields in the tourist industry of this region. The tourist development projects such as the economic zone of “Turquoise Katun” and shore development projects of warm lakes have also encouraged this process. Moreover, ecotourism development is of great importance to this area because there are many protected natural areas and some of them are under UNESCO protection. Also, tourism development outlooks are associated with cross-border cooperation and sustainable economic development of the region.
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Hsu, Cathy H. C., and Nan Chen. "Resident Attribution and Tourist Stereotypes." Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research 43, no. 4 (February 1, 2019): 489–516. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1096348018823903.
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The value of attribution theory in explaining and predicting resident perceptions of/reactions toward tourists is underestimated by tourism scholars. This article critically analyses the evolution and underdevelopment of attribution theory, as well as the literature on tourist stereotypes which serve as heuristics that may bias attribution. Under the guidance of dual process theories, a comprehensive conceptual framework is developed to delineate the interactions between a three-step resident attribution process of encounters with tourists and tourist stereotypes’ activation, application/suppression, and modification. Potentially fruitful directions are suggested for future research. This conceptual article not only pioneers in establishing conceptual links between a tourism phenomenon and a social psychological theoretical development, but it also broadens the research paradigm of resident–tourist relationship studies.
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Kusuma, I. Gusti Agung Riza Dwi, and Ida Ayu Suryasih. "AKTIVITAS WISATA SPIRITUAL DAN MOTIVASI BERWISATA DI DAYA TARIK WISATA TANAH LOT KABUPATEN TABANAN." JURNAL DESTINASI PARIWISATA 4, no. 2 (December 30, 2016): 118. http://dx.doi.org/10.24843/jdepar.2016.v04.i02.p21.
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Research on the factors that motivate tourists visiting Tourist Attraction Tanah Lot, who lifted the title "Spiritual Tourism Activity and Motivation Traveled in Tourist Attractions Tanah Lot Tabanan Regency” The purposes of this study are to what the motivation a tourist’s visited Tanah Lot. Data collection techniques in this research, by observation, as many as 65 pieces distributing questionnaires to the respondents, and documentation of studies by taking a picture Tourist Attraction in the area of Tanah Lot. The data have been obtained were analyzed using the technique of data tabulation. Tabulation is the process of placing the data in tabular form by making a table that contains data in accordance with the needs analysis. Tables are made should be able to summarize all the data to be analyzed. Results from this research is in addition to be a place for traveling because it has beautiful scenery, Tourist AttractionsTanah Lot also many tourists who make it as a place for Spiritual Tourism activities as the main products in Tanah Lot is building his Temple. From the results of questionnaires distributed at the time of the research results obtained include: Other than for the purpose of fun, tourists who come in large part dominated by their curiosity to get to know the local culture and local wisdom of people want to know, in addition to the tourists there are also very enthusiastic in doing the Spiritual Tourism activities in Tanah Lot, they have a strong interest in conducting Spiritual Tourism, because there are a variety of benefits that we can while doing activities The Spiritual Tourism them feel more calm, comfortable, and peaceful.
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Kerdpitak, Chayanan. "Key Management Model Of Added Value In The Historical Tourist Attractions: The Case Studies The Emerald Buddha Temple Bangkok Thailand." Journal of Applied Business Research (JABR) 34, no. 3 (May 7, 2018): 497–506. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/jabr.v34i3.10172.
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The promotion of the historical tourist attractions is an important mission that should be accomplished to ensure that the tourists have admired ancient sites that are valuable, rare, Inimitable andnon – substitution. The tourists are thus enthusiastic to visit the ancient sites and willing to promote and encourage other tourists to visit these tourist attractions. By this reason, the objective of this research is to study the main factors affecting the added value of the tourist to the historical tourist attractions in Thailand. The factors include, Participation Management, Processes Management, Resource Management, Tourists Satisfaction, Tourist Attractions Differentiation and Added Value of Tourists.
In this study, the researcher has applied both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies using questionnaires and in-depth interview. The sample comprises visitors to the Temple of the Emerald Buddha. Meanwhile, the path analysis has been used to analyze the data. At the same time the researcher intends to propose the conceptual framework for this study with an aim to identify of the research question, there are any factors affecting to the added value of the visitors to the ancient sites. Moreover, the researcher has recommended 7 assumptions to find out the factors that have effects on the added value of the visitors to the ancient sites.
The result has shown that the Tourists satisfaction and the differentiation in tourist attractions have affected the visitors’ added value with the significance level at 0.008. The result of this study can be used to set up the business operations policy of the Thai tourism business. The policy focuses on differentiation placing the development of tourist attractions as first priority followed by the environmental management, the promotion of tourist attractions and the renovation of ancient sites respectively.
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Everingham, Phoebe, Pau Obrador, and Hazel Tucker. "Trajectories of embodiment in Tourist Studies." Tourist Studies 21, no. 1 (January 31, 2021): 70–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468797621990300.
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In this article we map the 20 year trajectory of theorising embodiment in Tourist Studies. From its inception in 2001, embedded within the turn in the social sciences towards embodiment, Tourist Studies has paved the way in pushing the boundaries of theorising the links between embodiment, sensuality and performativity. Tourist Studies has opened up novel trajectories in tourism research away from the traditional focus on vision, towards multi-sensual analysis including the role of taste, smell, touch and sound. In this article we draw attention to these important contributions in understanding the body-practices and body-subjects within tourism, including work that utilises non-representational analyses, relational materiality, affect, more-than-representational and more-than-human. About 20 years on we remind readers of what theorising embodiment can bring to understanding encounters in tourism spaces, and specifically how attention to embodiment moves analysis away from fixed and static notions of culture and power, towards dynamic interplays between bodies and more-than-human modalities.
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Zhang, Juan, and Chanchai Bunchapattanasakda. "Tourists’ Perceived Quality on History and Culture of Sheqi Ancient Town: A Moderating Effect of Tourist Motivation." International Business Research 13, no. 1 (December 18, 2019): 181. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ibr.v13n1p181.
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Perceived quality was identified an important antecedent of tourist satisfaction and destination loyalty, however, few studies examine the factors influencing tourist’s perception on the service quality of a destination. For historic and cultural tourists, tourist experience play an important role during their visits. The main purpose of this study was to investigate whether tourists’ experience influenced perceived quality of the tourist as an antecedent and the moderating effect of tourists’ motivation on the relationship between tourists’ experience and perceived quality within historic and cultural tourism contexts. A survey of 1,389 tourists visited an ancient town in center part of China, Sheqi, was conducted as the basis for analysis. With SPSS 22.0 and data collected in Sheqi Ancient Town, the hypothetical model was tested by the method of hierarchical regression analysis. The empirical results indicated that, firstly, the tourists’ experience positively influenced perceived quality significantly. Secondly, tourist motivation played a significant moderating role on the relationship between tourist’s experience and perceived quality.
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Bikse, Jānis, and Mahender Reddy Gavinolla. "WATER SPRINGS AS A RESOURCE FOR NATURE TOURISM IN LATVIA: A TOURIST PERSPECTIVE." ENVIRONMENT. TECHNOLOGIES. RESOURCES. Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Conference 1 (June 16, 2021): 30–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/etr2021vol1.6614.
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Water springs are considered as one of the important natural resource for tourism due to its socio-economic, cultural, health and religious benefits. Tourists are motivated to visit the water springs due to various reasons like sacredness, health benefits, education and cultural enrichment. Latvia is blessed with several water springs, which are potential attractions for the sacred water or holy water tourism. There are several studies conducted on various aspects of water springs in general. However, the research in the context of tourism, particularly motivations and interest of tourist is very scant. In this regard, aim of the paper is to know the motivations and potential benefits of the water spring tourism to tourist in Latvia. Initially authors reviewed existing literature to know the state of the spring tourism. Semi structured interviews and online-survey method to obtain visitors responses. Interviews were held with the visitor, covering various aspects like motivations and benefits of water spring tourism. To the best of the author’s knowledge, very few studies conducted on spring tourism in Latvia, to provide a detailed overview on tourist motivations and potential benefits of visiting water spring tourism. Overall, the study results provide the basis for understanding the most frequently visited water spring resources by the tourists in Latvia. Nature appreciation, natural setting followed by mineral and health benefits are the major reasons to visit the water springs. Further, it allows decision makers to incorporate tourist opinion and their suggestions in the sustainable planning, promotion and management of water springs as tourist destinations in Latvia.
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Zhang, Juan. "Diversification of Factors Influencing Qualitative Evaluation of a Historical and Cultural Destination." Polish Journal of Sport and Tourism 27, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 33–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pjst-2020-0006.
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AbstractIntroduction. Perceived quality combined with tourist motivation, tourist experience and other variables were identified as important antecedents of tourist satisfaction and destination loyalty. However, few studies have examined factors influencing a tourist’s perception of the service quality in a destination, especially in specific destinations. The main purpose of this study was to investigate whether tourist motivation and tourist experience influence how tourists perceive quality and to analyse complex relationships between the constructs of perceived quality, tourist experience, tourist motivation and tourist satisfaction in the context of historical and cultural destinations.Material and methods. A survey of 1,389 tourists who visited an ancient town in the center part of China served as the basis for analysis. Structural equation modelling was employed to test the proposed hypotheses.Results. The empirical results showed that tourist motivation and tourist experience exerted a significant positive influence on perceived quality. These three variables had a simultaneous significant positive impact on tourist satisfaction. The results also revealed the mediating effects of tourist experience and perceived quality in the proposed model.Conclusions. The article verified a model regarding the relationships between tourist motivation, tourist experience, perceived quality and tourist satisfaction. According to the results, a historical and cultural destination could improve a tourist’s perceived quality and satisfaction by enhancing tourist experience and providing tourist stimuli.
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Terrah, Abraham, Vivienne Wildes, and Trishna Mistry. "Antalya’s tourist security: A gap analysis of expectations vs perceptions." Journal of Global Business Insights 5, no. 2 (September 2020): 150–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/2640-6489.5.2.1140.
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The tourism industry strongly contributes to the gross domestic product of many countries. An important aspect of the tourism industry is the security of tourists and its connection to the overall tourism security of a country or tourist location. It is essential to identify vulnerable areas and require security improvements within the tourism industry. This study aims to identify security gaps in the Mediterranean city of Antalya from a tourist perspective. Tourists have been classified in this study as leisure tourists, business tourists, and special event tourists. The research identified expectations and perceptions gaps in the transportation sector, accommodation sector, airports, and public places of Antalya. Data was collected from a sample size of 551 tourists residing in 34 different countries in Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Findings show gaps exist specifically in the levels of security of buses, hotels, airports, shopping malls, restaurants, tourist sites, and beaches of Antalya. The research also assessed the influence of tourists’ purpose of travel and country of residence on their expectations and perceptions of security in Antalya. The study ultimately identified gaps concerning the security of tourists visiting Antalya, and future studies can explore the issues related to these tourism industry’s components in which gaps exist.
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Hosni, Hanin, Henk Kievit, Periklis D. Drakos, George Angelakis, and Gert van Dijk. "Measuring Tourist Attitudes and Consumer Behavior." International Journal of Food and Beverage Manufacturing and Business Models 3, no. 2 (July 2018): 29–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijfbmbm.2018070103.
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This article explores the general profile and behavior of tourists coming to Crete, and shows how qualitative, multistate data from a tourist survey can be used in market segmentation research using explanatory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and cluster analysis. The primary audience for this study consists of tourism industry practitioners interested in a practical, cost-effective approach to market segmentation analysis. For this study, around 2100 questionnaires were given to tourists who were about to leave Chania at the end of their stay during the 2017 touristic season. After collecting the data and preparing the final database a descriptive data analysis was conducted. Then factor analysis was applied using the principal component analysis (PCA) method. The next step was to apply a cluster analysis with the K-means method. Finally, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to test the goodness of fit of a prior specified model based on previous studies. The CFA results confirmed that there are clearly two different types of tourists: those who consider Crete as a relaxation destination and those who consider it for recreation activities. These results provide hotel managers with a clearer understanding of the current market segmentation which is useful in terms of pricing decisions. This article fulfills a need to study the tourist's behaviours and profiles in Crete and to classify them according to their activities, needs and budgets.
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Cohen, Erik. "Posthumanism and tourism." Tourism Review 74, no. 3 (June 12, 2019): 416–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tr-06-2018-0089.
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Purpose This study aims to raises the question of the potential impact of posthumanism, a stream in contemporary postmodernist philosophy, on current tourism practices and tourism studies. The author discusses its denial of some basic positions of enlightenment humanism: human exceptionalism, anthropocentrism and transcendentalism. The author then seeks to infer the implications of posthumanist thought for the basic concepts and categorical distinctions on which modern tourism and modernist tourist studies are based. Design/methodology/approach This paper raises the question of the potential impact of posthumanism, a stream in contemporary postmodernist philosophy, on current tourism practices and tourism studies. The author discusses its denial of some basic positions of Enlightenment humanism: human exceptionalism, anthropocentrism and transcendentalism. The author then seeks to infer the implications of posthumanist thought for the basic concepts and categorical distinctions on which modern tourism and modernist tourist studies are based. This paper raises the question of the potential impact of posthumanism, a stream in contemporary postmodernist philosophy, on current tourism practices and tourism studies. The author discusses its denial of some basic positions of Enlightenment humanism: human exceptionalism, anthropocentrism and transcendentalism. The author then seeks to infer the implications of posthumanist thought for the basic concepts and categorical distinctions on which modern tourism and modernist tourist studies are based. The author then discusses some inconsistencies in posthumanist philosophy, which stand in the way of its applicability to touristic practices, and end up with an appraisal of the significance of posthumanism for tourism studies. Findings The author pays specific attention to the implications of the effort of posthumanism to erase the human-animal divide for tourist-animal interaction, and of the possible impact of the adoption of posthumanist practices on the tourist industry and the ecological balance of wilderness areas. The author then discusses some inconsistencies in posthumanist philosophy, which stand in the way of its applicability to touristic practices, and end up with a brief appraisal of the significance of posthumanism for tourism studies. Originality/value This is the first attempt to confront tourism studies with the radical implications of posthumanist thought. It will hopefully open a new line of discourse in the field.
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Szmyt, Monika, and Mirosława Witkowska-Dąbrowska. "Use of the SWOT Analysis for Evaluation of the Tourist Potential of Olsztyn Sub-Region in Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodship." Olsztyn Economic Journal 8, no. 1 (March 31, 2013): 61–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.31648/oej.3200.
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Evaluation of the tourist potential of Olsztyn sub-region in Warmińsko-Mazurskie voivodship using the SWOT analysis was the aim of the work. The tourist potential was evaluated based on two groups of variables concerning the structural and functional resources conditioning tourist development. The studies showed that the woodiness was the major strength of the Olsztyn sub-region tourist potential. It was followed by investments in environment protection and municipal infrastructure. The major threats to tourist development in Olsztyn sub-region were the decrease in volumes of the German sentimental tourism and increasing demands of tourists concerning quality coupled with insufficient status of tourist facilities.
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Balcerzak, Agnieszka. "“The Charm of the PRL”. Memory Culture, (Post)Socialist Nostalgia and Historical Tourism in Poland." Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology 69, no. 2 (June 1, 2021): 255–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/se-2021-0014.
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Abstract The article explores the mechanisms of memory culture and the commercialization of the socialist heritage from the period of the People’s Republic of Poland (PRL) (from 1945 to 1989) as a tourist destination, societal practice and cultural resource in today’s Warsaw. At the intersection of heritage studies, historical tourism and material culture, the ethnographic analysis focuses on three empirical case studies as examples of the commercial popularization of the history of the PRL. These are the communist heritage tours offered by WPT 1313 and the documentation of the socialist heritage at the Museum of Life in the PRL and the Neon Museum. These commodified products of Warsaw’s tourism and entertainment culture fill a gap in the tourist market, based on the prototypical, nostalgic longing of tourists for a sensual and emotional experience of the “authentic past”. This predominantly participant observation-based ethnographic study on the practices, spaces, images and agents filling this touristic niche, illustrates how they create sensual-emotive, aesthetic and performative fields of reifying, discovering and experiencing the socialist past. Finally, the paper focuses on how these polyvalent mechanisms shape the tourist infrastructure of Warsaw oscillating between critical distancing and entertaining appropriation of the socialist heritage.
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Franklin, Adrian. "Art tourism: A new field for tourist studies." Tourist Studies 18, no. 4 (December 2018): 399–416. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468797618815025.
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This article argues the case for art tourism as a new field of tourist studies. At present, art tourism is currently obscured under cultural tourism’s voluminous bounds – which are as inappropriate as they are unwieldy and overloaded. More specifically, it cannot adequately contain art tourism’s distinctive origins, forms of experience and articulation between art worlds, cities and regions and tourism industries. In part, a more dedicated research field is also needed to keep track of its rapid growth and development as a primary driver of regional and urban regeneration and for the much expanded exhibitionary complex it encompasses. As a place-changing vehicle for city life, art tourism also needs separate forms of data collection to assist in its effective planning and design. Museums that have historically catered for local art publics now need to relate increasingly to growing touring art publics. The article sets out the historical and contemporary significance of art tourism in order to identify the breadth of a new tourism agenda, as well as its connections to other disciplines including art, architecture, social anthropology, cultural economy, urban studies, museology, aesthetics and the sociology and geography of art.
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Le, Cong Chi, and Dam Xuan Dong. "Factors affecting European tourists’ satisfaction in Nha Trang city: perceptions of destination quality." International Journal of Tourism Cities 3, no. 4 (December 4, 2017): 350–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijtc-04-2017-0022.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a deeper understanding of the different factors of destination quality in explaining European tourist satisfaction in Nha Trang city, which has one of the 29 most beautiful bays in the world and more than one million international tourists per year. The authors will also make some recommendations to attract more European visitors to Nha Trang and to increase satisfaction, as measured by their intention to return in the future. Design/methodology/approach A sample of 356 European visitors participated in this study. A structural equation modelling was applied in order to test the relationship between the constructs, and to evaluate their reliability and validity. Findings The results indicate satisfactory reliability and validity of the constructs and support the five hypotheses within a structural equation modelling. The findings highlight the importance of incorporating the roles of different factors in explaining tourists’ satisfaction. Specially, in some previous studies, the composition of the destination quality such as accommodation, food services, the retail and souvenir shops and destination attractions has a great impact on domestic tourist’s satisfaction. While the study found that the biggest factor affecting European tourist’s satisfaction was the friendliness and hospitality of the local people in Nha Trang city. Research limitations/implications Future studies should test the difference in satisfaction with the quality of destinations of European tourists to Nha Trang city. Research sample surveys should be collected in order to the magnitude and priority of key European tourist markets such as Russia, England, France, Spain and Germany. In addition, future studies should include more representative samples in other cities and include both domestic and international visitors. The proposed model intends to combine some components of tourism behaviour dimensions (value, involvement, knowledge, ambivalence, certainty, preference, trust, etc.) to test the satisfaction and destination intentional loyalty within this multidimensional perspective in a tourist destination context. The study has not considered the relationship between the increase of Russian tourists to the Nha Trang city in recent years and the decline of the European tourists (England, France, Spain, and so on). Thus, future studies should extend the model to have a more comprehensive picture about the cultural differences and cultural conflict in explaining the loyalty destination of European tourists. Practical implications Based on the research findings, the paper strongly recommends the city government to build an image of Nha Trang with friendly and hospitable people. Schools, tourism companies, and local authorities should pay attention to education and training to raise public awareness for tourism development and respect for tourists. The local government needs to develop activities to help the city residents become the typical citizen in the eyes of European tourists, contributing to the sustainable development of tourism in the city. Originality/value This study explores and tests the different factors of destination quality in explaining European tourists’ satisfaction. The research findings confirm that different dimensions of perceived destination quality are important variables to explain European tourist satisfaction.
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Pham, Hai Hong. "FACTORS AFFECTING SATISFACTION AND INTERNATIONAL TOURIST REVISIT INTENTION: A CASE STUDY IN BEN TRE PROVINCE." Scientific Journal of Tra Vinh University 1, no. 37 (June 25, 2020): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.35382/18594816.1.37.2020.372.
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The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the influence of travel motivation, destination image on tourist satisfaction, and revisit intention to a tourist destination of international travellers in Ben Tre Province. Based on a theoretical model, hypotheses were formulated, the study uses Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and a sample of 252 international tourists. The study result reveals that destination image and travel motivation influenced tourist satisfaction and satisfaction directly influenced revisit intention. The study also explored some implications for enticing more tourists to tourism destinations in Ben Tre Province, limitations and suggestions for future studies.
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Gunasekar, Sangeetha, Rojalin Patri, and Badri Narayanan. "International Tourist Arrival in India." Foreign Trade Review 53, no. 1 (September 17, 2017): 12–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0015732516681882.
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India experienced terror attack on its financial and entertainment capital Mumbai on 26 November 2008. There were 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks which lasted four days, killing 164 and injuring several hundred (Press Information Bureau, 2008, HM announces measured to enhance security, New Delhi: Ministry of Home Affairs, GOI.). The attack was largely targeted towards international tourists visiting Mumbai at the hotels like Oberoi Trident, The Taj Mahal Palace and Tower and Leopard Café. The objective of this article is to study the impact of the 26/11 terror attack on the arrival of international tourists in India. Very few studies in the literature have examined the impact of terrorist attacks on the tourism industry. (For more recent work see Arana & Leon, 2008, Annals of Tourism Research, 35, 299–315; Raza & Jawaid, 2013, Economic Modelling, 33, 65–70.) Our article tries to add evidence to this growing literature. Further in analyzing tourist demand, several researchers (see Song et al., 2012 for a review) have studied the relationship between tourism and economic growth. While studies have found unidirectional relationship between international tourism and economic growth (e.g., Balaguer & Cantavella-Jorda, 2002; Oh, 2005), there are others who find evidence supporting bidirectional relationship (e.g., Dritsakis, 2004; Kim & Chen, 2006, Tourism Management, 27, 925–933). In our study, we assume a bidirectional relationship between foreign tourists arriving in India and its economic condition. In the present study, we analyze the impact of 26/11 terror attack at Mumbai on the international tourist arrival in India. The analysis is done using the vector autoregression (VAR) model, where the foreign tourists arriving in India is a function of economic condition prevailing in the country, captured here by real gross domestic product of India and the terror attack dummy variable. Our results indicate that post 26/11 there has been a significant decline in the number of foreign tourists arriving in India. We further analyze the disaggregated airport level data, where similar significant negative impact were found for Mumbai and Delhi airports. JEL: L83, Z32, Z38
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Kim, Hae-Ryong, and So-Yeon Yoon. "How to Help Crowded Destinations: Tourist Anger vs. Sympathy and Role of Destination Social Responsibility." Sustainability 12, no. 6 (March 18, 2020): 2358. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12062358.
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Crowding at destinations is becoming an important issue in sustainable tourism. This study examines the relationship between tourist perceptions of crowding, environmentally responsible behavior (ERB), and intention to recommend a destination, from a helping behavior perspective. It proposes two discrete emotions, in particular anger and sympathy, to understand how tourist perceptions of crowding affect their helping behavior. We collected data through an online survey of tourists who had visited Jeju Island, which has emerged as Korea’s tourism hub. We performed structural equation modeling (SEM) and regression analysis to empirically test the research model. The results reveal that while tourist perceptions of spatial crowding positively impact both anger and sympathy, human crowding perceptions do not link to them. Further, we investigated the incompatible roles of anger and sympathy in tourist ERB and intention to recommend. Whereas anger weakens tourist ERB and intention to recommend, sympathy may strengthen them. This study also examined whether destination social responsibility (DSR) moderates the impact of crowding perceptions on the aforementioned emotions. In addition to encouraging relevant studies, we emphasize the importance of DSR, given the need for destination management organizations and tourism managers to understand tourists’ emotional responses and helping behavior at crowded destinations.
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Mikhailov, Sergei, and Alexey Kashevnik. "Tourist Behaviour Analysis Based on Digital Pattern of Life—An Approach and Case Study." Future Internet 12, no. 10 (September 28, 2020): 165. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fi12100165.
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The tourism industry has been rapidly growing over the last years and IT technologies have had a great affect on tourists as well. Tourist behaviour analysis has been the subject of different research studies in recent years. This paper presents the digital pattern of life concept which simplifies the tourist behaviour models’ construction and usage. The digital pattern of life defines the general concepts of tourist behaviour, connects the tourist and the digital world and allows us to track behaviour changes over time. A literature review of the current state of the research in selected fields is performed for identifying the existing problems. The case studies of behaviour analysis based on classification, clustering and time series events behaviour models are shown. An ontological approach and artificial neural networks are used during behaviour model construction, training and evaluation. The gathered results can be used by smart tourism service developers and business stakeholders.
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Lin, Jhih-Yu, Shu-Mei Wen, Masaharu Hirota, Tetsuya Araki, and Hiroshi Ishikawa. "Less-Known Tourist Attraction Discovery Based on Geo-Tagged Photographs." Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction 2, no. 4 (October 19, 2020): 414–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/make2040023.
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Most existing studies of tourist attraction recommendations have specifically emphasized analyses of popular sites. However, recommending such spots encourages crowds to flock there in large numbers, making tourists feel uncomfortable. Furthermore, some studies have discovered that quite a few tourists dislike crowded destinations and prefer to avoid them. A ready solution is discovery and publicity of less-known tourist attractions. Especially, this study specifically examines discovery of less-known Japanese tourist destinations that are attractive and merit increased visits. Using this approach, crowds can not only be dispersed from popular tourist attractions, but more diverse spots can be provided for travelers to choose from. By analyzing geo-tagged photographs on Flickr, we propose a formula that incorporates different aspects such as image quality assessment (IQA), comment sentiment, and tourist attraction popularity for ranking tourist attractions. We investigate Taiwanese and Japanese people to assess their familiar Japanese cities and remove them from ranking results of tourist attractions. The remaining spots are less-known tourist attractions. As reported from results of verification experiments, most less-known tourist attractions are known by only a few people. They appeal to participants. Additionally, we examined some factors that might affect respondents when they decide whether a spot is attractive to them or not. This study can benefit tourism industries worldwide in the process of discovering potential tourist attractions.
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Bezugly, Vitaly, Zoya Boyko, and Alina Yarotsкаya. "CURRENT STATE OF TOURISM INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA." GEOGRAPHY AND TOURISM, no. 53 (2019): 61–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2308-135x.2019.53.61-68.
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The main purpose of the article – generalization of modern development of tourist industry of India, determination status and analysis of prospects of development of tourism sphere are in the economy of the country that develops (on the example of India). Methodology. In the article such methods of geographical research were used as to the analysis, comparative, historical, statistical et al. On this basis, an analysis of the conditions and results of tourism development in India as a whole and in its administrative units was introduced due to statistics of certain indicators (number of foreign tourists, foreign currency arrivals, number of outbound tourists from India, number of hotels by category, number of restaurants business, etc.). The theoretical base of research labors of home specialists served as in the field of tourist country-specific studies (Baіdik О., Maslyak P.). Statistical data of World Tourism Organization UNWTO and Ministries of statistics and implementation of the programs of India, that represented development of tourist sphere of India status, were widely used. Results. The peculiarities of development of such a new and promising branch of the Indian economy as tourism are analyzed. The dynamics of the main indicators of the tourism industry in India (number of foreign tourists' arrivals and arrivals of foreign currency spent by tourists), for the years 2002-2018 and their impact on the effectiveness of the development of this sphere. Geospatial characteristics of tourism infrastructure in India are given, selected states of the country with the largest and smallest number of arrivals of foreign tourists to them. The specific composition and forms of activity of the hotel and restaurant sector of India are analyzed; it is revealed that the hotel sector forms a key segment of the tourism industry of the country. Prospects for development of India's tourism sector by 2025 have been determined. Scientific novelty. It is an analysis of the tourism industry of India for the years 2002-2018 using various statistical methods. The ways of development and the place of the tourism industry in the developing country economy (on the example of India) are shown. Practical meaningfulness. The main promising steps required for the further gradual development of the tourism sector in India are outlined. The results of the research can be widely used both in lectures, as well as in practical and seminars in the study of disciplines of tourist country studies, in the preparation of specialists for the national tourism industry, the practical activity of Ukrainian tourist operators and agencies. The row of key positions that can be useful to development of tourist sphere of Ukraine is distinguished.
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Martín Martín, José, Jose Guaita Martínez, Valentín Molina Moreno, and Antonio Sartal Rodríguez. "An Analysis of the Tourist Mobility in the Island of Lanzarote: Car Rental Versus More Sustainable Transportation Alternatives." Sustainability 11, no. 3 (January 31, 2019): 739. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11030739.
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Studies have shown that certain modes of tourist development jeopardize the environment, as in the case of mass tourism, especially in areas that require special protection. The goal of this study is to apply a proposal for studying sustainability of tourist mobility to a protected space, the island of Lanzarote, which has been declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO. This paper seeks to figure out the mobility patterns of tourists, the criterion used to select a mode of transportation, the attitude of tourists towards the sustainability of transport, and its environmental implications by analyzing secondary sources and interviewing tourists. The results show that the tourism model of the island is based on scattered natural resources that tourists want to enjoy in a tailor-made visit, which makes it hard to give up individual transportation. The only environmentally sustainable alternative is opting for electric vehicles with charging stations in the aforementioned tourist spots.
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Li, Junju, and Ying (Tracy) Lu. "Chinese culture in tourist research: a review and comparison of Chinese and English studies in 1993-2012." Tourism Review 71, no. 2 (June 20, 2016): 118–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tr-05-2015-0021.
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Purpose With the worldwide growth of the Chinese tourism market, a number of studies have emerged, that attempt to understand the phenomenon, including the influence of Chinese culture on Chinese tourist behavior. This research aims to answer four questions: How has Chinese culture been adopted in tourism literature? What is the current state of tourism research on Chinese culture? What are the similarities, differences and research gaps between international and Chinese studies in this area of investigation? What are the directions that future tourism research will take? Design/methodology/approach The articles for this systematic review were published in major international hospitality and tourism journals and Chinese journals over a period of 20 years (1993-2012). A meta-review was carried out on 80 Chinese and English tourism literature dating from 1993 to 2012. Findings This review showed that Chinese culture has been fragmentally operationalized due to underdeveloped Chinese cultural theories in tourism, independent and unrelated extant cultural systems and perspectives and lack of empirical testing for theory development. Two major theoretical systems of Chinese culture in tourist research were revealed in this review: cross-cultural theory and traditional Chinese cultural framework. The current state of tourism research on Chinese culture was also analyzed. The similarities, differences and research gaps were identified between international and Chinese studies on this inquiry. Implications for future tourism research in this area were suggested. Research limitations/implications Unveiling the evolving research progress of a single culture helps to provide a deeper insight into how culture was used to analyze the behavior of individual tourist markets, and hence to better understand a particular tourist market. Originality/value This research has synthesized a wide range of literature to unveil the extant understanding of Chinese culture as reflected in Chinese tourists and outline the ways forward in this area of investigation.
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Barry, Kaya. "Diagramming: A creative methodology for tourist studies." Tourist Studies 17, no. 3 (November 28, 2016): 328–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468797616680852.
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Tourists experience a range of everyday practices that are subtle, momentary and mundane, which can be difficult to document. Finding documentation techniques that encourage hands-on and collaborative experiences can assist in gathering and producing a variety of perspectives from researchers and tourists. Using the Deleuzian concept of the ‘diagram’, this article examines how creative documentation methods can be used to explore everyday practices of tourists. From a creative arts and philosophical perspective, a diagram is a methodological tool that allows the tracing of relations through a range of techniques. Tracing the development of participatory artwork that uses a diagrammatic approach demonstrates how the experiences of both tourists and researchers can be fused. This encourages a wider perspective of how tourist practices are generated through interactive and affective registers. Diagramming is a creative methodological approach that can assist in tracing experiences and relationships that emerge in tourist studies.
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Ryu, Chehyun, and Youngsang Kwon. "Elements that affect foreign tourists’ satisfaction: a case study in Seoul, Korea." URBAN DESIGN International 26, no. 2 (March 29, 2021): 197–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41289-021-00161-x.
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AbstractCity tourism is one of the fastest growing industries worldwide. City tourism based on the attractiveness of the city is an important policy objective to secure competitiveness and sustainability of the city. However, as a city attracts more tourists, this uniqueness tends to decrease with the introduction of global corporate franchises as well as the construction of standardised buildings. Policymakers focus more on building hotels and shopping centres than on enhancing the cityscape. Therefore, this article aims to analyse the effect of cityscapes on tourist satisfaction. It encourages policymakers to bear in mind what really matters in fostering tourist satisfaction. During this research, about 250 foreign tourists visiting Seoul were given questionnaires to complete. Ordered logistic regression was used to analyse the data collected. The results demonstrated that among several elements that affected tourist satisfaction, such as shopping, security, and public transportation services, the cityscape had the greatest influence. This fact shows that urban competitiveness and sustainable city tourism are more important than the construction of new buildings or infrastructure in the short term. In the future, policymakers should seek to strengthen the city’s competitiveness from a longer-term perspective for its sustainable economic revitalisation.
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Panáková, Jaroslava. "Ways of Seeing, Sightseeing and Mimesis. Visual Research Methodology in Tourism Studies." Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology 67, no. 4 (December 1, 2019): 399–411. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/se-2019-0023.
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Abstract In ethno-tourism, both hosts and guests are engaged in the process of producing visible, viewable “tourist reality”. Instead of focusing either on the framing that structures the image production, or on the tourist images themselves, I shall propose a methodological approach that puts these two strands together. A touring experience in Yupik-Chukchi hamlet New Chaplino, Russia is analysed on the basis of Michael Yampolski’s concept of mimetic seeing (Yampolski, 2001); it corresponds to the key aspects of ethno-tourism – ethno-topian desire and cultural appropriation. In contrast, non-mimetic seeing parallels post-tourism. The study proposes a third category – doubling that reflects cultural interaction between the hosts and guests, in which Other is fully recognized. It is maintained that photographs do not serve just as traces of perception of other culture but also as ways of representation, which are acceptable in the local culture.
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Ghassani, Ghitha Ghaida, Raden Aswin Rahadi, and Bisma Jatmika. "CONCEPTUAL MODEL FOR MILLENIALS TOURIST VISIT MOTIVATION IN BOROBUDUR." Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Environment Management 5, no. 19 (June 10, 2020): 67–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.35631/jthem.519006.
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This paper aims to explore Millennial tourists' visit motivation to Borobudur and surrounding areas. The approach used is by analyzing 20 papers related to tourist motivation to visit, making synthesis from the collected papers, and producing critical views for each related paper. The objective of this paper is to find the conceptual model for Millennials' tourist visit motivation, especially in Borobudur and surrounding areas. This paper found that tourist visit motivation is about tourists' perceived quality and tourist's perceived value. The perceived quality is from the quality of tourist services and destination appearance, and the emotional experience that tourists expect to get in the destination. The perceived cost from the monetary and non-monetary cost they spend to visit the destination. This perceived quality and cost will greatly influence tourist's behavioral intentions that cause tourists to make a visit or even revisit intention. The limitation of this research is that this research only studies millennials’ tourist visit motivation. In the future, the qualitative research process can be conducted in Borobudur and surrounding areas to testify and improve the conceptual model found in this paper.
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Tripathi, Animesh, Stuart Hayes, and Hazel Tucker. "In search of ‘Other’ voices: on the need for non-Western (auto)ethnographic/(auto)biographical accounts of tourist culture." Journal of Qualitative Research in Tourism 1, no. 1 (December 1, 2020): 112–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/jqrt.2020.01.06.
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With an increase in tourists originating from Asia, the geographies of tourism have changed considerably in recent decades. Arguably, however, tourism scholarship remains largely Western-centric. In this research note, we focus on one particular area of tourism scholarship where Western-centrism may be especially problematic: tourist culture. As part of this, we draw on a case study of ‘lifestyle travel’ to illustrate the need for more inclusive, diverse and non-Western-centric (auto)ethnographic/(auto)biographical studies in tourist culture scholarship. In so doing, we argue that such studies may be especially useful for capturing the stories of ‘Others’, thus helping to broaden our knowledge base in light of tourism’s shifting geographies.
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Crouch, David. "Hope, frustrations and progressive potentials: a mild polemic." Tourist Studies 21, no. 1 (March 2021): 36–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468797621997333.
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The complexities of the creative sector are well rehearsed both within and beyond tourism. In tourism, creativity manifests in a range of ways and tends to be regarded as something that the commercial sector indulges, through film and apps to enable virtual visiting. Customers, tourists, have their ideas – and to a degree feeling of experiences, sites, staged events, framed, even shaped, by the touristic creative sector. These interventions play a valuable role to get closer to the in vivo experience. This commentary reflects upon the range of work that has been undertaken in the last twenty years to explore creativity in tourism as the creativity of tourists and how this constitutes their expectations and experiences remains central to tourist studies.
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Sun, Huan, Shaofeng Wu, Yanning Li, and Guangquan Dai. "Tourist-to-Tourist Interaction at Festivals: A Grounded Theory Approach." Sustainability 11, no. 15 (July 25, 2019): 4030. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11154030.
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Although neglected in previous studies, tourist-to-tourist interaction (TTI) is a core part of festival experience. It is widely acknowledged that interactions between tourists significantly influence behavioral reactions such as desire to stay, satisfaction, and loyalty, which are important for tourism destination marketing. This study used grounded theory to obtain insights into onsite interactions between tourists and to propose a conceptual model of TTI on the Midi Music Festival in China. The model constitutes the types, drivers, and influence of TTI. Compared with mutual assistance and conflict, entertainment interaction plays an essential role in the overall evaluation of the festival experience. Individual characteristics are the internal drivers of interactions between tourists. Environmental elements including the festivalscape and social festivalscape are influential exogenous factors. Additionally, spatial locations of tourists at the venue play mediating roles between the driving elements and TTI. Since entertainment incidents construct the essential part of onsite interactions at festivals, managers can shape the atmosphere to encourage tourists to engage in interactive entertainment with others tourists. This should improve participants’ overall evaluations of the festival experience as well as the sustainable development of destinations where festivals are held.
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Qi, Wenjin, and Nadezda Sorokina. "Constructing online tourist destination images: a visual discourse analysis of the official Beijing Tourism website." Chinese Semiotic Studies 17, no. 3 (August 1, 2021): 421–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/css-2021-2006.
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Abstract Having the right image as a tourist destination brings immense benefits for a city’s international recognition in an increasingly competitive tourist industry. Official tourism websites as effective platforms to project a destination image online are able to provide substantial information about the tourist destination and attract a wider potential for inbound tourists from a global market. However, a lack of sufficient research has been noted regarding the integration of tourism studies and the study of website discourse, particularly visual discourse. This study, drawing on the theory of metafunctions in semiotics, conducts a visual discourse analysis by examining the three metafunctional meanings of visual images extracted from the official Beijing Tourism website. The results of both quantitative and qualitative analyses showed that the investigated website constructs an online city destination image through a multiplicity of tourist resources. The study concludes by outlining the practical benefits for tourism website designers and implications for future research.
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Hashemi, S. M., J. Jusoh, S. Kiumarsi, and Shno Mohammadi. "INFLUENCE FACTORS OF SPA AND WELLNESS TOURISM ON REVISIT INTENTION: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL TOURIST MOTIVATION AND TOURIST SATISFACTION." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 3, no. 7 (July 31, 2015): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v3.i7.2015.2976.
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Wellness and spa tourism has recently become a marketing strategy to attract tourists. It plays an important role in hotel industry, resorts and tourist destinations. Wellness and spa services are being required by local and international tourists. The interrelationship among motivations, satisfaction, and revisit intentions remain largely unexplored. Therefore, the purpose of the study was to facilitate understanding of the relationship among these constructs. In addition, very few studies on exploring consumers’ needs for the spa and wellness have been conducted in Malaysian context. Previous studies revealed that gaining deep insights into customer profiles and their desire for wellness and spa within this context needs to be taken into considerations, which encourages the development of wellness and spa tourism business. The findings of this study are believed to be advantageous to the wellness and spa service providers. More specifically, appropriate marketing strategies and tourist motivation will be paying more attention and developed in future research.
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Chan, Winnie W. Y., Chester K. M. To, Alice W. C. Chu, and Zhiming Zhang. "Behavioral Determinants that Drive Luxury Goods Consumption: A Study within the Tourist Context." Research Journal of Textile and Apparel 18, no. 2 (May 1, 2014): 84–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/rjta-18-02-2014-b010.
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Chinese tourists have become the greatest driving force behind global tourism. An increasing number of luxury fashion brands regard these tourists as a potentially significant segment of status-conscious consumers. Yet a limited number of marketing studies have addressed the significance of the intrinsic motivation that drives these tourist consumers to consume luxury goods. This study investigates the significant intrinsic factors that affect the luxury goods buying behavior of tourist consumers. Data are collected from 284 tourist consumers and analyzed by using the exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and cluster analysis. The EFA purified the measurement instruments to four factor attributes, namely, self-satisfaction, possession obsessiveness, status consciousness and personal differentness. The cluster analysis identified three groups of tourist consumers with distinctive behavioral segmentation criteria: ‘shopping hedonists’, ‘ego-defended achievers’ and ‘conspicuous fashionistas’. These findings provide managerial implications for building sustainable luxury businesses and competitive strategies tailored for tourist consumers.
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Golja, Tea, and Morena Paulišić. "Managing-technology enhanced tourist experience." Management 26, no. 1 (June 30, 2021): 63–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.30924/mjcmi.26.1.5.
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Many of the recent research studies in tourist behavior pointed to the fact that contemporary tourists, particularly millennials, are very prone to innovative experiences and enjoy co-creating the tourist experience. Technological advancements drive changes in the way tourists experience their vacation and have transferred power to the tourists in terms of decision-making. Scattered hotels bring back life into empty and abandoned homes in the old parts of the city. They boost the trickle-down effect on the local economy, contribute to the revival of villages and old parts of the town, preservation of the local culture and identity of the place, and minimization of negative social and ecological impacts of over-tourism. With the implementation of innovative technological solutions, customized to such particular accommodation establishments and the ecosystem of the tourist destination, this product would be able to modify the complete nature of the tourism experience. In this paper, the authors aim to explore how technology reinvigorates creativity and boosts destinations’ innovativeness and competitiveness by enriching the overall customer experience and by creating ecosystems in which tourism contributes to sustainable development. Technological advancements that can unlock innovation potential in scattered hotels are presented, as well as perceptions of tourism suppliers on personalized experiences, boosted with technological innovations. Factors hampering innovation are identified, as well as other important obstacles in delivering such services (financing, cooperation with other stakeholders, uncertain demand, etc.). From a possible functional angle, this study presents significant implications for small entrepreneurs – experience providers in horizontally developed accommodation structures, as well as destination managers and all levels of government.
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Manakov, Andrei G., Irina N. Krasilnikova, and Ivan A. Ivanov. "Geography of inbound tourism and transboundary tourism-and-recreation region-building in Sweden." Baltic Region 13, no. 1 (2021): 108–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.5922/2079-8555-2021-1-6.
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Sweden’s tourism industry stands out for its large contribution to the development of the national economy. The vast size of the country makes it possible to trace differences in incoming tourist flows from neighbouring countries. This circumstance accounts for the novelty of this study, which lies in viewing national tourism geography from the perspective of the theory of transboundary tourism-and-recreation region building. Interregional differences in the structure of incoming tourist flows help identify the country’s cross-border tourism-and-recreation regions and delineate their borders. This research employs statistical and cartographic methods. The incoming tourist flow to Sweden grew steadily until 2020. However, the Covid-19 crisis has led to a drastic reduction in the number of incoming tourists. Based on the 2019 statistics, the findings confirm the existence of a developed transboundary tourism-and-recreation mesoregion that brings together Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. The formation boasts strong tourist links. There are another five cross-border tourism-and-recreation mesoregions: Sweden-Norway-Denmark, Middle Sweden-Norway, Sweden-Norway-Finland, Middle Sweden-Finland, and South Sweden-Finland. The number of tourists visiting cross-border mesoregions indicates the degree of development of the latter.
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An, Tai Gi, and Lim-Soo Shin. "A Study on the Relationship and Influence Between Motivation and Satisfaction of Ecotourism Visitors Based on IOT." Research in World Economy 11, no. 2 (May 23, 2020): 159. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/rwe.v11n2p159.
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Background/Objectives: All modern activities have been developed to manage the system fused with IoT Internet of Things. Tourism industry is also developing into a fusion and complex. Currently, the Internet of things is the most active field of use, and the development plan of the Internet of things and ecotourism is being studied very little. ICT convergence industry in other fields is considered to be a field with high potential growth potential from remote systems. The purpose of this study is to empirically verify the relationship and influence between the motivation and satisfaction of eco-tourism tourists.Methods/Statistical analysis: In order to achieve the purpose of this study, literature research and empirical research were conducted in parallel. First, the concept and characteristics of ecotourism were examined based on IoT base through theses, journals, and other related materials, and theoretical considerations such as motivation, satisfaction, revisit intention and recommendation intention of tourist destinations were conducted. The reliability test was conducted to identify internal consistency using SPSS program, and factor analysis was conducted to verify validity.Findings: In order to investigate the relationship between the motivation and satisfaction of visitors to IOT ecotourism, this study was conducted to investigate the relationship between the motivation and satisfaction. First, based on the previous studies, the characteristics and mutual relations are conceptually redefined through theoretical review of ecotourism, tourism motivation, and tourism satisfaction. Second, the relationship between tourism characteristics, tourism motivation, tourism satisfaction, and revisit recommendation intention was empirically verified for tourists visiting IOT eco-tourism sites. Third, it is intended to provide useful Infor-mation for the development and management of ecological tourist destinations and the tourists who visit ecological tourist destinations in the future.Improvements/Applications: Despite the importance of IOT ecotourism, systematic research is insufficient. The reason is that the application of ecotourism is different from case to case, so it is difficult and it is applicable to various fields, so various approaches are possible. This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between the tourist's motives and tourist satisfaction, targeting various ecotourism resources of the Jindo Mystery Sea Road Festival.
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Maulana Pratama, Aditya, IP Sudana, and NMS Wijaya. "ANALISIS POLA PERJALANAN DAN AKTIVITAS WISATAWAN MILENIAL MANCANEGARA KE DESA PECATU, BADUNG." Jurnal IPTA 8, no. 1 (July 16, 2020): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.24843/ipta.2020.v08.i01.p01.
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UNWTO predicts millenial tourists will become one of the biggest market shares for the tourism in the world and in Indonesia. Bali as a tourist destination and one of them is Pecatu Village, located in the area of South Kuta, Badung Regency as one of tourist destinations for millennial foreign tourists. According to this research millenials tourist are defined as the tourists group aged 16-37 years old. The purposes of this research are to find out characteristic, travel pattern and activities for the foreign millenial tourists visiting Pecatu Village. This research uses descriptive qualitative analysis, the sample was determined purposively by 100 respondent foreign millenial tourist. Data collection techniques were carried out by means of observation, questionnaires, interviews, literature studies and documentation. The results showed that Uluwatu Temple visited by 30 % of total respondents with characteristics of millenial tourists are first timer tourist with the length of stay between 2 weeks – 1 month, visiting with friends, organized their trip by themselves, using internet to get information and using motorbike as a transportation during their trip. There are 2 types of travel pattern namely single point and base trip while visiting tourist attractions and for the activites 68% them like to swimming, sunbathing, sightseeing and taking pictures.
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Mrnjavac, Edna, Nataša Kovačić, and Darja Topolšek. "The logistic product of bicycle destinations." Tourism and hospitality management 20, no. 2 (2014): 171–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.20867/thm.20.2.2.
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Purpose – of the study is to indicate the path of much needed segmentation in the Croatian tourist supply. Therefore, it aims to identify the destination-specific elements of bicycle destinations in Europe, within the context of cycle tourism demand. Design – While the quality of the tourist product is proportional to the level of logistics implementation and the rivalry on the tourist market is supply chain-based, the focus is on a crucial element of tourist supply chain management—information. Methodology – The study recognizes both counterparts on the market, although highlighting the tourist supply. The data on supply was collected by researching the internet information sources available to cycle tourists while making travel decisions. Findings on the destinations’ logistic product variables are compared to criteria set by the researched cycle tourism demand. Approach – This small-scale research of bicycle tourism supply aims at testing the selected criteria for the purpose of a sequential wider research oriented towards providing a list of possible upgrades for Croatian destinations. Findings – Among all features attributable to a destination, research demonstrated that the cycle tourists’ primary focus is on information accessibility. The cycling-specific supply recognizes this information dependency and targets the market by a variety of needed information, while general tourist sites often lack complete information. Value – Similar research of bicycle tourism does not exist. The field is mainly contributed to trough conceptual discussions and studies of existing practice. This research establishes to what extent the demand and supply side match by identifying the common attributes of cycle tourism destinations.
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Vidon, Elizabeth S. "Why wilderness? Alienation, authenticity, and nature." Tourist Studies 19, no. 1 (August 14, 2017): 3–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468797617723473.
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Focusing on the role psychoanalytic alienation plays in tourist motivation, this article contributes to recent scholarship that aims to redevelop the dialectic relationship between authenticity and alienation in tourism studies. Lacanian psychoanalysis is the primary lens through which this is accomplished, by application to wilderness and nature tourism in the Adirondacks of Upstate New York, USA. This approach adds further insight as to the draw of nature tourism by interrogating not only what nature tourists are seeking but also what drives them to seek it. As such, this attention to the dialectical relationship of authenticity and alienation has implications for theories of tourism that seek to understand the relationship of tourism motivation to touristic experience.
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Superyadi, Ni Luh Putu. "Pengembangan Produk Wisata Berbasis Kharakteristik Wisatawan Prancis di PT. Karang Bali Asli (KBA) Tur Denpasar." PARIWISATA BUDAYA: JURNAL ILMIAH AGAMA DAN BUDAYA 4, no. 1 (April 8, 2019): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.25078/pba.v4i1.774.
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<p>Based on the data from the Bali Provincial Tourism Office in 2018, the number of French tourist visits to Bali continues to increase every year, even in 2018 it occupies the seventh position from the top ten suppliers of tourists to Bali. This condition is inseparable from the role of the Travel Agency in Bali, which always innovates and develops tourism products that suit the needs and characteristics of tourists. One of the Travel Agencies that focuses on working on the French tourist market is PT. Karang Bali Asli (KBA) Tour Denpasar which has been operating since 1999. This study examines three problems, namely: (1) What are the tourist characteristics-based products of French tourists offered by PT. KBA Tour ?; (2) What is the perception of French tourists on tourism products offered by PT. KBA Tour ?; and (3) How is the development of tourism products based on the characteristics of French tourists at PT. KBA Tour? This research is a qualitative research, with methods of collecting data through observation, in-depth interviews, questionnaires, and literature studies. The theory used was the Marketing Mix Theory and Perception Theory. The results of the study show that: (1) In general, tourism products offered by PT. KBA Tour Denpasar are interactive tourism products or tourism products that create intractions between tourists with the local community, as well as tourism products that create interaction between tourists and the natural environment; (2) The perception of French tourists on tourism products offered by PT. KBA Tur, shows positive (good) values for the four indicators in the Marketing Mix theory, namely: Product, Price, Place, and Promotion; (3) Business development of tourism products based on the characteristics of French tourists at PT. KBA Tur can be carried out as expected because of the synergy and support of the local community, company employees, and feedback and input from the tourists themselves, so that the tourism products offered by PT. KBA Tur are very popular with tourists and can be sustainable.</p><p> </p><p>Keywords: Development, Tourism Products, Tourist Characteristics.</p>
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Dong, LIU, LI Zhimin, and Wang Xin. "Using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to Evaluate the Coupling Degree Between Scenic Tourism Building Sites." Open House International 43, no. 1 (March 1, 2018): 93–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-01-2018-b0019.
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Scenic tourist buildings are the important material security conditions for famous scenic cities to carry out tourism activities, and the level of their planning and design will directly affect the tourists' recognition of the scenic spots. Based on this, a research on the evaluation of the coupling degree between scenic tourist buildings and sites based on analytic hierarchy process was put forward. First of all, the theory of the coupling between the landscape tourism architecture and the site was elaborated, and then the landscape tourism architecture and its planning and design were proposed; taking a certain project as an example, planning and design of its teahouse, villas, sightseeing stand and other buildings were analyzed emphatically; in addition, the evaluation of the coupling degree of AHP was used to show that the planed and designed scenic tourist buildings are in the landscape and they can also be the landscape.
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Hanafiah, Mohd Hafiz, Ahmad Farhan Jasmi, Aidil Hafiz Mohammad Razali, and Muhamad Sharudin Sulaiman. "THE STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIPS OF EXPERIENCE QUALITY, TOURIST SATISFACTION AND DESTINATION LOYALTY: THE CASE OF PANGKOR ISLAND, MALAYSIA." Journal of Nusantara Studies (JONUS) 4, no. 1 (June 29, 2019): 186. http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/jonus.vol4iss1pp186-210.
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Previous studies show that a superior tourist experience would lead to travel satisfaction and develop loyalty towards a destination. However, the role and influence of experience quality on tourist behavioural intentions have yet to be thoroughly scrutinized. This study aims at examining the experience quality of Pangkor Island tourists and its effect on their satisfaction and destination loyalty. This research applied the convenience sampling method whereby the survey data were collected conveniently from the tourists visiting Pangkor Island. The data obtained were examined via Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM). The structural model assessment proposed that the natural attraction of Pangkor Island, the local behaviour, destination value, safety and cleanliness influence the tourists' satisfaction and destination loyalty. This study contributes to a better understanding of how the quality of tourist experience affect their behavioural mechanisms: travel satisfaction and destination loyalty. The research findings contribute to the literature on island tourism and enrich the existing knowledge of experience quality components and their effect on tourists’ satisfaction and destination loyalty.Keywords: Destination loyalty, experience quality, Pangkor Island, satisfaction, Tourist. Cite as: Hanafiah, M. H., Jasmi, A. F., Razali, A. H. M., & Sulaiman, M. S. (2019). The structural relationships of experience quality, tourist satisfaction and destination loyalty: The case of Pangkor Island, Malaysia. Journal of Nusantara Studies, 4(1), 186-210. http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/jonus.vol4iss1pp186-210
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Nor Azazi, Noor Alyani, and Maslina Mohammed Shaed. "Social Media and Decision-Making Process among Tourist: A Systematic Review." Jurnal Komunikasi: Malaysian Journal of Communication 36, no. 4 (December 11, 2020): 395–409. http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/jkmjc-2020-3604-24.
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Social media nowadays have a huge influence on the tourism sector. With the advancement of search engines, tourists can search for any information they need on their tourism preferences. Today, there are tons of social media websites (such as TripAdvisor, Trivago, Booking.com, Agoda.com) that can help the tourist to find and decide the best tourism places and activities around the world. Studies have shown that social media is one of the best tools that are used by a tourist in the decision-making process. This paper is written to have a better understanding and to find a gap in the studies related to this topic. Hence, this paper focuses on conceptual review using a systematic review based on 24 published journals and theses from 2015 to 2019 on the influence of social media and its impact on the decision-making process for the tourist. Based on the findings, the majority of the scholars supported that social media have a big impact on how people make the decision for their tourism destination. The gaps that derived from this review have proven that only limited studies have been conducted in Malaysia; most of the research used a quantitative approach; only a few studies have included the theory related to this issue, and the targeted respondents were mostly among young travellers. Therefore, further studies on the role of social media in the decision-making process can be done by focusing on these gaps, especially in the Malaysian context. Keywords: Decision-making, influence, social media, tourism, tourist.
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Putra, Putu Karyana, and I. Nyoman Sunarta. "Identifikasi Komponen Daya Tarik Wisata Dan Pengelolaan Pantai Labuan Sait, Desa Adat Pecatu, Kabupaten Badung." JURNAL DESTINASI PARIWISATA 6, no. 2 (January 1, 2019): 292. http://dx.doi.org/10.24843/jdepar.2018.v06.i02.p13.
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The management is one of the supporting activities in tourism. Management is the key of how an expanded appeal or not. Labuan Sait Beach has the potential of nature in the form of a white-sand beach and good waves for surfing. The assumption behind this is based on the dipilhnya coast of Labuan Sait as a research topic in order to find out the components of a tourist attraction and how it managed.
The research methodology used in this study is a qualitative research, with observation, in-depth interviews, documentation, and research studies as well as using the concept of tourist attraction, tourism potentital and management.
The results of this research shows that the tourist attraction of the Labuan Sait Beach was established as a new tourist attraction on March 1, 2016 and the enforcement of admission for tourists. Attraction of the Labuan Sait Beach is managed by the Pecatu Village goverment and Uluwatu attraction management.
Keywords: management, tourism potential, tourist attraction, Labuan Sait Beach
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Wagner, Monica-Nataliia Laurensovna, Sergey A. Makushkin, Vitaly V. Goncharov, Dariana Dmitrievna Maksimova, Vladimir Dmitriyevich Sekerin, and Anna Evgenevna Gorokhova. "Regulating the tourism industry to attract foreign investments at risk of force majeure events." Laplage em Revista 6, Extra-C (December 30, 2020): 299–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.24115/s2446-622020206extra-c655p.299-306.
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This article studies the legislative regulation of tourist activities in order to improve the investment climate. The authors consider the current state of the tourist services market and the reasons why the flow of tourists has significantly decreased and analyze the refund policy in case it is impossible to provide a tourist service due to the closure of the border during the pandemic. Based on the analysis of the international experience and the tourism industry in the Russian Federation, the authors developed recommendations to improve existing legislation and government policy towards the tourism industry, which should guarantee the influx of investments. In addition, they addressed the issue of attracting foreign investments to the tourism industry within the scope of public-private partnerships, as well as the issue of the creation of special economic zones of the tourist and recreational type. The authors concluded that it is necessary to form a clear political program for the development of tourism in the Russian Federation and to apply comprehensive measures to create conditions in which Russian tourism develops more effectively.