Examining the Contribution of Protected Area-Based Tourism to Sustainable Development Goals

The participation of residents plays a crucial role in achieving sustainable development of tourism in rural community. This study proposes a novel concept, namely community-based psychological ownership (C-PO) and examines its dimensionality and association with community participation in rural tourism. The scale of C-PO was developed through 4 stages. In Stage 1, initial item pool with 25 items is generated based on a qualitative study from Shangchengdai and Dachen Village in Zhejiang, China. Through Stage 2 and Stage 3, a 23-item six-dimensional scale is confirmed using data collected in two on-site surveys (n = 93, n = 416) at Maoyang Township, Zhejiang. In Study 4, using survey data (n = 485) collected from Heyang Village and Maoyang Township, Zhejiang, the relationships between C-PO and community participation in rural tourism development are examined. The results indicate that self-identity, self-efficacy, community responsibility and community belongingness have positive effects on community participation, while community possession and territoriality have a non-significant and negative impact, respectively. Recommendations are provided for better encouraging community participation in tourism development by managing residents’ psychological ownership towards their communities.

The abundance of natural resources and the expansive beauty of nature make Simanindo a district with great potential for tourism development. This tourism potential was later developed by the Samosir Regency government and used as a sector capable of bringing foreign exchange to the country and society. Tourism development can begin from planning to management or utilization stages and evaluation of results. All these phases are inseparable from the roles and contributions of multiple parties, especially the communities surrounding the tourist destination. This shows that community involvement is an important issue for the success of future tourism development programs. The survey was conducted through a qualitative approach. This study explains and explains the symptoms and trends in the focus of the study. In the first focus, the research method was performed through the collection of key data, and in the second focus, the data was collected through observations, detailed interviews, and focus group discussions. The results of this literature review show that community involvement in tourism progress is influence by internal and external factors that can affect the development of the tourism industry and the standard of living of local communities. The details of this literature study focus on the form of participation and influencing factors, support and hinder the process of community participation in tourism development

Mega-events as drivers of community participation in developing countries: The case of Shanghai World Expo

As a major interest group in the process of tourism development, community participation in tourism development has been recognized and studied by many scholars. By implementing the research instruments of literature review and expert interviews, this study analyzes relevant factors of influencing community members' interests. On this basis, we weighting the various indicators of the assignment by the Analytic Hierarchy Process and build a community members' interests appraisal model of community participation in tourism development. Drawing a conclusion: community members' economic interests take the important position in this model and the weight is 0.422; community members' environment interests take second place and it weight is 0.355; socialization influence takes third place and it weight is 0.223. The above conclusion can provide some guidelines for community members' interests distribution of community participation in tourism development.

Community participation in tourism development has gained significant attention in recent years. While ample research has investigated how the community participated in developing tourism destinations and their industries, little is known about what factors, motivations and contributions of the community participating in the development of marine ecotourism. To fill the void, the present study conducts a qualitative systematic review of how community participation contributes to the development of marine ecotourism. The papers were included in the SCOPUS and WOS databases published between 2011 and 2021. In this study, the papers were selected using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) protocol. The keywords include “community participation”, “marine ecotourism” and “qualitative”. From 244, 12 articles matched the objective of the study and the keywords. Using thematic analysis, this systematic review discovers the factors, types, and outcomes of community participation in developing marine ecotourism. Additionally, the synthesis has revealed three challenges of community participation in marine ecotourism such as lack of training, local government support, and sociocultural awareness. This study significantly contributes to empirical considerations when involving the coastal community in planning and developing sustainable marine ecotourism.

Community Participation in Tourism Development: Case Study of Sananrak Municipal,Thanyaburi District, Prathumthani Province, Thailand

This research work conducted a study that sought to prove the connection between the implementation of social and environmental sustainability with the profitability of enterprises and the creation of economic added value. Expressing social and environmental sustainability as numerical indicators is quite undefined, because companies in Croatia do not have a legal obligation to state them in their business reports and notes. It is just a measure to improve and raise business and market ratings. Therefore, for this research, data on social and environmental sustainability as measurable variables were obtained after a survey conducted among employees and company management on a sample of 126 Croatian companies. The obtained measurable variables for environmental and social sustainability were ultimately put into comparative analysis with the company’s profitability indicators and the created economic added value. This research obtained data that there is a connection between environmental and social sustainability with the profitability of the company and the creation of economic added value, but it is extremely small, social sustainability 0.212 and environmental sustainability 0.243.

ABSTRACTThe United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) emphasize the integration of environmental, social, and economic sustainability into business operations to foster positive societal impact. While environmental sustainability has been widely studied, social sustainability in consumer behavior remains underexplored, with existing research scattered and fragmented. This gap makes it challenging to extract meaningful insights and develop a cohesive understanding of the field. To address this gap, the paper systematically synthesizes the available literature on the brand social sustainability domain and consumer behavior by reviewing 90 papers published between 2009 and 2024. This study employs the SPAR 4 protocol and TCCM framework to conduct the domain‐based systematic literature review. Further, a bibliometric analysis is conducted using R Studio, Biblioshiny, and VOSviewer, along with a systematic thematic analysis. The systematic thematic analysis uncovers five key themes: brand outcomes of social sustainability, artificial intelligence and brand social sustainability, communicating and marketing socially sustainable brands, brand social sustainability in achieving sustainable development, and consumer behavior and perceptions of brand social sustainability. Additionally, content analysis is employed to examine theoretical perspectives, contextual factors, key variables, and methodological approaches, offering valuable insights into the knowledge dimensions of this field. By consolidating fragmented research, this study contributes to a deeper understanding of brand social sustainability and provides a roadmap for future research, ultimately promoting responsible, ethical, and inclusive business practices. The study also suggests theoretical and managerial implications to contribute meaningfully to the domain of brand social sustainability.

Destination Management Systems (DMS) are Information Communication Technology (ICT) based tools that were first created with a marketing and booking focus. DMS functions mainly focus on relaying destination images and providing relevant booking information through destination websites as their front end. More recently, policymakers and researchers have seen the potential for DMS to foster sustainable tourism outcomes through effective destination management. This research argues that DMS can help to empower local communities to engage in tourism development and create stakeholder networks that can facilitate more sustainable forms of tourism development. This research will investigate how DMS worldwide, specifically in Indonesia, can empower community participation in tourism development. A major contribution of this work will be the development and provision of a set of criteria for a community-focused DMS. This research is divided into two stages. The first stage focuses on investigating community dimensions in DMS practice globally and in Indonesia. The Motivation – Opportunity – Ability (MOA) model will be used to identify the DMS functions that can empower the community to participate in tourism development. The second stage of the research has two objectives: investigating the strategic reasons behind DMS design and formulating evaluation criteria of the study cases that emerge from the prior stage. Semi-structured interviews and the Delphi Method will be utilised to address the objectives, respectively. This research contributes to the academic discourse on the interrelation between Tourism, ICT and sustainable community-focused development. From a practical perspective, the outcomes of this research will enhance destination management practice by providing a new avenue to foster community participation in tourism development processes. In the upcoming presentation, I will present the research methods and early research findings, which mainly come from the web evaluation process in the first stage of this research. The presentation will also share the following process of the research.

Tourism is one of the important sectors in regional development because it is able to make a significant contribution to regional income. One of the tourism locations in Tanjungpinang city is Tanjung Setumu Beach on Dompak Island which occupies a strategic position close to the urban center, offers beautiful scenery, and is an attractive tourist destination. Thus, Tanjung Setumu Beach can improve the community's economy, open up employment and business opportunities, and contribute to regional income, especially through tourism management that involves direct community participation. Active participation from the community plays a very important role in supporting the development of tourism, especially community-based development, considering that successful development requires participation from various parties. The purpose of this study was to determine the level of community participation in tourism development at Tanjung Setumu Beach. The research was conducted in May-June 2023 with a quantitative descriptive approach using Likert Scale analysis. Based on the research results, the level of community participation in tourism management at Tanjung Setumu Beach, according to the score results, reached a good category on several indicators, such as providing labor, ideas, material contributions, and promotions for the purpose of developing tourist attractions.

This study discusses collaboration and community participation in tourism development in Malino Village, Gowa Regency. Malino Village has the best tourism destinations in South Sulawesi, and its management involves several parties. However, the involvement of these parties has not been well established in the cooperative relationship. Community involvement in tourism management is also considered to be still lacking. To realize tourism development in Malino Village requires collaboration between every party involved and community involvement. The data that is the study material in this study was obtained from the results of interviews, observations, and literature studies. Existing data were analyzed using Interactive Model Analysis. From the results of the analysis, it is known that the Gowa Regency Government does not have a collaborative foundation in tourism development. The cooperative relationship that exists is not based on the goal of overcoming tourism problems in Malino Village. Cooperation is carried out based on the interests of each. Community support in the development of tourism is realized by managing and maintaining the facilities and infrastructure to support the implementation of tourism prepared by the government. In order for the development of tourism in Malino village to be implemented properly, the Gowa Regency government should carry out collaboration in the form of business clusters.

Quality of life of the community is an important indicator of well-being. The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between community participation in tourism development and community quality of life in framework of economi cooperation area. Importance of this research is to find out whether the government's efforts to improve the quality of life of the community through tourism have had an impact on the quality of life of the community. This study involved a sample of 354 respondents. The samples were taken from 10 districts within Bintan Regency using multistage random sampling, and data collection was conducted through systematic random sampling methods.After conducting the validity and reliability tests, the results indicated that the research instrument is both valid and reliable. Subsequently, a correlation test was performed using the Pearson Correlation method, which yielded an r-square value of 0.283. The result that show community participation in tourism development has a weak yet positive relationship with the quality of life of the community. The positive relationship indicates that the higher the level of community participation in tourism, the better their quality of life is likely to improve. Based on these results, the conclusion that can be drawn from this study is that the government's efforts to improve the community's economy based on tourism have not been successful even though there is an economic cooperation framework in the Bintan Regency area.

Collaboration and community participation are crucial for securing sustainable tourism and highlight the need to listen and respond to the broad range of stakeholders’ voices, opinions, and concerns. These concepts dominated the discourse of sustainable-responsible tourism and gave rise to collaboration theory as well as various types of community participation. Many scholars in both Western and emerging economies have employed these concepts; however, there is limited research on how they apply in the Nigerian tourism industry. Therefore, this exploratory research discusses collaboration and community participation in tourism development in Nigeria, using the Southeastern region as a case study. In this area, tourism is in the early phase of growth. The paper reports on interviews and focus group discussions used to interact with tourism stakeholders in the region (traditional rulers, men, women, and youth representatives, chief priests, security agents, and tourism officials). Results showed that while the stakeholders are willing to collaborate, challenges affecting their efforts include autocratic governance structures leading to mistrust, clash of responsibilities, inadequate funding for security, lack of tourism awareness and little respect for local culture. The paper concludes that to develop a resident-friendly tourism destination and sustain collaboration and community participation, stakeholders require education about tourism and opportunities to participate in planning.

Community participation is highly needed in supporting the development programs of Tanjung Lesung Special Economic Zone (SEZ). Community participation has a positive effect on the development of leading tourist zones in Banten Province. The role of local communities in tourism activities has been widely developed, for example, the concept of Community Based Tourism. This study has purposed to identify community readiness for the development of SEZ, analyze community empowerment programs carried out by SEZ, and analyze the form of local community participation in tourism development. The local communities around SEZ are ready to support new activities that will grow in their area. A total of 92.31% of respondents agreed to collaborate and develop Floating fish cage/Lift Net/Pond as a tourist destination. In addition, the community also felt a positive impact from the existence and activities of tourism in SEZ, covering economic improvement, social life, and cultural influence of the community. The most dominant community participation is in the program support and becoming a partner in tourism activities. The local community also felt the cooperation and assistance provided by the Tanjung Lesung SEZ, covers compensation for orphans, the contribution of clean water facilities, and repair & arrangement of Floating Fish Cage/Lift Net/Pond to be used as a tourist destination. This study shows that the level of participation in the tourist area is at level 6 (partnership). The community and managers have mutual dependence to achieve the community welfare of the Tanjung Lesung SEZ.

Cirebon is a city in West Java which has 4 (four) palaces, one of which is the Kacirebonan palace which is used as a historical tourist attraction. This research aims to determine the form of community participation ini tourism development at the Kacirebonan Palace and to determine the level of community participation ini tourism development at the Kacirebonan Palace. The research uses a qualitative descriptive method, namely primary data as the data source ini this research which is obtained from interviews, observation, questionnaires and documentation. The analysis technique used is the Likert scale. The results of the research show 4 (four) achievements in the level of community participation in tourism development at the Kacirebonan Palace, namely planning, reaching a score of 72.03 percent, implementation reaching a score of 71.85 percent, evaluation/monitoring 70.74 percent, and utilization of results 64.81 percent. percent. The community participation score in tourism development is in the high category as evidenced by the combined score for the areas of participation averaging 69.93 percent, this proves that community participation ini tourism development at the Kacirebonan Palace is relatively high. However, there are still differences between the data in the field of planning participation, the results of the Group Discussion Forum showing that participation is still low and the results of the questionnaire showing that there is a high level of participation. The form of community participation at the Kacirebonan Palace can be seen from the planning process, namely being involved in deliberations and taking the initiative to submit opinions. In terms of implementation, the community participates by providing performances or attractions, providing tourism comfort facilities, becoming tour guides, becoming tourism actors, becoming souvenir and food traders, maintaining security, order, cleanliness and comfort of tourist locations, as well as promoting Kacirebonan Palace tourism. Judging from the participation in the utilization of the results, this can provide jobs for the community, increase people's income, and reduce social inequality. Regarding participation in the evaluation, the community provides assessments, and participates in evaluating, criticizing and providing suggestions for tourism development and tourism management policies.