Alternative Tourism Research Articles

Edu-Heritage-Based Cy-walk Tour in Educational Institution: Design, Content, Steps, and Challenges of Edu-Tourism in University Area

Yogyakarta, Indonesia is home to a number of popular tourist spots, in addition to being the city of one of the top tertiary institutions, Universitas Gadjah Mada. However, this one of Indonesia's oldest colleges still offers only a few recreational opportunities and tourist attractions. This study aims to identify alternative tourism potentials at UGM by extracting data about cultural heritage, philosophy, and inspirational figures—the three main elements in this research—in order to close the gap and provide the concept of edu-heritage tour within the context of the university. The data collection method used in this study is a descriptive qualitative, includes literature reviews, documentation, observation, and in-depth interviews. The three components of this study's structure include various key ideas, such as the metaphysical dimension, epistemological dimension, axiological dimension, heritage, history, international participation, roles in academic disciplines, and views and values of life. Each component communicates a variety of values, such as adversity, openness, simplicity, unity, independence, assurance, integrity, and so on. The tour material, which consists of three components and the core values, is then created to become an educational tourism activity, with design work beginning with archival studies and ending with a brochure and poster creation. This alternative tourism activity is anticipated to adhere to the notion of sustainable tourism, which uses travel as a platform for reflection and education to raise awareness of the importance of upholding values and expressing them through actions that are morally and responsibly.

코로나 이후 시대 시간관의 사회적 의미와 관광 분야에서의 지방구술사 연구로의 적용을 위한 탐색적 연구

Purpose This study aims to analyze the time perspective of members of society in the post-COVID-19 era and how it changed their attitudes and behaviors and explore the meaning of tourism in the consumption of time resources with the function and role of local oral history study.
 Methods The contents of the literature on the social composition process of time and its meaning were reviewed and analyzed to explore the possibility of developing local tourism resources based on local oral history. The historical meaning of time-related research was examined as an exploratory research before conducting tourism research based on local oral history. Some implications were suggested on how this social philosophical discussion in terms of humanities and social science could be applied to developing local resources in tourism, an applied science.
 Results Local oral history study on local history and culture based on a new time perspective in postmodern society helps reflect on the forming and reconstructing of various cultural boundaries in the production and consumption of the local community. As the expansion of tourism based on various local oral histories helps tourists to combine one-dimensional regression to the past, reflection on the present, and imagination of the future, local oral history is given the broad sense of tourism resource development that mitigates cultural boundaries in the post-COVID-19 era.
 Conclusion The reflection on local history that helps newly remember the characteristics of a region through local oral history helps develop convergence tourism which newly emerges in the production and consumption of the local community culture. Also, local oral history has important theoretical and practical social meanings as it is considered as a new type of alternative tourism to people and promotes an active reconstruction of human behavior.

Literature Review: Pengalaman dan Kepuasan Wisatawan Terhadap Niat Berkunjung Kembali ke Desa Wisata

Experience and satisfaction are very important components to support tourists to come back to visit the Tourism Village. Tourism Village is an alternative tourism that is great demand by tourists. This study aims to determine the strong relationship between experience variables and satisfaction with tourists' intention to revisit to Tourism Villages. This study uses the literature review method by collecting articles using the Google Scholar search engine. Articles searched from 2016 to 2023 with a total of 4,570 articles through the keywords " Pengalaman dan Kepuasan Wisatawan Terhadap Niat Berkunjung Kembali ke Desa Wisata ". Five articles were selected according to the topics. The results of this study are that there is a strong relationship between experience and satisfaction, experience with revisit intension and satisfaction with revisit intention. These three variables have a significant positive relationship that influences each other to bring tourists to a tourism destination and a tourism village
 Keywords: Experience, Satisfaction and Revisit Intention

Carrying Capacity and Assessment of the Tourism Sector in the South Aegean Region, Greece

Since the early 1950s, Greece has been a popular travel destination providing high-quality tourism services. This was amplified by its diverse landscape, extended sandy beaches, scattered archaeological sites, people’s mentality, and adequate infrastructure. In particular, the south Aegean Archipelago attracts more than six million (6,000,000) visitors annually, approximately 27% of tourist arrivals in Greece. The carrying capacity assessment of the South Aegean region aims to improve the already high standards of the offered tourist services. Seventeen appropriate variables were analyzed to assess and increase tourism attractiveness by alternative products for long-term and sustainable management. Furthermore, the outcomes of the carrying capacity indicators application provide specialized solutions to control the over-tourism impact, mitigate the natural environmental degradation, and establish a roadmap for sustainable development in the study area. The required data were interpreted based on the PAP/RAC 1997 and WTO, enriched with more suitable variables from national and international literature to determine the carrying capacity. Therefore, the selection of seventeen (17) most representative indicators was unavoidable. Finally, the calculation of the different indexes showed that Mykonos and Thira are far above the indicator scale limits and are facing over-tourism issues. Additionally, the numbers of tourists concentrated in the abovementioned islands may accelerate the environmental degradation and, as a result, the tourist product will be downgraded. The set of these seventeen indicators works best since low, obfuscated, or no environmental data are available for the South Aegean region from the official state agency. Alternative tourist development and the extension of the tourist season based on local climatic conditions must be applied to ease the over-concentration and, consequently, the degradation of the tourist product. The large islands do not seem to face significant problems. However, the calculation of CCA will contribute to the decongestion of tourism concentration together with environmental decompression, leading to sustainable development in the South Aegean region.

Segmenting and predicting prosocial behaviours among tourists: a latent class approach

ABSTRACT In building sustainable post-pandemic destinations, it is critical to understand the typologies of tourists’ prosocial behaviours. Consequently, this study innovatively applied a latent class cluster analysis to segment the prosocial behaviours of 403 Macau tourists. Three ordered discrete segments were derived based on consistent tourists’ probabilities of performing prosocial behaviours on the trip namely: the Self-centred, the Intermediate, and the Philanthropist. The associated ordered logistic regression predicting the segments revealed that relative to the Self-centred, the Intermediate and the Philanthropist are more likely to face death terror, are sociable – seek vacation friends – and believe in cultural and heritage conservation. Not only does this research expand the theoretical application of Terror Management Theory, the Scrooge effect, and the self-esteem concept, it contributes to prosocial alternative tourism with novel destination management implications for marketing and promoting prosocial tourism performance.

Effects of protection motivation and travel anxiety on staycation intention: a cross-country examination

ABSTRACT Staycation became an alternative tourism form in the history after the global financial crisis in 2008/2009. Given the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the possible economic downturn after the pandemic, staycation becomes important to individual wellbeing and the tourism industry’s sustainable development in the post-COVID era. In this study, we applied protection motivation theory and stimulus-organism-response (SOR) framework to develop and empirically test a theoretical model examining the relationships between protection motivation/travel anxiety and staycation intention in the COVID-19 context. A cross-country survey design was applied to collect data from Australia and China. PLS-SEM analyses revealed that perceived pandemic severity, pandemic response efficacy, and pandemic self-efficacy significantly predicted protection motivation across the two country samples; perceived pandemic severity and perceived pandemic susceptibility positively contributed to travel anxiety. For Australian respondents, travel anxiety predicted staycation intention, whilst for Chinese respondents, protection motivation predicted staycation intention. Post-hoc moderation analysis identified that collectivism (individualism), as a cultural value orientation, moderated the effect of travel anxiety on staycation intention among Australian respondents. This study contributes to the understanding of staycation intention from a protection motivation perspective and enriches the emerging literature on staycation in the field of tourism.

The Use of Wellness Tourism in Tourism Development: A Case Study in Baluwarti Village, Surakarta City

The development of the Covid-19 pandemic has temporarily halted the tourism service business in Surakarta, leading to the emergence of policies regarding tourist attractions and objects. The research was conducted in the Baluwarti Tourism Village, which offers health tour packages to help tourists maintain their mental and physical health during the pandemic. As a result, tourism service businesses are developing alternative tourism options such as wellness or health tourism that can combine tourism and health. Data was collected through library or library research methods and analyzed by selecting, processing, and grouping the data to make it more concise. The findings revealed that the most popular tourist objects and attractions in Surakarta were artificial and cultural attractions, with the majority of them being artificial museums. The study also found several rare tourist attractions such as the "Walking Tour Royal Wellness Tourism" tour package, Javanese Cooking Class, Dance/Gamelan Learning, Constructing Janur, Using Javanese Language, and Making Traditional Herbs/Helpers. This alternative tourism is expected to contribute to the development of tourism in Surakarta, allowing tourists to stay longer in the city with additional tour packages.

Estágio e Mercado de Trabalho Percepções dos alunos dos cursos de Turismo e Hotelaria de Instituições de Ensino Superior do Rio de Janeiro [Brasil

Taking into account the General National Curriculum Guidelines for the organization and operation of the Technology Courses and the National Catalog of Technology Courses (2016), this paper derived from research in Master course aims at proposing a unit study plan of the Cocktail Preparation discipline (this is, as a rule, part of the curriculum structure of Technology in Culinary courses). Its didactic-pedagogical process, theoretically and methodologically based on meaningful learning, aims at promoting the articulation of knowledge related to Cocktail Preparation and the drinks involved in it, with other areas of knowledge and the passage from a know-how restricted to the technical domain (elaboration of cocktail recipes) to a reflexive theoretical-practical action. For this, the Study Plan concludes the proposition of learning activities in the direction of co-creation and development, by students, of a project of a tourist circuit linked to Creative Tourism. This will bring to the course of the discipline the perspective of professional insertion in the applicability of these studies, as well as the design of an alternative tourism product that could be implemented.

The Spaces and Places of the Tourism Encounter. On Re-Centring the Human in a More-Than/Non-Human World

This paper will revalue the phenomenological understandings of the tourism encounter, inspired by spatial theories of intentionality. With a growing body of theory delving into the relational realm and the ways in which the body and our actions are relationally enmeshed in networks of more-than/non-human entities, this paper seeks to recentre human intentionality as the core of the tourism encounter to better address its political nature and relevance. Whilst thereby critiquing some of the propositions of relational ontology, the paper is not about rejecting these, but augmenting them through a focus on the intention to care. Thereby, the paper will explore the ways in which the tourism encounter can be re-storied as one for making spaces and places of conviviality through people relating to each other and their surroundings with particular intent imbued with care. Valuing care and how it can be narrated helps to make space for a plurality of futures which can in turn break the deadlock of tourism being conceived either as mass/over- or alternative tourism. Both of these and more exist at the same time in the same place.

Alternative Tourism Attraction Policy of Makassar City

This study aims to examine the creation of alternative tourism attractions in Makassar City. It is qualitative research, and the informants include the Mayor of Makassar, the Head of the Department of Tourism and Creative Economy, the Head of the Makassar District, the Chairman of the Regional Board of the Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) in South Sulawesi, the Chairman of the Regional Board of the Association of Indonesian Tours and Travel Agencies (ASITA) in South Sulawesi, and the local community. Data was collected through observation, interviews, and documentation. The data analysis technique employed was qualitative descriptive analysis, involving data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion drawing or verification. The research findings indicate that the implementation of the Makassar Tidak Rantasa (MTR) Policy, which includes the Lorong Garden program, has successfully transformed several alleys or lanes into cleaner, healthier, and more attractive places to visit, particularly in the Makassar District. However, these changes have not yet created alternative tourism attractions. The recommendation from this study emphasizes the need to consider the principles of tourism attraction management to follow up on the Lorong Garden program and ultimately create alternative tourism attractions in Makassar City.

Kawasan Heritage Gajah Mada di Kota Denpasar sebagai Destinasi Wisata Alternatif

Purpose: The aim is to make the Denpasar Gajah Mada Area an alternative tourist destination regarding history, culture and business that highlights aspects of the building's heritage for tourists in addition to other tours in Denpasar City. In the 80s, the Jalan Gajah Mada area in Denpasar was synonymous with the hangouts of the capital's youth, especially the generation that grew up in the 70-80s. This area has a backdrop of old buildings that function as shops. With a situation where changes in form, structure, function transfer and lack of utilization of old buildings along the Gajah Mada area have resulted in the loss and erosion of the Gajah Mada Heritage area, protection, utilization and development are needed as an alternative tourist destination in Denpasar City apart from natural tourism. Methodology: This research is a qualitative research located in Jalan Gajah Mada, Denpasar, using observation and documentation data collection methods. The Gajah Mada Denpasar area is located around Jalan Gajah Mada, Jalan Kartini to Jalan Veterans. Result: The research provides a SWOT analysis to stakeholders regarding the protection and utilization as a tourist destination for both the Regional Government, Cultural Observers and local Business Actors as well as making the Gajah Mada Area an alternative tourist destination.

Turismo na Montanha de Texcoco: Um olhar desde as Resistências Descoloniais

This manuscript seeks to test the concept of decolonial tourism from the hybridization of genres that are woven between theory and empirical evidence. For this, a solid abstract reflection on the decolonial approach is used and it is developed from a paradoxical nuance with the tourist activity, with the objective of identifying the influence of alternative visions of the world and sentiments regarding other forms of tourism. It is possible to affirm the emergence of alternative tourist proposals, founded based on a critical and social conscience, anchored to solidarity economic models and with new intersections between nature and culture, which could constitute an emerging paradigm on new ways of taking advantage of free time and more specifically to do tourism. Aspect that became evident in the face of the forms of proximity displacement that benefited from the Covid-19 pandemic. Through exploratory research of an inductive nature, the empirical experience of three groups was recovered, which served as a point of reference to go back and forth between theory and reality, for the conformation of this essay. It is concluded that these new ways of doing tourism are based on a biocentric perspective, related to ancestral knowledge transmitted intergenerationally and carved in the interface between nature and culture. It is argued that these trends could define new ways of conceiving tourism in the 21st century.

Readiness of Canggu Village Bali as digital nomad tourism

The health crisis due to the Covid-19 virus has an impact on decreasing tourist visits, resulting in a decline in tourism sector income. Tourism trends have changed in light of the prohibition ban. One alternative tourism that can follow current trends is digital nomadic tourism. The tour is intended to attract digital nomads to work while traveling. Based on this review, this study aims to analyze the readiness of Canggu Village in Bali as digital nomad tourism. This study is a qualitative descriptive research model that uses data collection techniques consisting of a literature review. The findings conclude that the readiness of Canggu Village as digital nomadic tourism is from the components of attractions and facilities that can support the needs of digital nomad tourists. Meanwhile, in the additional service and accessibility components, there are still shortcomings such as the absence of sidewalk facilities and safe crossings for pedestrians, narrow road conditions and heavy traffic.

Street art and creative place-making: urban tourism regeneration in Toronto, Canada

PurposeThis paper aims to discuss the place-making processes of street art within the context of Toronto, Canada, and potential for street art as alternative tourism to contribute to new urban tourism and encourage urban regeneration in the city.Design/methodology/approachThe study applies reflexive thematic analysis to analyse secondary data sources such as reports, maps, videos, websites, news articles and official documents alongside photographic documentation and field research.FindingsStreet art in Toronto has been found to coincide closely with processes of creative place-making. While there is some indication that municipal street art organizations and destination marketing organizations are aware of the possibilities for street art to contribute to tourism in the city, it remains an untapped resource for new urban tourism. As a component of creative place-making, it has great potential as a form of alternative tourism to regenerate a still struggling tourism economy.Originality/valueThis paper explores the nascent research area and practical application of street art as an alternative form of urban tourism in Toronto, Canada. It also fills a gap by connecting the concept of creative place-making with street art, urban regeneration and tourism specifically; a focus that needs wider attention.

Conformity assessment analysis of self-declare ecolabel criteria for Indonesia’s tourism villages development in Cikolelet, Banten Province

This study aimed to observe the potential of conformity ecolabel self-declaration claims in Cikolelet Tourism Village, Banten Province, Indonesia. The village has an alternative tourism highland nature, unique culture, creative industry, and environmental conservation. Local people and tourism activities impacted the quality of the village, especially waste management. The literature review and field observation were applied to assess the Self Declare Ecolabel Criteria for waste management in Cikolelet using applicable standards and regulations in Indonesia. The scope of waste management applied to the tourism village includes compostable, recyclable, reusable, and waste reduction. According to the result of assessment and observations, generally, Cikolelet Tourism Village has made environmental management efforts. However, some lack of waste management in terms of waste reduction and handling, including sorting, transportation, processing, and final disposal, requires some improvements to comply with environmentally friendly criteria. A strong commitment is required to actualize the scope of the ecolabel self-declaration.

Multicriteria Evaluation of the Websites of Alternative Tourism Enterprises: Case Study in the Region of Crete

Alternative tourism has gained considerable interest among consumers and enterprises in the tourism sector, creating new opportunities for providing high quality and innovative tourist services, while contributing to sustainable development. The Internet plays a key role as a tool for promoting alternative tourism. Motivated by this, this article presents an original research on the evaluation of the content features of the websites of enterprises involved with alternative tourism services in the region of Chania, Greece. The sample consists of 28 websites evaluated over 11 performance criteria through the ELECTRE III multicriteria method. The websites are ranked in a benchmarking context and the results of the evaluation are used to identify the most successful practices, as well as the website features that require improvements for the enterprises to take advantage of the opportunities that arise in the new era of technological innovation in the tourism sector.

A nexus between airbnb and inequalities in water use and access.

The emergence of digital tourism platforms through the sharing economy has brought into focus the potential opportunities it could promote and the inequalities it could exacerbate. Sharing economy platforms such as Airbnb are increasingly being utilised as alternative tourism accommodations. Though the sharing economy is promoted as economically beneficial and environmentally sustainable, its realised impacts are questioned. These realised impacts are of particular concern in water-scarce contexts such as Cape Town, South Africa as while water use may be virtually forgotten, its actual consumption remains predominately placed-based. This study explores these issues of inequality through the lens of the impact of Airbnb in Cape Town during one of the most severe droughts in over a century. Using a triangulation of mixed methods including web-based listing profile analysis, questionnaires, interviews and media analysis, Airbnb hosts were found to undertake the role of water ambassadors as concerned citizens and responsible tourism accommodation providers. However, spatial inequalities around outsourcing rental linen to marginalised areas of Cape Town and the power-laden training of domestic staff originating from outlying low-income areas, highlight the perpetuation of historically based understandings and considerations of water use.

Mangrove Ecosystem sustainability Effort in Essential Ecosystem Areas (KEE) of Teluk Pangpang Banyuwangi Regency

This study aims to determine priority alternative efforts in managing the mangrove ecosystem of KEE Teluk Pangpang Kab. banyuwangi. Process Hierarchy Analysis or AHP is used to determine priority alternatives in efforts to sustain mangrove ecosystems. A total of six (6) people who were expert informants were taken as respondents using purposive sampling consisting of community leaders, heads of Fishermen's groups, heads of Farmers' groups, Fisheries Service, and Academics. The results of the analysis show that for an alternative to violence, the mangrove ecosystem KEE Teluk Pangpang (Kedunggebang Village), Kab. banyuwangi, the main factor that must be considered is social (weight value = 0.689) with the most important aspect including involving community participation in the management of mangrove ecosystems (weight value = 0.701). Meanwhile it shows that alternative priority scales and efforts to sustain the mangrove ecosystem of KEE Teluk Pangpang (Kedunggebang Village) Kab. Banyuwangi with AHP, namely the order of priority is Ecotourism (weight value = 0.429), Silvofhisery (weight value = 0.377) and Traditional Fisheries (weight value = 0.194). Thus, alternative ecotourism efforts are a top priority in the sustainability of the mangrove ecosystem of KEE Teluk Pangpang (Kedunggebang Village) Kab. Banyuwangi. Ecotourism In terms of ecosystem sustainability, it is defined as an alternative tourism product that has the goal of developing sustainable tourism, namely tourism development that is ecologically feasible and ethically just and provides social benefits to the community.

E-Tourism for Sustainable Development through Alternative Tourism Activities

E-tourism refers to the broader integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the tourism sector and infrastructure. In this context, tourists can choose the travel destination, use price comparison sites and buy online tickets at low prices, while tourism entrepreneurs enhance their marketing strategies in response to the increasing demands of modern tourism Over the last few decades, alternative tourism has gained considerable interest among tourists and enterprises in the tourism industry. At the same time, it acts as an enabler and a facilitator of sustainable development. This paper presents an overview of the current situation of content characteristics of the websites of enterprises involved with alternative tourism services in Greece. The websites are evaluated according to 30 characteristics through multicriteria method. Furthermore, the final ranking of websites is presented to identify the most successful strategies, as well as the website that need improvements. According to the results, an e-tourism website model is suggested for the entrepreneurs to exploit the opportunities that arise in the digitalization transformation of the tourism industry.

Strategy for Developing a Start-Up Tourism Village into an Independent Tourism Village in Ululoga Village, Flores, East Nusa Tenggara

The development of village tourism as alternative tourism has been done in the village of Ululoga. This research aims to formulate the right development strategy for Ululoga Village, as one of the start-up tourism villages. Both qualitative and quantitative methods are used in this study. There were 10 informants as well as respondents, consisting of tourism stakeholders in the region and the local community of Ululoga Village. The results reveal that there are internal and external factors that are examined in the IFE/EFE matrix. Ululoga Tourist Village is located in cell I of the IE matrix, with an IFE matrix score of 3.081 and an EFE matrix score of 3.008. The SWOT matrix analysis formulated 11 alternative strategies. The alternative strategies were then examined using the QSPM matrix to determine the priorities of the strategy that can be implemented for the advancement of Ululoga Village from a start-up to an independent tourism village. According to the QSPM matrix analysis results, optimizing the use of village funds for the development of village potential became a prioritized strategy because it obtained the largest total attractiveness score (TAS) with a total of 4.923 points.