Conventional Tourism Research Articles

Halal Tourism Destination Development Model

The development of halal tourism needs an advancement, considering its vast market potential in Indonesia in the midst of readiness issues. The purpose of this study was to analyze the psychological orientation: perceptions, motivations, and preferences of stakeholders in developing halal tourism destinations. In addition, to formulate a development model for halal tourism destinations in Indonesia. The population in this study comprised of tourists; tourism business owners; as well as the officials taking charge in halal tourist destinations, and halal tourism products and brands. Data collection of existing conditions was conducted in regard to halal tourism product offerings. Afterward, the assessment of various potential halal tourism resources in Indonesia was carried out through a scoring system. The results of this study showed that the gradual development of halal tourism destinations has main priority in the development of halal food & beverages at the level of 0.49; the availability of places of worship at the level of 0.34; the availability of recreational facilities for different gender at the level of 0.090; and the atmosphere of Islam at the level of 0.068. The right tourism development model begins with the classification of tourism with an Islamic approach, namely: Level 1 - Conventional Tourism, Level 2 - Muslim Friendly Tourism, Level 3 - Muslim Religious Tourism and Level 4 - Halal Tourism. The optimization model developed in this study is expected to be beneficial for governments, practitioners, and academicians in designing halal tourism development policies, as well as other institutions that have particular interest to halal tourism expansion in Indonesia.

Economic impact of language tourism on mature sun and sand destinations: The case of Alicante (Spain)

The objective of this research is to measure the economic impact of language tourism in a medium-sized Spanish city, Alicante, which has been traditionally considered a sun and sand destination on the Mediterranean coast. This analysis aims to highlight the importance of developing a tourism diversification strategy and the desirability of promoting alternative forms of tourism. This investigation demonstrates the significant economic impact that language tourism has on a consolidated tourism destination as Alicante, which is higher, in relative terms, than the impact generated by conventional tourism. Based on the findings, the implications of the study are also discussed.

A graph-based approach to detecting tourist movement patterns using social media data

ABSTRACTUnderstanding the characteristics of tourist movement is essential for tourist behavior studies since the characteristics underpin how the tourist industry management selects strategies for attraction planning to commercial product development. However, conventional tourism research methods are not either scalable or cost-efficient to discover underlying movement patterns due to the massive datasets. With advances in information and communication technology, social media platforms provide big data sets generated by millions of people from different countries, all of which can be harvested cost efficiently. This paper introduces a graph-based method to detect tourist movement patterns from Twitter data. First, collected tweets with geo-tags are cleaned to filter those not published by tourists. Second, a DBSCAN-based clustering method is adapted to construct tourist graphs consisting of the tourist attraction vertices and edges. Third, network analytical methods (e.g. betweenness centrality, Markov clustering algorithm) are applied to detect tourist movement patterns, including popular attractions, centric attractions, and popular tour routes. New York City in the United States is selected to demonstrate the utility of the proposed methodology. The detected tourist movement patterns assist business and government activities whose mission is tour product planning, transportation, and development of both shopping and accommodation centers.

Korean and conventional medicine tourism industry trends as indicated in medical tourism advertisement images: qualitative research using data from medical Korea 2015

ABSTRACTThis study analyzed advertisement images targeting international audiences of South Korean medical facilities (traditional Korean and conventional medicine) participating in Medical Korea 2015 using thematic content analysis. The image categories most often used in conventional medicine were medical procedures, facilities, and staff photos, while those for traditional Korean medicine were medical procedures, staff photos, and images. Conventional medicine consistently presented high SERVQUAL tangibility scores, whereas Korean medicine displayed distinct associations between SERVQUAL categories and image size. Analyses suggested specialty preference by language. These findings may be used to recognize key messages in medical tourism and contribute to its systematic promotion.Abbreviations: KHIDI: Korea health industry development institute; SERVQUAL: service quality

Muslim tourist perceived value: a study on Malaysia Halal tourism

PurposeThis study aims to align the theoretical foundations of Halal tourism to conventional tourism paradigms. It investigates Muslim tourists’ perception of value in the context of tourist destinations in Malaysia.Design/methodology/approachThe partial least square structural equation modelling uses SMART–PLS for 170 Muslim tourists and uses a positive research approach with a quantitative basis of enquiry. Six variables of Muslim tourist perceived value, such as price, social, emotion and quality, and Halal physical and nonphysical attributes are examined. In addition, this study also examines the mediating effect of destination experience in Malaysia’s environment (i.e. infrastructure, atmosphere and culture) and the relationship between Muslim tourist perceived value and tourist satisfaction.FindingsOverall, the results indicate that price and social variables had no impact on tourist satisfaction, whereas other variables such as quality, emotion and Halal physical and nonphysical attributes had a direct impact on tourist satisfaction especially with the mediating effect of destination experience.Practical implicationsThe effects of cognitive, affective and Islamic (i.e. Halal) values on tourist satisfaction were examined as also the importance of destination experience on tourist satisfaction.Originality/valueThis study also found that destination experience influenced tourist satisfaction significantly.

How can social enterprises contribute to sustainable pro-poor tourism development?

“Tourism-Assisting the Poor” has been an important approach in anti-poverty strategy. Studies suggest that the conventional tourism model fails to generate benefits for the poor and to some extent ...

Envisaging sustainable rural development through ‘context-dependent tourism’: case of northern Cyprus

This paper examines conventional forms of tourism-CT and discusses how it can be converted into more diversified forms of tourism-DT by using sustainable rural tourism. Cyprus is used as a case study to show the move away from conventional tourism to a more diversified tourism within a global tourism trends. In order to achieve the utilisation of existing and emerging tourism capacities, a categorisation of tourism approaches is evaluated to assess the extent of sustaining tourism diversification. The paper identifies and discusses the formation and deformation processes of tourism by contextualising and clarifying tourism policies and planning processes at macro- and micro-levels, based on literature analysis and national surveys, including statistics, questionnaires and workshops. This research provides an overall framework in asserting values of different tourism forms to enable capacity utilisation, which refers to the collaborative existence of different forms of tourism and their interaction between each other, in order to balance the impact in achieving a context-based sustainable tourism development. The findings of the research provide groundwork for long-term tourism management on developing strategies, policies on future sustainable development forecasting.

Shared accommodation in Lebanon

A change in the consumer behaviour affects the conventional tourism industry, the advancing sharing economy promotes collaborative consumption which unfurls itself in new services encouraging the shared accommodation. Plus the technological advancement worldwide and the globalisation enhanced the consumer's motivation towards a more collaborative and community involved activities.

Creation of the First “Health and Wellness Tourism Chair” in Latin America and Caribbean and the new International Magazine “Wellness Destiny”

The FEMTEC further reinforces its important role of international professional training and updated information through its actions in Latin America and the Caribbean with the creation in Cuba of the first and of the region and with the new Magazine International Wellness Destiny” in collaboration with the company Solymed. Digital magazine edited by professional journalists, in English and Spanish, where the novel and updated disclosure has all the ingredients to mix action with pleasure and communicate spaces where beauty, health and quality of life are the hosts. The of Health and will be the only one of these characteristics existing in America and the Caribbean and is created with strong institutional and professional support with the aim of contributing to the study and development in these sectors with training and scientific programs and new methods of activities and new business innovation tools. Professionals with recognized international experience in Medical Hydrology, Health Tourism, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Welfare, Economy, Organization and Management of services, Marketing and other related specialties will participate in the Chair of Health and Tourism fruit of an important scientific-technical collaboration between the Ministry of Public Health, the University of Medical Sciences of Havana, National Direction of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the Cuban Society of Medical Hydrology and the FEMTEC. The scope of action of the is international and includes teaching activities, research, occupational training, postgraduate studies, dissemination, business opportunities, business innovation, projection and promotion, international collaborations, new challenges and future perspectives related to these new segments of the generating market of various specialized alternatives, wealth, employment and that complements and enhances conventional tourism products. The updated and professional information through the digital magazine Destiny and the international training activities, propose the training of the sector at a regional level, from an area known for its uncontaminated beaches, nature, enviable climate, historical and cultural heritage, thermal waters, good health system and high professional level recognized worldwide, to consolidate as a reference in health tourism and quality wellness destination.

Developing Outbound Strategic Islamic Tour Packages of Malaysia: Roles of Gender and Race

Gender and race have been issues in every development of human history. Conventional tourism rules out gender and race based on liberalism or secularism or conservatism, whereas Islamic tourism does the same but based on shariah and Islamic principles. Studying these nominal variables are important in developing outbound strategic Islamic tourism services of Malaysia, which allows researchers to create and deliver an enhanced knowledge of a balanced usage of gender and race in this Islamic tourism industry of Malaysia. As a quantitative research approach to explain nominal attributes, 107 of travel and tour agents, and tour operators were observed around Malaysia based on a simple random sample designed from a sampling frame of a list of tourism enterprises considered for a population. Innovativeness, communicativeness, collaboration and cooperation, strategy attitude, strategy intention, and strategy behavior are fixed as dependent variables that have been explained based on mainly gender and race—from which significant differences between endogenous attributes and some sections of nominal ones were captured— and a meaningful interpretation has been proliferated as a help to provide a few effective research, managerial and social implications. The study results would have a values useful for raising a broader sense of these categorical attributes for those administrations in a context like this, and for the readers around and across Malaysia. The effort was employed, for the first time, in this type of context. So perhaps, this can have a vast theoretical understanding of the Islamic tourism conceptualization from the light of nominally inferential research methods.

A vidékiesség vonzásában: a nagyvárosi agglomerációk láthatatlan turizmusa Magyarországon

A nagyvárosi agglomerációk turisztikai szerepkörének értékelésére vállalkozó tanulmány a vizsgálatba vont térségek üdülőfunkcióját és szálláshelyigényes vendégforgalmát elemezve tárja fel az úgynevezett láthatatlan turizmusban érintett települések körét. Egyrészt a 2001. évi népszámlálás és a TeIR (2002–2014) adataiból kiindulva lehatárolja a különböző mértékű üdülőfunkcióval rendelkező településállományt, majd megvizsgálja az egyes agglomerációk turisztikai keresletében és kínálatában jelentkező disszonanciákat. Az üdülőállományra és a turisztikai piacra vonatkozó adatbázisok összevetése alapján megállapítható, hogy a pécsi és a miskolci agglomerációban szoros összefüggés van az üdülésben és a turizmusban érintett települések vonatkozásában, előbbiben Orfű, utóbbiban Bükkszentkereszt képviseli a konvencionális (regisztrált szálláshelyeket igénybe vevő) és a láthatatlan (a szálláshelystatisztikai adatgyűjtés körén kívül eső) turizmus szimbiózisának színterét. Amíg sem a győri, sem a budapesti agglomerációban nem találkozhatunk ilyen markánsan szembeötlő átfedéssel, addig a fővárost övező térségben Szentendrét a láthatatlan turizmus archetípusaként sikerült azonosítani. Szentendre esetében a regisztrált szálláshelyek mértéke, valamint az üdülőingatlanok számának jelentős volumene pedig együttesen felveti a szálláshely-statisztikai adatgyűjtés körén kívüli forgalom jelenlétét. Amíg a jelentős, 24 óránál rövidebb idejű kirándulóforgalmat generáló vonzerők elvétve befolyásolják az üdülőövezetek létrejöttét, addig a nagyvárosi agglomerációk természetközeli, különösen vízparti élményeket kínáló térszínei válnak a vidékies miliőre építő második otthonok melegágyaivá.

Role of Travel Motivations, Perceived Risks and Travel Constraints on Destination Image and Visit Intention in Medical Tourism: Theoretical model.

Travel motivations, perceived risks and travel constraints, along with the attributes and characteristics of medical tourism destinations, are important issues in medical tourism. Although the importance of these factors is already known, a comprehensive theoretical model of the decision-making process of medical tourists has yet to be established, analysing the intricate relationships between the different variables involved. This article examines a large body of literature on both medical and conventional tourism in order to propose a comprehensive theoretical framework of medical tourism decision-making. Many facets of this complex phenomenon require further empirical investigation.

Professional travellers and tourist practices

This study analyses to what extent conventional tourism is part of the experience of professional visitors. Following the literature on mobilities, this paper assumes that leisure and work increasingly intermingle in time and space. Empirical work based on a survey of conference attendants in Barcelona confirms this stance, and invites to reframe professional life ‘in mobility’ as performed as part of a wider package of everyday activities. Public transport and mobile communication are analysed as facilitators of such convergence, highlighting how professional travel is situated in flexible spaces and flows. These findings provide insights for urban (tourism) policy, insofar as they demonstrate that planning for specialised spaces is not sufficient to reduce visitor pressure on the main tourist ‘sights’.

MODEL OF GREEN TOURISM DESTINATION AT NUSA LEMBONGAN, KLUNGKUNG REGENCY, BALI PROVINCE

This research was conducted in the area of Nusa Lembongan district, at Klungkung regency with the specifications of the main potential is nautical. The purpose of this research is to determine the characteristics of the tourist attractions in Nusa Lembongan and also to design a model of green tourism destination. The data collection is done by observation, interview, and literature.The analysis technique used is descriptive qualitative research that seeks to describe and illustrate the relationship between the phenomenon or phenomena studied by systematic, factual and accurate. From the discussion, it can be described that tourism development today is more directed to the development of green tourism rather than conventional tourism. To make this happen, the authors will try to design a model of the development of green tourism destination in Nusa Lembongan. Based on the above motivations there are three factors that play an important role in supporting green tourism destination, namely: green tourist, green area (object and attraction) , and information about the area. Therefore by the next implication, every object and attraction developed are expected to follow the model of the development of green tourism for Nusa Lembongan because Nusa Lembongan only suitable as a green tourism destination.

Innovative System Indicators for Islamic Tourism Using C-PEST Factors

Islamic tourism is seen from a different perspective as compared to the conventional tourism, such as economic, cultural and religious. The qualitative research design has been incorporated to assess the innovative system indicators through systematic analysis. Basically, it is an exploratory study of the Competitive-Political, Economic, Social and Technological (C-PEST) factors that were conducted through three phases to understand current and potential Islamic tourism market in the tourism industry. The preliminary stage involves a comprehensive literature review taken as a foundation of Islamic tourism concept, theories and principles from the Holy Quran, Hadith, and tourism reports. Phase two (2) and three (3) involves the field survey with tourists and interviews with key informants from tourism suppliers.

Turismo de base comunitária no antigo quilombo Cabula

O presente artigo parte da compreensão que o turismo de base comunitária se diferencia metodológica e epistemologicamente do turismo convencional. A partir desse pressuposto e da observação de práticas relacionadas ao que se denomina por turismo de base comunitária (TBC), é construído conhecimento sobre essa forma de organização da comunidade. Para tanto, reflete-se sobre definições, conceitos e características do TBC, diferenciando-o do turismo comunitário e do convencional. Em seguida, apresenta-se a experiência de planejamento e organização do Projeto TBC que vem sendo desenvolvido desde 2010 no Antigo Quilombo Cabula, localizado no denominado “miolo” da cidade de Salvador, BA. As metodologias desenvolvidas e aplicadas foram elaboradas de forma participativa considerando-se o tempo, disposição, perfil e o cotidiano dos moradores locais envolvidos. Os resultados apontam para a importância das ações já concretizadas no âmbito social, histórico, cultural, educacional e político para as próprias comunidades. E que a riqueza e a diversidade de suas vivências e experiências têm muito a ensinar para os soteropolitanos e, também, para visitantes e turistas.

GIS-Fuzzy DEMATEL MCDA model for the evaluation of the sites for ecotourism development: A case study of “Dunavski ključ” region, Serbia

In order to reduce adverse effects on the environment caused by conventional (mass) Tourism, the importance of ecotourism is becoming increasingly highlighted as this form of tourism contributes to the environmental protection and sustainable development of an area. The main objective of this study is the development of a reliable model for the identification of zone suitability for sustainable development of ecotourism, which will represent a significant support for planners in strategy development and management of ecotourism. The proposed model is based on the combined application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) using Fuzzy Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (FDEMATEL) method in order to estimate and map the suitability classes of ecotourism potentials in the study area of “Dunavski ključ” region (Serbia). The model has been developed by using 16 criteria grouped in 4 clusters. The application FDEMATEL method has been used for expert calculation of the weight for all clusters/criteria in relation to their impact on the development of ecotourism. The final suitability map of ecotourism development has been obtained by applying Weighted Linear Combination (WLC) and it has been designed in 4 suitability classes as: Highly Suitable (S1), Moderately Suitable (S2), Marginally Suitable (S3), and Not Suitable (N). The applied sensitivity analysis, by changing the weight of clusters, indicates that the applied model is stable and capable of being applied for zoning ecotourism sites. The proposed method and the results of this study can be used as a policy of sustainable development at all levels of public administration. This approach may also be useful when identifying ecotourism sites and types of ecotourism uses in the areas with similar geographical conditions.

Educational Tourism’s Product Strategy at Batur Global Geopark, Kintamani - Bali

Educational tourism is one of tourism type from the form of alternative tourism that has been developed between the conventional tourism era and modern tourism era. Generally, alternative tourism tends to develop according to sustainability principals. The packaging of tourism destination potential, Batur Global Geopark into educational tourism is a fundamental step of tourism product’s diversification in Bali. Therefore, the tourism potential in Batur-caldera Bali is supporting to be developed or packaged as an educational tourism, which is in accordance with Global Geopark Network (GGN) objectives. This study combines the quantitative and qualitative methodologies (multi-method), which are presented in the form of descriptions. The information will be analysed to determine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT). It formulated appropriate educational tourism product strategies by the elements; attraction, accessibilities, amenities, a supporting organisation (ancillary), activity, available package and community involvement. Furthermore, this study will also identify the factors of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and challenges of educational tourism product development in the tourist area of Batur Global Geopark.

The unappreciated slowness of conventional tourism

The unappreciated slowness of conventional tourism

The unappreciated slowness of conventional tourism

The unappreciated slowness of conventional tourism