Future Destination Research Articles

Investigating of social media travel photos on future destination choice: A mixed methodology approach

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%; layout-grid-mode: char; mso-layout-grid-align: none; margin: 12.0pt 0cm 6.0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-no-proof: no;">This study aims to examine the attractiveness of travel photos on social media and understand the relationship between travel photo sharing on social media and destination choice intention. A mixed methodology is used in this study. Twenty-nine semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis were conducted. The attractiveness of key travel photos was categorised as ‘nature & landscape’, ‘way of life’, ‘architecture/buildings’ and ‘people’ and these categories affected the future destination choices of social media viewers. This quantitative study uses data collected from 388 respondents via convenience sampling. Findings showed that the attractiveness of travel photos on social media exerts a significant effect on destination choice intention. In addition, celebrity-generated content mediates the relationship between travel photos and future destination choice intention. Destination marketers can promote places through the four identified travel photo categories using social media channels with celebrity-generated content.</span></p>

Destination intention estimation-based convolutional encoder-decoder for pedestrian trajectory multimodality forecast

Forecasting pedestrian trajectory is a vital area of research in smart urban mobility, which can be applied to intelligent transportation and intelligent surveillance. Current approaches employ conditional variational autoencoders to model future trajectory multimodality. However, these methods generate multi-modal trajectories for one single destination, ignoring the trajectory multimodality caused by the uncertainty of the pedestrians’ destination intention. Besides, they can lead to mode collapse and training instability. To address this issue, we propose a novel destination intention estimation-based convolutional encoder-decoder framework for multimodal trajectory forecast. Specially, we design a destination intention estimator to forecast pedestrian future destination intentions at the last time step. Then, we devise a trajectory decoder module to forecast pedestrian trajectories at each time step with the assistance of the destination intentions. To evaluate our method, we perform experiments on publicly available benchmark datasets and demonstrate that our proposed method achieves the superior results compared with state-of-the-art approaches.

TERRITORIAL MARKETING WITH VIRTUAL TOURS: AN EFFECTIVE STRATEGY FOR PROMOTING TERRITORY

Essentially, the attractiveness of a territory seems to be linked to its ability to attract flows and make itself desirable. We then speak of attraction, or more precisely, appeal, which refers not only to demographic, environmental, and economic dimensions but also to criteria of notoriety, image, and reputation. In this sense, the tourism sector appears to be a vital lever for the competitiveness of a territory. Due to its ability to generate visibility and readability of spaces and vernacular products, this sector is often seen as a first experimentation of a city or country, leading to a possible retention of visitors. The literature review often describes Algeria as an extremely attractive territory, while other indicators point to a rather unappealing image of the country. We will then make the distinction between attractiveness, which first refers to the presence of potential, and competitiveness, which rather addresses the management of this capital. The challenge thus seems to be oriented towards the implementation of a logic that allows taking advantage of the assets present in situ to better respond to this problem of capturing and satisfying demand, both nationally and internationally. However, this issue must be addressed with up-to-date data. It must take into account the evolution of tourists' behavior, who increasingly refer to digital media to outline an image of their future destinations. Thus, the digital age and the growing importance of information and communication technologies seem to be revolutionizing territorial marketing and, in particular, the tourism sector. Naturally, the reflection turns to Algeria's ability to accompany this movement. In other words, what are the methods and tools used in terms of territorial marketing and, more precisely, in the field of tourism and e-tourism? Our research undertakes a retrospective of experiences with virtual tours of heritage monuments produced by our team (using a 3D scanner). From the Bey's palace to the tomb of Massinissa, passing through the Roman aqueduct of Constantine, we attempt to highlight the impact of these innovative tourism products in enhancing the tourist elements of a city or territory. An introspection of the feedback on these services will allow us to better understand the expectations of visitors on one side, and to revise territorial marketing approaches on the other. The objective is to move away from classical policies by proposing more competitive, innovative strategies.

Iranian children's memorable rural tourism experiences

Family traveling, especially to rural areas, may lead to appealing fun experiences for children and make them memorable. Memorable experiences of children from various aspects can be useful for policy makers and planners of destinations, parents and children. The effectiveness of travels and children's learning from traveling are among the most significant concerns of parents and tourism activists. So, identifying and understanding children's memorable experiences of traveling to rural areas of Iran that has various local cultures can influence filling such gaps as future destination planning, developing child-friendly rural destinations, family traveling, designing child-oriented tourism programs, and future generation's being loyal to local destinations. This study aimed to identify Iranian children’ memorable rural tourism experiences. The sample includes 37 children from ages 6 to 12. Interpretive phenomenology was used to conduct the study with the help of interviews and the analysis of the content of children's paintings. This study shows that children pay attention like adults to such elements as people, space, activities, objects, and social relations during their travel. Moreover, the conducted interviews resulted in 45 key notions categorized into 6 basic axes of memorable experiences: being exciting, being informative, being novel and unique, being gratifying, being socially involved, and negative experiences. This study provides insights on identifying and understanding the issues affecting the creation of memorable tourism experiences for children that travel to rural areas. The issues would help parents in taking child-oriented tourism travels, planners in designing child-friendly tourism destinations, and tourism service providers in delivering child friendly offerings.

THE DISCIPLINE OF VISIONING FOR LEADERS

AbstractThe author is professor of leadership at the IMD Business School and a cofounder of Genesis Advisers, and particularly known for his classic book The First 90 Days. He discusses vision and visioning in the context of leadership and business: “The discipline of visioning is about building bridges between possible futures and current realities.” He cautions that a vision is not a mission, or strategy, and it is “not a set of core objectives.” He makes further distinctions: “Purpose is about defining why your organization exists. Vision is about identifying an inspiring future destination or achievement.” He writes that a “compelling vision helps employees understand how their work contributes to the enterprise’s success and furthers its mission and purpose.” He advocates moving from a personal vision to a shared vision: “Can you imagine a clear, desirable future state to which you want to lead your business?” He advocates and describes various techniques, including, in his words, backcasting, powerful simplification, the architect’s exercise, and the vision workshop. “Visioning in leadership,” he concludes, “involves developing and communicating the vision through powerful simplification and storytelling that align the organization’s strategies, policies and actions with the vision.”

Destination competitiveness research over the past three decades: a computational literature review using topic modelling

ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to comprehensively review the topics and themes studied in destination competitiveness research and to enrich tourism researchers’ literature review toolbox with the computational literature review technique. A novel computational literature review framework that can be applied to review tourism research domains characterised by an abundance of literature is developed. Enabled by the developed computational literature review framework with topic modelling, this study offers a comprehensive review of 1,130 destination competitiveness studies. The results identified several promising research topics, themes and theoretical perspectives that can be perused in future destination competitiveness studies.

Pre-Afghan Taliban Refugee Exodus and the Complexities of Returning Home

This study is designed to address some key questions regarding Afghan refugee’s exodus. Such as, when did Afghan refugees migrate to Pakistan? What are the prominent factors which compiled Afghan Refugees to flee Afghanistan? What they deem about the future destination? Are they willing to repatriate to Afghanistan? why/why not? In the first step, this study has discussed the recent Afghan repatriation policy of the caretaker government, and identified either the Afghan refugee’s migration was voluntary or involuntary, similarly is the repatriation forced or voluntary? Moreover, this study provides a brief history of Afghan refugee’s migration. In the second part, this study has empirically, addressed the eminent questions. And finally, suggest policy proposal regarding sustainable repatriation of Afghans to Afghanistan.

‘Experience the destination in times of crisis’: lessons from the approach of DMOs to destination marketing from concept to practice

ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the established practices of DMOs. However, it also prompted a shift towards utilising the untapped potential and resources of regions, which could present unique opportunities for future destination marketing. The main goal was to explore the approach of DMOs to destination marketing and to the recovery of domestic tourism amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of experience marketing. This includes the initial reactions of the DMOs, their short-term plans, future plans, and long-term perspectives. The paper used desk research and conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with key informants from regional Polish DMOs, specifically, the chief marketing officers and the presidents of the DMOs. The results confirm the use of an experience-based approach in destination marketing to achieve domestic tourism recovery. The destinations have offered various forms of involvement during tourist experiences, including: active or passive participation, absorption, and immersion. Additionally, DMOs can strategize for more sustainable, eco-friendly, and small-scale tourism through experience marketing.

Tourist Perception of the Existing Conditions of Kurenai Beach Tourism

Kurenai Beach is a tourist destination on the coast of Tomini Bay, Bone Bolango Regency, Gorontalo Province. This beach has fine white sand and stretches quite wide, allowing various beach tourism activities to be carried out. It is essential to measure tourist perceptions of a tourist destination because tourist perception is a form of assessment of the existence of tourism that aims at the development of future destinations and helps guide beach managers to make decisions in pursuit of sustainable beach tourism. Some factors that influence tourists' perception of choosing a beach include attractions, accessibility, and amenities. This research aims to provide scientific information on tourists' perceptions of the Kurenai Beach tourist area as a first step towards sustainable tourism management. Tourist perceptions were obtained through incidental interviews with 120 tourists. Tourist perception is measured on five components: the physical condition of facilities and infrastructure, accessibility, tourist attraction, tourist infrastructure, and the quality of tourist areas. Data analysis in this study used the Likert scale to determine tourists' perception of the existing conditions of Kurenai Beach tourism. The results showed that, in general, tourists' perceptions of the current conditions of Kurenai Beach tourism were on good criteria, with a total percentage value of 67.4%. The tourist attraction component has the highest perception value, and the physical condition component of facilities and infrastructure has the lowest perception value. The low achievement of the value of tourist perception of the existing condition of Kurenai Beach needs special attention in the context of the sustainability of this tourism in the future.

Table tennis players use superior saccadic eye movements to track moving visual targets.

Table tennis players perform visually guided visuomotor responses countlessly. The exposure of the visual system to frequent and long-term motion stimulation has been known to improve perceptual motion detection and discrimination abilities as a learning effect specific to that stimulus, so may also improve visuo-oculomotor performance. We hypothesized and verified that table tennis players have good spatial accuracy of saccades to moving targets. University table tennis players (TT group) and control participants with no striking-sports experience (Control group) wore a virtual reality headset and performed two ball-tracking tasks to track moving and stationary targets in virtual reality. The ball moved from a predetermined position on the opponent's court toward the participant's court. A total of 54 conditions were examined for the moving targets in combinations of three ball trajectories (familiar parabolic, unfamiliar descent, and unfamiliar horizontal), three courses (left, right, and center), and six speeds. All participants primarily used catch-up saccades to track the moving ball. The TT group had lower mean and inter-trial variability in saccade endpoint error compared to the Control group, showing higher spatial accuracy and precision, respectively. It suggests their improvement of the ability to analyze the direction and speed of the ball's movement and predict its trajectory and future destination. The superiority of the spatial accuracy in the TT group was seen in both the right and the left courses for all trajectories but that of precision was for familiar parabolic only. The trajectory dependence of improved saccade precision in the TT group implies the possibility that the motion vision system is trained by the visual stimuli frequently encountered in table tennis. There was no difference between the two groups in the onset time or spatial accuracy of saccades for stationary targets appearing at various positions on the ping-pong table. Table tennis players can obtain high performance (spatial accuracy and precision) of saccades to track moving targets as a result of motion vision ability improved through a vast amount of visual and visuo-ocular experience in their play.

Greedy Heirs: Luke 12,13–15.16–21 between Hereditary Disputes and πλεονεξία

Abstract The brief account of an inheritance dispute between brothers in Luke 12,13–15 marks a turning point in the broader discourse of Luke 12,1–34 and also serves as an introduction to the subsequent parable of the rich fool (12,16–21). The purpose of this study is threefold. First, a careful analysis of the scene shows how Luke employs the legal institution of the arbitratum to shape the episode. Second, nine petitions from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt concerning inheritance disputes between siblings are selected in order to help imagine a similar social context in which familial greed could often degenerate into physical violence or other forms of abuse. Finally, the often neglected consequences of the problem of inheritance are explored in relation to the following parable, which curiously centers on a question from God about the future destination of goods (12,20b).

Numerical simulation approach for Laser Melting of lunar regolith using an enthalpy-based model

The Moon is considered a future destination for international space exploration. Transport costs to the Moon are enormous, requiring the use of available resources to build infrastructure. Lunar regolith, predominantly found in the form of dust, covers the entire Moon’s terrain. A promising approach to process regolith is laser-based additive manufacturing, which aims to melt it directly on the surface. This paper presents a finite element simulation model to investigate the effects of laser power and feed rate variation on the melting process, with the objective to predict experimentally unexplored parameter ranges. The focus of this study is the phase transition from solid to liquid, implemented by an enthalpy model. Validation is carried out using experimental melting tests with regolith simulants. Despite limited experimental data, the observed effects are consistent with the simulation results, confirming that sample thickness increases with laser power and decreases with feed rate.

Urban Wilderness

The new urban condition has generated ambiguous spaces within it: Terrain Vague or Urban Voids are spaces within the city, nameless and without clear boundaries, difficult to define. They are unpaved and vegetated spaces that are neither public spaces, nor gardens, nor agricultural fields, lying in a state of abandonment, suspension, and invisibility. With no specific function and temporarily outside the logic of the market, these spaces are appropriated and used daily by people and nature.
 Indeed, they eschew traditional cartographic representation, where they are often represented as mere white spaces, or spaces with future destinations. For this reason, walking as a common action becomes the fundamental tool for approaching, getting to know, and studying these spaces, while photography and other visual media become not only a means of representation, but also of studying and understanding the dynamic reality of these spaces and the different realities that inhabit them.
 With this visual essay, I do not aim to provide an unambiguous representation or definition of these spaces, far from it. Going along with the fragmentary and uncertain nature of these places, I have used photography as a means of urban research to understand and describe these places, and as a personal travelogue within these spaces, as if to take notes. Having chosen Lisbon as the privileged terrain of my research, this visual essay has the sole purpose of trying to represent these spaces in a disorderly and fragmentary way, following their nature, and in doing so, trying to unveil a hidden beauty and reveal their enormous potential for the city.

Determination of child guardianship as a requirement for taking guarantee of property rights certificates

The purpose of this study is to identify, describe, and analyze the reasons why banks require the establishment of child guardianship as a requirement for taking ownership certificates. In addition, this study also aims to identify the factors and legal consequences of the guardianship arrangement, as well as how the trusteeship process ends. The research method used is a normative legal approach with a juridical-philosophical approach. The data used in this study were obtained from primary and secondary legal materials through library research. The data analysis technique used is descriptive analysis technique. The results of this study reveal that banks require the establishment of guardianship as a requirement because it is used as authentic evidence of the existence of legal guardianship by the authorities. Notary can act as a representative for minors who are represented by parents who are still alive. This applies especially when the parent who took the loan from the bank has passed away, but it is necessary to have a guardian to take the collateral for the certificate of ownership whose installments have been paid to the bank. This step is also necessary for future destinations on a certain date as well as related parties involved in it. The importance of the guardianship deed through a notary in the family is the basis for consideration, considering that the bank cannot provide collateral if the conditions included in taking the guarantee are not fulfilled. This includes cases where deceased creditors still have minor children. Although the law states that biological parents who are still alive have the authority to arrange the deed of sale and purchase of land rights for children who have lost one of their parents, in the context of banking, the existence of a trusteeship is recognized as an important step in ensuring the completeness of the collateral collection documents.

Challenges of nanomaterials-based cancer therapy: a future destination.

Sharaf, Mohameda; Alhamad, Ali Alnazzab,; Ltaief, Olfa Ouledc; Amor, Ilham Bend,e Author Information

Innovative and Competitive: A Systematic Literature Review on New Tourism Destinations and Products for Tourism Supply

New tourism destinations and product supply are increasingly popular strategies among industry players to create competitiveness. The tourism industry has become more vibrant since globalization merged with technological changes, thus influencing human travel movements, lifestyles, and current trends. The purpose of the study was to systematically review and analyse the elements of new tourism destination products and the importance of sustaining the tourism industry. The following five primary methodological steps were used in the review processes: review protocol; formulation of research questions; systematic searching strategies based on identification, screening, and eligibility on Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus databases; quality appraisal and data extraction; analysis. Seven major themes were discovered, based on the thematic analysis: (a) Responsibilities and involvement, (b) Geography and resources, (c) Innovation, (d) Diversification, (e) Trend and travel pattern, (f) Sustainability, and (g) Marketing. The findings provide academics with a basic reference in scientific and design-related frameworks for examining new destinations and tourism products. The study also offers a guide for destination operators and industry stakeholders to be adopted for future destination development and management.

The use of intangible heritage and creative industries as a tourism asset in the UNESCO creative cities network

The creative economy has been recognized as key in urban development and planning, which the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) consolidates. While benefiting from the label, the tourism sector also plays a fundamental role in the creative strategy. This paper explores how intangible heritage and creative industries can work as a tourism asset for creative cities and thus participate in their development. An NVivo thematic content analysis of all the tourism-related actions listed in the UCCN reports was performed to identify what types of cultural tourism products and actions are linked to the creative cities and to understand how they relate to their UNESCO creative fields to detect gaps and potentials. Tourism activity represents 17% of the total actions listed in the creative cities’ reports, mostly concentrated in the Crafts & Folk Art field. The empirical results highlight tendencies that can be applied and adapted to future destinations with intangible assets on their territory and that want to work with the creative industries. Thus, this paper unveils an underexplored potential of synergies between two important economic and creative activities.

Opportunities in Identifying and Marketing Windsport Tourism Destinations: High-Resolution Wind Analysis

Windsports (e.g., windsurfing, kiteboarding) can contribute to important tourist experiences at destinations with suitable natural resources. In the context of future tourism decarbonization, it is expected that many distant locations will become less accessible to Europeans, which will increase the attractiveness of nearby destinations. This study provides an analysis of the natural resources of European and nearby windsport destinations, which proves to be important physical evidence for windsport experiences. The high-frequency output of a long-term, high-resolution numerical atmospheric reanalysis (COSMO_REA6) was thoroughly analyzed using a method specifically tailored to windsports. This gives us unprecedented insight into the geographical distribution of wind resources in the period from May to September. The wind and temperature analysis recognizes the most known windsport locations and identifies several potential locations for possible windsport development. The trend analysis identifies potential changes in future wind conditions. Detailed wind analyses are of great importance to destination managers and marketers, as these could support strategic planning at the destination level, which is necessary for sustainable development. Furthermore, the study can guide windsurfers and kiteboarders in their future destination choices.

A Novel Vehicle Destination Prediction Model With Expandable Features Using Attention Mechanism and Variational Autoencoder

The daily passage of vehicles generates a huge amount of location-aware social data, which provides a rich source of data for analyzing vehicle travel behavior. Being able to accurately predict the future destinations of vehicle travel has great economic value and social impact. The presence of larger sparsity, fewer features and error information in the real dataset led to difficulties in convergence of previous models. Therefore, we propose a Novel Vehicle Destination Prediction Model with Expandable Features Using Attention Mechanism and Variational Autoencoder (EFAMVA). The EFAMVA model combines the autoencoder model and the attention mechanism has overcome the above mentioned problems. The variational autoencoder model obtains the hidden features conforming to the characteristics of the data from the structured vehicle driving data. And the attention mechanism can learn the appropriate combination of weight parameters. The comprehensive experimental results with other comparison models show that the EFAMVA model achieved the best index score, with the MSE value of 0.750, the RMSE value of 1.215, and the MAE value of 0.955. Therefore, it can be shown that the EFAMVA model has a better predictive effect on the future destination of the vehicle.

Introduction: how could the Republic of Cyprus reduce the impact of seasonal tourism on long-term sustainable development?

PurposeThis paper provides an overview and explains the context of the theme issue. The paper outlines the approach and profiles the articles written in response to the strategic question as to how the Republic of Cyprus could reduce the impact of seasonal tourism on long-term sustainable development.Design/methodology/approachThe paper outlines the approach to exploring ways of reducing the impact of seasonal tourism on long-term sustainable development in Cyprus. The strategic question is tackled in articles containing literature reviews, data and evidence reviews, interactions with practitioners and practical solutions.FindingsThe findings of the theme issue focus on long-term sustainable development and the alleviation of seasonality in Cyprus. The issue provides insights into the history, current state of development and progress made by the impact of seasonal tourism and sustainable development on the tourism and hospitality industry.Originality/valueThis theme issue outlines the causes and effects of seasonality in the tourism industry in a small island developing state (SIDS) that is highly dependent on income generated by tourism activity. In SIDS, where seasonality is a threatening factor for tourism development, it is essential to understand what measures can be taken to lower seasonality. The articles in this theme issue provide insights into the causes and effects of tourism seasonality, climate change, alternative and special interest tourism, future destinations and young travellers' behaviour, air transportation, the remedy to seasonality and gastro tourism.