Leisure Tourism Research Articles

Study on the Protection and Development of the Anhui Section of the Huai River Basin from the Perspective of Ecotourism

The essence of ecotourism is to cultivate an ecological culture, attach importance to sightseeing and experience, and advocate Green leisure tourism. In this context, it is necessary to protect and develop intangible cultural heritage resources. However, the development of intangible cultural tourism faces many difficulties. Take the Anhui section of the Huai River River basin as an example, the traditional management model, non-heritage innovation development and eco-tourism development do not adapt to the impact of science and technology, creative forms lack of innovation and other difficulties. Therefore, strengthening the integration of resources, establishing incentive policies, optimizing the allocation of resources, increasing capital investment and paying attention to the protection and training of talents are the specific paths for the development of Intangible Cultural Heritage Cultural Tourism.

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Simulation of video image detection in leisure sports tourism industry based on convolutional neural network

Due to the continuous development of information technology, emerging technologies such as 5G networks, Turing devices and deep learning are widely used in people's lives. At present, the sports and tourism industry has become a pillar industry supporting the national economy. Sports events have attracted many people's attention, and people are willing to devote themselves to sports activities. Participants and visitors are also increasing day by day. The article also conducts research on the rapid detection of human video behavior, obtains more representative features for this demand. This research is of great help to the development of the industry. This allows the network to manipulate the input video behavior at different scales and extract deeper video information. Therefore, this paper proposes another 3D convolutional neural network model that combines a multi-level pyramid network with an attention mechanism. The visual attributes in the video behavior data set are explicitly learned to refine the classification of similar features. This paper also proposes an integrated neural network based on visual attribute enhancement. It also shows good adaptability, and can complete video data processing based on time series. The extraction of time and space functions is realized by the two-stream neural network method, the two networks learn the corresponding pixel ratios, and it is not easy to lose the clues of the action recognition. This paper also proposes a spatiotemporal convolutional neural network video for human body recognition algorithm, which is applied to the leisure tourism industry according to the specific analysis of the above method, and promotes the development of the industry.

Impact of water–tourism–ecosystem nexus on the sustainable development of eco-city

Abstract Tourism places substantial stress on regional land use that can lead to ecological deterioration, greater pollution, destruction of natural habitats, and increasing threats to species already in danger of extermination. Improved quality of life is made possible through the Fuzzy Hamacher Correlated Geometric (FHCG) method to observe the growth of multiple attributes in a water-based leisure tourism eco-city. Geographic Information System (GIS) technology, land use maps, and an executive segment satellite image are the main areas of attention for eco-cities as the main focus, which are supported by ecology and environmental space. Hence, FHCG-GIS has designed an environmental carrying capacity in eco-cities that can be increased through tourists who can be accepted in a specific location to fulfill the needs of water tourism, help the destination sector, protect the environment, and reduce the effect. A sensible outcome for evaluating the planning conditions in an eco-city can be found in the estimated indicators of water leisure tourism environmental carrying capacity, predicated on an analysis of scenic geographical resources and tourism economic conditions, and the results of the scenic area's integrated limits using barrel extrapolation.

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Impact of COVID-19 on the quantity of visitation to leisure tourism facilities in China: cases of Beijing, Shanghai, and Qingdao

ABSTRACT Based on mobile positioning big data, this study analyzes the quantity of visitation changes of leisure tourism facilities under the impact of COVID-19, which is a direct way to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on the leisure tourism industry. The quantity of visitation to the four types of leisure facilities (scenic spots, shopping services, sports services, science and cultural education services) in the three Chinese cities (Beijing, Shanghai, and Qingdao) decreased by 63.06% and 44.74% respectively on the Tomb Sweeping Day and the Labor Day in 2020 compared with 2019. The biggest decreasing was in science and cultural education services, followed by scenic spots and sports services, and finally shopping services. The curve of hourly visitations to leisure facilities in 2020 shows a smooth feature, indicating that the public has reduced the risk of pandemic through peak shifting leisure. The analysis of influencing factors shows that the influence of the floor area on visitation is different in different phases. From Tomb Sweeping Day to Labour Day in 2020, the influence of area on leisure behaviour changes from negative to positive. This paper provides a technical framework for assessing the impact of crisis event, and expands the protection motivation theory.

Can Business and Leisure Tourism Spending Lead to Lower Environmental Degradation Levels? Research on the Eurozone Economic Space

This study aims to investigate the impacts and identify the causal links between tourism expansion and the environment among countries of the Eurozone from 1996 to 2019 in the context of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC). To achieve this end, we used a new set of untested tourism proxies when elaborating the EKC. We disaggregated the tourism phenomenon and highlighted its heterogenous nature by including specific and high-impact market segments such as business and leisure tourism spending as well as capital investment spending. The research findings indicate the pivotal role that tourism proxies have on environmental degradation in terms of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). Specifically, the identified reciprocal causalities between leisure and investment spending and environmental degradation suggest some complementarities between these variables. In the case of business tourism spending, an increase (decrease) in this variable leads to an increase (decrease) in environmental degradation. The last two feedback hypotheses indicate that the primary and final energy consumption Granger cause GHGs and vice versa. Such a result offers evidence for incorporating the concept of energy efficiency in tourism. Practical implications should motivate supply and demand dimensions within the tourism system to improve efficiency in tourism flow management. The supply side should transfer the environmental message to visitors to spend wisely and consume smarter, whereas the demand side should perform pro-environmental behavior by spending wisely and acting responsibly at destinations.

공공의 여가공간을 통한 여가통치성 수행

In contemporary urban society, the number of leisure spaces created by the public is growing in policy. This poetic study investigates the public's intention to actively create leisure spaces from a socio-spatial standpoint. This paper proposes a new concept of “leisure governmentality” based on Foucault's theory of governmentality, and uses urban parks as an example of representative public leisure spaces. It was intended to confirm that it was manufactured as claimed. Foucault's own archaeological and genealogical methodologies were applied to the research method, and the research hypothesis that public leisure spaces are produced as a means of leisure governmentality was demonstrated through literature research on the history of Seoul's urban parks. As a result of the analysis, the purpose of production (leisure governmentality), discourse, and the form of urban park landscapes after the modern era are dependent on the political, economic, and sociocultural environments of each era. As a device of power, it is evident that it was designed to control the subject to be ruled. By expanding the socio-spatial horizon of leisure spaces, which had been insufficient in the field of leisure and tourism studies, this study serves as a reminder that public leisure spaces such as urban parks can be more than just functional and aesthetically pleasing spaces; they can also be spaces with a political purpose. This study is significant because it contributed to the expansion of the scope of leisure tourism by laying the groundwork for employing Foucault's theory of governmentality, which has been actively debated in numerous social science and urban research fields, as a theoretical framework in the field of leisure and tourism studies.

Negative and positive antecedents of intention to resume hotel consumption in new normal settings in Malaysia: insight from three psychological theories

PurposeApplying three psychological theories, this study aims to attempt to investigate the role of consumer psychology, specifically the factors of trust in vaccination, threat severity, fear, anxiety, risk and hygiene, and safety, on intention to resume hotel consumption. The authors also tested the mediation effect of anxiety among psychological constructs: perceived threat, fear and risk with the intention to resume hotel consumption.Design/methodology/approachUsing purposive sampling, data were collected from 470 respondents from four cities in Malaysia and analysed by applying analysis of moment structures (AMOS) structural equation model technique. The respondents for this study were frequent travellers meaning the leisure tourists who at least travel twice a year or travel when getting the occasion to explore new things. In this study, an online survey was employed to ensure easy accessibility and to enhance the number of replies.FindingsThe results of this study confirmed that perceived severity, risk and fear influence travellers' anxiety. This study further confirms that trust in vaccination and hygiene & safety provided by the hotelier reduces anxiety levels. Anxiety is found one of the most important predictors of intention to resume hotel consumption, which further mediates the relationship between other psychological variables: perceived severity, risk, fear and intention to resume hotel consumption. Anxiety mediates the relationship between perceived severity, fear and intention to resume hotel consumption and partially mediates the association between risk and intention to resume hotel consumption.Originality/valueThis study examined three psychological theories and extended them by including the trust in vaccination and the hygiene and safety constructs. Anxiety was investigated as a mediator.

Rural Tourism Under Apartheid South Africa: The Case of Transkei

Rural tourism scholarship has greatly expanded over the past two decades. One aspect of rural tourism that is undeveloped in literature is the historical evolution of rural tourism destinations. This paper uses an historical approach and archival documentary sources to examine the evolution of rural tourism under apartheid in one of the former Bantustans of South Africa, namely Transkei. It is shown tourism became a sector of policy interest because of disappointments associated with national government programmes for industrial decentralization. Early tourism promotion centred on leisure tourism around the natural beauty and attractions of Transkei’s coastal areas. With the grant of ‘independence’, however, a new institutional environment emerged which resulted in the Transkei becoming a focus for casino tourism at a time when casino gambling was prohibited in South Africa. The growth of casino tourism was, however, linked to corruption which occurred between South African tourism capital and the leadership of this Bantustan.

Sustainability of Leisure Tourism Events from a Destination Social Responsibility Perspective: Do Attribution Theory Dimensions Matter?

Although Destination Sustainable Responsibility (DSR) has become a critical factor in upholding tourists' satisfaction and positive behavioral outcomes, research on how tourists perceive different attributional dimensions (e.g., controllability, stability) about the existing information adequacy on tourists' behavior is limited. Additionally, no study has investigated how DSR influences leisure tourists' satisfaction across various characteristics. Therefore, the current research has the novelty of examining the effects of Destination Sustainable Responsibility (DSR) on leisure tourists' satisfaction. The study reveals two attribution theory dimensions, controllability, and stability, as mediators and information adequacy as a moderated mediation. Additionally, the study investigates how tourists' personalities (extroverted, conscientious, neurotic, open, and agreeable) affect their perceptions of attribution dimensions. A quantitative analysis of 464 tourists who experienced leisure activities in sustainability resorts in the Red Sea was conducted to explore these relationships. The results provide a better understanding of how DSR affects leisure tourists' satisfaction and how different personalities influence their perceptions. Our research findings demonstrate that tourists' perceptions of destination sustainability initiatives (DSR) are contingent upon the controllability and stability of events and that extraverted and conscientious tourists reach different attributions on DSR than those with neuroticism and openness levels and agreeableness. Additionally, it appears that information adequacy concerning the controllability of events is privileged over the event's stability about informant amount with DSR. We explore the implications of our conclusions from both theoretical and management perspectives.

Minimizing the sustainability knowledge-practice gap through creating shared value: The case of small accommodation firms

This paper ascertains how small accommodation firms can contribute to sustainability by creating shared value (CSV) through adapting their product. A sequential mixed methods approach was adopted including interviews with small accommodation providers and an online survey from domestic leisure tourists. Results demonstrate that adapting the accommodation product through implementing local food initiatives and messages positively influences guests’ sustainable behaviour through their willingness to purchase local food, resulting in value creation for various stakeholders including local community and businesses in the region. Adapting the product will also increase guests’ satisfaction with their stay, yielding economic profits for the accommodation providers. Nevertheless, fostering a supportive environment through institutional systems and inter-firm relations is crucial for CSV to function as an effective strategy for these small firms.

Going on workation – Is tourism research ready to take off? Exploring an emerging phenomenon of hybrid tourism

This article examines current developments towards workations as a new form of hybrid tourism driven by the Covid-19 pandemic. The neologism workation is composed of the words work and vacation – two terms that at first glance seem incompatible or even contradictory in tourism research. Since our study aims to delve deeper into the phenomenon of workation, we conducted a qualitative study in which we explored both the supply side (hotel managers) and the demand side (workationers). Based on the analysis of eleven qualitative interviews, we show that workationers neither fit into the category of working tourists nor traveling workers. Instead, the artificially created distinction between business and leisure tourism seems to be outdated, especially in a digitalized world.

Is tourism growth a power of environmental‘de -degradation’? An empirical analysis for Eurozone economic space

The present study aims to investigate potential causality relationships between environmental quality, energy efficiency, and economy when testing the validity of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis. To this effort, panel data analysis concerning Eurozone member states is put into the process for the period 1996–2019. We conceptualize environmental degradation in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, energy efficiency in terms of energy consumption, and the economy concerning a nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). We include additional tourism indicators in terms of the direct contribution of tourism to GDP and tourism key market segments when testing the hypothesis of EKC. Scarcely in literature, we find empirical research that investigates the heterogeneous nature of tourism in the context of business tourism spending and leisure tourism spending, and the environment. This is an essential question, which seeks ways to optimize human and technical resources and processes, sectoral and organizational, to establish sustainability within the economy. This suggests that a potential gap in the literature might exist. We process contemporary panel regression tests that consider possible structural breaks and cross-section dependence phenomena across panel data. Empirical findings confirm the EKC hypothesis whereas business tourism spending, capital investment spending, and internal travel and tourism consumption negatively impact GHG emissions. Furthermore, Granger non-causality tests suggest that all variables Granger cause GHG emissions. Practical implications call for establishing sustainable energy consumption and tourism spending patterns in the long run.

Natural resources capacity to secure the travel, wellness, and leisure activity in the Carpathian region of Ukraine

The article analyzes the natural resources capacity to secure travel, wellness, and leisure activity in the oblasts of the Carpathian region across the parameters of the area of forests, other forested lands, agricultural lands, surface waters, mountain areas, and the objects of the natural reserve fund. The analysis results show that a) the largest areas of forests and other forested lands are concentrated in Zakarpatska, Lvivska, and Ivano-Frankivska oblasts, while somewhat smaller – in Chernivetska; b) the largest areas of agricultural lands are in Lvivska oblast, they are much smaller in the rest of the oblasts; c) the largest areas of the surface water objects are recorded in Lvivska oblast, they are somewhat smaller in the rest of oblasts; d) mountain areas cover large territories in Zakarpatska and Ivano-Frnakivska oblasts and much smaller in Lvivska and Chernivetska oblasts; e) there are significant areas of territories and objects of the natural reserve fund in Ivano-Frankivska, Zakarpatska, and Lvivska oblasts, and they are the smallest in Chernivetska oblast. The article offers to assess the competitive advantages of securing the coverage of the population of the oblasts in the region with the travel, wellness, and leisure natural resources based on the total partial indices, while that of the region – based on the integral index. The scale is offered according to the values of the total partial index parameters calculated as an aggregate of partial indices of the population coverage with travel, wellness, and leisure natural or natural-anthropogenic resources in the Carpathian region. The analysis of the scale shows that in competitive advantages of the oblasts’ population coverage with the described resources, Zakarpatska and Ivano-Frankivska oblasts are ranked first and second, while Chernivetska and Lvivska oblasts are third and fourth, respectively. The article emphasizes that travel and wellness types of tourism focused on the combination of wellness balneological and recreational (landscape biological and hydrological diversity) resources and leisure tourism – science tourism, rural tourism, ski tourism in plain landscape locations, extreme tourism, etc. – remain to be prospective for the development in the oblasts of the Carpathian region.

Marketing Management of Leisure Tourism Services between Needs and Desires

The paper presents the results of the study on the need for a different kind of marketing for leisure tourism services starting from the needs and desires of tourists to spend their free time in a pleasant way during a vacation. A tourist marketing based on 10 components of the marketing mix is proposed to create the premises in which single tourists feel the need and desire to buy a certain leisure tourist service and the art of convincing them that what they buy is useful for them and at the expected level of quality, everything being seen as an investment for the future in personal, physical and mental development by breaking the barriers of time and space, quick information and open communication.

Personalized leisure tourism route recommendation method based on Knowledge Map

Personalized leisure tourism route recommendation method based on Knowledge Map

INFLUENCE OF SELECTED DETERMINANTS ON THE PERCEPTION OF BEACHES AS A TOURISM PRODUCT

INFLUENCE OF SELECTED DETERMINANTS ON THE PERCEPTION OF BEACHES AS A TOURISM PRODUCT

합성곱신경망(CNN)을 활용하여 국내 해양레저관광지 사진 분류 및 해양레저관광 행태를 분석할 수 있는가?

In order to quickly respond to changes in marine tourism trends and to establish effective policies, it is necessary to prepare a reliable method for collecting data on visits. The purpose of this study is to conduct an exploratory study on the behavior of marine leisure tourism users by using images, which are unstructured data of public data and social media data, in order to analyze the characteristics of domestic marine tourism. As a research method, the possibility was proposed as a new research method by using the convolutional neural network(CNN) algorithm used for image classification based on deep learning. Supervised learning was performed by classifying behaviors based on theories based on public data and images collected through SNS. As a result of the study, the behaviors of beach users were largely classified into landscape-based and activity-based. As the supervised learning of this study did not show satisfactory results, it is necessary to classify marine leisure tourism behavior by applying the photo classification algorithm for future research. In addition, a management plan for public data was proposed for continuous research use.

Economic Value of Tourism Through Human Capital Gains

Leisure tourism can be analyzed as a mechanism to rebuild human capital depleted by work. Human capital is an essential input to human economies, and possesses a corresponding economic value. Therefore, tourism possesses an economic value additional to expenditure and multipliers, which can be seen as investments in increasing human capital as an asset. Calculating the financial value of human capital gains is likely to prove a more powerful political tool for the tourism sector, than current political perceptions as discretionary leisure.

Analysis of resource providing health and treatment tourist destinations for children in unstable geopolitical situation

Health tourism is one of the most dynamic types of tourism in the world. Under the conditions of the unstable geopolitical situation in Ukraine, the safety and survival of not only children, but also adults in general, should come to the fore both for a person and for the state. The article discusses the popularity of leisure tourism. The period of Covid and post-Covid in Ukraine and in the Asian country, Korea, is considered. The problem of the unstable geopolitical situation in the territory of Ukraine is also considered and it is suggested how to improve the emotional state of a person in this situation. The assessment of the potential of natural health resources gives reason to believe that Ukraine has the prospect of revitalizing of sanatorium-resort treatment and recovery. This is a powerful potential for the development of international and native health and tourism, which are profitable industries in the economy of many countries. Ukraine can become a country with a world-recognized direction of medical tourism, the popularity of which will be determined by the tourist attraction in general and the high quality of the medical services offered. The tourism industry suffered the most during Covid, it was suspended by almost 90% worldwide, but medical tourism still showed a smaller decline, about 80%. In 2020, Ukraine also did not close practically its borders to medical tourists, every month there was an increase in the demand from foreign tourists for treatment in Ukraine. This is explained by the fact that Ukraine has unique natural resources for the treatment of various diseases mineral and thermal waters, mountains, forests, healing salts, seas, and other directions of natural medicine, which allow increasing immunity and strengthening health. Despite the state of war in Ukraine, The article also states that it is necessary to pay attention to Ukrainian children, because they are our future. To help children to distract themselves from negative thoughts, to spend time with benefit for physical and moral health, it is offered to rest in sanatorium-type institutions, in health complexes, but with compliance with safety requirements. Keywords: medical and health tourism, tourism, industry, health and medical facilities, Ukraine, geopolitical situation, COVID-19.