Local Tourism Industry Research Articles

Interaction between Tourism Carrying Capacity and Coastal Squeeze in Mazatlan, Mexico

While many coastal areas are affected by coastal squeeze, quantitative estimations of this phenomenon are still limited. Ambiguity concerning the degree of coastal squeeze, combined with a lack of knowledge on its interaction with human activities may lead to inadequate and unsuccessful management responses. The objective of the present research was to quantify the degree of coastal squeeze on the highly urbanized coast of Mazatlan, Mexico, and to investigate the relationship between the development of tourism and coastal squeeze from various time perspectives. The Drivers, Exchanges, States of the environment, Consequences, and Responses (DESCR) framework was applied to identify the chronic, negative consequences of dense tourism in the area, together with the assessment of coastal squeeze. A Tourism Load Capacity (TLC) estimation was made and correlated with the DESCR results, showing that coastal squeeze is inversely correlated with tourism load in Mazatlan. The medium-intensity coastal squeeze currently experienced in Mazatlan requires interventions to avoid severe degradation of the ecosystem on which the local tourism industry relies, for which immediate, long-term, and administrative recommendations are given.

"EVOLVING ROLE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN SUPPORTING TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN UZBEKISTAN"

The article analyzes importance of local government in tourism development especially, relationship between local authority and tourism industry. Also discussed top issues of supporting tourism development in the country.

Securing the sea: ecosystem-based adaptation and the biopolitics of insuring nature's rents

With the emergence of the so-called Blue Economy, various conservation finance mechanisms and financial structures are being proposed as a means of simultaneously securing marine biodiversity and profit-making. A novel approach that is being applied within this new conservation finance frontier is the integration of ecosystem-based adaptation and insurance. By synthesizing recent literatures in political ecology on the notion of rent and the biopolitics of nature, this article explores how the integration of ecosystem-based adaptation and insurance can be seen as a technique that is mobilized for governing ecosystem rents biopolitically. The article urges political ecologists to pay attention to how biopolitics and governance of rents intersect in market-based environmental governance. While surveying the breadth of projects that involves both adaptation and insurance, I pay particular attention to a parametric coral reef insurance that was recently introduced in the Mexican state Quintana Roo. Such a project, this article argues, involves reconceptualizing the coral reef as an infrastructure that provides benefits – ultimately rents – to the local tourist industry and indirectly the state, but this coral infrastructure is itself in need of being protected through insurance as a biopolitical measure that can ensure the future life of the coral reef by rendering calculable uncertain, future climate threats to the reef. By reconceptualizing ecosystems as infrastructure that can be insured, the notion of ecosystem-based adaptation operationalizes otherwise systematic risks posed by climate change and biodiversity loss on a local scale. Finally, I highlight some of the complications that are involved when insurance is used as a biopolitical means of making nature live.

Mainland Chinese Generation Y tourists to Tibet: Travel constraints, revisit intention and their negotiation

This study aims to examine and explain Mainland Chinese Generation Y tourists' travel constraints and revisit intention to Tibet, and to explore how these constraints are negotiated. A mixed-methods sequential transformative design was adopted in this study. The measurement scale of travel constraints for Tibet visits was developed in the first qualitative phase, which was followed by a quantitative investigation in which analysis of a questionnaire survey revealed that travel constraints had no significant or negative influences on Mainland Chinese Generation Y tourists' revisit intention. A further qualitative study was conducted to explain the quantitative results. Two themes emerged as crucial in negotiating travel constraints: the perception of self-efficacy, and self-concept and destination image congruence. The findings of qualitative and quantitative investigations are integrated and discussed in light of previous literature. Theoretical implications for future research and practical recommendations for the local tourism industry are also proposed.

Strengthening Destinations’ Resilience from Bushfires—A Study of Eastern Australia

Climate change has brought people’s attention in recent decades, which demonstrates a critical phenomenon of increased natural disaster risks. The consequences of natural hazards are highly potential to bring significant economic, reputational, social, and environmental impacts on Australia’s tourism industry. Considering the close relationship between the unique natural environment and the local tourism industry, natural disasters always play critical roles in terms of the destinations’ resilience. This paper aims to examine the cause-and-effect of natural disaster resilience for the tourism industry in Eastern Australia with the particular concern of bushfire. Representative bushfire events will be studied to locate the industry’s preparedness and the existed action gaps mainly with the focus on government and destination management organizations, as well as discuss the disaster prevention implications, direct/indirect impacts and tourism-related issues. Also, a natural disaster resilience assessment framework for the industry will be developed with the key indicators from multiple aspects. A couple of future directions will be proposed regarding recovery methods, including the needs of destination image recovery, supportive policies for small businesses and cross-functional partnership.

STRATEGI PEMULIHAN DAMPAK WABAH COVID PADA SEKTOR PARIWISATA DI DAERAH ISTIMEWA YOGYAKARTA

The shocks caused by the Covid-19 pandemic had a major impact on the tourism sector and the economy. Yogyakarta is one of the main destinations for domestic and international tourism in Indonesia. Unfortunately, the tourism sector in Yogyakarta is also affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aims to analyze the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the tourism sector and recovery strategies during and after the Covid-19 pandemic in the Special Region of Yogyakarta. This research was compiled using a descriptive qualitative methodology, data collection was carried out by studying literature and interviews with resource persons. The results showed that the growth of tourists during the pandemic period was negative, as well as the growth rate of hotel occupancy was also negative. The tourism industry perpetrators suffered huge losses and many workers were sent home without being paid until they were terminated. The recovery of the tourism sector requires a long stageand will be carried out in stages. The first phase has been started in june 2020 and is expected to move towards a new normal in 2022. Several action plans are drawn up for the recovery process. The action plan includes developing health protocols, creating digital tourism, a tourism information system, and SMART Tourism. Local governments and tourism industry players in DIY need to build SMART Tourism for sustainable tourism after the Covid-19 pandemic.SMART Tourism is an innovation in the tourism sector by utilizing information technology in integrating tourism activities.

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Dynamic identification of coastal climate characteristics and traditional residential space design based on multi-source remote sensing images

In this article, the author gives a detailed introduction to the establishment of the target feature database of the multi-source remote sensing image area. When building the target feature database, the target must be extracted first. There are many studies in this area, so the author focuses on how to extract high-resolution image targets and introduces the types of target features and how to extract common target features. Nowadays, the research of multi-source remote sensing technology has made significant progress, and people have begun to invest in the research of remote sensing image atmospheric climate correction methods. The sensor will obtain more imaging information, but not all of this information comes from the target features. In addition, the information obtained is also affected by atmospheric molecules, and the contrast is greatly reduced. The data obtained in this way is not even after processing able to achieve the target accuracy. In order to solve the problem of the decrease of matching degree due to the nonlinear change of gray value, the author proposes a new feature point matching algorithm, which uses spectral information when fitting remote sensing image bands. With the development of economy, people have new requirements for the living environment. When designing space, designers should pay more attention to the sense of experience. In this article, the author analyzes the space design of traditional houses. When designing traditional dwellings, it is often necessary to combine local traditional dwelling resources to create a better experience for customers, so that traditional dwelling resources can give full play to their functions, expand influence and open up visibility while meeting consumer needs, promote the development of the local tourism industry, and bring economic benefits to the local area.

RETRACTED ARTICLE: A model of economic loss of environmental carrying capacity caused by flood disasters in urban tourism areas

In the research on the economic loss of the carrying capacity of the tourism industry caused by flood disasters, some domestic and foreign scholars have conducted many years of research and have achieved certain results. The most commonly used model at present is mainly based on the historical data of the local urban tourism industry and calculates the economic loss of the environmental carrying capacity of the urban tourism area based on aquatic elements, submersion time, etc. However, although the model can provide some help, it still has shortcomings. The economic loss predicted by the model is quite different from the actual loss. In view of this situation, a model of the economic loss of the environmental carrying capacity of urban tourist areas due to flooding is designed to provide technical support for the assessment of the economic loss of the environmental carrying capacity of urban tourist areas. In this context, this article combines early warning theory, sustainable development theory, urban biology theory, urban environmental theory, and urban function and design planning theory into the economic loss model of environmental carrying capacity based on the research of relevant experts. Experts at home and abroad have used system dynamics simulation methods to establish environmental carrying capacity economic loss models based on the research results of domestic and foreign tourism environmental carrying capacity to study the environmental carrying capacity of coastal areas in our country. Based on the research results, it puts forward relevant suggestions to improve the environmental carrying capacity of coastal cities in our country, optimizes the early warning system of coastal cities’ environmental carrying capacity, and relieves the environmental pressure of coastal scenic spots, thereby promoting the tourism development, economic development, urban planning and environmental protection for coastal scenic spots.

Africa’s Capital Cities: Tourism Research in Search of Capitalness

Although African cities are significant tourism destinations scholarship on African tourism is rural biased. This paper centres on one aspect of the neglected urban tourism research agenda of Africa, namely the state of tourism research in Africa’s national capital cities. A review of extant research is conducted on tourism in Africa’s capital cities. It pinpoints an upturn of research over the past decade with a concentration of scholarly contributions on a small group of cities and with many capitals lacking any research on aspects of the local tourism industry. Prominent thematic foci in research on capital cities are tourism and planning related issues and the development and impacts of various forms of niche tourism, most commonly of heritage and culture. Only minimally represented in Africa literature is investigations of the role of ‘capitalness’ in defining and impacting the character of capital city tourism. Arguably, therefore, Africa’s capital cities provide the setting for examining a variety of issues in tourism and hospitality research albeit that ‘capital city tourism’ is scarcely evident in contemporary scholarship about urban Africa.

Will your majesty marry me? The effect of royal weddings on the tourism industry

This article fills a void in the literature by investigating the impacts of royal weddings—arguably the grandest and the most iconic of public ceremonies involving royals—on destination-level brands. The direct and short-term effects of royal families and indeed the direct effect of seminal events involving the royals on destination-level accommodations and tourism service providers are more somewhat obvious. However, the more intriguing question and the one which we are more concerned with is: do royal weddings leave a more enduring legacy on the local tourism industry? The engagement announcement and the wedding date produce significant positive increases in the valuation of the home country’s tourism firms. Important managerial implications are derived in line with the long-term impact of unique events on tourism firms’ performance and the transference of brand knowledge from the destination to the companies is effective.

한국형 지역기반관광(Community-Based Tourism) 관광두레의 체계적 성장방안에 관한 탐색적 연구 : 전문가 심층인터뷰를 중심으로

The purpose of this study is to find out several ways to foster Korean CBT Tour Dure. For this study, in-depth interviews for the first and second experts were conducted. The implications of this study are first of all, since the importance of developing education programs for Tourism Dure community and Tour Dure PD is high, the education consisting of systematic and realistic contents should be promoted in the future. Second, through the reorganization of performance indicators to strengthen the competitiveness of the Tour Dure project, a competitive resident support project in the future should be established. Third, in the face of a lack of public awareness of the Tour Dure, the continuous promotion and marketing of the Tour Dure business should be maintained through various promotional channels. Fourth, since the role of local governments is very important in the Tour Dure project to revitalize the tourism industry in the region, various participations of local governments are necessary. The expected effects of this promotion of Tour Dure may contribute to the competitiveness of the local tourism industry and the development of the national economy by discovering new local tourism contents and creating local jobs. The significance of this study is that it has produced detailed practical implications for Tour Dure businesses in the absence of research on Tour Dure.

Community Safety and Well-being in Touristic Spots Using Open Data

There are many different reasons that can lead a tourist to decide which destination will be chosen on his/her next trip. Besides knowing what are the attractions that must be visited, it is also common to look for more information regarding the overall safety and well-being conditions of travel destinations. Usually shared by local authorities, this kind of information can also be found in a less structured form through public sources, such as web sites and social platforms. However, there are a couple of challenges to be considered: the predominance of unstructured data; the lack of a common standard to distinguish safe and unsafe places; the distinct period needed to update the collected data. In this study, the proposed model combines official census data with open data, social platforms and other online sources, allowing the definition of a score for touristic spots in Lisbon. The resulting score should be able to quantify the community safety and well-being, as well as to identify threats and opportunities for the local tourism industry. Furthermore, it would not only help tourists in their traveling decisions but also, allow decision-makers to track socioeconomic issues and to support public management through a data-driven approach.

Insect (Hexapoda) diversity in the Oceanic Archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, Brazil: Seasonality and Populational Density of Tabanidae (Diptera)

Abstract: The seasonal population density is informed for two epidemiologically important species of bloodsucking Tabanidae, Tabanus occidentalis Linnaeus and T. pungens Wiedemann, recorded at the Fernando de Noronha archipelago that was never connected to the continent. The two species are widespread in the Neotropical Region, have not been recorded from any other oceanic island, and have most likely been introduced accidentally in the archipelago. Tabanus occidentalis dominated the samples, encompassing 99.6% of the specimens collected in the two local seasons, rainy and dry. Tabanus pungens was rarer, encompassing 0.4% of the specimens collected mainly in the dry season. The tabanids of Fernando de Noronha are able to transmit blood pathogens, bringing risks to the health of the livestock. They also pester the tourists, which brings losses to the local tourist industry. Larvae of both species were already collected in the water lettuce Pistia stratiotes Linnaeus and it is highly recommend that this introduced aquatic plant be removed from the ponds of Fernando de Noronha to control tabanid populations.

스포츠이벤트 서비스품질이 지역이미지 및 재방문의도에 미치는 영향: 정읍동학마라톤대회를 중심으로

Sports events, as a vitality system for the local tourism industry, have a very positive effect on revitalizing the local economy and industry, increasing consumption of tourists, and improving local publicity and image. Therefore, this study investigated the relationship between the service quality of local sports events, the local image, and the intention to revisit. The specific purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of service quality factors of sports events on regional image and revisit intention. Second, the influence of regional image on revisit intention was investigated. To achieve the research purpose, empirical analysis was conducted through a questionnaire survey to participants in the Jeongeup Donghak Marathon. Studies have shown that the service quality factors of sports events affect the local image and the degree of revisit. It was also shown that the local image affected the revisit. Based on these results, the improved regional image through sports events is likely to be visited for other festivals or tourism purposes, suggesting that regional image marketing strategies are needed and sports events can play a central role.

Making an impact on Bali's water crisis: Research to mobilize NGOs, the tourism industry and policy makers

This paper explores the role of activist-academics to bring attention to Bali's water crisis. The impact case study examines how we shaped public discourse, supported NGOs, influenced the local tourism industry, and nudged government policy. We critically evaluate how as change makers we enhanced knowledge exchange, and the factors that supported impactful tourism and water nexus research. We explore how the unintended consequences of our “crisis” research have undermined our impact by being used to justify new unsustainable development projects, and how the power of the tourism industry has shaped legislation. From this we identify the lessons learned for creating impactful research including purpose, partners, time frame and on-going contact.

Teaching Case: Can Smithtown Make ‘Something Out of Nothing’?

Smithtown, MO is based on an actual town in Missouri, but names and details have been anonymized. This version of the case is posted without its detailed endnotes, so the town cannot be identified (the footnoted version with endnotes can be distributed after the in-class discussion). This case sets out Smithtown’s situation circa 1965, and that situation is bleak. America is shifting to a service economy; manufacturing and agriculture are shrinking on a relative (and in some cases, absolute) basis. Summarized simplistically, Smithtown is a low educational attainment community in what is shifting to become a high educational attainment economy. For our purposes, we assume the town is evaluating a move towards creating a visitor-based economy (VBE) (e.g., tourism, sports, gambling, themed festivals, etc.). Its only real assets are: A small local tourism industry, a location within driving distance of several larger cities, as well as cheap land and cheap labor. So, can Smithtown pull itself up by its bootstraps to create a vibrant VBE sector? And if so, what might it look like? (For purposes of the class discussion, we ignore other potential non-VBE strategies.) Or, alternatively, is the town destined to tread water and/or decline, as so many smaller American towns have done? In the in-class discussion, we will reveal what really happened and look at Smithtown today.

ТРАДИЦИОННАЯ КУЛЬТУРА КОРЕННЫХ НАРОДОВ СЕВЕРА КАК ОБЪЕКТ ДИЗАЙН-ИНТЕРПРЕТАЦИИ (НА ПРИМЕРЕ ОБСКИХ УГРОВ)

The article presents the study of the design application, namely practical use of the elements of the traditional culture of Ob Ugric people, that include scenic compositions of rites and rituals as well as contextual attributes and decorations (ornaments). The research goal is to formulate a method of design interpretation that provides for ethically and efficiently embedment of elements of traditional culture into the semantic and image-bearing field of contemporary multicultural reality. This method is expected to further address the challenge of the deliberate development of a new/hybrid culture in the studied region (and, in a broad sense, in the entire territory of the Russian North). The novelty of the research is the detailed exploration of structural elements of the chosen culture in combination with the synchronous selection of tools, such as concepts of social and human sciences, as well as the means of a design that include formal, spatial, social, economic, ecological and technological representations.
 The basic methodology for analyzing research materials a systemic approach and structural elements of culture such as ornaments, rituals, and rituals were examined in a united figurative and semantic context. The combination of the methods of historical analysis and field ethnography allowed to identify the content and evolution of the studied phenomenon, as well as to consider individual cultural patterns and actions in real place and time.
 The proposed method of interpretation includes two following logical steps of identification: (1) the non-changeable content of the cultural core, which provides an inherent connection with the environment where the given culture takes place, and (2) the outer layer (material shell) that is available for transformation/modernization. As a result, the proposed method is presented through, first, the theoretical principles of a proper design interpretation based on the existing examples of cultural borrowings (with the case of traditional ornaments); and second, an educational experiment of designing a new Northern culture through borrowing and interpreting the traditional festivity “The Crow’s Day,” with a potential implementation within the local tourism industry. 
 The final part describes the broad research relevance of the findings, along with the limitations and directions for further research.

Employing Ecotourism Opportunities for Sustainability in the Aral Sea Region: Prospects and Challenges

The paper examines ecotourism in the Aral Sea region of Uzbekistan, an area with a fragile environment that has faced ecological crises and requires careful sustainable development. It looks at the supply side of ecotourism by examining Uzbekistani tour operators’ awareness of benefits derivable from promoting ecotourism in the region, and the local tourism industry’s motives to engage in this development. As a research methodology, the results of an exploratory survey of travel agents and tour operators highlight the policy-making and management interventions required for the more effective promotion and development of ecotourism in the Aral Sea region. The paper analyzes the challenges and opportunities associated with promoting ecotourism activities in the Aral Sea region in pursuit of sustainable regional development, improved livelihood for the local population, employment opportunity and income source creation, and enriched service exports. Key findings from the study show that stakeholders are aware of ecotourism’s value and are motivated to implement ecotourism in the region, but they have limited experience, competence, and international networks to promote and market ecotourism products and services. Local stakeholders have raised the issue that infrastructure development and access to microfinance are their greatest needs from local authorities in Uzbekistan.

Research on the Promotion Path of College Students’ Returning Home to Start Businesses under the Background of Rural Revitalization

<p>China has vigorously promoted rural revitalization in recent years. Under such background, there are more and more opportunities for college students to return home to start businesses, as well as for employment. Rural revitalization is mainly explored from three paths, namely local characteristic agricultural industry, rural tourism and rural Internet industry. To realize the success of college students’ entrepreneurship back to hometown, it is necessary to improve their entrepreneurial awareness, strengthen the cultivation of their entrepreneurial ability, and set up a system about rural entrepreneurial knowledge. Through improving college students’ entrepreneurial awareness and ability, it is conducive to efficiently collecting and integrating resources and improving their ability of controlling entrepreneurial risks. This article explores and analyzes the promotion path of college students’ returning home to start businesses under the background of rural revitalization, aiming to enhance students’ ability of starting businesses in their hometowns, and promote the revitalization of China’s rural economy.</p>

Sustainable beach management and promotion of the local tourist industry: Can blue flags be a good driver of this balance?

The aim of this paper is to analyse to what extent the recognition of sustainable management of coastal resources may act as a driver of local economic growth. To this end, the importance of Blue Flag certification in promoting the development of a local tourism sector is analysed. Using a natural experiment based on some localities increasing the number of their certified bathing areas through recognition of sustainable management, whereas other localities reduce them, we analyse the impact of that recognition on the evolution of the local tourism sector in Comunitat Valenciana (CV) in Spain. CV is the Spanish region with the largest number of beaches with this award, and tourism linked to beaches and marine activities represents a large share of its economy. The results confirm that in this case, Blue Flag recognition has a positive impact on the economic development of the tourism sector in those municipalities that have opted for more sustainable tourism, whereas municipalities that have not introduced any sustainable ecolabel schemes have had lesser development of tourism.