Prospective Visitors Research Articles

Adding evidence to the debate: Quantifying Airbnb's disruptive impact on ten key hotel markets

Airbnb's entry into the lodging landscape has dramatically increased the available supply of rooms for accommodating prospective visitors at a destination. In a competitive market, an increase in supply while keeping demand relatively constant would decrease prices and revenues. While Airbnb is expected to negatively impact the hotel industry, the effects of Airbnb on the performance of the hotel industry have not been extensively quantified. Also, existing studies on Airbnb's economic impacts are limited in their inferential, temporal, and/or geographical scope. In view of this gap in the literature, the present study examines the effects of Airbnb supply on key hotel performance metrics: room revenues (RevPAR), average daily rates (ADR), and occupancy rates (OCC) in ten major U.S. hotel markets for the period between July 2008 and June 2017. The results demonstrate that an increasing Airbnb supply negatively impacts all three performance metrics within the hotel industry. Moreover, while previous research has demonstrated a negative impact on lower-end hotels, our findings provide evidence of Airbnb's growing impact on the mainstream market across hotel class segments, signaling a high level of consistency with the tenets of the theory of disruptive innovation. The magnitude of these effects is not only statistically but also economically significant. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Development of Low Cost Toxic Gas Explosive Modeling System using Wireless Array Sensor Netwok

The Natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes, erupting volcanoes and toxic gases affect life can even result in permanent ecosystem and environmental changes. Monitoring of toxic gases is one of the important issues, it is based on the nature of the gas that is difficult to detect movement, especially in large areas. Ijen crater reportedly began spewing toxic gas on March 21, 2018, and poisoned 30 people who lived in four villages on the slopes of Mount Ijen. This study aims to develop a tool with an array sensor application that is able to adapt to environmental conditions. This detection device providing 24hour surveillance of toxic gases. In the application, the sensors will be placed in areas affected by toxic gas disasters, it aims to provide early warning if there is a toxic gas wave from Mount Ijen. It is also able to give warning to visitors and prospective visitors of Mount Ijen. So that ultimately no longer found victims of toxic gas, or at least reduce the impact of this toxic gas disaster.

Bayesian Network Analysis for the Questionnaire Investigation on the Impression at Fuji City

Shopping streets at local city in Japan became old and are generally declining. In this paper, we handle the area rebirth and/or regional revitalization of shopping street. We focus on Fuji city in Japan. Four big festivals are held at Fuji city. Many people visit these festivals including residents in that area. Therefore a questionnaire investigation to the residents and visitors is conducted during these periods in order to clarify residents and visitors’ needs for the shopping street, and utilize them to the plan building of the area rebirth and/or regional revitalization of shopping street. In this paper, we mainly focus the impression the visitors feel and analyze them. These are analyzed by using Bayesian Network. The analysis utilizing Bayesian Network enabled us to visualize the causal relationship among items. Furthermore, sensitivity analysis brought us estimating and predicting the prospective visitors. These are utilized for constructing a much more effective and useful plan building. We have obtained fruitful results. To confirm the findings by utilizing the new consecutive visiting records would be the future works to be investigated.

Bayesian Network Analysis for the Questionnaire Investigation on the Needs at Yoshiwara Shopping Street in Fuji City

Shopping streets at local city in Japan became old and are generally declining. In this paper, we handle the area rebirth and/or regional revitalization of shopping street. We focus on Fuji city in Japan. Four big festivals are held at Fuji city (two for Fuji Shopping Street and two for Yoshiwara Shopping Street). Many people visit these festivals including residents in that area. Therefore a questionnaire investigation to the residents and visitors is conducted during these periods in order to clarify residents and visitors’ needs for the shopping street, and utilize them to the plan building of the area rebirth and/or regional revitalization of shopping street. There is a big difference between Fuji Shopping Street and Yoshiwara Shopping Street. Therefore we focus Yoshiwara Shopping Street in this paper. These are analyzed by using Bayesian Network. The analysis utilizing Bayesian Network enabled us to visualize the causal relationship among items. Furthermore, sensitivity analysis brought us estimating and predicting the prospective visitors. Sensitivity analysis is performed by back propagation method. These are utilized for constructing a much more effective and useful plan building. We have obtained fruitful results. To confirm the findings by utilizing the new consecutive visiting records would be the future works to be investigated.

Bayesian Network Analysis for the Questionnaire Investigation on the Impression at Yoshiwara Shopping Street in Fuji City

Shopping streets at local city in Japan became old and are generally declining. In this paper, we handle the area rebirth and/or regional revitalization of shopping street. We focus on Fuji city in Japan. Four big festivals are held at Fuji city. Many people visit these festivals including residents in that area. Therefore a questionnaire investigation to the residents and visitors is conducted during these periods in order to clarify residents and visitors’ needs for the shopping street, and utilize them to the plan building of the area rebirth and/or regional revitalization of shopping street. There is a big difference between Fuji Shopping Street and Yoshiwara Shopping Street. Therefore we focus Yoshiwara Shopping Street in this paper. These are analyzed by using Bayesian Network. Sensitivity analysis is also conducted. As there are so many items, we focus on “The image of the surrounding area at this shopping street” and pick up former half and make sensitivity analysis in this paper. The analysis utilizing Bayesian Network enabled us to visualize the causal relationship among items. Furthermore, sensitivity analysis brought us estimating and predicting the prospective visitors. Sensitivity analysis is performed by back propagation method. These are utilized for constructing a much more effective and useful plan building. We have obtained fruitful results. To confirm the findings by utilizing the new consecutive visiting records would be the future works to be investigated.

Bayesian Network Analysis for the Questionnaire Investigation on the Needs at Fuji Shopping Street Town

Shopping streets at local city in Japan became old and are generally declining. In this paper, we handle the area rebirth and/or regional revitalization of shopping street. We focus on Fuji city in Japan. Four big festivals are held at Fuji city (two for Fuji Shopping Street Town and two for Yoshiwara Shopping Street Town). Many people visit these festivals including residents in that area. Therefore a questionnaire investigation to the residents and visitors is conducted during these periods in order to clarify residents and visitors’ needs for the shopping street, and utilize them to the plan building of the area rebirth and/or regional revitalization of shopping street. There is a big difference between Fuji Shopping Street Town and Yoshiwara Shopping Street Town. Therefore we focus Fuji Shopping Street Town in this paper. These are analyzed by using Bayesian Network. The analysis utilizing Bayesian Network enabled us to visualize the causal relationship among items. Furthermore, sensitivity analysis brought us estimating and predicting the prospective visitors. Sensitivity analysis is performed by back propagation method. These are utilized for constructing a much more effective and useful plan building. We have obtained fruitful results. To confirm the findings by utilizing the new consecutive visiting records would be the future works to be investigated.

Role of Visitor Management for Enhanced Visitor Experience atUNESCO World Heritage Sites:A Case Study of QutubMinar andHumayun’s Tomb

The World Heritage Sites identified by UNESCO are popular with the tourists globally looking for Cultural Heritage Tourism experience. These heritage sites serve as powerful motivators in tourists’ journeys as their significance is universal and it transcends cultural values across the nations. In modern times, increased awareness of the popular UNESCO World Heritage Sites through publicity, word of mouth, pulls visitors to these resources and in the process increases the expectation level of prospective visitor from the site.

Incorporating local visitor valuation information into the design of new recreation sites in tropical forests

In rapidly industrializing countries, decisions need to be made as to what characteristics new tropical forest parks in or near urban areas should have. Using a discrete choice experiment, we estimate prospective visitors' willingness-to-pay for a range of forest park characteristics for a representative sample of Malaysian households in the Kuala Lumpur–Selangor region. To enable park managers to adapt park designs to important types of heterogeneity among park visitors, we further identify how these estimates vary across geography (i.e., residential location: urban, suburban, rural), major ethnic groups, and patterns of recreational behavior. We show how a model that includes a wide array of visitor heterogeneity can be used to identify configurations of park characteristics that maximize social welfare across both the general sample and specific subgroups of prospective visitors.

Outcomes of Destination Marketing Organization Website Navigation: The Role of Telepresence

ABSTRACTThis study explores how informative and entertaining features of destination marketing organization (DMO) websites affect a sense of telepresence, and how these features affect visitors’ evaluation of the utilitarian and hedonic performances of such websites. This study further examines how DMO websites affect visitors’ familiarity with, interest in, and knowledge about a destination and their consequent intention to visit the destination. A total of 433 responses from United States (US) Internet users were collected in an online survey. The study results suggest that informative and entertaining telepresence is crucial in DMO web performance, making a destination appear more familiar and interesting to prospective visitors. This increases the likelihood that potential tourists will plan a trip to the destination.

Tourism and its Associated Aspects in the River Island Majuli, Assam: A Study from the Perspective of Visitors

The tourism industry, with an impressive growth rate across the world, is no doubt one of the fastest growing industries. Tourism is the largest sector in the worldwide export of goods and services, and accounts for 12% of the total global income. This paper intended to highlight differences in opinion among respondents before and after visiting the river island Majuli. Majuli is one of the potential tourist destinations of North-East India, and the approach towards the tourism industry needs a substantial upliftment, and focus needs to be placed on the community-based tourism model. To achieve positive results, efforts need to be made by the local authorities and communities so that visitors' word of mouth recommendations open new doors for prospective visitors.

Tourist Loyalty is All about Prices, Culture and the Sun: A Multinomial Logistic Regression of Tourists Visiting Athens

Abstract The objective of the paper is to identify the predictive factors of a tourist's loyalty to the tourist destination of the capital of Greece, Athens. A sample survey was carried out among the members of a random sample of 461 tourists to Athens. The questionnaire included sections about satisfaction from Athens, Image of Athens, Image of Greece, Loyalty to Athens as a destination, Word of Mouth for travelling to Athens, Demographics and questions about intention for repeat tourist visits to Athens. The methods of analyzing the data were I. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) of the Image of Athens and Image of Greece, obtained during a tourist's visit, respectively. The first (EFA) about Image of Athens revealed three factors: (a) The Natural Environment and Behavior of city's population towards tourists. (b) Historical Monuments, Weather and the Mediterranean cuisine and (c) Quality of city's accommodation and other services. The second (EFA) about Image of Greece obtained during a visit revealed two factors (a) Historical Monuments and Culture (b) Natural Environment and Entertainment. II. The sections on Image of Athens and Greece had Cronbach's Alpha coefficients 0,713 and 0,71 respectively. III. Logistic Regression with Dependent variable: Loyalty of tourist visitor to Athens, which revealed the following statistically significant independent factors which influence positively loyalty to destination: Satisfaction from price of trip, Cleanness of Athens, Prices of products and Services, Historical Monuments and Natural Beauty. Of interest is the second Logistic Regression with dependent variable: Word of Mouth of the repeat visitor to Athens for visiting the city, which revealed two statistically significant independent variables: Satisfaction from price of trip and the Sunny Natural Environment of Athens and Greece. Hence, there is a differentiation in the nature of factors which influence the first-time and the repeat visitor to Athens in his decision to spread the word encouraging the prospective visitors to Athens: The first-time visitor is impressed with the price of the trip, the Historical Monuments and the Sunny natural environment of Athens whereas the repeat visitor considers as more important variables the price of the trip and the Sunny Natural Environment of Athens and Greece generally.

Expectation Formation in Case of Newer Hotels

Advertisement and price cues are important sources of information that influence tourists’ service expectations, particularly in the case of newer, less-established hotels. However, it is not clear if such hotels benefit from promising more or less through their advertisements; or price high or low through their price cues. Extant research is also uncertain about the role of culture in moderating the impact of advertisement and price cues on expectations. Using an experimental setup with 218 tourists from three different countries, this study finds that a newer hotel is likely to be better off by offering more service promises through its advertising and high price cues to its prospective visitors. The results suggest that culture influences how tourists process advertising cues but has no influence on price cue influence. The study provides insights for managers on how to develop a segmentation strategy using the cultural profiles of tourists.

PUSAT INFORMASI PARIWISATA DAN KEBUDAYAAN SULAWESI DENGAN PENDEKATAN ARSITEKTUR MODERN

Planning and designing aim to design a culture and tourism information center with Modern Architecture Approach, the design limited on several issues there are the architectural issues, particularly spatial, space requirements and appearance of the building, while the method used is the study of literature / literary studies, surveys (form of field observation and data collection of building where has a similar function to the culture and tourism information center) and analyzing the data obtained. The result of the design is the creation of culture and tourism information center in Makassar, South Sulawesi with Modern Architecture approach with the ability of the building to accommodate the times when the building is nuance and modern look, with a modern form so that this building is more Interesting to prospective visitors.

PENGARUH WORD OF MOUTH DAN BRAND AWARENESS TERHADAP INTENSI MENGUNJUNGI TEMPAT WISATA ZIARAH MAKAM SUNAN KALIJAGA DEMAK

Tourism is one of the largest foreign exchange earner, leveling and increase employment opportunities and incomes, strengthen unity, and unity, as well as get to know the culture of the nation. Tourism is also capable give opportunity for jobs. Thus, the optimal management is needed. As part of the delivery of information to the public, tourism can be introduced by way of word of mouth. In addition, a good impression in the minds of the public on a tourist destination, could be the trigger for the decision to visit a tourist attraction. In daily life, the decision intention to purchase a product or service is often performed as a positive information from someone else, a friend or relative you trust, or information due to the positive experiences of others previously received. The results showed that the positive information on the existence of Sunan Kalijaga will build a positive perception of the tomb of Sunan Kalijaga prospective visitor, thus building interest or intention to make a visit or re-visit. Meanwhile, a good image in the minds of potential visitors or people who have visited the grave of Sunan Kalijaga will build interest or interests that make re-visit the tomb of Sunan Kalijaga.Keywords: Tourism, Word of Mouth, Brand Awareness, intention.

THE LATE-VICTORIAN HISTORIES OF INDIAN ART OBJECTS: POLITICS AND AESTHETICS IN JAIPUR'S ALBERT HALL MUSEUM

Recent guidebooks for the Westernertraveling to Northern India generally refer the prospective visitor to a common range of cities around Delhi – Agra, Jaipur, and Udaipur; within these, the Taj Mahal, Jaipur's Pink City and nearby Amber Fort, and Udaipur's glamorous lake palaces usually merit must-see status. Until its refurbishment a few years ago, the Albert Hall Museum, an elaborate structure with old-fashioned interiors and a location a kilometer south of Jaipur's city center, ranked as a second- or even third-tier tourist attraction; travel guides from recent years mention it with indifference, describing its collections as “dusty” and “fine, if carelessly exhibited” (Bindloss and Singh 170), or even suggesting that “a slow circular turn around the building in a car will suffice” (Frommers520). Yet a century ago the Museum proudly occupied a primary place in British travel guides to India. It opened with ceremony and fanfare in 1887, and by 1898 almost three million Indian and over ten thousand European visitors had passed through its doors (Hendley,Report9). A striking example of colonial architecture, constructed of white stone with numerous courtyards, covered walkways, and ornamented domes (Figure 1), it was regarded as perhaps the most noteworthy edifice within a noteworthy Indian city. Thomas Holbein Hendley, resident Surgeon-Major in Jaipur, chief curator for the 1883 Jaipur Exhibition, and the Albert Hall Museum's Secretary and tireless champion, recommended that travelers in Jaipur for a single day make two visits, both morning and evening, to the site, and that those with an additional day to spend in the city schedule a third visit. Murray'sHandbook for Travellers in India, Burma and Ceylonconcurred, describing it as “a beautiful museum – an Oriental South Kensington, suitably housed” (174), and just after the turn of the century, English journalist Sidney Low recalled that it was “the best museum, with one exception, in all India, a museum which, in the careful selection and the judicious arrangement of its contents, is a model of what such an institution ought to be” (114).

Redes digitales y evento tradicional: caso Festapedia

Internet y las nuevas tecnologías de la comunicación son una plataforma excelente para difundir los eventos tradicionales, convirtiéndose en un instrumento fundamental en un mundo globalizado, donde las ciudades son en realidad productos cuya identidad y valores han de ser diseñados y comercializados. Los eventos tradicionales, son parte del patrimonio del territorio que unido al cambio producido en el estilo de vida de las sociedades occidentales, lo convierten en un fuerte atractivo para el nuevo concepto de turista, más responsable, mejor informado, que demanda lo particular, lo sorpresivo, lo experiencial y distinto que ofrece cada lugar. Nos encontramos ante patrimonio cultural inmaterial, elementos intangibles pero que diferencian, personalizan y dan identidad a los territorios. El evento tradicional, es en muchas ocasiones la carta de presentación y valor reputacional de las poblaciones, debiendo darlo a conocer a los futuros visitantes interesados en la peculiaridad, cultura e historia del territorio. Así, la web se presenta como una herramienta para acceder al público global que pueda sentirse atraído por este tipo de eventos y sirve a la vez para proyectar el lugar donde se realizan.En este caso, el portal web Festapedia surge para recoger todos los contenidos relativos a las Fiestas de la ciudad de Castellón, impulsando y poniendo en valor dicha población. Así, desde la perspectiva local, se presenta un modelo de documentación de la memoria que tiene una aplicación universal, y que ayudará a mejorar la proyección de la ciudad, diferenciándola de otros lugares y haciendo que consiga visibilidad y notoriedad.

Cultural policy and the dynamics of stadium development

Cities across the United States increasingly turn to culture industries as a way to revitalize their urban cores and re-image themselves to both residents and prospective visitors. It is expected that this strategy will differentiate cities, bringing about widespread economic benefits at a time of intense inter-city competition. This essay examines how professional sports fit this dynamic and specifically discusses the important role that stadium development plays in advancing a related public-policy agenda. By reviewing the plans for four stadium-development projects in Chicago, this contribution reveals the complexities of these practices, which rarely consider the impact on the neighbourhoods themselves. The unanticipated outcomes of these processes are often shaped by race, class, varying political actors and community organizations.

Bloggers’ reported tourist experiences: Their utility as a tourism data source and their effect on prospective tourists

The present study evaluates the value of tourists’ blogs as a research data source by using them to evaluate the tourist experience and to assess their influence on the decision-making process of prospective tourists. The blogs of 103 tourists visiting South Tyrol, 32 written in English and 71 written in Italian, were analyzed using textual and image content analysis. The text of 246 comments posted to these blogs was analyzed to evaluate the possible influence of bloggers’ narrative on prospective tourists. The results show cultural differences in the way tourists use blogs. Italian blogs appear to have more potential to influence the decision-making process of prospective visitors since their comments often contain recommendations and authors’ declaration of their own future intentions to travel to South Tyrol. They also demonstrate significant potential for revealing market-relevant aspects of tourists’ experience although they do not always convey the ‘experience essence’.

Evaluating Popular City Destinations' Websites: A Framework for Website Assessment

Information gathering has fundamental effects on travel-related decision-making process. When destinations use the Internet effectively, they possibly enjoy more successful destination marketing processes, more concentrated branding and promotion efforts, as well as a diversified destination image. Websites of city destinations can contain various features, including attractions, accommodation and transportation information, downloadable materials, maps, etc. A website design that is rich in content may attract prospective visitors, stimulate repeat visit intentions, and extend the duration of stay. This study primarily aims to analyze the features that are relevant to the contents of city destinations' websites and to generate a framework for website evaluation of city destinations. The Internet provides opportunities for virtually endless creative and diverse applications; however, most city destinations' websites do not adequately engage in such efforts, and they are almost identical with regard to the types of applications used for the content presentation.

Futuring Internet Marketing Activities Using Change Propensity Analysis

The purpose of this study was to examine the current use and predict future Web-based marketing activities of U.S. convention and visitor bureaus. A survey was sent to 600 randomly selected American convention and visitor bureaus with a focus on assessing the applications included in the bureaus’ Web sites, their Web site promotion techniques, and customer relationship management programs in relation to these Web sites. The results indicate that most bureaus’ Internet marketing activities are relatively limited, focusing on providing travel information to prospective visitors. Future trends of Internet marketing activities were then evaluated using change propensity analysis (CPA) and suggest a number of emerging activities that will be adopted during the next few years. The implications of the findings are then discussed.