Tourism Rights Research Articles

Buenos Aires Youth Tourism Access Policy

Summary In Argentina, in the south of Latin America, student tourism has been associated with trips for young people who finish secondary school level. Such trips have a mountain and snow destination during the winter season and are organised privately between travel agencies and student groups, without the intervention of schools or state aid. Although sustained for decades, given their high costs, access to this type of tourism has become increasingly associated with upper-middle socio-economic sectors. During the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2021, the government of Buenos Aires, one of the largest and most populous provinces of Argentina, established the programme “End of Term Trip”, a local public policy of student tourism aimed at secondary school students of that province. Through a free trip package, it links the aims of universality and equality with a tourism policy that promotes new destinations, favours the work of travel agencies, and boosts off-season tourism. Based on documented data and an interview with a programme official this case study presents a tourism policy that seeks to boost the tourism sector and, at the same time, encourages the participation of young people from different social sectors in recreational tourism practices and their access to leisure and tourism rights. Information © The Authors 2024

Protection of Tourism Rights for Persons with Disabilities

People with disabilities in Indonesia still experience difficulties in benefiting from the facilities at tourist attractions. The matter is not only related to tourist attractions but most of the supporting facilities for the implementation of tourism activities such as hotels, tour packages and adequate means of transportation are also difficult to find for persons with disabilities to support tourism activities. Motivated by these matters, there are two issues examined in the study: (1) how is the protection of persons with disabilities legally regulated in Indonesia? (2) How is the fulfillment of tourism rights for persons with disabilities in Indonesia implemented?. The method used in this study is empirical juridical research method. Data for the research were collected using field data collection technique and library data collection technique. The data were processed and analyzed qualitatively and presented in a qualitative descriptive method. The results of the study are: first, the essence of protecting the right to carry out tourism activities, especially in the provision of tourism accessibility rights for persons with disabilities is a form of Indonesian state’s obligation to provide respect, protection and respect for human rights for all its citizens without discrimination in order to realize welfare for persons with disabilities. This proportion is regulated in Law Number 8 of 2016 concerning Persons with Disabilities, Law Number 10 of 2009 concerning Tourism, and Government Regulation of the Republic of Indonesia No. 42 of 2020 concerning Accessibility to Settlements, Public Services, and Protection from Disasters for Persons with Disabilities. Second, the fulfillment of tourism rights for persons with disabilities in Indonesia has not been implemented properly. These obstacles are caused by the absence of legal certainty guarantees regarding regulations on the minimum standards of accessibility rights for persons with disabilities. As a result, in practice, there are still many public facilities supporting tourism activities that are inaccessible to persons with disabilities. To overcome these problems, it is necessary to have mandatory minimum standards that must be met so that persons with disabilities can enjoy traveling activities safely and comfortably.

A Preliminary Study on Cultural Diversity in Tourism: Focused on the Tourism Rights

A Preliminary Study on Cultural Diversity in Tourism: Focused on the Tourism Rights

Pemenuhan Hak Kebudayaan dan Kepariwisataan Wisatawan Penyandang Disabilitas Fisik di Kota Batam

Batam is rapidly developed nowadays. There are factors that might effect the growth. The effort of promoting tourism and cultural programs, and the envolvement of tourism parties, are made to attract more tourists to visit Batam. However, beside the growth of tourisms itself, the government and responsible parties are laxing to provide and maintain good facilities for tourists. Because, tourist has their own right as a tourist, which is regulated in Undang-Undang Republik Indonesia Number 8 Year 2016 about Person with Disabilities, and it is called the cultural and tourism rights. Therefore, this dissertation is aimed to find out about the tourist visits potency in Batam, and to find out about what’s the real obstacles, faced by both people with disability (phiysically) and the government, due to the effort of fulfilling cultural and tourism rights. The writer is using the empirical method in analyzing the collected data, where the data itself was collected while doing the interview or observation. Then, the writer describe the matters in tie with regulations. By then, it can be seen that the tourism potency of Batam is great, but unfortunately, data lacking toward disabilities show that the government has not yet put the issue in the first place. The problems is now remain unidentified as the data was out of record. So, the government efforts in the future with both tourism business field persons and nearby community is now concerned and hopefully can improve the quality of accessibilities that has been built, in progress, or will be built in the future.

Antecedents of national park knowledge in Tanzania

ABSTRACTOver time, national park knowledge has come to constitute the gap between the full social freedom and individual consciousness of the ecological conditions inside a park. While other visitors have a rigorous knowledge of transportation, nature, and culture, some visitors naively enter the area in order to enjoy their tourism rights. Theoretically, our model proposes that national park knowledge can change as a result of knowing about eco-tourist attractions; also, knowledge of public infrastructure and accessibility is strongly correlated to knowledge of what you can and cannot do in the protected area. Eco-tourist attractions include natural resources, cultural attractions, and recreational facilities. The argument is that all the infrastructure is developed around these, as that these are the sources of attraction. Based on the literature, we link these variables with the ecotourism concept, thus positioning our paper as an ecotourism study. A total of 103 questionnaires were returned on the basis of convenience sampling. A satisfying underlying factor structure was confirmed by CFA and EFA, in which four hypotheses were tested. With 103 observations, the model sufficiently met the minimum sample size for SEM. This paper provides some evidence for its cross validity and may inspire more studies in future.

In pursuit of a more just international tourism: the concept of trading tourism rights

Research on sustainable tourism mainly focuses on incoming tourism, and destination perspectives and impacts, and less on the focus of this paper – outgoing tourism. In this context, direct and personal access to tourism represents an equal right to all world citizens. Because this right has not been exercised equally, the world is divided into two parts, excess and deprived, tourism citizens and their nation-states. This paper proposes a more just tourism system to balance the rights of tourists to travel, with the right to development, equal tourism participation, and consumption of world resources. It draws on theories from Nozick and Rawls on rights and justice to ground our model, backed by the work of other writers including Hultsman, Higgins-Desbiolles, Jamal, and Camargo. It expands the definition of just tourism to activate tourism's potential to become a developmental force in the existing socio-economic global order. This potential is realised through the use of market-based economic instruments for the implementation of a just tourism system. It suggests how to create financial flows towards third world states for their development and modernisation, using the concept of tradable tourism certificates, a concept tested in emissions control, population, and land use planning.

Diaspora tourism: Using a mixed-mode survey design to document tourism behavior and constraints of people of Turkish extraction resident in Germany

Despite their growing numbers as consumers and citizens, and in spite of the ongoing discussion about immigrants and integration in many countries, ethnic minorities remain almost invisible in the tourism literature on consumer behavior, tourism rights and enjoyment, and the effects of tourism on integration. Ethnic minorities are not a homogenous group and a better understanding may be achieved by focusing on one group. This study used a mixed-mode research design to examine the tourism behavior of people of Turkish background living in Germany, with an emphasis on identifying and explaining their tourism constraints. Marginality, ethnicity, discrimination, and acculturation theories were used with the concepts of acculturation, familism and religion as the background to the study. Unlike other studies, in this study discrimination and marginality hypotheses were not supported as factors explaining tourism behavior and constraints of this group. Rather, ethnicity tainted with familism, religion and tradition appeared to interact to shape this group’s travel behavior and subsequently their negotiation of perceived constraints. This complexity begs for similar studies to inform our understanding of ethnic minorities’ travel behavior and constraints.