Tourist Travel Research Articles

Conflict: Impact on Tourism Industry in Manipur: A Case Study of Select Travel Agencies & Tour Operators in Imphal

According to the 2018 World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) report, the travel and tourism industry contributes 10.4% to global GDP and employs one in every ten people worldwide. According to the WTTC's Economic Impact Research report from 2018, India will be among the world's fastest-growing tourist economies in the following years, with travel commerce expected to bring 10 million jobs to the country by 2028.Tour & Travel tourism sector in India is accounted as very important in development of tourism and employment generation. It plays an important role such as bridging between clients and principal suppliers, image builder, rapid travel services, social and continues process.Manipur conflict cast a pall over tourism sector in the northeast. Over a 3 month-long clashes between two communities of Manipur, mounting death and destruction in the north eastern states of Manipur has brought life and livelihood to a grinding halt and completely derailed the momentum that tourism sector in the state and the region as a whole has received over the last few years.The key important of the study is the assessment of the existing impacts in the Travel Agents & Tour Operators undertaken in the study and to suggest measures so that supply meets the conflict period.

Solutions for sustainable development of inbound tourism in Khanh Hoa Province after Covid-19

Sustainable tourism development is a top concern in all countries in the world, especially developing countries like Vietnam. Issues of environmental pollution, changes in habits in life and consumption, conflicts of economic interests between parties, a decrease in the number and quality of tourists after the Covid-19 pandemic, and many other problems are other potentially emerging. Khanh Hoa province is a tourist center in the South Central region and the Central Highlands. An interesting stop for inbound tourists when coming to Vietnam. In addition to the achievements, the inbound travel business in Khanh Hoa province has been revealing many factors that lack sustainability in terms of environment, economy, culture, and society. Therefore, to sustainably develop inbound travel tourism in Khanh Hoa province. The author used the research method of secondary documents, and analyzed the current situation of inbound tourism development in Khanh Hoa in recent years, thereby giving urgent solutions: Focusing on re-developing the inbound tourist market, assessing re-evaluate tourism resources in order to build suitable tourism products, have sales promotion strategies, apply information technology, increase investment in human resource development, raise people’s and inbound travel community’s awareness.

Aspects of Business Law, MSME Development and Travel Cost on Nature Tourism in Sidomulyo Village

This study examines the benefits visitors perceive from tourism objects in Sidomulyo Village, Pronojiwo District, and Lumajang Regency from a business and legal perspective, MSME development by the community surrounding the tourism location, and the willingness of visitors to pay to preserve and develop tourism potential, which is closely related to tourism travel costs. This study used a descriptive quantitative research method. SPSS 21 was used to analyze the data in this analysis. Multiple linear regression and legal approach analysis is one of the analytical techniques. The legal approach method is used to study tourism policies. This research concluded that the potential of natural tourist places in Sidomulyo Village, Pronojiwo District, and Lumajang Regency still have excellent development opportunities. It can be proven that travel costs, mileage, and income affect the level of visits to tourist places. In comparison, the level of education does not affect the number of visits. The value of the benefits obtained by visitors to Sidomulyo Village tourism attractions remains greater than visitors' willingness to pay. Through building up quality MSMEs and Pokdarwis (Tourism Awareness Group) institutions, the local community must continue learning more about developing village tourism.

Barriers to Tourism Travel Service Business Cooperation with Pioneering Tourism Villages in Tabanan Regency

Tourism villages in Bali Province have reached 37.26% of the existing villages and only 2 are in the independent category. Tabanan Regency has a number of pilot tourism villages and the majority are more than five years old. Obstacles to increasing the status of a tourist village are thought to occur due to the lack of tourists and the ability of managers to cooperate with the tourism industry. Research needs to be done to overcome barriers to the establishment of cooperation between tourism villages and industry. The problems described need to be solved by formulating a strategy. The pilot Tourism Village which is the location of the research focus has great potential but has experienced obstacles. This study aims to: analyze the role of Tourism Travel business(1), barriers to cooperation between tourism travel business and pilot Tourism Village(2), and develop a management strategy of pilot tourism village in Tabanan Regency(3). This study used qualitative descriptive method. The Data was obtained through in-depth interviews with eight experts. Obstacles are described using coding techniques and then strategies are made to overcome them. The strategy was prepared using Intepretive Structural Modeling analysis techniques. The results showed that UPW has a role in assessing cooperation proposals consisting of details of tourist activities offered, equipment required, price details, feed back, matching proposal descriptions, uniqueness, service quality, cleanliness, and safety. Barriers to cooperation occur due to the location of the tourist village, the potential benefits of the formation of cooperation, and tourist interest. The strategies formed to overcome these obstacles are increasing the competence of human resources in Pilot tourism villages, packaging of industry-standard tourism products, accelerating cooperation between tourism villages and the tourism industry. Suggestions in this study is the implementation of a strategy that is in accordance with the strategy model that has been formed.

Designing a Human Resources Performance System in a Company Using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) Method

PT Melinia Nusa Wisata is a company engaged in the field of travel tourism services. As a result of problems from the human factor, namely delays in attendance in the field, the company's scheduled travel departures are inappropriate. This study aims to analyze how to improve the human resource performance system from the three criteria and three alternatives by using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method with the help of Expert Choice software. The nature of this research is qualitative descriptive and exploratory research. The results of the study obtained the weight of each criterion, namely on work motivation by 26.6%, work discipline by 24.4%, work skills by 46%, and the alternative is an increase in welfare by 21.6%, an increase in human resource training 44.7%, an increase in facilities 33.7%. These results identify the highest weight, namely work skills and human resource training improvement, meaning that to improve the human resource performance system, the two highest criteria require special attention in their implementation.

Retracted: Self-Driving Tour Travel Route Planning Model Construction Using Recurrent Neural Network

Retracted: Self-Driving Tour Travel Route Planning Model Construction Using Recurrent Neural Network

Antecedents and Consequences of Personal Selling, Price and Product Quality on Buying Incentive Packages Tour Travel Post- Covid-19 Pandemic

The development of the world of tourism, which continues to increase is certainly a support for the Tour and Travel business. One of the attractions of a tourist is a tourist attraction. Therefore, tourists need in their tour to travel to places that are interesting and able to provide comfort, serenity, and joy in itself. The purpose of this study to find out the relationship of personal sales service, price perception, and quality product to the package purchase of the travel package incentives. The object of this study is all customers of Preferred Tours Management Jakarta. The sample in this study are Preferred Tours Management customers in Jakarta, with 155 respondents. Purposive sampling method was used and the sample were selected based on its characteristics. Data were processed using Smart PLS (partial least square) 3.0. The results of hypothesis testing in this research explain that service quality influences purchasing decisions, but price has a negative and significant effect. Besides, product quality also has a significant influence. Therefore, considering the existing market, the company requests an increase in purchases by paying attention to service quality and product quality through the application of attractive prices.
 Keywords: service quality, price, product quality, purchasing decisions

Can nudging affect tourists’ low-carbon footprint travel choices?

PurposeThis study aims to investigate low-carbon footprint travel choices, considering both destination attributes and climate change perceptions, and examine the impacts of nudging (a communication tool to alter individuals’ choices in a predictable way) on tourists’ preferences for carbon mitigation in destinations.Design/methodology/approachA discrete choice experiment questionnaire was administered to a sample of 958 Hong Kong respondents. Hybrid choice modeling was used to examine the respondents’ preferences for destination attributes and to explain preference heterogeneity using tourists’ climate change perceptions. The respondents’ willingness to pay for the destination attributes was also calculated to measure the monetary value of the attributes.FindingsDestination type, carbon emissions and travel cost had significant effects on tourists’ choices of destination. Nudging increased tourists’ preference for low-carbon footprint choices. Tourists with higher climate change perceptions were more likely than others to select low-carbon destinations with carbon offset projects.Practical implicationsThe findings of this study provide an impetus for destination management organizations to support local carbon offset projects, implement policies that mitigate carbon emissions and develop sustainable tourism to fulfill tourists’ demand for low-carbon footprint travel choices. Based on the findings, policymakers could promote sustainable tourism by publishing relevant climate change information on social media.Originality/valueThis study addressed a gap in the literature on tourist travel choice by considering carbon emission-related attributes and climate change perceptions and by confirming the role of nudging in increasing the choice of low-carbon destinations.

A Multi-Channel Text Sentiment Analysis Model Integrating Pre-training Mechanism

The number of tourist attractions reviews, travel notes and other texts has grown exponentially in the Internet age. Effectively mining users’ potential opinions and emotions on tourist attractions, and helping to provide users with better recommendation services, which is of great practical significance. This paper proposes a multi-channel neural network model called Pre-BiLSTM combined with a pre-training mechanism. The model uses a combination of coarse and fine- granularity strategies to extract the features of text information such as reviews and travel notes to improve the performance of text sentiment analysis. First, we construct three channels and use the improved BERT and skip-gram methods with negative sampling to vectorize the word-level and vocabulary-level text, respectively, so as to obtain more abundant textual information. Second, we use the pre-training mechanism of BERT to generate deep bidirectional language representation relationships. Third, the vectors of the three channels are input into the BiLSTM network in parallel to extract global and local features. Finally, the model fuses the text features of the three channels and classifies them using SoftMax classifier. Furthermore, numerical experiments are conducted to demonstrate that Pre-BiLSTM outperforms the baselines by 6.27%, 12.83% and 18.12% in average in terms of accuracy, precision and F1-score.

Travel Management In Meeting Tourist Satisfaction Kota Lama Semarang

This study aims to fulfill tourist satisfaction through quality travel management. This research is a qualitative research. The location of this research is in the Old City of Semarang. While the informants in this study were tourists from the Old City of Semarang. Based on the results of the discussion that has been presented, it is known that travel services in the Old City of Semarang are quite helpful for tourists. The travel management used is structured and directed, such as notification of information on every tourist spot visited and good communication with tourists. Good service providers can increase tourist satisfaction, build a good reputation, and drive the growth of the tourism industry as a whole. The focus of this research is the way the travel tour in serving the tourists who are being combined. Keywords: Management of Travel, Tourist Satisfaction, Tourist, Literature Review, Old City

Evaluation of green transit networks for tourism on Penghu Island

Selecting modes of green transit for a transportation network can be challenging. In this study, individual and multiperson tourist travel itineraries for various green transit networks on Penghu Island in Taiwan were developed and optimized to minimize energy consumption, travel time, and construction costs; case studies involving various itineraries were conducted and compared. The green transit networks could enable low-carbon and ecofriendly tourism around Penghu Island. The individual itineraries were produced by identifying an optimal travel route for visiting various destinations in a predetermined order by using the available green transit and on foot. Itineraries for electric scooters alone were first developed, and these itineraries were compared with those for green transit networks comprising various combinations of electric buses, electric scooters, and shared bicycles. The itineraries were optimized using the genetic algorithm and artificial bee colony algorithm to minimize energy consumption, travel time, or construction costs. The network comprising electric scooters and shared bikes had the lowest energy consumption, and that comprising electric scooters and buses had the shortest travel time and the lowest construction costs.

The Closer, the Better? Impact of Tourists’ Psychological Distance on Their Travel Intention in the Post-Pandemic Era

ABSTRACT Since 2020, COVID-19 pandemic has exerted a serious influence on global tourism and dampened tourists’ travel intention. To understand the traveling public’s psychological resilience in post-COVID-19 travel, this study adopted survey study and employed structural equation modeling (SEM) to explore how tourists’ psychological distance affects travel intention in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The results indicated that tourists’ social distance and temporal distance were negatively correlated with their travel intention, whereas there was insufficient evidence to prove that tourists’ spatial distance was related to their travel intention. More interestingly, perceived safety significantly mediated the relationship between social distance, temporal distance, and tourist travel intention. These findings contributed to the empirical research on the correlation between tourists’ psychological distance and their travel intention. Meanwhile, practical strategies were provided for the tourism industry in reducing people’s travel anxiety and encouraging their participation in tourist activities in the post-pandemic era.

“The reader can never be sure what’s going to come next”: political reflexivity, ethics and queer affiliations in Oswell Blakeston’s 1950s travel writing/guide books

ABSTRACT Oswell Blakeston’s four now largely forgotten travel books, Portuguese Panorama (1955), Isle of St. Helena (1957), Sun at Midnight: Finland Holiday (1958), and Thank You Now: An Exploration of Ulster (1960), warrant the attention of contemporary scholars of travel writing. This article outlines how Blakeston’s writing about his travels, or holidays, further illuminates contemporary historical explorations of the continuum, rather than categorical opposition, between tourist guidebooks and travel writing. Blakeston's travel writing also exhibits a degree of what Debbie Lisle describes as “political reflexivity”. Related to this, his work narrates ethical interactions with new friends encountered on his journeys, while also dramatising some of the inevitable limitations this entails. Analysis of Blakeston’s travel writing also highlights links between the preoccupations detailed above and his queer modernist cultural lineage. This article therefore expands our historical understanding of the diversity of queer British travel writing during the twentieth century.

Tourism and COVID-19: Changes in Travel and Behavioral Patterns of Residents of Bosnia and Herzegovina

This paper analyses whether there have been any changes in the behavior and patterns of tourist travel after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The convenience sample included 265 respondents. The results of the study show that the most important factors in choosing to travel during the COVID-19 pandemic are: cleanliness, safety, comfort, costs, and social distance. The results of the study show a statistically significant difference in the factors that influence choosing to travel during COVID-19 with regard to employment, i.e., occupation, whereby the most factors when deciding on travel during COVID-19 are considered by pensioners and the least by students. When choosing a destination, as well as the image of the destination from the perspective of tourists, the study showed that owning a car is a statistically significant factor. The study also shows that there is a positive relationship that is statistically significant between the factors that influence choosing to travel during COVID-19 and the factors when choosing a destination from the perspective of tourists and the image of the destination, so those respondents who take into account more factors when choosing to travel during COVID-19, also take into account several factors when choosing a destination from the perspective of tourists and the image of the destination.

Analysis of Umrah Pilgrimage Service Strategies in Building a Positive Image at PT. Asyesa Hasanah Tour & Travel West Sumatra

The background of this research is the large number of hajj and umrah travel agencies that have been established in West Sumatra which has led to a high level of competition. Besides, there has been a decrease in the number of pilgrims due to Covid-19 and a lack of human resources (HR) at PT. Asyesa Hasanah Tour Travel West Sumatra, causing a lack of effectiveness in providing services to pilgrims. The purpose of this study is to determine the umrah pilgrims' service strategy in building a positive image at PT. Asyesa Hasanah Tour Travel West Sumatra. This study used a qualitative descriptive research method by collecting data using observation, interviews, and documentation. The results of this study indicate that the service strategy carried out by PT. Asyesa Hasanah Tour Travel West Sumatra for Umrah pilgrims is to provide the best possible service starting from their homeland, Saudi Arabia to returning to their homeland, establish cooperation with other companies, establish a relationship with pilgrims, and provide guaranteed accommodation, transportation and the best prices. Meanwhile, the efforts made by PT. Asyesa Hasanah Tour Travel West Sumatra to build a positive image are by forming a pilgrim alumni association, branding personnel within the company, and making promotions honestly.

Analysis of Operational Planning in Increasing the Number of Umrah Pilgrims at PT Asyesa Hasanah Tour & Travel West Sumatra Padang City

This study aims to determine the operational planning of PT Asyesa Hasanah Tour Travel West Sumatra Padang City and to find out what are the inhibiting factors for the operational planning of PT Asyesa Hasanah Tour Travel West Sumatra Padang City in increasing the interest of umrah pilgrims after the Covid-19 pandemic. This research was a descriptive qualitative research by choosing. The background of this research is the decrease in the number of umrah pilgrims departing with PT Asyesa Hasanah Tour Travel West Sumatra Padang City both before and after the Covid-19 pandemic. The result of study showed quite good results by analyzing the planning management carried out by PT Asyesa Hasanah Tour Travel SUMBAR, Padang City before and after the Covid-19 pandemic and knowing the inhibiting factors in carrying out its planning management. There are changes in marketing strategies, products, and services offered to attract umrah pilgrims.

PENGARUH PASCA PANDEMI COVID-19 TERHADAP MOTIVASI PERJALANAN WISATA KE ANYER BANTEN

The purpose of the study was to analyze the effect of post-covid-19 on the motivation of tourist trips to Anyer Beach Banten. The research variables are post-covid-19 (X) and tourist travel motivation (Y). Sample determination using the slovin method amounted to 101 respondents. Data collection using a questionnaire with a Likert scale (5 scale). Data processing using SPSS Version 21 with data quality testing, namely data validity and reliability tests, correlation coefficients, classical assumption tests, simple regression analysis, hypotheses (T test and F test) and matrix correlation between dimensions. The results showed that post covid-19 had a positive and significant effect on travel motivation, with an R Square value of 0.291, meaning that there was a post covid-19 influence on travel motivation of 29.1% while the remaining 70.9% was influenced by other factors. The results of the matrix correlation between the dimensions of maintaining distance and the personal dimension have the largest value, namely 0.458. This shows that the better the management of services and facilities provided to tourists on Anyer Beach with health protocols and limiting the level of post-Covid-19 crowds will increase the motivation for tourist trips to Anyer Beach, on the contrary, the worse the management of services and facilities provided to tourists on Anyer Beach, the lower the motivation for tourist trips to Anyer beach.

FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI BIAYA PERJALANAN WISATA PANTAI AKO DI DESA JIKUMERASA KABUPATEN BURU

Travel costs are time and expenses that must be incurred by tourists to visit certain attractions. The assumption underlying the travel cost method is the expenditure of time and travel expenses incurred by someone to visit the tourist site and enjoy the tour. This study aims to identify and calculate the cost of tourist trips to Ako Beach and Analyze the factors that affect the cost of tourist trips to Ako Beach. The basic research method used is a qualitative descriptive method by collecting data through interviews using questionnaires and literature studies. The number of samples was 97 people namely 50 local tourists, 42 domestic tourists and 5 foreign tourists. And the quantitative descriptive method uses multiple linear regression analysis and calculates the total cost of the trip. The total cost of the tour on Ako Beach is Rp 169.872.500 with a total of the average cost of a tourist trip is Rp 15.283.553 based on the origin of tourists it is known that the average cost of a local tourist trip is Rp 245.360, the average cost of domestic tourist travel is Rp 2.227.393, and the average foreign tourist travel cost is Rp 12.810.800. Factors that affect the cost of travel on Ako Beach are statistically known to be income and distance.

Visitors' Subjective Well Being: The Effect of the Motivational Sharing Travel Photos Through Instagram

Social media is a place where users can exchange information with fellow users, one of the information obtained is about tourism. In today's digital era, social media such as Instagram has become a popular platform for users to share their travel moments. By using social media one can find out a lot of information and reviews from visitors who have experience in tourism travel, so that they have considerations and decisions in visiting tourism places. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of motivation to share photos on Instagram on visitors' experiences of subjective well-being in the tourism object of Air Manis Beach, Padang City. The study used a quantitative with a causal associative approach. The data was obtained by distributing questionnaires online through Instagram users who have shared photos of their experiences visiting the tourism object of Air Manis Beach, Padang City. So that as many as 184 people were obtained, with a Likert scale. The data analysis technique used the Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modeling. The results found that recognition and status, enjoyment, and disclosure influenced visitors' experiences of subjective well-being in the tourism object of Air Manis Beach, Padang City. Meanwhile, tourism information did not affect visitors' experiences of subjective well-being in the tourism object of Air Manis Beach, Padang City. This study concluded that when people share motivational and inspiring travel photos via Instagram, they can feel an increase in subjective well-being.

PERANCANGAN APLIKASI PENJUALAN PAKET WISATA BERBASIS WEB PADA PT FAJAR BUANA TOUR

In the era of information technology development, which is becoming increasingly sophisticated each year, The emergence of advanced technology in the current generation has made B2C e-commerce transactions in Indonesia have experienced positive growth over the years, triggering the online tourism sector to gain major benefits and become one of the main drivers of B2C e-commerce in Indonesia. With the development of today's technology, competition between manufacturers to win the competition is getting tougher significantly. 
 It is the above that builds a sense that in this problem there are opportunities that can be built to solve the problem. The emergence of online travel agents (OTA) in Indonesia makes it more difficult for conventional travellers or other small travellers to compete in marketing their products both domestically and internationally. This is what triggers the emergence of a solution that creates a product for this problem, where the solution is the author wants to make a website-based PT Fajar Buana Tour travel agent, using the prototype method and implementing The 7C Framework guidelines in its manufacture.