Chaitanya Suárez-RojasUniversidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | ULPGC · Instituto Universitario de Turismo y Desarrollo Económico Sostenible (Tides)
Chaitanya Suárez-Rojas
Doctor of Economics Tourism and Management
Research doctor at MARCET II Project (MAC 2/4.6c/392)
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Chaitanya Suárez-Rojas, Carmelo J. León, Javier de León, and Yen E. Lam-González present Whale-watching tourism: Future sustainability trends in Chapter 7.
In whale-watching tourism, ensuring responsible human–cetacean interactions has raised critical academic debate over recent decades. This chapter reviews the empirical evidence with the aim of...
‘Going green’ is still challenging in the yachting industry partly due to the lack of customer-centered approaches. This study assesses sailors' preferences and willingness to pay for green policies in marinas, in the context of other measures to increase health security and digital transformation. To do so, a choice experiment was designed through...
There is scientific consensus that human activity through whale-watching is causing an increasing amount of damage to the natural environment, which poses critical challenges to the goal of sustainability. Based on a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the scientific literature, this study calls for urgent rethinking in regards to whale-watc...
Whale-watching faces the dual challenge of ensuring whale welfare and preserving marine environments in coastal areas and the open ocean while providing a satisfactory tourism experience. This study shows that importance-performance analysis (IPA), in combination with cluster analysis, provides insights into how to tailor the segments for the susta...
Marine environments are magnets for millions of tourists and recreationalists worldwide. This study aims to assess the relationships between individuals’ sensation and risk seeking, concerns about the environment and animal rights, and their interest in engaging in marine recreation during the visit to tourist destinations. Specifically, the paper...
The degradation of terrestrial ecosystems may change the perceived value of destinations for tourists. This article analyses tourists’ travel decisions when the land ecosystems of the destinations they are planning to visit are threatened by climate change impacts. More specifically, it analyses tourists’ willingness to pay for their holidays at is...
Whale watching has long been marketed as a whale conservation-oriented form of sustainable tourism. However, inappropriate management practices are endangering whales, the marine environment, and the tourist experience. This situation highlights the need for more responsible and sustainable actions to reconcile whale protection with the various dem...
The publication has pulled together the scientific and empirical evidence produced by the Soclimpact Project, a 4 years' research and innovation action (RIA) funded by the HORIZON2020 programme of the European Commission.
This first edition includes up-to-date data, modelling results, references, case material and figures, and shed light on the ma...
Tourism companies operate in an increasingly competitive environment, where internationalisation becomes a tool in the search for improved positioning and image. Similarly, the international success of the sector is also considered an indicator of the effectiveness of promotional strategies and promotion of destinations to companies. In this sense,...
Ecotourism is a key sector to promote protected areas self-financing, and the entry fee is one of the main tools that generate funds for the management and conservation of those areas. As far as it is known, there is not enough research on analyzing the economic potential of an entry fee in ecotourism-open protected areas in Colombia, neither the a...
In tourism, entrepreneurial internationalisation is considered a measure of the development of the industry and a key driver of innovation, competitiveness and image enhancement. In nautical tourism, research is still scarce in terms of supporting business’ internationalisation. This paper analyses factors constraining the international growth of i...