Tourism Research - Science topic

The tourism marketing knowledge grid can be used.

technology Adoption model

"Service Dominant Logic" and "Customer Value Co-creation" frameworks t

I would love to add basic research and theory building about the foundations of tourism. The knowledge gap between theory and practice, so to speak.

Hello Maksim. This is a challenging task because there is no definitive method to establish the exact count of researchers working in the field of tourism and hospitality research. To ensure accuracy, you must specify your inclusion criteria. For instance, do you want to include only researchers specializing in this field, or do you also want to consider those with cross-disciplinary expertise? Also, do you want to incorporate gastronomy and foodservice-based researchers in your selection criteria?

Regarding journals, limiting your search to Scopus, WoS, and ERA index journals would be best. It's crucial to focus on quality over quantity since many non-indexed tourism and hospitality journals are available worldwide. I hope this information is helpful.

Dear Noorul Amin ,

Do read the previous replies, these should be disturbing enough to make your conclusion. In addition, looking at the letter received by Abdelmajid Bybi I see a strange thing, they mention “ICAR-2023 accepted papers will be published in one of the following journals (please tell us your priority of journal):” As indicated in my reply of January 31st, 2022 this not the way it works. ‘Normally’ a journal announces a collaboration with a conference, see for example: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/JBFA%20Capital%20Markets%20Conference%202023-1669741712930.pdf

I would say avoid this one.

Best regards.

PS. There are more issues with the list of Scopus indexed journals, for example the journal title “Computer Languages, Systems and Structures” this title no longer exists https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/computer-languages-systems-and-structures or the journal “Psychotherapy and Politics International” is no longer published by Wiley https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15569195 and the new owner of this highly specialized journal will unlikely accept unrelated papers , see for example https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/psychotherapy-politics-international/article/view/77/51

Thank you Dr. Jane Bitok , you may check below links

The same methods used in social science research, both qualitative and quantitative, depending on the objective of the research.

What exactly you want to find out in tented or camp Tourism. you may work on trying to find out the perception of people about Tented or camp tourism, satisfaction of tourist with regards to specific tented destination. or can do the complete case study of specific tented destination

Very interesting issue for study, Evgenia Amey ! Congratulations!

Interesting question!

Pavlos i need complete dataset of tourist including tourist personal information and their revies about their complete tour?@ Pavlos_Kefalas

Dear Adrien Jouis

I would be interested to help you and I have published researches on tourism with modern technology (mobile app, social media)

Good Question .... please see:

I think push factors are based on a need which is getting well after all, but this need usually affects by other factors such as budget, language, and being familiar with the medical system. In the other side pull factors work as appealing elements that are attractive to the person who wants to go to a destination for this purpose. The important pull factor among them is the destination. At first, destination might be attractive with good hospitality and its beauties but politics, specially, makes an important role in this magnetism. Democratic countries are more encouraging. The other features are medical facilities, physician's experience and skill, and finally the price that the person has to pay. In fact I am totally agree with Munei's opinion " When tourists select a destination they also aim for an alignment between they intrinsic motivations and the pull factors."

Thanks Rachel. Very interesting and aligned with my recent research interests in Power Laws and Pareto principles to explain social phenomena under the corolary of complexity and complexity science. I think this reflects too the predictability search and matematizaton of the scientific thought at a time we saw in American in the pre and post WWI and WWII believing there was a mathematical equation for a therory of everything. Gracias Raquel Huete

Considering the wide geographical and biological diversity, the scope of Eco-tourism in Sikkim is very high. If the resources are tapped successfully we can transform the face of Eco-tourism industry in Sikkim. What actually needed is careful planning and a target oriented approach. Eco-tourism in Sikkim has flourished because of the immense bio-diversity that exists no where else in the world. It must, however, be realized that there is immense potential still to be tapped in terms of making optimum use of the valuable natural resources. Well- managed Eco-tourism can be hugely beneficial for biodiversity. There are some factors that have promoted Eco-tourism in Sikkim to a great extent. However, Sikkim’s full potential is yet to be realized and in the future years the country can expect to reap some great rewards. Looking at the tremendous potential the Eco-tourism industry offers in the field of its employment generation and foreign exchange earnings capacity, it is the time that government pays urgent attention to the needs of the Eco-tourism industry. It is believed that by 2020, tourism industry would be a single biggest industry in the world. In this way, the Eco-tourism in Sikkim requires to be developed by amending laws for attaining the objectives of sustainability.

I'd say you should state the purpose of the survey and rephrase some questions.

Yes, you can ask, but a faculty member from 27 years ago may be retired or dead not.  Be aware that many researchers from this era may be hard to find, or may no longer have their records.

Thank you all for your responses, they are helpful

Hi Michael, 

I even wrote the paper in this area, but I'm very interested in this topic. If something you write a paper, please inform me.

Sincerely,

Dear Rose.

I use the following principle. I type the keyword in Google and put the journal and pdf. So get similar papers.

 

"Challenges to Implementing Community Based Ecotourism (CBET) as a Bottom up Development Approach in the Sinharaja Rain Forest (Sri Lanka)" this is my PhD thesis . I will send it's link to download. as i think it will be use full for ur work  

tourist statistical abstract of country 

In the United States, the rule of thumb for Heritage Tourism, is that for every $1 spent in a local economy, that dollar will change hands from eight to 15 times.  To be on the safe side, I usually round it to $10 for every dollar spent by a tourist.  The talk I give to local leaders is if a visitor spends $5 on a sandwich and cup of coffee, that $5 has a $50 impact in the local economy. That does not sound like much but when one multiplies it by 1,000 visitors, that's a $50,000 impact and by 100,000 visitors, a $5 million impact.  Further, tourism may not create many jobs (depending on the site) but will help preserve existing jobs which is just as important to the local tax base.  This is just a ballpark estimate.  The Virginia Tourism Corporation helps estimate tourism reveneus for the state: http://www.vatc.org/research/.  (We're very big on heritage/history tourism. Our estimate is American Civil War tourism is a 2 billion dollar industry.)   Hope this helps.

Dear colleague, here are some references for you:

1. Lin, L., & Mao, P. C. (2015). Food for memories and culture - A content analysis study

of food specialties and souvenirs. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management,

22, 19-29.

2. Augusto Voltes-Dorta, Hector Rodríguez-Deniz, Pere Suau-Sanchez. Passenger recovery after an airport closure at tourist destinations: A case study of Palma de Mallorca airport. Tourism Management 59 (2017) 449-466

3. Ali, F., Rezaei, S., Hussain, K., Ragavan, N.A., 2014. International business travellers’ experience with luxury hotel restaurants: the impact of foodservice experience and customer satisfaction on dining frequency and expenditure.Int. J. Hosp. Event Manag. 1 (2), 164–186.

4. Norman Peng, Annie Chenb, Kuang-Peng Hung. The effects of teppanyaki restaurant stimuli on diners’ emotions and loyalty. International Journal of Hospitality Management 60 (2017) 1–12.

Best wishes!

The following links can be useful:

Dear Jan,

I would like to recommend you the article:4 Real-World Examples of How a Visitor Management System Helped Our Customers

Posted by Dan Ryan on Jun 24, 2016, http://insights.identicard.com/blog/4-real-world-examples-of-how-a-visitor-management-system-helped-our-customers and some links:http://insights.identicard.com/blog/4-real-world-examples-of-how-a-visitor-management-system-helped-our-customers, http://www.parksandbenefits.net/images/stories/downloads/Visitormanagement/visitor_management_strategy_final.pdf

Best regards

Barbara

Dear Abinash,

In this instance explore natural and anthropogenic resources. The methodology for assessing the potential of the destination through cultural and historical tourism resources selected it is assessed on the following criteria:

• capacity (potential power) development, consistent with the factors and conditions for the development of resources;

• stage of impact / influence - unique experiences to assess the level of attractiveness and appeal;

• temp of change (as a result of tourism) - evaluation of usefulness / value / importance of the tourist attraction;

Necessary criteria to take into account the position (viewpoint) of concrete character/form, specificity tourist destination and opportunities for practical application of the research results. These criteria should make a reply to expected trends and dynamics in the behavior of tourists, namely:

1. The trend in consumer demand last in time;

2. Increasing demand from tourists to quality, authenticity, attractiveness and variety / range of tourist services;

3. Increasing demands of tourists to the quality of technical infrastructure, tourist site and the material base of tourism, offering specific services, example: architecturally-minded visitors and needs of tourists;

4. Directing preferences of tourists in the country to destinations and places that offer security, safety and secondly to specialized forms of tourism - cultural, eco- and rural, adventure, etc .;

5. Increase the proportion of children and young people, especially students in cultural and educational tourism, travel to explore other countries, communities and people;

6. Increasing role of information and communication systems in hotels and tourism businesses in relation to demand, planning and implementation of tourism trips;

7. Increasing the share of the adult population in tourism or participation of people from the "third age" in tourist trips.

Best Regards,

Snezhinka

I have carried out some work on coastal tourism. May be the attached file could help you.

Dear Chaima, touristic attraction is successful when tourists' demand are satisfied with high quality services and each country positively promotes itself with its culture and heritage.

Ciao Marcello, 

in passato (molto passato) avevo lavorato sulle vie enogastronomiche ma è da un p o' che non ci lavoro più e quindi non conosco la bibliografia in modo adeguato specialmente sulla birra. se trovo qualcosa pero' ti informo. a presto.

Filippo 

please refer to my papers. all the best

Any work of Tanaś would be helpful.I cannot think of other than a questionnaire research tool to measure the issue.

Dear Dr. Potdar,

There are lot many articles on the subject. You may find the following articles useful: 

Burger, C. J. S. C., Dohnal, M., Kathrada, M., & Law, R. (2001). A practitioners guide to time-series methods for tourism demand forecasting—a case study of Durban, South Africa. Tourism management, 22(4), 403-409.

Papatheodorou, A., & Song, H. (2005). International tourism forecasts: time-series analysis of world and regional data. Tourism Economics, 11(1), 11-23.

Cho, V. (2003). A comparison of three different approaches to tourist arrival forecasting. Tourism Management, 24(3), 323-330.

Aslanargun, A., Mammadov, M., Yazici, B., & Yolacan, S. (2007). Comparison of ARIMA, neural networks and hybrid models in time series: tourist arrival forecasting. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 77(1), 29-53.

Song, H., Li, G., Witt, S. F., & Athanasopoulos, G. (2011). Forecasting tourist arrivals using time-varying parameter structural time series models. International Journal of Forecasting, 27(3), 855-869.

Jackman, M., & Greenidge, K. (2010). Modelling and forecasting tourist flows to Barbados using structural time series models. Tourism and Hospitality Research, 10(1), 1-13.

Thank you sir, I am following it and trying to explore it through the Indian context. 

A more direct link to such publication can be the site of the Portuguese journal "Tourism & Management Studies" ( http://tmstudies.net/index.php/ectms ), as well as the sites of the TMS INternational Conferences - Algarve 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014. You simply have to write them in Google and the confences site will apear. As I remember on this conferences there were several papers on this topic an I myself reviewed a paper on literature torusim in Lisbon (tourism related to novels in which the action take place in Lisbon.

Dear Anna, please take a look at my paper: "Assessment of the Lodging Industry Profitability Performance: Invest in Independent or Chain Ownership?" downloadable from RG.

Best wishes!

If the UHI stands for Urban Heat Island, here are some useful articles:

may help u

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Dear Leila, if I understand your question correctly, the hospitality offered by a luxurious restaurant has no difference compared to the high class accommodation hospitality. The scales could be: excellent-very good-good-average-poor. In order to measure the level of hospitality in a specific restaurant, questionnaires should be addressed to the guests after their meal.

All the best!

Tourism is one of the most important components of the global economy. Religiously motivated tourism is probably as old as religion itself and is consequently the oldest type of tourism. Tourism brings together people from different backgrounds, cultures and traditions and promotes peace. But at the same time, due to globalization, many communities have lost their cultural identity and gave way to a Densification of their village or town. Environmental impacts of tourism development revealed that there are harsh problems in terms of overcrowding, air/noise/water pollution, water shortage crisis, and litter and waste management which caused by development of religious tourism

http://www.academia.edu/7239622/Gamification_in_Tourism as well as previous and more recent papers by Dimitrios :-)

We've just listened to the presentation of yet another Buhalis' paper on the relevant topic in Bilbao, at the http://www.enter2016.org/ congress.

Let's keep in touch, Daniela, for anything I might be of help.

Hi Yirik,

You can find some great recent specialized reports here:

- book on Generation Y:

http://lib.dtc.ac.th/ebook/Tourism/tourism%20and%20generation%20y%20[1845936019].pdf 

- Millenials:

also check out Ernst & Young, Deloitte and Pwc.

Hope this will help,

Thank you very much for such a helpful suggestions, I shall try to use them in my research

Not a perfect match to your query but worthwhile looking at the following articles on a Christian Festival in Australia by Tkaczynski et al :

In terms of rural entrepreneurship there are a number of small studies available in the literature for example from Denmark Freire-Gibb et al:

Laverack, G. and Thangphet, S. (2009) Building community capacity for locally managed ecotourism in Northern Thailand. Community Development Journal. 44 (2): 172-185.

Mounir,

Thanks for your answer. So, how about the elasticity? Should I interpret it as well?

How it could be interpreted?

Dear Trace, carrying capacity is probably top on everyone's list. Mine too. But I think its time to look at the concept of stereotyping, In general, when a tourism project becomes successful, there is a tendency to duplicate it elsewhere down to the minute details. This creates "stereotyped" images or representation that would eventually impact carrying capacity studies. Of course, such studies are merely continuation of studies relating to ecosystem services. Hence, best practices tourism research need to look at image/icon/representation formation. Cheers.

Dear Mere,

In addition to the pertinent comments of our friend Napoleon, I would like to add that the way we approach transportation in a tourist destination dictates most of its futures characteristics. With that in mind I think we should ask not what's the role of transportation in Fiji but what is the role we would like it to have. Therefore the question could as well be what kind of tourism do "we" want for Fiji?

Some means of transportation have the power to change the landscape and environment of a destination besides providing access to locations. Roads can have a devastating influence in certain spots. They may flood a certain location with an amount of visitors larger than its "load capacity".

In the case of Fiji air and sea transportation are, in my opinion, the main means of getting around. Its impacts should be analyzed before deciding what format to follow. Their role on Fiji is other than just development, it could be also a way of maintaining the environment and sustaining the local cultural image, providing the visitor not only transportation from point A to B, but a cultural experience when getting around.

Fiji is a such unique, beautiful and fragile place on our earth that transportation can be decisive in the shape of its tourism and its landscape in the years to come. I believe opting for smaller, greener (with less environmental impact) and more personal (attached to cultural values of the island, even if it means longer trips) means of transportation, rather than the mass, larger, polluting and impersonal ones, is the way for Fiji.

Hope I made any sense.

I'll be around if you want to discuss it any further.

All the best, Álvaro Bahls.

Thanks for this case study, Rebeca.

Both approaches can be used. Approaches are different. But I suggest you to use travel cost method but again this depends on the objective of the study and literature can guide you better

Olá Aguinaldo,

Talvez o texto abaixo te ajude em algo. Sds,

ZHANG, Jie; MADSEN, B.; JENSEN-BUTLER, C. Regional economic impact of tourism: the case of Denmark.  Regional Studies, Cambridge, v. 41, n. 6, p.839-854, Aug. 2007.

Dear Kumbiravi

these are informative publications  on educational tourism :

good luck with your research .

ali

Here you can find some good examples about Spain. Some links are about  Almadén Mining Park, the oldest mines in the world in operation up until our time and one of Spanish sites on the World Heritage List, under the name Heritage of Mercury: Almadén and Idrija.

Aon,

Important will be the definition of "exploit", from a tourism perspective. Your questionnaire would need to include categories of exploitation, ie use of wood for firewood, impact on forest due to transport or traveling  (transport physical damage, hiker impact), forest impact as result of pollution, construction or building impact, biodiversity influences, etc. correlating these with tourist and non-tourist activities. 

FC

I agree with Paul:

1. Use time-series data preferably over a sufficiently long period of time (prior to the terrorism threat/incidences). Preferably built around the tourism cycle most relevant to your research problem (i.e. 1 year)

2.Note the volatility (e.g.in arrival) due to seasonality effects, and "discount"/adjust  it for the time-series data. This should provide the baseline series for comparison with the time-series after the terrorism threat.

3.Consider  time-series over the same duration as in point 1 that is after the terrorism threat). Note the seasonality volatility. And assuming that your targeted tourism cycle is 1 year it would also be good to consider that particular year when the terrorism occur and how it affected the arrival/other variables

4. Compare and contrast the seasonality effects from the time-series discussed in point 2. with that of point 3.

5.You should be able to isolate/control for the "terrorism effect"

6. This is still a very rough and dirty approach, to fine-tune it perhaps consider Granger causality and co-integration tests.  This is partly to control for "percolating factors".   Do a Google search with the following query search string: "granger causality and cointegration tourism terrorism filetype:pdf" 

7. Other considerations: example when post-terrorism policies design to mitigate the threat that actually augmented the arrivals, and other similar positive/negative feedback loops in the system. You may need to consider a systems approach to this.

Dear All,

thank you for your precious advices. I hope to use your indications for a next article.

Alessandro

Dear colleagues, 

thank you all for answers and suggestions. I followed them and also reviewed some different sources. First, a short conclusion would be that at this moment there is no such a data collected at one place or source (including world reports and by country). So there is no global facts about alternative, niche or special interest tourism, only accounts and approximations. Second, instead of previous, I found many papers and resources with own statistics gathered by regions or by tourism themes (eg eco-turism, adventure forms, backpacking, wine, geo-tourism...). 

In time to time I will share those facts here, so it can be reachable to everyone interested. 

Best regards. 

Perhaps the Social Validation method would work.  It involves two phases. In the first you talk to people (tourists?) and obtain their ideas with open-ended survey questions. Then you find commonalities, probably concerning both good and bad experiences, and then you put those onto a new SV measure, with Likert response options, and administer it to new groups. Thus you have quantitative and reliable data but are focused on concepts and concerns that are meaningful to the actual "consumers." This method has been used for year with, for example, parents who are asked to judge the efficacy of behavior therapy with their children, or teachers judging students. I have used it several times with creativity as well.

I can send references if you like. My own are on my web site (www . markrunco . com).

I did not develop the method, however, but those who did are of course cited in my papers.

I find this article to be interesting, perhaps relevant?

"Most influential" depends on how you define influence and whom the influence will affect. However, a rough guide to answer your question can be to check the most cited articles of tourism journals. For example the currently most cited articles in Tourism Management are:

Role of social media in online travel information search by Zheng Xiang | Ulrike Gretzel

Tried and tested: The impact of online hotel reviews on consumer consideration by Ivar E. Vermeulen | Daphne Seegers

A review of innovation research in tourism by Anne Mette Hjalager

As a former government person I agree that SEM findings need to be "translated" into readable documents for businesses. There is also a need for engagement with tourism businesses to ensure research has an end, a meaningful end, rather than just being research for research sake! It needs to be driven towards a usable outcome.

I've not come across much theory applied to domestic tourism (an under researched field in general). Agree that stakeholder and participation theory are useful; albeit incomplete. I think sociological perspectives are interesting also; looking at resident attitudes for instance. Yet again is frustrating how little theory there is. A massive literature gap for a brain bigger than mine I suspect!

I completely agree with Krishnan that to get more guests and more facilities, apply the principle of affordability.

It is not possible to say the one is better than the other. You may find that there are a variety of ways to get the information you want depending upon the questions the research is attempting to answer. Quantitative research, if conducted well, can provide results that allow comparisons with population characteristics usually in a numerical way, such as the proportion of patients who are medical tourists in a given area or for a given disease. Qualitative research does not usually allow this but provides a depth of insight that quantitative research cannot provide. For example, why patents are medical tourists. Your research would probably benefit from both See the book by John Creswell, 'Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research' or many of his other books on research design. I hope this helps.

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