scholarly journals Grounding Sustainable Tourism in Science—A Geographic Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7455
Author(s):  
Fabien Bourlon ◽  
Trace Gale ◽  
Andrés Adiego ◽  
Valentina Álvarez-Barra ◽  
Alexandra Salazar
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Scientific Heritage ◽  
Tourism Product ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Chilean Patagonia ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Resource Identification

This paper presents empirical research that supports territorial approaches to tourism product development that ground tourism in science, as a mechanism to support sustainable tourism heritage conservation goals. Scientific Tourism (ST), in this context, builds on the scientific heritage of a geography, matching researchers with local actors and tourists, through a five-stage iterative process that leads to new scientific knowledge, advancing theory and building relevance for communities through socio-cultural and economic development. This article focuses on the initial stage of the ST product development process, documenting empirical research conducted within the geographies surrounding the Palena River watershed in the Aysén Region of Chilean Patagonia. Both geo-structured literature review methods and results are presented and discussed to illustrate how the outcomes, including a series of maps, can inform and ground actors’ processes of heritage resource identification, justification, conservation, and exhibition, through the development of pilot ST initiatives within the territory. Similar research approaches may prove valuable for other low-density and peripheral geographies that share an interest in grounding tourism on the science taking place within their geography.

Product development process in Spanish SMEs: an empirical research

Technovation ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 301-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isidre March-Chordà ◽  
A. Gunasekaran ◽  
Begoña Lloria-Aramburo
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Product Development Process

scholarly journals Customer Involvement in Sustainable Tourism Planning at Lake Balaton, Hungary—Analysis of the Consumer Preferences of the Active Cycling Tourists

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 5174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katalin Lőrincz ◽  
Zsuzsanna Banász ◽  
János Csapó
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Consumer Preferences ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Ordinal Scale ◽  
Lake Balaton ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Customer Involvement ◽  
Tourism Product

This study uses an innovative tourism product development approach, based on co-creation or customer involvement, related to Lake Balaton, a mass tourism-based destination in Hungary, from the point of view of the market segment of active cycling tourists. The investigation of opportunities for the development of cycling tourism first of all relies on the new approach of attraction and product development around the destination, in which it is important to take into consideration the consumer preferences of the most important related group of tourists—active cycling tourists. The sustainable approach of tourism product development also provides an opportunity to decrease the spatial and temporal concentration of tourism, which is largely concentrated on the summertime season. The aim of this study is to explore aspects of the customers’ demand for tourism development in terms of cycling tourism with the help of primary data collection, in order to provide adequate directions for sustainable tourism development in the destination. Revealing the demand side of active cycling tourism related to Lake Balaton, the authors used both qualitative (focus group discussions and structured interviews) and quantitative questionnaire survey (computer-assisted data collection) research methods. The latter online surveys were carried out in November and December, 2019, and resulted with an appraisable sample of 809 questionnaires. As for the method, descriptive statistics and relationship analyses were applied. More than five thousand (5050) possible relationships were examined between the closed answers of the questionnaire by Kendall’s rank correlation coefficient (τ) and Cramer’s V, depending on whether they could be measured on a nominal or ordinal scale. The results show that the content analysis of the primary research provides well determined directions for the sustainable tourism development of cycling tourism at Lake Balaton, so customer involvement seems to be a win-win situation both for the customers (tourists) and the decision makers.

Experience Design Applied to Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea CAPRA ◽  
Ana BERGER ◽  
Daniela SZABLUK ◽  
Manuela OLIVEIRA
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Experience Design ◽  
Low Resolution ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Innovative Products ◽  
Technological Products

An accurate understanding of users' needs is essential for the development of innovative products. This article presents an exploratory method of user centered research in the context of the design process of technological products, conceived from the demands of a large information technology company. The method is oriented - but not restricted - to the initial stages of the product development process, and uses low-resolution prototypes and simulations of interactions, allowing users to imagine themselves in a future context through fictitious environments and scenarios in the ambit of ideation. The method is effective in identifying the requirements of the experience related to the product’s usage and allows rapid iteration on existing assumptions and greater exploration of design concepts that emerge throughout the investigation.

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