scholarly journals Residents’ Perception of Changing Local Conditions in the Context of Tourism Development: The Case of Phuket Island

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 8699
Author(s):  
Pisit Tuntipisitkul ◽  
Takuji W. Tsusaka ◽  
Sohee Minsun Kim ◽  
Rajendra P. Shrestha ◽  
Nophea Sasaki
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Sociodemographic Factors ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Seemingly Unrelated Regression ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Unrelated Regression

Lack of understanding of the ways local subpopulations perceive various changes associated with rapid growth of the tourism industry may lead to unsustainable development. This study assessed the levels and determinants of residents’ perception regarding the changes in environmental, sociocultural, and economic conditions associated with tourism development in Phuket, Thailand. A structured questionnaire survey was conducted with 450 residents covering all three districts of Phuket Province to capture overall indicators and detailed sub-indicators of perception, whilst factors affecting the perceived changes were examined through ordered logistic regression and seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) analyses. The descriptive statistics showed that residents perceived unfavorable changes in various conditions in the island such as increased levels of pollution, road accidents, traffic congestion, and costs of living, while at the same time acknowledging the importance of long-term economic contribution of tourism development. Moreover, regression analyses revealed that various sociodemographic factors such as gender, education, residency duration, and occupation influenced residents’ perception of the changing local conditions. At the sub-indicator level, detailed insights were obtained such as female residents being more likely to positively perceive some of the changes such as increased availability of public space. Implications and suggestions for policy design and planning are discussed in detail.

Freedom and control: a state of balance in public space

Facilities ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (11/12) ◽  
pp. 606-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tianjiao Zhao ◽  
Kin Wai Michael Siu
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
And Control

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to determine how to achieve a balance between freedom and control in public space. It analyses the relationship between freedom and control to identify phenomena and offer users and policymakers instructions for achieving that balance. Public space, including privately owned public space, is important to urban living. People have both the right to use public space and the responsibility to protect it. Both freedom and control should exist in public space in an appropriate combination. It is impossible and inappropriate for us to ask for absolute freedom or endure unreasonable control. Design/methodology/approach – A case study of Hong Kong’s Mass Transit Railway (MTR) reveals typical freedom/control relationships. Quantitative descriptions are given based on field observations. Findings – Freedom and control are primary factors affecting the quality of urban life and management of city space. They depend on and conflict with each other. The balance between freedom and control is a balance between diverse spaces. The “freedom space” belonging to both citizens and authorities determines whether freedom and control are balanced. Ethics and strategies constitute control. Only when each authority and user obtains a proper freedom space can freedom and control achieve balance in public space. Research limitations/implications – Freedom and control differ across cities because they are both affected by culture, history and tradition. As each city has its own characteristics, the freedom and control in each open space are distinctive. Balancing freedom and control requires an understanding of a city’s background and the era. While this paper does not attempt to achieve this understanding, further studies could devote more attention to dimensions of time and location. Practical implications – The findings provide recommendations for users, policymakers and construction and management companies that will allow the management of harmonious and high-quality open spaces. Social implications – Freedom and control are two main factors affecting quality of life. The balance between freedom and control may bring a harmony and stable society environment. It would benefit both the authority and the people a lot. Originality/value – This study provides a systematic analysis of freedom and control in public space and makes a valuable contribution to quality urban space policy, design and management.

scholarly journals WOMEN PARTICIPATION IN TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: AN X-RAY OF THE PLACE OF WOMEN IN AN EMERGING INDUSTRY

2021 ◽  
pp. 55-73
Author(s):  
Olumuyiwa Akande ◽  
Temitope Abiodun ◽  
Kemi Opeyemi
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Transportation Industry ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Business Skills ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
Women Participation

The tourism experience was perceived traditionally, in terms of products, destinations and consumption patterns. Women have contributed greatly to tourism development, promoting transport development and encouraging hotel progress, which help in reducing or eliminating poverty. This study sheds light on the extent of women participation in tourism development. The specific objective of the study is to examine the factors affecting women participation in tourism development and how tourism industry benefits women. This study collected qualitative and quantitative data from respondents; primary and secondary sources. Data were collected using two methods: oral interview and administration of structured questionnaires, which were randomly administered at the various study sites. The data were analyzed by using descriptive statistic, simple percentages, bar-chart, pie-chart and chi-square respectively. Results obtained revealed that 90.8% of the factors affecting women participation in tourism development include: lack of financial capital, poverty, illiteracy, traditional perception, religious factor, child bearing and career development issues. The findings also indicated that 88% of the respondents are of the opinion that policies such as tourism education, trainings, internet marketing, and formation of business network for self-support and municipality support can be employed to improve women participation in tourism development. The study therefore recommended that there should be training programmes, workshops and seminars financed by Oyo State Government to improve the business skills of women in tourism, hotel and transportation industry, among others.

scholarly journals Socioeconomic and Environmental Impacts on Regional Tourism across Chinese Cities: A Spatiotemporal Heterogeneous Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 410
Author(s):  
Xu Zhang ◽  
Chao Song ◽  
Chengwu Wang ◽  
Yili Yang ◽  
Zhoupeng Ren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Population Density ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Temporal Variations ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Environmental Drivers ◽  
Night Time ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Varying Coefficients ◽  
Economic Level

Understanding geospatial impacts of multi-sourced drivers on the tourism industry is of great significance for formulating tourism development policies tailored to regional-specific needs. To date, no research in China has explored the combined impacts of socioeconomic and environmental drivers on city-level tourism from a spatiotemporal heterogeneous perspective. We collected the total tourism revenue indicator and 30 potential influencing factors from 343 cities across China during 2008–2017. Three mainstream regressions and an emerging local spatiotemporal regression named the Bayesian spatiotemporally varying coefficients (Bayesian STVC) model were constructed to investigate the global-scale stationary and local-scale spatiotemporal nonstationary relationships between city-level tourism and various vital drivers. The Bayesian STVC model achieved the best model performance. Globally, eight socioeconomic and environmental factors, average wage (coefficient: 0.47, 95% credible intervals: 0.43–0.51), employed population (−0.14, −0.17–−0.11), GDP per capita (0.47, 0.42–0.52), population density (0.21, 0.16–0.27), night-time light index (−0.01, −0.08–0.05), slope (0.10, 0.06–0.14), vegetation index (0.66, 0.63–0.70), and road network density (0.34, 0.29–0.38), were identified to have nonlinear effects on tourism. Temporally, the main drivers might have gradually changed from the local macro-economic level, population density, and natural environment conditions to the individual economic level over the last decade. Spatially, city-specific dynamic maps of tourism development and geographically clustered influencing maps for eight drivers were produced. In 2017, China formed four significant city-level tourism industry clusters (hot spots, 90% confidence), the locations of which coincide with China’s top four urban agglomerations. Our local spatiotemporal analysis framework for geographical tourism data is expected to provide insights into adjusting regional measures to local conditions and temporal variations in broader social and natural sciences.

RURAL TOURISM AS A FACTOR OF IMPROVING THE TOURISM INDUSTRY COMPETITIVENESS OF ORENBURG REGION

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 125-133
Author(s):  
Татьяна Шубина ◽  
Tatyana Shubina
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Regional Economy ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Economic Indicators ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Orenburg Region ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Tourism Potential

The article is devoted to the rural tourism development in Orenburg region. The author discloses the concept of "rural tourism", determines its importance for global and regional economy. The article specifies the factors affecting the rural tourism development, as well as analyzes climatic and geographical and historical potential of the region necessary for of this type of tourism industry. The article describes the European experience of the tourism industry development, in particular in Germany. The author gives statistical information of Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture of Germany for the past 9 years, considers the stimulating tools of rural tourism, which can be offered to the approbation in the domestic tourist space. Assessing the competitiveness of the tourism industry in Orenburg region takes special place in the article. The author demonstrates resource potential and uniqueness of the region in the country’s tourist space and highlights the urgent problems related to the development of this type of tourism. There is an imbalance between the potential and actual economic indicators of rural tourism due to the relative "youth" of the tourism industry and the weak development of Ural tourist area. The author proves the feasibility of financing and promoting rural tourism in Orenburg region. The article highlights the relevance of measures for the conservation and use of the region´s tourism potential as a factor that favorably impacts on employment in rural areas and enhances economic indicators of the tourism industry in the region. The article confirms the weighty significance of the tourism industry in the regional economy development.

scholarly journals The Magnitudes of Economic and Non-Economic Factors on the Demand for U.S. Domestic Air Travel

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ju Dong Park ◽  
Won W. Koo
Keyword(s):  
Air Travel ◽  
Seemingly Unrelated Regression ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Correlated Error ◽  
Unrelated Regression ◽  
Demand Models ◽  
Error Terms ◽  
Passenger Behavior ◽  
Relationship Of

The primary purpose of this study is to analyze air carriers’ behavior in capturing market share by examining the economic factors affecting passenger behavior toward air travel. This study also examines non-economic factors such as seasonality, unexpected events (9/11 attack), mergers, and trends. Because the airlines included in this study compete with each other, seemingly unrelated regression estimation (SURE) is used to estimate the parameters of the demand models which have correlated error terms. The economic and statistical relationship of the factors with air passenger miles provides valuable information to understand the nature of the demand for the U.S. air passenger industry. In examining demand determinants, this study concludes that air fare, income, seasonality, and mergers play significant roles in determining the demand for air passengers.

scholarly journals The linkage between tourism development and quality of life: A Copula-based Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR) model

2021 ◽  
Vol 1978 (1) ◽  
pp. 012066
Author(s):  
Yuting Xue ◽  
Jianxu Liu ◽  
Pairach Piboonrungroj ◽  
Benjenop Buranasiri ◽  
Songsak Sriboonchitta
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Seemingly Unrelated Regression ◽  
Unrelated Regression

scholarly journals Factors Affecting Health Tourism Development in Khouzestan Province in 2019

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Effat Jahanbani ◽  
Maryam Derikvand ◽  
Zhila Najafpour ◽  
Amin Torabipour ◽  
Vahid Razmi
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Development ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Health Tourism ◽  
Economic Criterion ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Study Population ◽  
Legal Criterion ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
Start Ups

Background: To succeed in the health tourism industry, a developing market that is able to annually generate over $60 billion in income, the factors playing an important role in this industry need to be strengthened and developed. Objectives: Thus, the present study was aimed at identifying the factors affecting health tourism development in Khouzestan Province in 2019. Methods: This was a mixed methods study conducted in 2019 in two stages. The first stage aimed to identify and categorize the factors affecting health tourism development by reviewing the articles in the health tourism field during 2000 - 2019. The second stage aimed at prioritizing the identified factors through the hierarchical analysis method. The study population included academic and executive experts in the field of health tourism in Khouzestan Province who were chosen using the purposive nonprobability sampling method. Data were analyzed using Expert Choice software and SPSS version 22. Results: The first stage led to identifying six main criteria, including socio-cultural, facilities and infrastructure, policymaking and planning, effective marketing, political-legal, and economic, and 38 sub-criteria. Prioritizing the factors in the second stage also indicated that the facility and infrastructure criterion with 0.268 and the political-legal criterion with a score of 0.07 had the highest and lowest relative importance, respectively. Also, the economic criterion with 0.231, policymaking and planning with 0.176, effective marketing with 0.144, and socio-cultural criterion with a score of 0.105 were ranked second to fifth, respectively. Conclusions: In sum, improving medical and non-medical facilities and infrastructure in Khouzestan Province is of high priority. Therefore, it is emphasized to empower medical staff along with using the capacity of start-ups related to tourism development in this province.

scholarly journals Analysis of water resource management in tourism in China using a coupling degree model

Water Policy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huaxian Liu ◽  
Yanling Jiang ◽  
He Zhu ◽  
Yuansheng Chen ◽  
Wenfei Lv ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Full Account ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Water Policies ◽  
Use Efficiency

Abstract With the rapid development of the tourism industry, the water resource consumption in tourism has largely increased and gets more complicated, making water resource management in tourism more difficult. To achieve sustainable water utilization in tourism, water resource management has to take full account of the local natural, social, and industrial conditions, both satisfying the demands of water resource protection and tourism development. To analyze this coupling relationship, an integrated index system comprised of 15 indices is designed, and a coupling degree model between tourism-related water resource management and local conditions is introduced. The result revealed that tourism-related water resource management is generally congruent with the local conditions in China, and provinces at the very high/low coupling stage presented four clusters. A discussion combining the change of water policies and the water use efficiency of hotel in Beijing revealed that water-saving policies are proved to be necessary for the tourism development. Furthermore, a discussion of the four clusters revealed the advanced experience and deficiency of water policies in substantial tourism areas. The results could provide references for the improvement of water policies in the tourism industry in China.

Community Development and Role of Tourism: A Case Study of Tourist Destination Manali in Himachal Pradesh (India)

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Himachal Pradesh ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
The Government ◽  
Agriculture Products

Tourism sector has a significant role in the economic development of our country. Tourism sector has contributed 6.88 percent to the GDP and has 12.36 percent share in employment (direct and indirect) in the year 2014. It has also a significant share in foreign exchange earnings. The benefit of tourism mostly goes to the local community (Sonya & Jacqueline, Mansour E. Zaei & Mahin E. Zaei, 2013). In this paper, an attempt has been made to assess how the tourism industry has created an opportunity for the economic, political, social and cultural development of the local community at Manali in Himachal Pradesh (India) and also tried to study the problems that are associated with the tourism in the region. The study found that the tourism industry has been extending its contribution for the development of local community at Manali. It has been providing employment, business and investment opportunities, revenue generation for the government, encouraging the community to promote and preserve its art, culture and heritage, raising the demand of agriculture products, provided opportunities for local people to run and work in the transport business and by promoting MSMEs in the region. Besides the opportunities, the tourism industry has also added many problems to the local community. Traffic congestion, increase in water and air pollution, solid waste generation, degradation of the cultural heritage, ecological imbalances, rise in cost of living, increase in crime, noise and environment pollution, migration of people to the region, negative impact on local culture, and extra pressure on civic services during the tourists season, are the problems associated with the tourism. The study suggest that effective management of natural resources, dissemination of environment protection information, involvement of local community in decision making, professionalization in the working of local administration, extending the support of government in sponsoring the events, infrastructure development, tracking records of migrants with the help of local community to curb the crime rate, promotion and preservation of art, culture and heritage, involvement of NGOs, compliance of the rules can make tourism more beneficial in the development of local community.

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