Challenges Facing the Tourism Sector in Palestine: A Chinese Perspective

Ghodieh, Ahmed; Abahre, Jafar Subhi Hardan; Huang, Huang

doi:10.15640/jthm.v7n1a2

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“…Unfortunately, more research on ST needs to be conducted in Palestine. In general, most academic papers focus mainly on conflict challenges and impacts on tourism in Palestine (Ghodieh et al, 2019;Isaac and Abu Edi, 2019), alternative tourism and practices of different forms of tourism in Palestine, such as dark tourism (Isaac, 2010a), tourism trends and transforming through different periods (Al-Rimmawi and Butcher, 2015;Isaac, 2010b). Therefore, this paper will study the tourism stakeholders' opinions about developing ST in Palestine to fill the existing gap in the literature.…”

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Stakeholders' perspective on smart tourism development: a case study of the West Bank, Palestine

Isaac

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2023

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PurposeThis study aims to investigate the tourism stakeholders' opinions about developing smart tourism (ST) in the West Bank, Palestine. This research fulfils intriguing gaps in the literature on stakeholders' perceptions and views on developing ST in the West Bank, Palestine.Design/methodology/approachThe research study employed a qualitative methodology using semi-structured interviews with nineteen respondents. All data collected were in April and May 2022.FindingsThe findings show that the understanding of ST-related stakeholders in the West Bank is mainly linked to information communication and technology, digitalisation, and online use of technology within the tourism industry. Moreover, the results show the high potential of developing the ST industry in the West Bank. However, this study revealed that challenges could affect the West Bank's development at different levels, such as managerial, technological, awareness, public sector restrictions, infrastructural, financial and political challenges.Research limitations/implicationsThis research has some shortcomings. The first restriction of this study was the political restrictions and the checkpoints, which limited the reach of some of the participants who reside in Jerusalem or other cities outside of the West Bank, which delayed the time of the interviews or converted it to be done through a digital platform. Secondly, the sample of this study was small in tourism stakeholders in the West Bank.Originality/valueTo the author's knowledge, this paper is the first on ST from the stakeholders' perspectives. Therefore, this study has set the first step in closing the existing gap in the literature.

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