Community-Based Tourism as a Sustainable Direction in Destination Development: An Empirical Examination of Visitor Behaviors

Han, Heesup; Eom, Taeyeon; Al-Ansi, Amr; Ryu, Hyungseo Bobby; Kim, Wansoo

doi:10.3390/su11102864

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“…Sustainable tourism is one of the most important topics in the global industry of tourism, sustainability being often seen as the reason for the competition developed between different tourist destinations [13]. Although tourists are showing more and more interest in sustainable and innovative proposals, the activities in the tourism industry are becoming less and less sustainable, many companies being in a situation where they do not have a clear innovative strategy, much less a strategy for sustainable growth and innovation.…”

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Exploring the Environmental Practices in Hospitality through Booking Websites and Online Tourist Reviews

2020

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The major impact of hotel industry on the environment has become a serious concern for both hoteliers and tourists, with many studies showing that tourists are having more and more expectations from hoteliers to implement environmental practices. Considering the fact that most hotel bookings are now made online through booking websites, it is important for these to show and manifest the same preoccupation with the environment, by promoting environmentally friendly initiatives. The aim of the present study is to emphasize the crossroads between sustainability and digitalization, and to increase the role of digital technologies in encouraging a sustainable development of all tourism sectors, including hospitality. The study provides information and identifies important elements to assess the environmental practices of booking websites. In order to identify the position that booking websites and platforms take towards the environmental practices, the filter section of four booking platforms is analyzed. The present study aims not only to analyze the current position of booking platforms towards the environment, but also to identify methods that improve the way they highlight their implemented environmental practices, based on tourist’ reviews. In order to identify the customers’ opinion regarding these types of practices, a total of 31,800 tourist reviews posted on Booking.com were analyzed. The results have indicated that the level of awareness related to the need of protecting the environment, in the case of both hoteliers and tourists, must increase aspects that also imply the need for booking websites to highlight and encourage environmental practices. The obtained results are useful for booking websites developers who can adapt and make the website’s interface friendlier regarding environmental practices. In addition, hotel managers and entrepreneurs can make use of these results in order to develop new types of business in the hospitality industry, and in the long run the results are useful for increasing the awareness among tourists of the need for environmental practices. Suggestions are made on how booking websites can involve themselves more in environmentally friendly initiatives and in potential future study subject discussions.

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Exploring the Environmental Practices in Hospitality through Booking Websites and Online Tourist Reviews

2020

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“…It was found that the social context represented by SB has a significant positive impact on RI. Han et al [2019] in their research on community-based tourism came to a similar conclusion. Although a broader context of the sense of belonging was analyzed, of which SB is one aspect, it was observed that higher levels of this category correspond with a greater willingness to make recommendations.…”

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Antecedents of loyalty intentions among young adult tourists: a survey

Wąsowicz-Zaborek

2019

International Journal of Management and Economics

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The purpose of this paper was to examine the antecedents of young adult tourists’ loyalty intentions. The study is concerned with the overall loyalty tendencies of individuals, comprising the two dimensions of revisit intentions (RVIs) and recommendation intentions (RIs), and thus does not explore their loyalty to a specific destination (as in most previous studies). The research uses an Internet questionnaire with a total sample of 305 university students recruited from two Polish universities. Statistical analysis with the partial least squares structural equation modeling method indicates that destination RI is mainly driven by social bonding, while RVI is influenced positively by risk and uncertainty avoidance and negatively by novelty and variety seeking. In addition, income is found to be a significant moderator in the relationship between risk and uncertainty perception and RIs, such that a transition from very low to very high incomes tends to reverse the focal relationship from positive to negative. In addition, the research demonstrates that there is no significant difference between male and female young tourist’s loyalty intention. Implications for tourism entrepreneurs and destinations are suggested in the concluding section of the article.

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“…The Maramures region's representative elements for agritourism are numerous traditions, numerous rural resources (see Figure 9), some known on international level, and moreover well-preserved gastronomic elements-these aspects being highlighted from the responses of interviewed owners of agritourism structures. Recently, the return to nature and natural products or to the rural environment is becoming more pronounced; therefore the tourist focuses on the most natural food and wants an active involvement in the life of the community, as was highlighted by numerous studies [25,39,40]. The owners of agritourism structures from the regions under study (see Table 9 and Figure 10a,b) are aware of this aspect, as was proven by the survey.…”

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Sustainability of Agritourism Activity. Initiatives and Challenges in Romanian Mountain Rural Regions

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Sustainability has become a priority in the last decades. If we consider rural regions, agritourism, an activity strongly related to local communities, represents an opportunity to ensure the sustainability of rural settlements and of the environment, and at the same time an innovative and diversifying possibility for the economic support of rural settlements. Many studies have shown that the sustainability trend of the current period can be achieved by combining rural and local resources and traditional products specific to the rural regions with tourist activities, the challenge being the revitalization of rural economy. A large number of Romanian mountain rural regions can provide opportunities for sustaining agritourism activity; some of them may succeed to capitalize on the niche characteristic of agritourism, and through appropriate and effective strategies to move from the pioneering stage to an economically and socially valuable chance for improving the living conditions from rural area and finally to ensure sustainable development of rural communities. This paper begins from the importance of agritourism for rural regions. It aims at identifying the current situation of the agritourism activity in three regions and at developing proposals that are based strictly on the specific needs of the regions. In our opinion, the implementation of these specific actions would represent future challenges and at the same time ways of supporting the sustainable development of agritourism activities and of local settlements.

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Community-Based Tourism as a Sustainable Direction in Destination Development: An Empirical Examination of Visitor Behaviors

Cited by 39 publications

References 45 publications

Exploring the Environmental Practices in Hospitality through Booking Websites and Online Tourist Reviews

Exploring the Environmental Practices in Hospitality through Booking Websites and Online Tourist Reviews

Antecedents of loyalty intentions among young adult tourists: a survey

Sustainability of Agritourism Activity. Initiatives and Challenges in Romanian Mountain Rural Regions

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