Facilitating sustainable tourism by endogenization: China as exemplar

Weaver, David; Tang, Chuanzhong; Zhao, Yanzhi

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2020.102890

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“…As argued in [93], the cultural image often mediates environmental and economic perceptions at the destination level. Tourism policymakers outline that Serbian tourist destinations should focus on cultural values as an input of harmony, originality, and embrace of opposites, as argued by [94]. However, appropriate attention must be placed on the fact that cultural sensitiveness of tourist destinations calls for consistent monitoring.…”

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confidence: 99%

More or Less Sustainable? Assessment from a Policy Perspective

2020

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Sustainability of tourism destinations has become the main focus in planning and managing tourism development. Despite existing legislation and an institutional framework to safeguard balanced tourism growth, many destinations fail to properly address it. So far, studies are limited in exploring sustainable tourism impacts from a policy perspective. This study follows previous ones in using the triple bottom line sustainability approach to define tourism impacts. It argues, in particular, for a nexus between understanding of policy perception and sustainability, and it applies this to tourist destinations in Serbia to determine whether they are operating sustainably. For this purpose, the data were collected using a combination of multiple methods, involving interviews with policymakers and content analysis of strategic documents. This study further suggests a model that assesses the extent of the sustainability of tourist destinations. The results illustrate the importance of understanding policy perceptions in shaping and facilitating sustainability and informing policy enablers on how to improve and reform current tourism development. The model can be adopted and applied to any tourist destination facing an inevitable need to re-shape their tourism development plans and policies, while the implications address the need to build a participative policy approach to sustainable tourism development.

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More or Less Sustainable? Assessment from a Policy Perspective

2020

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“…Unlike previous research focusing on the transformation of Western travelers from developed countries (Europe and US) to the developing world, this study focused on the experiences of travelers from a developing country. Exploring transformations experienced by travelers from developing countries might provide better insights into transformative changes as the degree of perceived gap and cultural distances would be more significant (Johnston, 2001;Weaver et al, 2020). Moreover, such an approach requires a more homogenous but distinct sample.…”

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Exploring transformative travel experiences: The case of Turkish travelers

Pala

Çetin

2022

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Transformative tourism experiences result in long-term changes in attitudes and behavior. Although research on transformative tourism has flourished in recent years, there is still a limited number of studies that investigate the travelers' experiences to examine the impact of travel on one's attitudes and behaviors. This exploratory study seeks to identify factors affecting transformative travel experiences to emerge. A typology of travel transformations is also offered based on a qualitative case study conducted on Turkish travelers. As a result of thematic content analysis of in-depth interviews with 30 travelers, the main themes affecting travel transformations emerged as tripograhic, personal and destination-based determinants, whereas the types of transformations were classified under behavioral, attitudinal, and personality changes. If tourist transformations could be understood better, this might result in better promotion of travel as a leisure activity not just at the individual level but at the policy level. Destinations, tour operators, and other hospitality organizations would position their product in a potentially more transformative way if they know the causes and outcomes of travel-related transformations.

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“…They concluded that urban livability is positively affected by the sustainable tourism industry. Weaver et al ( 2020 ) studied the ways to facilitate sustainable tourism in China. They revealed that the endogenization of ecotourism culture is a golden policy for China to promote environment-friendly tourism.…”

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An economic analysis of sustainable tourism development in China

Chen¹,

Zhang

Chen

2023

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The threat of climate change and the advancement of sustainable development goals to control this threat have been among the countries priorities. The tourism sector can be essential in promoting sustainable development goals by implementing sustainable processes. The primary purpose of this research is to focus on 23 provinces of China to analyze the sustainable tourism modeling according to the annual data for 2010–2021. The findings confirm that for all Chinese provinces, the increase in the general level of prices has a significant and long-term adverse effect on the sustainable development of the tourism industry in the provinces of China. In contrast, the effect of this variable is not significant in the short term. Moreover, the impact of foreign direct investment on the sustainable development of the tourism industry in the short term and the long term is positive in high-income provinces and negative in low-income provinces. The recommended practical policies promote a green financing market and green FDI development.

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Facilitating sustainable tourism by endogenization: China as exemplar

Cited by 25 publications

References 76 publications

More or Less Sustainable? Assessment from a Policy Perspective

More or Less Sustainable? Assessment from a Policy Perspective

Exploring transformative travel experiences: The case of Turkish travelers

An economic analysis of sustainable tourism development in China

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