Local Community Participation in the Conservation of the Naga Fireball Festival

Maneenetr, Thirachaya; Tran, Thanh Ha

doi:10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n23p372

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“…Accordingly, special events comprised of various short-term activities, which play a role as a pull factor to attract tourists’ visit. In addition to that, it was found that both festivals and events are the key determinants or motivators for tourists in making choice of visit to one particular tourism destination (McKercher et al., 2006; Maneenetr and Tran, 2014). A study by Kamarul and Dahnil (2012) has revealed that events and festivals are the crucial elements that attract both local and international tourists to visit Malaysia, and this also applies to other tourism destinations (Wilson et al., 2016).…”

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“…Past studies have propounded that tourists tend to make their choice of tourism destination by relying on the range of tourism activities available at a destination (Koutra, 2005; Maneenetr and Tran, 2014). Thus, the support from local community, such as by providing better services and range of tourism activities, those are important in ensuring high quality in every tourism services (Tosun et al., 2007) that facilitate the desired level of relaxation for tourists.…”

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Tourists’ perspectives on hard and soft services toward rural tourism destination competitiveness: Community support as a moderator

Chin

Law

2017

Tourism and Hospitality Research

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Rural tourism is an integrated part in the services field, and this industry has long been recognized as a valuable tool for economic development in rural destinations. However, the multiplying growth of rural tourism destinations has led to a stiff competition among the industry. Thus, the identification of tourists’ perspective on the hard and soft services components toward the development of rural tourism is a key element in surviving into the rapid tourism competition. The pivotal role of community support as an integral part of tourism product in ensuring sustainable development of rural tourism destination would also being the key indicator for the development of rural tourism. Hence, this study highlighted the importance of tourists’ perspective on hard services (tourism infrastructure and accommodation) and soft services (range of activities and special events) toward the competitiveness of rural tourism destination’s development with community support who act as a moderator. A total of 314 respondents comprising tourists who visited Kampung Semadang, Kampung Telaga Air, and Kubah National Park ( Kampung Matang), Kuching, Sarawak has voluntarily participated in this study. To assess the developed model, SmartPLS 2.0 (M3) is applied based on path modeling and bootstrapping. Interestingly, the findings revealed that tourists are more concerned about the quality of accommodation, infrastructure, range of activities, and special events for the development of tourism destination competitiveness in rural tourism destination. In addition, tourists also believed that the existence of community support is crucial in moderating the relationship between accommodation quality and tourism destination competitiveness. This study further discussed on the implications of the findings, limitations, and directions for future research.

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Section: Literature Review and Theoretical Foundationmentioning

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Section: Literature Review and Theoretical Foundationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourists’ perspectives on hard and soft services toward rural tourism destination competitiveness: Community support as a moderator

Chin

Law

2017

Tourism and Hospitality Research

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“…The qualitative approach is, on the contrary, very rarely used, and involves individual interviews, focus group interviews and participant observation (Gupta, Prakash, 2014;Maneenetr, Tran, 2014).…”

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The local community perception of tourism development. The case study of Gryfino County – Western Pomerania, Poland

Głąbiński

Duda

2017

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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Abstract. An increasing number of people from various countries have seen tourism as a chance to develop local economy and quality of life. The article presents the results of the analysis of tourism potential of Gryfino County in Western Pomerania in Poland and confronts them with how it is perceived by the residents. Although the county abounds in great tourist attractions, both of natural and cultural nature and is favourably located in geographic terms, tourism is developing very slowly. In order to examine the reasons for the current situation, an attempt to survey the opinion of the local community on this subject was made by applying the method of Focus Group Interviews. The results emphasise the significance of local community for tourism development in a region.

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Tourists’ Perspective on Ecotourism Destination Competitiveness: The Role of Tangible Components

Ching¹,

Lo²,

Suaidi³

et al. 2019

IJARBSS

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Local Community Participation in the Conservation of the Naga Fireball Festival

Abstract: This study aims to investigate problems with local community participation in the Naga

Cited by 3 publications

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Tourists’ perspectives on hard and soft services toward rural tourism destination competitiveness: Community support as a moderator

Tourists’ perspectives on hard and soft services toward rural tourism destination competitiveness: Community support as a moderator

The local community perception of tourism development. The case study of Gryfino County – Western Pomerania, Poland

Tourists’ Perspective on Ecotourism Destination Competitiveness: The Role of Tangible Components

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