Responsible tourism towards sustainable development: literature review and research agenda

Mondal, Sanjana; Samaddar, Kaushik

doi:10.1080/13602381.2021.1857963

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“…Destination tourism organisations and other service providers would benefit from the study in refurbishing their strategy with a socio-economic perspective. For policymakers and destination marketing organisations, the present paper provides an array of opportunity to undertake suitable policy guidelines for making every stakeholders socially and environmentally responsible (Mondal and Samaddar, 2020b) . Our study aims to make tea tourism both resilient and sustainable, which will not only grow and expand on its own but also creates an environment for future generation to survive and prosper.…”

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Exploring the current issues, challenges and opportunities in tea tourism: a morphological analysis

Mondal

Samaddar

2021

IJCTHR

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Purpose In quest of exploring the issues, challenges and opportunities prevailing in the tea tourism industry, this study aims to present a comprehensive morphological analysis (MA). More specifically, it identifies critical dimensions that bear significance for the sustainable growth of tea tourism. Design/methodology/approach The present study adopted a triangulation method of research involving an ethnographic study (ES) followed by a series of focus group sessions carried out from the prominent tea-producing districts in India. This study accords equal importance to both the demand and supply perspectives of tea tourism and its stakeholders. Findings Critical dimensions such as improper planning and marketing efforts, limited collaboration among stakeholders, the involvement of local people, socio-economic inequality and consumer’s attitude towards tea tourism were identified as major issues and challenges. Research limitations/implications The present research limits its scope to the geographical boundary within India keeping cross-boundary research for future study. This study will aid future researchers and scholars in expanding the domain of tea tourism. Practical implications The present study bears significance to the policymakers, governing bodies, marketers, tour operators in embracing a socio-economic perspective while undertaking a suitable strategy towards marketing of tea tourism and ensuring its sustainable development. Originality/value This study makes a novel attempt in blending the ES, focus group sessions and MA, together in a single research initiative, making it a single point reference in tea tourism literature.

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Exploring the current issues, challenges and opportunities in tea tourism: a morphological analysis

Mondal

Samaddar

2021

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“…The existing body of knowledge commonly describes RT as all practices and approaches that highlight the importance of ethical and respectful behavior by tourism stakeholders, which can contribute to sustainability (Moscardo & Murphy, 2014;Tay, Chan, Vogt, & Mohamed, 2016). For example, in the Responsible Tourism Handbook of 2003, RT addresses the "triple bottom line," representing economic, social, and environmental responsibility (Mondal & Samaddar, 2021). It can be relating to all forms of tourism, which are designed to promote business opportunities while taking into consideration the residents, environment, and natural resources of a given area (Spenceley et al, 2002).…”

Section: Responsible Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This has pushed scholars to reconceptualize RT (Burrai et al, 2019) and reduce the ambiguity of the term so that stakeholders can more easily implement RT in the industry. For example, a systematic review of RT by Mondal and Samaddar (2021) identifies six key areas of RT research (e.g., environmentally responsible behavior, pro-environmental behavior, environmental knowledge and training, and corporate social responsibility). Despite this contribution, their study focuses only the literature on the Scopus database published from 2002, arguing that this covers the period since RT was first proclaimed.…”

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“…Other papers arguing for and against RT prior to 2002 include Cooper and Ozdil (1992), Sirakaya and Sonmez (2000), Szczepanski (1992), and Wheeller (1991). Therefore, the study by Mondal and Samaddar (2021) is unlikely to resolve the confusion over the meaning of RT since the term was first coined and investigated in tourism studies. Furthermore, to the best of our knowledge, no existing study has explored how the media (e.g., radio and television, news articles, magazines, the Internet) have portrayed and reported on RT.…”

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The Industry-Academia Gap in Responsible Tourism Management: An Automated Content Analysis

2021

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Studies are increasingly pointing to responsible tourism (RT) as an alternative approach to overcome the negative effects of mass tourism while supporting the economic, social, and environmental considerations of the destination stakeholders. However, there is ambiguity and confusion among academics and practitioners over the actual meaning and implementation of RT and its terminology. Furthermore, although news reports are the primary reference for the general public, past studies have not yet explored how RT is represented in the mass media. This study conducts a comparative analysis of the development of the concept of RT and travel using data from scholarly journal articles and news reports from 1993 to the present. A comparative automated content analysis (ACA) was used to generate, compare, and contrast the themes and concepts in academic journals and news reports to provide a deeper understanding of RT. The findings reveal that both academic articles and news reports focus on the approaches and practices of actors and stakeholders on both the supply and demand sides, but present some differences due to their respective intended audiences. This study identifies areas for future research and news reporting.

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“…The coronavirus crisis has increased the importance of social responsibility in this sector [23,24,25,26,27,28], national and regional tourism [29,30,31] and the need to rehabilitate buildings, monuments and forgotten places [32,33,34,35]. Michopoulou, Al-Qasmi & Melpignano [36] also propose to develop sustainable tourism from the co-creation of value in remote, unique and less exploited destinations.…”

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COVID-19 as a Trigger for Sustainable Tourism and Eco-Influencers on Twitter

Caldevilla-Domínguez¹,

Barrientos–Báez²,

Castillo³

2021

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The social confinement resulting from the COVID-19 crisis temporarily reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Although experts consider that the decrease in pollution rates was not drastic, some surveys detect a growth in social concern about the climate. In this environment, institutions, city councils and companies have promoted sustainable tourism as a necessary option, even before world society regains freedom of movement. This work analyzes and geolocates the sustainable tourism and ecotourism proposals on Twitter, quantitatively and qualitatively, using the Twitonomy Premium tool, with data extracted at the end of December 2020. The results show an arduous activity in Ireland, Kenya, Sri Lanka, India, Croatia, Spain, Finland, France, Mexico and Pakistan, among others. The accounts that achieve the most impact and engagement are both from public institutions and influencers specialized in travel, writers and chefs, who act as eco-influencers. Ecotourism is promoted as the necessary option for the conservation of cities and landscapes, which will be visited by tourists supposedly more aware after the virus.

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Responsible tourism towards sustainable development: literature review and research agenda

Cited by 46 publications

References 218 publications

Exploring the current issues, challenges and opportunities in tea tourism: a morphological analysis

Exploring the current issues, challenges and opportunities in tea tourism: a morphological analysis

The Industry-Academia Gap in Responsible Tourism Management: An Automated Content Analysis

COVID-19 as a Trigger for Sustainable Tourism and Eco-Influencers on Twitter

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