“…It is believed that promoting green development of tourism is an important topic by many current tourism researchers [32,33]. Many scholars have begun to pay attention to ecological compensation for the green development of tourism [34] and the construction of the green development model of tourism [35]. Tang et al [36] systematically reviewed the green development of the tourism industry in terms of its research process, methods, and contents.…”
Tourism at China's cultural heritage sites has developed rapidly in recent years. These sites have encountered many challenging problems such as poor tourist experience, over-commercialization, and loss of cultural authenticity. This study took the coordinative green development of tourist experience and commercialization of tourism (CGDTECT) at cultural heritage sites as the research objective, using two UNESCO World Heritage Sites-the Ancient City of Pingyao and West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou-and the Confucius Temple in the historic district of Nanjing as case studies. As such, we attempted to construct an indicator system for CGDTECT at cultural heritage sites. We adopted a fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method and importance-performance analysis (IPA) method to analyze the importance and performance of CGDTECT from a tourist's perspective. Our findings show that tourists thought the coordinative green development and experience at the three cultural heritage sites were more important; they were basically satisfied with CGDTECT at the three case studies, so a continuous promotion strategy could be taken. The findings of this study can provide scientific theoretical guidance and practical reference for CGDTECT at cultural heritage sites, and contribute to the scientific protection of cultural heritage sites and the sustainable development of tourism.
“…It is believed that promoting green development of tourism is an important topic by many current tourism researchers [32,33]. Many scholars have begun to pay attention to ecological compensation for the green development of tourism [34] and the construction of the green development model of tourism [35]. Tang et al [36] systematically reviewed the green development of the tourism industry in terms of its research process, methods, and contents.…”
Tourism at China's cultural heritage sites has developed rapidly in recent years. These sites have encountered many challenging problems such as poor tourist experience, over-commercialization, and loss of cultural authenticity. This study took the coordinative green development of tourist experience and commercialization of tourism (CGDTECT) at cultural heritage sites as the research objective, using two UNESCO World Heritage Sites-the Ancient City of Pingyao and West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou-and the Confucius Temple in the historic district of Nanjing as case studies. As such, we attempted to construct an indicator system for CGDTECT at cultural heritage sites. We adopted a fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method and importance-performance analysis (IPA) method to analyze the importance and performance of CGDTECT from a tourist's perspective. Our findings show that tourists thought the coordinative green development and experience at the three cultural heritage sites were more important; they were basically satisfied with CGDTECT at the three case studies, so a continuous promotion strategy could be taken. The findings of this study can provide scientific theoretical guidance and practical reference for CGDTECT at cultural heritage sites, and contribute to the scientific protection of cultural heritage sites and the sustainable development of tourism.
“…Common types of selective and special interest tourism are cultural tourism, educational tourism, health tourism, gastronomic tourism, nautical tourism, and sex tourism. Niche tourism represents an antipode to mass tourism and also includes the application of the concept of sustainable development (Law et al, ). Common types of selective tourism and niche tourism (Novelli, ) are gastronomic tourism, cultural tourism, nautical tourism, sport tourism, ecotourism, and adventure tourism.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Common types of selective and special interest tourism are cultural tourism, educational tourism, health tourism, gastronomic tourism, nautical tourism, and sex tourism. Niche tourism represents an antipode to mass tourism and also includes the application of the concept of sustainable development (Law et al, 2016).…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the science database, some papers with connection between environmental indicators and some selective tourism types such as health tourism (Kiss, 2015), sport tourism (Gibson, Kaplanidou, & Kang, 2012), ecotourism (Park & Yoon, 2011), adventure tourism (Parsa, 2015), cultural tourism (Law et al, 2016), and educational tourism could be found (Kumar, 2009). The problem is because they are not directly focused on the role of environmental indicators in particular selective tourism type.…”
The article seeks to explain the importance of environmental indicators of sustainable development in the transitional selective tourism destination, that is, in different types of selective tourism. The survey results reveal that there are statistically significant differences of environmental indicator importance among different types of selective tourism. This new research approach in the field of sustainable tourism development and its results can be a beneficial input for tourism policymakers in the process of identification and creation of an optimal set of measures and activities of protection and preservation of the quality of the environment in selective tourism destination.
“…Onward prospects of tourism will be very promising as stated by world tourism organizations (UNWTO) that the tourism sector by 2020 in Asia Pacific is estimated to reach 438 million tourists and USD 2 trillion revenues (Gurtner, 2016;Law, Lacy, Lipman, & Jiang, 2016). Tourism has been one of the largest and fastest factor to grow a good economical country especially one that develops mainly in Mediterranean.…”
Abstract-Tourists' perceptions of service quality, destination image, perceived value, and revisit intention are vital successful destination marketing. This study aims to investigate the impact the interactivity of service quality, destination image, and perceived value toward revisit intention to umbul ponggok, Klaten. The conceptual model was developed on the basis of existing theoretical and empirical research in the fields of marketing and tourism. Questionnaire given tourists visit to umbul ponggok and using sampling through the non probability approach using convenience sampling. A total of 183 questionnaires were returned and the data were analysed using structural equation model (SEM). The findings illustrate that service quality positive and significant impact on perceived value and revisit intention. Destination image was found to have a positive and significant impact on perceived value and revisit intention. Implications and future research issues were discussed.
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