Pub Date : 2010-11-01DOI: 10.1080/1479053X.2010.520468
R. Howard
Urban tourism districts are a fundamental element of urban tourism, but there is no generally agreed-on classification system. This paper presents a new taxonomy of urban tourism precincts, with four major types and many sub-types. The paper also reports a study of a large and particularly interesting district, Sukhumvit in Bangkok, to illustrate one major new type (complex mixed non-CBD) and to illustrate the need to extend earlier classification systems. Sukhumvit was mapped and observed and 278 tourists who had stayed in Sukhumvit were asked about their motives for visiting Thailand and their travel behaviour. Sukhumvit has many bar areas and tourist-orientated businesses and even has a component Arab precinct. It has several tourist user groups and many foreign residents. Tourists generally stayed a few days, were satisfied with their stay, and planned to return. The taxonomy interrelates several different literatures, brings some clarity to the diversity of precincts, and suggests other types of urban tourism precinct to study.
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Pub Date : 2010-11-01DOI: 10.1080/1479053X.2010.520465
Russell Currie, Franz Wesley
This paper addresses a gap in the pre-start-up literature for tourism developments with a feasibility analysis model. Borrowing from decision-making and planning theories, the model integrates discrete feasibility factors while incorporating the dynamic processes of satisfying organizational objectives including and beyond the immediate financial and marketing objectives. The proposed feasibility analysis model offers a process for making go/no-go decisions on a new tourism development while at the same time leveraging information so new or previously undefined organizational objectives can be met. The result is a generative mechanism model that provides a rationale for both content and process.
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Pub Date : 2010-11-01DOI: 10.1080/1479053X.2010.523176
Clare L. E. Foster, S. McCabe, H. Dewhurst
Skills development, training and continuing professional education are perceived as critical factors leading to competitiveness of destinations and improvements to quality of tourist experiences. However, they are a perennial issue facing the hospitality and tourism sectors, which are perceived as low-skilled, and where management development is driven by internal promotion. However, most research in this area has focused on skills generally, whereas this study focuses on gaps in, and the need for, management skills specifically. Management skills and training development needs in the sector are analysed in a regional context to highlight barriers and drivers of training uptake locally. The research informs policy on provision of training and concludes for the need to increase communication and routes to training within the sector.
{"title":"Management Development Skills in the Hospitality and Tourism Sector: Needs and Issues from a Regional Perspective","authors":"Clare L. E. Foster, S. McCabe, H. Dewhurst","doi":"10.1080/1479053X.2010.523176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1479053X.2010.523176","url":null,"abstract":"Skills development, training and continuing professional education are perceived as critical factors leading to competitiveness of destinations and improvements to quality of tourist experiences. However, they are a perennial issue facing the hospitality and tourism sectors, which are perceived as low-skilled, and where management development is driven by internal promotion. However, most research in this area has focused on skills generally, whereas this study focuses on gaps in, and the need for, management skills specifically. Management skills and training development needs in the sector are analysed in a regional context to highlight barriers and drivers of training uptake locally. The research informs policy on provision of training and concludes for the need to increase communication and routes to training within the sector.","PeriodicalId":130558,"journal":{"name":"Tourism and Hospitality Planning & Development","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115321262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-11-01DOI: 10.1080/1479053x.2010.520467
Sharaf Al-kheder gained his PhD in Civil Engineering from Purdue University, USA in 2006 and is currently an assistant professor at the Hashemite University, Jordan. Dr. Alkheder’s research interests are represented in using modern digital spatial technologies such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning System (GPS) and remote sensing in studying and analysing different landscape planning and management issues using different engineering approaches. Dr Al-kheder has a large number of publications including numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and more than ten conference papers. Dr. Al-kheder is the recipient of the ESRI Award for Best Scientific Paper in GIS in the USA, 2009. Email: salkhede@hu.edu.jo
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Pub Date : 2010-11-01DOI: 10.1080/1479053X.2010.520466
Nicole Koenig‐Lewis, E. Bischoff
Seasonality is a key aspect for the performance of the majority of tourism enterprises and a central theme for policy makers. The usual practice of strategy formulation in this area, whilst often involving a sound analysis of objective performance data, largely ignores the perceptions which the businesses concerned have of the seasonality issue. This paper demonstrates that the heterogeneity of attitudes and perceptions in the sector need to be recognised when developing effective strategies for tackling seasonality. An empirical quantitative approach is applied using occupancy data of the serviced accommodation sector in addition to a survey of owner/managers. The findings indicate that an insufficiently detailed level of segmentation of the business sector concerned may lead to ill-focused broad-brush strategies and consequent misallocations of resources. The paper contends that policy makers in this area need information beyond what can be obtained from the usual performance measurement systems.
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Pub Date : 2010-11-01DOI: 10.1080/1479053X.2010.523177
A. Holden
Utilising an interpretive research paradigm with stakeholders in the Annapurna Conservation Area (ACA), this paper presents the findings of their perceptions and evaluations of sustainable tourism development. This understanding is important for assessing the future use of tourism for sustainable development in the area. Established in 1986, ACA has gained plaudits and awards for its successes in conservation and the enacting of a ‘bottom-up’ philosophy of planning and development. Based upon the collection and analysis of rich and informed data, it was found that although stakeholders shared positive perceptions of the economic benefits of tourism, its continued use for sustainable development is uncertain. Key challenges include 1) a lack of confidence in the economic certainty of tourism and its use for out-migration, 2) a maturing tourism market, and 3) challenges to the local control of natural resources vis-à-vis external hegemonic forces. These factors are testing a philosophy of sustainable development constructed upon conservation, community participation and social equity.
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Pub Date : 2010-11-01DOI: 10.1080/1479053X.2010.520464
S. AlKheder, N. Haddad, Mahmood Abo Jaber, Yahya Alshawabkeh, Leen A. Fakhoury
Jordan Valley represents a distinctive variety of natural and cultural resources. It is considered a major destination for seasonal tourism in Jordan. However, the valley suffers from a serious shortage in urban infrastructure necessary for sustainable tourism development. A field survey is carried out to identify the type and range of such problems in relation to the existing infrastructure system. The survey also examines both the role of local community in tourism development and potential revenues. This study analyses the major aspects of such shortages and their effects on tourism sustainability. The paper attempts to present and discuss 1) the effect of inadequate urban infrastructure (roads, waste disposal, and water supply) on the valley tourism potential and local standards of living that represent a challenge for sustainable cultural tourism and eco-tourism; 2) the role of local communities' involvement in tourism development (e.g. safeguarding heritage sites) and in poverty alleviation mechanisms; 3) the role of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) spatial mapping in identifying/analysing the major infrastructure problems and threats in the region, in addition to identifying main heritage assets and related tourism opportunities.
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Pub Date : 2010-08-01DOI: 10.1080/1479053X.2010.502384
Á. Moreno
This paper reports on a pilot study of tourists' views on the roles of climate and climate change. Data was collected in 2007 at one Belgian and one Dutch airport among tourists waiting for their flight to a Mediterranean destination (n = 115). Respondents were asked for their preferences on the role of climate in destination choice, the factors that constitute favorable and unfavorable conditions, the relative importance of a range of potential climate change impacts, and the expected implications of climate change for their destination choice. Results confirm the importance of climate as a destination attribute. For beach tourism, the absence of rain is found to be more important than a “comfortable temperature”, while “high temperatures” are considered unfavorable by only a few respondents. This is consistent with the findings that “heat waves” are considered as “not too negative”, and that heat waves are considered the least important climate change impact. “Ideal weather” for beach tourism is associated with temperatures of approximately 28°C, “light breeze”, and a blue sky. If these conditions were to be found in northern European countries as a result of climate change, it would have only a moderate effect on destination choice, with the large majority (72.4%) of respondents stating they would still travel to the Mediterranean for their beach holidays.
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Pub Date : 2010-08-01DOI: 10.1080/1479053x.2010.502422
P. Burns
Peter M. Burns, is Professor of Tourism and International Development and founding Director of Centre for Tourism Policy Studies (CENTOPS) at the University of Brighton, UK. His research interests, framed by critical analysis of tourism, include the roles and responsibilities throughout the tourism value chain in climate change. He is Policy Adviser to the World Travel and Tourism Council, a member of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) International Panel of Experts on Trends in Global Tourism, and a panellist on the National Geographic Stewardship for World Heritage Destinations. Email: p.m.burns@brighton.ac.uk
Peter M. Burns，英国布莱顿大学旅游与国际发展教授，旅游政策研究中心(CENTOPS)创始主任。通过对旅游业的批判性分析，他的研究兴趣包括整个旅游业价值链在气候变化中的作用和责任。他是世界旅行和旅游理事会的政策顾问，联合国世界旅游组织(UNWTO)全球旅游趋势国际专家小组成员，以及国家地理世界遗产目的地管理小组成员。电子邮件:p.m.burns@brighton.ac.uk
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Pub Date : 2010-08-01DOI: 10.1080/1479053X.2010.502383
J. Dawson, D. Scott
One of the greatest challenges to the sustainability of the winter tourism sector is climate change. Studies examining the implications of climate change for the ski tourism industry have mainly focused on vulnerability of the supply side (i.e. ski area infrastructure and operators) with limited attention given to the demand side (i.e. how tourists will respond to changing climate and ski conditions). A more holistic understanding of how the winter tourism marketplace may evolve under a changed climate is required for managers and communities to develop and plan specific adaptation strategies. Using a systems approach this study examines climate change vulnerability of both the supply and demand sides of the US Northeast ski tourism sector (i.e. a marketplace of some 103 ski areas across the states of New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut). Multiple methods were employed including a climate change analogue (demand and supply side), future climate change and operations modeling (supply side), and a skier survey (demand side). Findings reveal a complexity of interacting and opposing impacts including the projected contraction northward of viable ski areas. In response to projected ski area closures in the region, demand for skiing opportunities is not likely to decrease proportionally. Ski areas that are able to remain operational under changed conditions should plan for a possible market-shift (i.e. spatial substitution) and may expect crowding issues and residual development pressure in association with the concentration of ski areas in fewer climate-advantaged regions.
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