Pub Date : 2021-06-07DOI: 10.3727/154427220x16092157169853
V. Harilal, T. Tichaawa, J. Saarinen
The growth of ecotourism has an impact on the livelihoods of people living within and adjacent to protected areas, where ecotourism activities often take place. In some cases, evolving ecotourism has compromised the ability of locals to sustain and diversify their livelihoods. The aim of this study was to examine the impact of ecotourism and conservation measures implemented in protected areas in Cameroon on local communities residing either within or in close proximity to them. The study employed a mixed method research approach based on two case study areas in Cameroon (the Mount Cameroon National Park and the Douala Edea Wildlife Reserve). Key findings of the study suggest that the geographic location of communities, coupled with instituted conservation and preservation measures and the level of ecotourism activity, has a direct bearing on the severity of resultant impacts experienced by locals. Overall, measures in protected areas have been found to increase the conservation and preservation thereof. However, the extent to which communities are impacted upon by these measures differs in each case study area owing to factors such as geographical proximity, livelihood strategies, and community involvement in ecotourism.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-07DOI: 10.3727/154427221x16098837280000
Adenike D. Adebayo, J. Butcher
It has been argued in the contemporary academic discourse on tourism planning that community participation in the planning process creates a mechanism to mitigate negative impacts and to satisfy at least some of the needs of the community. In this context, this article analyzes the underlying factors that constrain community participation and empowerment in decision-making in South West Nigeria. It also seeks to identify factors that can drive such processes in tourism development. The research adopts a qualitative approach to gather data from stakeholders in the Nigerian tourism sector. Findings from the research show that three factors constrained local community participation and empowerment. These factors are mainly intangible and relate to the political culture in Nigeria. They include community awareness and education, issues of trust, transparency, and accountability, hence making the community members feel a sense of alienation from the process. It is thus recommended that the Local Government Tourism Committees should be given the capacity to function in order to aid participation and empowerment at the local community level.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-18DOI: 10.3727/154427220x15990732245727
Guangzhou Chen, J. W. Peachey, M. Stodolska, P. Hooimeijer, Yanliu Lin
The purpose of this study was to analyze how the successful bid for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games (OWG) contributed to the shifts in governance structure and the resulting influence of the new governance structure on the resilience of winter tourism in Zhangjiakou, China. The literature on resilience and governance structure was used as the conceptual framework for this study. Data were collected by document analysis and semistructured interviews with ski resort managers, tourism planners, and government officials, as well as through focus group discussions with local residents. The results indicated that, since the bid, the central government has taken over the role of initiator in the governance structure of winter tourism destination in Zhangjiakou. The corresponding adaptation strategies were more effective in dealing with external forces in the short run. However, these adaptations mainly focused on increasing tourism revenues and preparation for the OWG. They did not necessarily enhance the long-term resilience, as social and ecological sustainability were hardly considered. This study has important implications for leveraging and managing major sport events. To maximize benefits of major sport events, governments and companies not only need to focus on the success of the events but also need to consider local residents' interests and the sustainability of winter tourism.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.3727/154427220X16094546258751
César Augusto Oliveros-Ocampo, Cinta Sanz-Ibáñez, R. M. Chávez-Dagostino, Anton Clavé Salvador
The goal of this research is to explore through evolutionary and relational economic geography how the human agency of local communities, organized armed groups, and the central government together shape the evolutionary trajectory of a national natural park as a tourist destination where armed conflict is present. The research was conducted in El Cocuy National Natural Park in Colombia and focuses on the period after the arrival of the High Mountain Battalion in 2003. Data collected from 11 key informants in semistructured interviews were analyzed with Atlas. ti and complemented with documentary analysis. The results show the dynamics of human agency in the National Natural Park and its effects at three levels: 1) local communities see their creative capacity and decision-making conditioned by power and control/pressures exerted by organized armed groups and the government; 2) the actions of organized armed groups control and limit ecotourism development; and 3) public regulations restrict these places' evolutionary pathways. Overall, actions derived from power relations exercised by the organized armed groups and the central government determined the evolutionary trajectory of the destination, reducing its adaptability to change, the empowerment of local communities, and its prospects.
{"title":"Human Agency and Tourism Development in Natural National Parks in the Context of the Colombian Armed Conflict","authors":"César Augusto Oliveros-Ocampo, Cinta Sanz-Ibáñez, R. M. Chávez-Dagostino, Anton Clavé Salvador","doi":"10.3727/154427220X16094546258751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3727/154427220X16094546258751","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of this research is to explore through evolutionary and relational economic geography how the human agency of local communities, organized armed groups, and the central government together shape the evolutionary trajectory of a national natural park as a tourist destination where armed conflict is present. The research was conducted in El Cocuy National Natural Park in Colombia and focuses on the period after the arrival of the High Mountain Battalion in 2003. Data collected from 11 key informants in semistructured interviews were analyzed with Atlas. ti and complemented with documentary analysis. The results show the dynamics of human agency in the National Natural Park and its effects at three levels: 1) local communities see their creative capacity and decision-making conditioned by power and control/pressures exerted by organized armed groups and the government; 2) the actions of organized armed groups control and limit ecotourism development; and 3) public regulations restrict these places' evolutionary pathways. Overall, actions derived from power relations exercised by the organized armed groups and the central government determined the evolutionary trajectory of the destination, reducing its adaptability to change, the empowerment of local communities, and its prospects.","PeriodicalId":46032,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Review International","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69745971","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 : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.3727/154427221X16098837279976
Mohammad A. A. Abuelkassem
Servicescape represents a main aspect of cruise tourism as space is confined and guests stay onboard for a long time. This study sets out to examine: first, the direct effects of cruise servicescape on cruise perceived value, guest delight and guest in-house expenditure; second, the mediation effects of both cruise perceived value and guest delight in the linkages between cruise servicescape and guest in-house expenditure; third, the moderation effects of national identity on the linkages between cruise servicescape and both perceived value and guest delight. A questionnaire survey was developed and administered among guests of cruise tourism. The study utilized PLS-SEM to examine the hypothesized model based on collected data from 218 cruise guests. The findings indicated a significant positive influence of cruise servicescape on perceived value, delight and expenditure. Guest delight significantly mediated the association between servicescape and guest expenditure while perceived value did not. National identity has positively moderated the linkage between servicescape and guest delight but not the association between servicescape and perceived value. The findings of this study add to the hospitality literature and its implications enable cruise managers to better use servicescape as a key stimulator for guest delight and expenditure.
{"title":"Contributions of the cruise tourism servicescape to perceived value, delight and expenditure: National identity as a moderator","authors":"Mohammad A. A. Abuelkassem","doi":"10.3727/154427221X16098837279976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3727/154427221X16098837279976","url":null,"abstract":"Servicescape represents a main aspect of cruise tourism as space is confined and guests stay onboard for a long time. This study sets out to examine: first, the direct effects of cruise servicescape on cruise perceived value, guest delight and guest in-house expenditure; second, the mediation effects of both cruise perceived value and guest delight in the linkages between cruise servicescape and guest in-house expenditure; third, the moderation effects of national identity on the linkages between cruise servicescape and both perceived value and guest delight. A questionnaire survey was developed and administered among guests of cruise tourism. The study utilized PLS-SEM to examine the hypothesized model based on collected data from 218 cruise guests. The findings indicated a significant positive influence of cruise servicescape on perceived value, delight and expenditure. Guest delight significantly mediated the association between servicescape and guest expenditure while perceived value did not. National identity has positively moderated the linkage between servicescape and guest delight but not the association between servicescape and perceived value. The findings of this study add to the hospitality literature and its implications enable cruise managers to better use servicescape as a key stimulator for guest delight and expenditure.","PeriodicalId":46032,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Review International","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69751325","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 : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.3727/154427221X16098837279967
Chanel Emily McCall, K. Mearns
Tourism has received considerable attention in recent years with regards to the impacts of tourism and its ability to contribute toward sustainability. This article focuses on the positive impact communitybased tourism can have on the empowerment of women. Four domains of empowerment have been identified in literature, and the objective of this research specifically reviews the social and economic empowerment domains, which community-based tourism has had on the lives of women involved in tourism. Primary data in the form of life histories were collected through semistructured interviews by the researchers, and data analyzed according to an empowerment framework. The results yielded a number of women considered to be empowered on both economic and social levels. However, despite the considered empowerment of women, aspects of disempowerment were noted. The study fundamentally reveals that Sustainable Development Goal 5, pertaining to women empowerment, can be achieved through the economic empowerment of women who in turn socially empower the communities in which they reside.
{"title":"Empowering Women Through Community-Based Tourism in the Western Cape, South Africa","authors":"Chanel Emily McCall, K. Mearns","doi":"10.3727/154427221X16098837279967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3727/154427221X16098837279967","url":null,"abstract":"Tourism has received considerable attention in recent years with regards to the impacts of tourism and its ability to contribute toward sustainability. This article focuses on the positive impact communitybased tourism can have on the empowerment of women. Four domains of empowerment have been identified in literature, and the objective of this research specifically reviews the social and economic empowerment domains, which community-based tourism has had on the lives of women involved in tourism. Primary data in the form of life histories were collected through semistructured interviews by the researchers, and data analyzed according to an empowerment framework. The results yielded a number of women considered to be empowered on both economic and social levels. However, despite the considered empowerment of women, aspects of disempowerment were noted. The study fundamentally reveals that Sustainable Development Goal 5, pertaining to women empowerment, can be achieved through the economic empowerment of women who in turn socially empower the communities in which they reside.","PeriodicalId":46032,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Review International","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69751702","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 : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.3727/154427220X16092157169862
A. Sène-Harper, L. Duffy, Birame Sarr
While community-based tourism (CBT) has delivered on economic opportunities in some cases, researchers have questioned the viability of its impacts, often citing inequitable distribution of benefits as a critical debilitating factor. CBT is often based on normative principles that assume all actors have equal aspirations, power, voice, and access to resources. Yet tourism activities are embedded in the same uneven social structures that envelope and define local livelihoods. In this qualitative case study of a fishing community outside of Djoudj National Bird Park in Senegal, we analyze the way a CBT project fits within women's and fishermen's livelihood strategies, focusing on the social and cultural norms structuring their participation in tourism. We apply the actor–structure livelihood framework to unveil the interactions between the norms embedded in the community-level social structure (i. e., social and cultural norms) and individuals' agency as they seek out meaningful livelihood opportunities in CBT. The results of our study show that social norms, implicit biases, and cultural identities associated with women and Black Moorish fishermen, normalize their nonparticipation in certain positions within the CBT project. Through this analysis, we highlight norms shaping other livelihood activities and how they spill into the CBT sphere. We situate our findings within the broader scholarly discussion on CBT as a tool that encourages the equitable distribution of benefits and empowerment of local communities. We also discuss livelihood perspectives, specifically actor–structure framework, as a viable approach to explore failures, challenges, and opportunities of tourism as a community development tool.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-27DOI: 10.3727/154427220X15990732245637
B. Kihima, G. Ariya
Kenya's coastal strip has not yet developed a tourism product beyond the three Ss (sun, sand, and sea). Consequently, Kenya's coastal tourism has been regarded as "tired" and less competitive product in today's marketplace. This is despite the coastal strip boasting of rich untapped heritage tourism potential. Thus, even though heritage tourism has gained attention in academia and generated a growing body of literature, its application as a value-addition strategy has hardly been investigated. This study explored how Kenya's coastal tourism destination, with a declining touristic appeal, can be incentivized using heritage to stimulate an enhanced tourism experience. The study conveniently sampled seven heritage sites at the Kenyan coast. Within the sites, a site manager/representative and a tour guide were purposely sampled. In total, 15 heritage site managers and 10 tour guides participated in the study through unstructured in-depth interviews. Systematic literature review as well as field observations were also done. The article argues that traditional coastal tourism products can be enhanced through heritagization to spur sustainability. The study concludes that for Kenya's coastal tourism to rebound, beach tourism cannot continue to be a stand-alone tourism product. Instead, heritage sites need to be integrated into the existing beach tourism offer to create a holistic presentation of Kenya's coastal destination with enriched customer experience.
{"title":"Incentivization of Coastal Tourism Product Through Heritagization As a Value-addition Strategy for Kenya's Coastal Destinations","authors":"B. Kihima, G. Ariya","doi":"10.3727/154427220X15990732245637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3727/154427220X15990732245637","url":null,"abstract":"Kenya's coastal strip has not yet developed a tourism product beyond the three Ss (sun, sand, and sea). Consequently, Kenya's coastal tourism has been regarded as \"tired\" and less competitive product in today's marketplace. This is despite the coastal strip boasting of rich untapped\u0000 heritage tourism potential. Thus, even though heritage tourism has gained attention in academia and generated a growing body of literature, its application as a value-addition strategy has hardly been investigated. This study explored how Kenya's coastal tourism destination, with a declining\u0000 touristic appeal, can be incentivized using heritage to stimulate an enhanced tourism experience. The study conveniently sampled seven heritage sites at the Kenyan coast. Within the sites, a site manager/representative and a tour guide were purposely sampled. In total, 15 heritage site managers\u0000 and 10 tour guides participated in the study through unstructured in-depth interviews. Systematic literature review as well as field observations were also done. The article argues that traditional coastal tourism products can be enhanced through heritagization to spur sustainability. The\u0000 study concludes that for Kenya's coastal tourism to rebound, beach tourism cannot continue to be a stand-alone tourism product. Instead, heritage sites need to be integrated into the existing beach tourism offer to create a holistic presentation of Kenya's coastal destination with enriched\u0000 customer experience.","PeriodicalId":46032,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Review International","volume":"24 1","pages":"201-213"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2020-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46107178","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 : 2020-10-27DOI: 10.3727/154427220x15990732245691
Soo K. Kang, Pavlina McGrady
The cannabis tourism market has seen tremendous growth in recent years. However, research activities by academic scholars and industry professionals have barely scratched the surface to explore this emerging tourism segment. This study addresses the gap by comparing resident perceptions on cannabis tourism in two states, Colorado and Oregon. A quantitative survey was distributed to Colorado (n = 254) and Oregon (n = 165) residents. Results of the study revealed that the respondents in each state appear to have different views on perceived impact from, benefit of, and support level for cannabis tourism. Overall, Colorado residents' attachment was higher than Oregon respondents. Additionally, Colorado residents showed that if they had a higher place identity, they were less likely to perceive negative impacts. In a similar context, the study results also confirmed that there was a stronger causal relationship between respondents' perceived impact and support for cannabis tourism among Colorado respondents than Oregon respondents, indicating that Colorado residents' support for cannabis tourism was more significantly influenced by their perceived positive and negative impact levels than Oregon respondent. Considering the continued evolvement in the legal and economic landscapes of cannabis tourism, policy makers and industry professionals should engage in continual conversations on how to plan and manage this new tourism segment for community and state development.
{"title":"Support for Cannabis Tourism: A Tale of Two States","authors":"Soo K. Kang, Pavlina McGrady","doi":"10.3727/154427220x15990732245691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3727/154427220x15990732245691","url":null,"abstract":"The cannabis tourism market has seen tremendous growth in recent years. However, research activities by academic scholars and industry professionals have barely scratched the surface to explore this emerging tourism segment. This study addresses the gap by comparing resident perceptions\u0000 on cannabis tourism in two states, Colorado and Oregon. A quantitative survey was distributed to Colorado (n = 254) and Oregon (n = 165) residents. Results of the study revealed that the respondents in each state appear to have different views on perceived impact from, benefit\u0000 of, and support level for cannabis tourism. Overall, Colorado residents' attachment was higher than Oregon respondents. Additionally, Colorado residents showed that if they had a higher place identity, they were less likely to perceive negative impacts. In a similar context, the study results\u0000 also confirmed that there was a stronger causal relationship between respondents' perceived impact and support for cannabis tourism among Colorado respondents than Oregon respondents, indicating that Colorado residents' support for cannabis tourism was more significantly influenced by their\u0000 perceived positive and negative impact levels than Oregon respondent. Considering the continued evolvement in the legal and economic landscapes of cannabis tourism, policy makers and industry professionals should engage in continual conversations on how to plan and manage this new tourism\u0000 segment for community and state development.","PeriodicalId":46032,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Review International","volume":"24 1","pages":"233-250"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2020-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41839849","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}
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