A Study on the Spatial Distribution of India Tourism Resources and Tourism Product Innovation—Based on the Background of Industrial Convergence

Author(s):  
Yan Li
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 126-143
Author(s):  
Aliyu Hassan Ibrahim ◽  
Hassan Ibrahim Adamu

The paper examined the spatial distribution and characteristics of ethno-cultural tourism resources available in different ethnic communities in Kaduna State, Nigeria. The sampled communities are Ham, Fulani, Hausa, Kagoro, Adara and Gbagyi, field observations were also carried out for holistic resource inventory in the ethnic communities. Documentary data were obtained from desk review method; information on tourism resources available in each ethnic community.  The findings of the study reveal that the ethno-cultural resources were characterized into three groups that are made up of archaeological/historical monuments, cultural and festival activities, and artifacts; while the nature-based tourism, resources were also sub-divided into geomorphic and hydrological features. The study recommends that  There is the need for private public partnership (PPP) to foster visible ethno-cultural tourism development projects (tourism potential development, provision of social amenities to enhance competitive advantage and enlightenment campaigns), since the local and state Governments (basically in terms of infrastructural developing and policy issue that will providing an enabling environment for tourism projects to strive) cannot do all or meet all the yearnings of the people.


2011 ◽  
pp. 1050-1068
Author(s):  
Lluís Prats-Planagumà ◽  
Raquel Camprubí

The competitiveness of tourism destinations is a relevant issue for tourism studies, moreso, is a key element on the daily basis of tourism destinations. In this sense, the management of tourism destinations is essential to maintain competitive advantages. In this chapter tourism destination is considered as a relational network, where interaction and cooperation is needed among tourism agents, to achieve major levels of competitive advantage and a more effective destination management system. In addition, the perceptions of tourists are obtained from two main sources. The first one is the social construction of a tourism destination previous to the visit and the second one is obtained from the interaction between tourists and tourism destination agents during the visit. In this sense, the management of tourism destination to emit a homogenous and collective image is a factor that can reduce the gap if dissatisfaction from the previous and real tourist perception. The authors specifically discuss the importance of a common agreement of tourism agents on virtual tourism images projected through official Web sites, considering that the literature focused mainly in how to promote and sell destinations trough Internet but not in terms of exploiting a destination joint image. Finally, in order to analyze the integration of a tourism product and determine their consequences in tourism promotion an empirical research has been done, using the case of Girona’s province. The main findings determine that, although interactions among tourism agents can improve destination competitiveness, little cooperation in tourism promotion on Web sites is achieved, as well as a few uses of technological resources in the Web sites to facilitate to tourists a better understanding of tourism resources in the area.


Author(s):  
Leandro Baptista ◽  
Elieti Fátima de Goveia

O processo de modernização da agricultura ao mesmo tempo em que proporcionou um aumento na produção, garantindo o alimento necessário para as populações, provocou uma queda na necessidade de mão de obra no campo, desarticulando assim formas tradicionais de produção. Enquanto parte desta população migrou para as cidades, outros necessitaram buscar novas fontes de renda, ampliando sua produção de matéria prima para outros setores com características não-agrícolas. Paralelamente a este processo, o meio rural deixou de ser visto apenas como um espaço para a produção agrícola e passou a ser considerado também como um local de lazer, moradia, descanso, dentre outras funções. Entre este amálgama de novas atividades desenvolvidas no meio rural, surgiu o turismo, como uma atividade capaz de gerar renda e a estimular as pessoas a continuarem na zona rural. Diante deste contexto, a localidade do Pinho de Baixo, interior de Irati (PR), reconhecida por suas vinícolas, seu museu que retrata a colonização do município por italianos (Casa Dei Nonni) e a tradicional festa da polenta, iniciou atividades correlatas ao turismo a partir de abril de 2016, objetivando diversificar a oferta de produtos fundamentado pela base comunitária. Além destas características, encontra-se no Pinho de Baixo recursos turísticos naturais como cachoeira, paisagens preservadas e o local também recebe uma das etapas do evento “Cicloturismo Irati”, consolidado no calendário municipal. Assim, com o intuito de verificar a potencialidade do produto turístico, objetiva-se nesta investigação caracterizar os elementos que compõem este novo atrativo, por meio da análise da sinalização turística do local, inventariação das atividades realizadas e análise qualitativa da atual oferta disponível. A metodologia adotada apoiou-se em levantamento de dados primários, obtidos a partir da observação participativa e não-participativa in loco, durante o mês de julho de 2016 e posterior submissão destas informações na matriz de avaliação SWOT.Os resultados sugerem a necessidade de um engajamento maior da comunidade local, a ampliação da oferta, bem como de sua melhora qualitativa, instalação de placas de orientação, restrição e educação, além da promoção da imagem do produto. Como prática de planejamento, são avaliadas estratégias para o alcance dos resultados encontrados, caracterizando deste estudo como uma pesquisa aplicada com viés sobre a sustentabilidade ambiental, econômica, social e cultural. Formatting a tourist product: the rural attractive characterization at Terra dos Pinheirais (PR, Brazil) ABSTRACT The modernization process of agriculture at the same time provided an increase to production rates, ensuring the necessary food for the population and caused a decrease in the need for labor in the field, thus disrupting traditional forms of production. As consequence, part of this population migrated to the cities, others needed to seek new sources of income, increasing its production of raw materials for activities with non-agricultural characteristics. Parallel to this process, the countryside become no longer seen only as a space for agricultural production and it has to be considered also as a place of recreation, housing, rest, and other new functions. Among this amalgam of new activities in rural areas, the tourism has emerged as an activity capable of generating income and encourage people to remain in the countryside. Once given this context, the place Pinho de Baixo, inside Irati (PR, Brazil), that has wineries, museum that depicts the colonization of the italians at the city (called Casa Dei Nonni) and the traditional feast of cooked corn meal, had started activities related to tourism from april 2016, aiming to diversify the supply of products based by community-based. Besides these features, is in the Pinho de Baixo some natural tourism resources as waterfall, preserved landscapes and the site also receives one of the stages of the event "CicloturismoIrati", also consolidated in the municipal events calendar. Thus, in order to verify the potential of the tourism product, the paper objective is to characterize this investigation the elements of this new attractive, through the analysis of the tourist site signage, inventory of activities and qualitative analysis of the current offer available. The methodology was relied on primary data collection, obtained from semi-structured by participant observation and non-participatory observation in loco during the month of July 2016 and by application of SWOT method for measuring the data. The results suggest the need a greater involvement of the local community, the expansion of supply, as well as its qualitative improvement, installation of signposts with orientation, restriction and education messages, and the addition to the product image promotion. As a practical planning, strategies are evaluated for the achievement of the results, characterizing this study as an applied research with bias on environmental, economic, social and cultural sustainability. KEYWORDS: Rural Tourism; Comunity Based; Planning; Pinho de Baixo; Irati – PR.


CONVERTER ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 242-256
Author(s):  
Bo Zhang, Boming Tang, Liangyu Zhou, Ke Huang

Objectives: The Sichuan-Tibet Scenic Byway is one of the most well-known scenic byway in China. Researching on the mechanism of action between the routes and tourism resources nodes of the Sichuan-Tibet Scenic Byway network, will benefit the Sichuan-Tibet Scenic Byway’s development by changing the development patterns of the Scenic Byway from “point-line” to network, and will be helpful to promote the integration of tourism resources along the route, furthermore to construct the Sichuan-Tibet Scenic Byway as a destination of all-for-one tourism. Methods: Based on the spatial design network analysis (sDNA model), GIS spatial analysis and other methods, the current study analyzed regional tourism resources and the spatial characteristics of road network morphology along the Sichuan-Tibet Scenic Byway, and explored the influence of road network forms on the spatial distribution of tourism resources and its spatial spillover effect by combining with spatial econometric model. Results: The distribution pattern of tourism resources along the Sichuan-Tibet Scenic Road is “dense at both ends and sparse in the middle”, and the “Matthew Effect” is significant. The spatial structure of road network varies significantly at different scales; at the global scale, the spatial structure shows “one axis and two cores”, at the local scale, it shows "two cores and multiple nodes"; Every road network variable has spatial spillover effect on the distribution of tourism resources. The global scale Closeness (NQPDE) has significant positive direct effect and negative spillover effect on tourism resources distribution. Every 1% increase in local closeness will promote an increase of 0.811% and -0.99% in the distribution of local and adjacent tourism resources, respectively. Betwenness (TPBTE) has significant positive direct effect and positive spillover effect on the distribution of tourism resources. Every 1% increase in local betwenness will promote an increase of 0.337% and 1.860% in the distribution of local and adjacent tourism resources, respectively. Conclusions: The distribution of tourism resources along the Sichuan-Tibet Scenic Byway’s shows significant “Matthew Effect”. The spatial structure of the Sichuan-Tibet Scenic Byway network varies significantly at different scales. At the global scale, firstly, it has better accessibility and centrality, which is more attractive to the global road network; secondly, the road network is more traversable, which means it bears greater traffic volume, which is more inconsistent with the actual High-grade highways bear more long-distance traffic flows to match; thirdly, they distribution of tourism resources are generally in line with the spatial orientation of National Highway 318. Traffic conditions are an indispensable and important condition for promoting the healthy development of the distribution of regional tourism resources. Closeness (NQPDE) is an important factor affecting the spatial distribution and growth potential of local tourism resources, but it will relatively weaken the development opportunities and cost advantages of tourism resources in neighboring regions, and inhibit the distribution of tourism resources in neighboring regions. Betwenness (TPBtE) is the key to promote global tourism, especially the rapid transportation system can accelerate the integration and reconstruction of tourism elements. This study aims to promote the sound development of the Sichuan-Tibet Scenic Byway network layout and the distribution of regional tourism resources in the post-epidemic era, and to provide reference for the spatial planning of tourism transportation and the optimal allocation of tourism elements.


Author(s):  
Lluís Prats-Planagumà ◽  
Raquel Camprubí

The competitiveness of tourism destinations is a relevant issue for tourism studies, moreso, is a key element on the daily basis of tourism destinations. In this sense, the management of tourism destinations is essential to maintain competitive advantages. In this chapter tourism destination is considered as a relational network, where interaction and cooperation is needed among tourism agents, to achieve major levels of competitive advantage and a more effective destination management system. In addition, the perceptions of tourists are obtained from two main sources. The first one is the social construction of a tourism destination previous to the visit and the second one is obtained from the interaction between tourists and tourism destination agents during the visit. In this sense, the management of tourism destination to emit a homogenous and collective image is a factor that can reduce the gap if dissatisfaction from the previous and real tourist perception. The authors specifically discuss the importance of a common agreement of tourism agents on virtual tourism images projected through official Web sites, considering that the literature focused mainly in how to promote and sell destinations trough Internet but not in terms of exploiting a destination joint image. Finally, in order to analyze the integration of a tourism product and determine their consequences in tourism promotion an empirical research has been done, using the case of Girona’s province. The main findings determine that, although interactions among tourism agents can improve destination competitiveness, little cooperation in tourism promotion on Web sites is achieved, as well as a few uses of technological resources in the Web sites to facilitate to tourists a better understanding of tourism resources in the area.


2011 ◽  
Vol 361-363 ◽  
pp. 1748-1751
Author(s):  
Zhi Ping Wang ◽  
Jiang Ping Yan ◽  
Wei Li

On the basis of analysis the tourism developing background in Linxia, this paper puts forward the spatial strategic orientation. According to the conditions of tourism resources, traffic, market, regional functions etc, we establish the tourism spatial distribution of “one center, two poles, two belts, three districts”and the developmental thinking, for the purpose of developing the tourism scientifically in Linxia.


2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-108
Author(s):  
Susan Horner ◽  
N.G Vinod

India is trying to grow the levels of inbound tourism and it has focussed on a number of tourism products to target the growing number of tourists, including cultural tourism, beach tourism, adventure tourism, ecotourism, and spa and well-being tourism.All of these tourism products emphasize the opportunity that exists for the future development of culturally based tourism as part of the ongoing 'Incredible India' campaign.The growth of cultural tourism relies on a subtle combination of a number of tourism resources to target the post-modern consumer who desires wider holiday experiences (Swarbrooke and Horner,1999).Food and drink can contribute to the development of cultural tourism as it provides an important resource when it is used in combination with another factor such as traditional crafts, heritage, attractions, festivals and special events, and religious sites(Swarbrooke,1999).The opportunities to exploit food and drink as a tourism product are numerous, although it has traditionally been viewed as being of secondary importance compared to another tourism resources


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