Tending to destinations: Conceptualising tourism’s transformative capacities

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward H Huijbens ◽  
Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Development ◽  
Tourism Destination ◽  
Development Discourse ◽  
Relational Ontology ◽  
Social Constructs ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Life Force ◽  
Tourism Resources ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
Creative Life

This article is a theoretical contribution to inform scholarship on tourism destination development and dynamics. Our point of departure is the prevailing linear ‘economic growth paradigm’ animating tourism development discourse and practice. Through this discourse, people, landscapes, heritage and artefacts become valued as commodities and claims laid to tourism benefits emerge as objective, measurable facts. We contend that this discourse relies on an understanding of tourism resources and entrepreneurial activities as pure social constructs, which does not fully grasp the dynamics of emergent tourism realities and destinations’ transformative capacities. We argue for alternative conceptualisations of tourism that equip tourism scholars with the conceptual tools to grasp the plurality of tourism futures. These involve ‘vital materialism’ built on a relational ontology foregrounding the creative life force that permeates us and all that surrounds us. We conclude with outlining the implications this approach has for the discussion of tourism destination development. We argue that these conceptual tools will lay the foundations for ethically sound tourism development in times of global uncertainties from the perspective of people, their commitments and aspirations and the environment.

scholarly journals THERE IS NO COMPLETE HEGEMONY: SHARIA TOURISM DEVELOPMENT DISCOURSE IN BALI

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Saortua Marbun ◽  
A.A. Ngurah Anom Kumbara ◽  
I Nyoman Darma Putra ◽  
Ida Bagus Gde Pujaastawa
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Tourism Destination ◽  
Development Discourse ◽  
Local Television ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Depth Interviews

In the past decade, the Indonesian government has taken political and economic policy measures to improve the country's image as a Muslim-friendly destination. The leading destinations chosen to be developed with the concept of sharia tourism are one form of these efforts. However, the policy faced negative responses from several regions, especially from tourism stakeholders in Bali. Indeed, the Balinese are not enthusiastic about the possibility of their island being labelled as sharia tourism destination. Even though sharia tourism stakeholders took the initiative to show the potential benefits of sharia tourism economically, the idea was still rejected. Primary data was collected utilizing in - depth interviews with key informants selected purposively, while secondary data was obtained from literature, documents, information from mass media and local television. The data were analyzed with a critical theory approach in the style of cultural studies, using the theory of hegemony, ideology, power/knowledge relations and critical discourse analysis to explain the form of discourse, response forms and implications of the discourse on sharia tourism development in Bali. This paper also presents both empirical and theoretical findings and provides recommendations. This article concludes that Bali can't be transformed into a sharia tourism destination, however, Bali still accommodates the needs of Muslim tourists. Keywords: discourse, sharia tourism, Balinese cultural tourism, hegemony, counter-hegemony

The Effects of Economic, Socio-Cultural and Environment of an Integrated Rural Tourism Destination Pinge Village-Tabanan

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
I Wayan Pantiyasa ◽  
Ni Luh Supartini
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Development ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Community Leader ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Tourism Destination ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Alternative Tourism ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Village

Community based Tourism paradigm as a concept of alternative tourism has been able to provide distribution to community either in welfare or empowerment towards sustainable tourism. In relation to this paradigm, this study was conducted to analyze the impacts of rural tourism development in Pinge village. Pinge is one of the village in Tabanan- Bali which has been developed to be rural tourism destination.The approach used in this research was qualitative descriptive. Technique of collecting data was through interviewing with community leader and conducting field observations in order to find out positive and negative impacts to economy, socio cultural and environment to this village. The researcher found that the development of rural tourism provides positive and negative impacts to society in Pinge. From the result of data collection, there were found that economy of society was improved, the culture was preserved, and the environment was arranged well. The result of this study is expected to be a reference study in rural tourism development in Pinge village through controlling the negative impacts from this tourism destination development.

scholarly journals Changes in Traditional Activities of Industrial Area toward Sustainable Tourism Development

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
pp. 6189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milena Nedeljković Knežević ◽  
Marko D. Petrović ◽  
Slađana Nedeljković ◽  
Maja Mijatov ◽  
Milan M. Radovanović ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Industrial Area ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Open Pit Mining ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Industrial Setting ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities

The purpose of this study is to investigate the potential for restructuring industrial areas toward tourism development within local communities, with a special emphasis on the socio-cultural determinants of residents, as well as their attitudes regarding the sustainable development of tourism. The research is also oriented toward the interests of local communities with respect to entrepreneurial activities in the field of tourism within regions relying on traditional industries, in this case, one of the largest open-pit mining surfaces in Europe (near the Serbian town of Lazarevac). The survey was conducted on a sample of 273 respondents. The research results point to the residents’ attitudes regarding the acceptability of tourism development options, as well as their attitudes toward tourism development, with the aim of providing the conditions for a successful transition from a typical heavy industrial setting toward sustainable tourism development.

KONSEP PARTISIPASI MASYARAKAT DIENG DALAM PELAKSANAAN PROGRAM PENGEMBANGAN PARIWISATA

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. 45-58
Author(s):  
Susilo Susilo
Keyword(s):  
Community Participation ◽  
Social Norm ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Community Activities ◽  
Narrow Region ◽  
Helping Others ◽  
Tourism Resources ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
The Common

Dieng tourism resources is a unity between natural resources, archeological, and community life. These conditions resulted in nearly all processes of tourism development will affect people's lives, and conversely, any community activities will also affect tourism. In every aspect of tourism development needs to involve the community as part of the development impact and receiver. Dieng community participation in social and cultural activities is one manifestation of ngaruhake norm. Ngaruhake is a social norm that aims to maintain harmony within the community scale, but does not apply to a public scale. Participation is based on a moral obligation to realize the common interests or helping others, not for himself personally. Levels of participation can be divided into three groups, namely mokoki (main actors), ngombyongi (supporting actor), and masabodoa (not involved). Spatially, greater area of space, community participation will be lower and the other hand, narrow region of space will increase community participation. Keywords: Participation, Tourism, Dieng

scholarly journals Role of Tourism in Local Development A Case of Sarangkot Hill-Top in Pokhara, Western Nepal

2014 ◽  
pp. 9-19
Author(s):  
Narayan P. Bhusal
Keyword(s):  
Local Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Resource Potential ◽  
Balanced Development ◽  
Tourism Management ◽  
Tourism Resources ◽  
Tourism Services

Tourism management plan at the local level provides a framework for balanced development of a given area through the utilization of the existing tourism resources by the provision of tourism services that are required in order to attract the tourists from different parts of the world. Therefore, identifying and understanding of the natural, demographic and socio-cultural resource potential that enable a given area and its communities to shape tourism development according to local needs and within recognized environment and resource constrains. It is in this context the present paper is aimed to identify cultural and natural sites of tourism importance and problems and prospects of tourism for development in order to provide information on the basis of which can be undertaken sustainable actions for tourism development in Sarangkot VDC of Kaski district, Western Nepal.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ttp.v8i0.11507 The Third Pole: Journal of Geography Vol.8-10, pp. 9-19: 2010

E-Tourism Image

2011 ◽  
pp. 1050-1068
Author(s):  
Lluís Prats-Planagumà ◽  
Raquel Camprubí
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Tourism Destination ◽  
Tourism Promotion ◽  
Tourism Product ◽  
The Social ◽  
Tourism Resources ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
Tourism Image

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.

From coal to cool: Reordering nature in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-163
Author(s):  
Anne Gry Sturød
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Tourism Destination ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Empirical Material ◽  
Rule Out

The article studies the transformation of a Kyrgyz coal-mining village into a tourism destination. By combining political ecology research approaches with concepts borrowed from Actor Network Theory (ANT), I attempt to show how nature-based tourism development contributes to a reordering of nature in certain ways rather than others. Supported by my empirical material, I suggest that this reordering of nature makes certain realities emerge, while others submerge. However, while some orderings of natures appear to be representing reality, it does not necessarily rule out multiple understandings of how nature “ought to look” or be used.

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