scholarly journals Flowers and gardens on the context and tourism potential

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrícia Duarte de Oliveira Paiva ◽  
Rafael de Brito Sousa ◽  
Nathalie Carcaud
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
Tourism Potential

Abstract Travel and Tourism have been considered one of the world's largest economic sectors, and garden visiting has been suggested as an important segment (niche) on the tourism industry. In this context, the aim is to analyze gardens as a great potential for tourism, in their different specificity. For tourism, all kinds of greenspaces may be used as historic, botanical or private gardens, and parks, besides events as garden and flower festival and exhibitions. All of them are responsible for attracting many visitors. This type of tourism has been increasing since tourists are eager for new and unique experiences that contribute to the memory and the identity of a nation and gardens may allow this to happen.

scholarly journals Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Global Tourism: A Synthetic Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 727-741
Author(s):  
Le Thanh Tung
Keyword(s):  
High Sensitivity ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Global Tourism ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Descriptive Statistical Analysis

The study aimed to analyse the general impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global tourism. Obviously, the world tourism industry has been received unprecedented damages never ever seen before. The thematic analysis approach, comparative research method and descriptive statistical analysis are used to investigate the effects of this pandemic. In general, the empirical analysis results show having a high sensitivity to diseases, global tourism is considered as one of the hardest economic sectors hit by the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. First, these huge losses in revenue are still ongoing because the pandemic is fastly spreading worldwide. The hurts of global tourism are serious and can put the whole travel and tourism industry in long-term disruptions. Second, although global tourism has proven strong resilience in response to other previous crises, the results suggest that the negative impacts of this pandemic will longer-lasting expand on would tourism industry compared to others. Third, the analysis result highlights that the countries need robust and urgent solutions for global tourism to reduce the huge losses received from this pandemic. However, this pandemic can have potential long-term changes in customer behaviors and the supply chain in global tourism to help efficiently combat risks from epidemics in the future. Finally, the study results suggest some implications to policymakers and business people in the reconstruction of the tourism industry in countries in the coming time.

Consumer Shopping Orientation and Intention to Book a Hotel: the Moderating Role of Sustainable Initiatives

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-81
Author(s):  
Christina Appiah-Nimo ◽  
Gloria K.Q. Agyapong ◽  
Daniel Ofori
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Consumption Pattern ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Shopping Orientation ◽  
Sustainable Value ◽  
Hospitality Sector ◽  
Cognitive Decision ◽  
Business Approach

UN sustainable development goals has triggered production and consumption patterns aimed at achieving a better and more sustainable future for all by 2030. Sustainable value chain has become a business approach to mitigate the tragedy of the commons. Initiatives that promote socially and environmentally responsible behavior whiles pursuing business value is being leveraged across all economic sectors. COVID-19 has exposed how today's business is threatened more than ever by unsustainable production and consumer behavior patterns. The hospitality sector has not been left out of this challenge as the tourism industry was the worst hit by this pandemic. All over the world, the growth of the tourism industry is propelled by the movement of people and the subsequent need created for the hospitality sector. The global health crises, coupled with consumers' growing interest for sustainable environment has fueled the desire for more eco-friendly products by the sector. Moreover, every consumer goes through a cognitive decision-making process to finally make a choice for a product - and there is a high probability of the decision to inform the sustainable consumption pattern of the consumer and also the magnitude of the effect the decision will have on the environment. This implies that every consumer purchase has implications regarding not only economics (Stone, 1954) but ethics and sustainability. Keywords: consumer booking intention, shopping orientation, sustainable initiatives

The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the psychological needs of tourists: implications for the travel and tourism industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-166
Author(s):  
Catherine Cheung ◽  
Miki Takashima ◽  
Hyunjung (Helen) Choi ◽  
Huijun Yang ◽  
Vincent Tung
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
The Impact

Coping Mechanisms of Hospitality Industry Workers in a Tourism Destina-tion during the Covid-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (12) ◽  
pp. 1410-1415
Author(s):  
Bezaleel Joy Murchante Danay ◽  
Zephaniah Dela Cruz Danay ◽  
Cherry Colesio Escarilla ◽  
Jimmy Bernabe Maming
Keyword(s):  
Hospitality Industry ◽  
Coping Mechanisms ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Key Informants ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Hospitality Workers ◽  
Different Levels

The Covid-19 pandemic brought massive devastations to the different levels of society. The World Travel and Tourism Council had recently warned that Covid-19 pandemic could lead to a cut of 50 million jobs worldwide in the travel and tourism industry. A study conducted by Oxford reveals that Asia will be vilest to be affected by the pandemic and it would take time to recover its economy (Dogra, 2020). This means a wider and greater impacts to the different industries including the tourism sector. The study aims to explore the coping mechanisms of hospitality industry workers in Boracay Island during the Covid-19 pandemic particularly on their experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic and to determine the coping mechanisms of hospitality workers in Boracay Island being affected by the pandemic. The case study method through a qualitative analysis using Robert Yin's approach in the data analysis procedure to explore the data from the experiences of the key informants from the hospitality industry was used. Themes came out from the construct of the key informants like (1) hospitality industry workers experienced mental health, social, and economic issues, (2) The pandemic opens new opportunities and ways to cope with its effects. The output of this research is the proposed Danay, Danay, Escarilla, and Maming Model for Coping Mechanisms of Hospitality Industry workers during the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Artificial intelligence (AI) for tourism: an European-based study on successful AI tourism start-ups

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raffaele Filieri ◽  
Elettra D’Amico ◽  
Alessandro Destefanis ◽  
Emilio Paolucci ◽  
Elisabetta Raguseo
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Venture Capitalists ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
Study Experience ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Start Ups

Purpose The travel and tourism industry (TTI) could benefit the most from artificial intelligence (AI), which could reshape this industry. This study aims to explore the characteristics of tourism AI start-ups, the AI technological domains financed by Venture Capitalists (VCs), and the phases of the supply chain where the AI domains are in high demand. Design/methodology/approach This study developed a database of the European AI start-ups operating in the TTI from the Crunchbase database (2005–2020). The authors used start-ups as the unit of analysis as they often foster radical change. The authors complemented quantitative and qualitative methods. Findings AI start-ups have been mainly created by male Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics graduates between 2015 and 2017. The number of founders and previous study experience in non-start-up companies was positively related to securing a higher amount of funding. European AI start-ups are concentrated in the capital town of major tourism destinations (France, UK and Spain). The AI technological domains that received more funding from VCs were Learning, Communication and Services (i.e. big data, machine learning and natural language processing), indicating a strong interest in AI solutions enabling marketing automation, segmentation and customisation. Furthermore, VC-backed AI solutions focus on the pre-trip and post-trip. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study focussing on digital entrepreneurship, specifically VC-backed AI start-ups operating in the TTI. The authors apply, for the first time, a mixed-method approach in the study of tourism entrepreneurship.

scholarly journals Water Conservation Scenic Spots in China: Developing the Tourism Potential of Hydraulic Projects and Water Resources

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Li ◽  
Bao-Jie He ◽  
Jinda Qi ◽  
Jianwen Dong
Keyword(s):  
Water Conservation ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Surface Erosion ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Balanced Development ◽  
Scenic Spot ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
Tourism Potential

The reservoir-related tourism industry has been developed for leisure purposes since the 1970s and has gained popularity worldwide. To promote reservoir-related tourism in China, the Chinese government launched a “top-down” project titled “Water Conservation Scenic Spot” (WCSS) in 2001. However, because of the lack of reasonable planning, innovative ideas, and effective governance, there are some problems with WCSS constraining its development. To deal with those problems, it is necessary to have a holistic understanding of the WCSS situation. This study analyses the origin, status, opportunities, and challenges of WCSS development in China. The results show a trend of periodic increase in the number of WCSSs between 2001 and 2016, and WCSS development is unbalanced regarding regions and types. Moreover, the main issues for the WCSS include the failure to follow WCSS guidelines in practice, weak awareness of the scientific educational function, monotonous planning and construction, a lack of cultural preservation, insufficient funding, weak marketing, damaging of natural resources, destruction of clusters of animals and plants, land surface erosion, and landscape pollution. These adverse effects can be alleviated by strengthening supervision and fostering balanced development, promoting education and protecting cultural resources, distributing funding and enlarging popularity, controlling the amount of tourism, and avoiding overexpansion. Overall, the findings of this study can encourage the development of WCSSs in the future and are of significance in supporting the reservoir-related tourism industry.

scholarly journals Exploring the influence of training and development on employee’s performance: Empirical evidence from the Indian tourism industry

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohd Arwab ◽  
Jamal Abdul Nasir Ansari ◽  
Mohd Azhar ◽  
Mohd Ashraf Ali
Keyword(s):  
Human Resource Development ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Theoretical Explanation ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Travel Industry

The aim of this paper is to explore the influence of training and development on employee’s performance through different dimensions. Moreover, this study proposes a model in the area of human resource development to be used for testing and improving the performance of employees in the Indian travel and tourism sector. An integrated model was developed highlighting the relationship between the training and development and employee performance. Using the sample of 146 employees, structural equation modelling (SEM) was employed to validate the hypothesized relationship by evaluating the responses of employees working in the Indian travel agencies. The findings of this study demonstrate a strong relationship between training and development and employee performance in the travel industry and also can be used by managers and HR professionals for organizing exclusive training programs for improving employee's performance based on the dimensions used in this paper. The present study provides an empirical and theoretical explanation of different dimensions associated with training and development and employee performance, especially in the Indian tourism industry.

scholarly journals Travel Preferences of Millennials in a Highly Urbanized City in the Philippines

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-20
Author(s):  
Candy B. Ruña ◽  
Angelus C. Diamante
Keyword(s):  
Generation Y ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Ancillary Services ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
Food And Beverage ◽  
Travel Motivations ◽  
Search For Information ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Relationship

Travel preferences are activities and places that people would like to do and go to.  Millennials, who are also referred to as Generation Y, greatly impact the travel and tourism industry as they reach their peak earning years and spending power.  They travel more frequently, explore more destinations, and constantly search for information and new sensations.  Nowadays, they are active travelers who are starting to build travel motivations and influence their opinions and behavior.  To tap this market, it is important for tourism stakeholders to understand millennials and their travel preferences.  Hence, this paper describes the degree of travel preferences of millennials of a highly urbanized city in the Philippines in terms of attractions, type of accommodation, transportation, food and beverage, ancillary services, and travel budget.  Likewise, it explores the relationship between demographics and travel preferences.  It also determines millennials’ travel purpose, preferred destinations, travel lifestyle, and other factors that influence their travel.

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