scholarly journals Cultural Tourism, Using A Multicriteria Analysis: Spanish World Heritage Cities

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan-Antonio Mondejar-Jimenez ◽  
Maria-Carmen Garcia-Centeno ◽  
Roman Minguez-Salido ◽  
Jose Mondejar-Jimenez ◽  
Maria Cordente-Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Decision Aid ◽  
Multicriteria Analysis ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Multicriteria Decision Aid ◽  
Complex Behaviour ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
City Tourism ◽  
Available Information ◽  
The City

The city tourism has become a subject of growing interest in tourism research, in a dynamic sector and with a particularly complex behaviour. In this scenario, the management of available information turns out to be difficult. Until now, specialized literature in tourism has been focused on general analysis, but down to a higher level of disaggregation (cities), presents a greater complexity. This paper aims to classify cities declared World Heritage by UNESCO on the basis of information available, by applying a multicriteria decision aid method: The Promethee.

scholarly journals Pollution And Environmental Indicators Using A Multicriteria Analysis

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1581
Author(s):  
Maria-Carmen Garcia-Centeno ◽  
Gema Fernandez-Aviles
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Decision Aid ◽  
Multicriteria Analysis ◽  
Environmental Indicators ◽  
Multicriteria Decision Aid ◽  
Multicriteria Decision

Pollution and environmental factors are a core topic because they influence in air quality of the different areas of a city. This is why in this article we propose to apply a multicriteria decision aid method (the Promethee) to establish a ranking among twenty one districts of Madrid city. To develop this ranking we use objective and subjective criteria that contain information about pollution and environmental indicators in these districts. The results show that some districts are the worse and the best regardless the used criteria.

scholarly journals Motivational analysis of tourists who visit a city with inscriptions World Heritage Site, Granada, Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 10(1) (10(1)) ◽  
pp. 349-375
Author(s):  
José Valverde-Rodaa ◽  
Gema Gomez-Casero ◽  
Tomás López-Guzmán ◽  
Miguel Jesús Medina-Viruel
Keyword(s):  
World Heritage ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Interesting Aspect ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Demographic Profile ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Tourist Behaviour ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

In recent times, it has been noticed that cultural tourism attracts millions of people. One interesting aspect is the analysis of WHS (World Heritage Site) destinations or cultural destinations that have an inscription WHS. This research has the goal of analysing the different groups of tourists who visit a cultural destination with an inscription WHS, specifically the city of Granada (Spain). For this, segmentation was performed, studying the socio-demographic profile of the tourists and their assessment of the attributes of this destination. For the tourist segmentation, two models have been followed. Four different groups of tourists were found: alternative, cultural, emotional and heritage. In this last one, the relationship between curiosity about the culture of the tourist destination and the heritage visited has a determining role. This study makes an important contribution to the literature regarding the links between the tourist and the historic and monumental heritage they visit and their tourist behaviour.

scholarly journals Exploring inbound tourists experience in Beijing, China: an online deductive approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 443-450
Author(s):  
Yu Liu ◽  
Bingjie Liu-Lastres ◽  
Qiuju Wang ◽  
Yao-Yi Fu
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
City Tourism ◽  
Transportation Service ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Beijing China ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose Beijing is becoming one of the top global destinations but the number of international tourists to the city has been declining recently. By analyzing inbound tourists experience in Beijing and identifying the relationship between the destination attributes and satisfaction, the purpose of this paper is to provide important insights into city tourism research and city destination development. Design/methodology/approach This study used an online deductive approach and collected 1,254 reviews on TripAdvisor referencing major attractions in Beijing. This study used the Leximancer software to analyze the content of the reviews and to identify the underlying relationships. Findings The results showed that international tourists’ experience in Beijing can be reflected via five aspects: attractions, city, transportation, service and people. The results further indicated that the major concern of international tourists visiting Beijing related to the service quality on site. Originality/value This study explored inbound tourists experience in Beijing using an online deductive approach. Practical implications were provided with respect to improving international tourists experience in Beijing and enhancing their satisfaction and revisiting intentions.

Performances of “Pasts”

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Covey
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Urban Site ◽  
Master Plans ◽  
Historic Center ◽  
Historical Landscape ◽  
Imperial Capital ◽  
Heritage Industry ◽  
The City

Using Cuzco’s historical landscape as a lens, this chapter considers the appropriation of the Incaic past and the intersections of indigeneity, tourism and world heritage. These themes are defined and historicized through the iconic spaces and infrastructure of Cuzco as the imperial capital, through its transformation into a colonial town, and through the city’s complicated role as a symbol of modern Peru. This background contextualizes the city in the second half of the twentieth century. Following an earthquake in 1950, UNESCO revived the Incaic past in an attempt to rebuilt and safeguard the city. This laid groundwork for subsequent master plans in the city, cultural tourism and world heritage. Contemporary Cuzco features a multifaceted heritage industry that capitalizes on the Andean past and its legacies. Clustered around the Plaza de Armas, the “heart” of the ancient Inca city, Cuzco’s Historic Center is the principal urban site where these historical themes and ideological projects converge.

scholarly journals A multicriteria decision aid for evaluating the competitiveness of tourist destinations in the Northwest of Mexico

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 51-67
Author(s):  
Martín León Santiesteban ◽  
Juan Carlos Leyva López
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Algorithm ◽  
Decision Aid ◽  
Multicriteria Analysis ◽  
Multicriteria Decision Aid ◽  
Main Approach ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Ranking Problem ◽  
Electre Iii ◽  
Tourist Destinations

This work deals with the problem of comparing the competitiveness of tourist destinations as a multicriteria ranking problem. Comparing tourist destinations is a complex problema because they present wide heterogeneity between them. The Crounch-Ritchie model is used as the main approach for analyzing tourist the competitiveness of tourist destinations. Thereby, we structure the problem as a multicriteria ranking problem for comparing and ranking the destinations with highest competitiveness as the preference direction. For this project, we use the main tourist destinations in the Northwest of Mexico as case study. The ranking of tourist destination is based in their competitiveness, however with the multicriteria analysis proposed, it is possible to use any particular group of the attributes to choose a coherent family of criteria. This process is performed in two steps, the first one uses the ELECTRE III method to construct a valued outranking relation and the second one, a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for exploiting those relations, and generate the ranking of destinations. 

scholarly journals Angra do Heroísmo, Azores, Portugal. World Heritage City: An invitation to Cultural Tourism

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 434-459
Author(s):  
Susana Serpa Silva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World Heritage ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Atlantic History ◽  
City Center ◽  
Nature Tourism ◽  
Azores Archipelago ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
Historic City ◽  
The City

The city of Angra, whose name derives from the small cove that serves as its port, is the oldest one in the Azores Archipelago, Portugal. It is located on the southern coast of Terceira Island and has this category by letter of D. João III of 21st August 1534. From the beginning, the importance of its port for the Atlantic navigation and as a scale of the designated India’s Career led chronicler Gaspar Frutuoso, by the end of the 16th century, to call it the ‘Western Ocean Sea Scale’. Alongside a significant role in the Atlantic History, the city also played an active part in the History of Portugal. On January 1st, 1980 it was shaken by a violent earthquake. In the process of reconstruction, the strict orthogonal layout of the streets was maintained, and the richness of its buildings was preserved. Recognizing the value of the architectural complex of this historic city center and its site as very relevant to the History of European empires, in 1984 UNESCO classified Angra do Heroísmo as a World Heritage City. Given this classification, it intended, with this work, to contribute to the knowledge of the city, not only for its historical-heritage significance, but also as a destination for Cultural Tourism, which is desirable to develop, in the Azores, as a complement of Nature Tourism.

scholarly journals THE SIGNIFICANCE OF URBAN HISTORY FOR URBAN TOURISM RESEARCH AND PRACTICES: THE CASE OF BURSA

2015 ◽  
pp. 93-106
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Urban History ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Urban Tourism ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
City Tourism ◽  
The City

Heritage is the historical result of past interactions. Urban history reveals components of that heritage in the context of a city and helps us to perceive cultural values in their unique connections. Historians have several kinds of references that are used to study urban history. Travelbooks and yearbooks, two of those historical sources, are deliberately emphasised in this study. They introduce not only tangible and intangible cultural heritage of a city as possible tools for sustainability and diversity, but also are essential references in tourism research for particularly historical academic views. Cultural heritage of today together with those lost or almost forgotten can be interpreted through urban history sources within its own methodology but in favour of urban tourism. The outcome is incomparable data for related territory. Besides, it can generate possibilities to enhance not only cliché methods for urban management but also understandings of business leaders. This paper,therefore, underlines distinctive studies of Ottoman Urban History as interdisciplinary input within tourism literature and for possible contributions in improvement of city tourism practices.Urban history studies are considered along with theperception of cultural heritage. The city Bursa is used as a case study in order to exemplify aims of this paper in wider conceptions for urban tourism research and practices. Introduced and evaluatedtravelbooksand yearbooks are hence written about Bursa. Travelbooksare especially chosen from those written by European travellers within nineteenth century. As a result, evaluation also captures perceptions of travellers in mentioned period. Yearbooks of the same era, on the other hand, are also introduced within the concept of urban tourism and cultural heritage.

scholarly journals El turismo cultural en una Ciudad Patrimonio de la Humanidad: El caso de la ciudad de San Cristóbal de La Laguna (Tenerife, España) / Cultural Tourism in a World Heritage Site: the case of the city of San Cristobal de La Laguna (Tenerife, Spain)

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Ernesto Moreira Gregori
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Value Added ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Product Diversification ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Mass Tourism ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
The City

ABSTRACTThe island of Tenerife is a mature sun and beach destination, visited in 2013 by more than 4.600.000 tourists. The intent of diversifying supply and offer services and value-added products is a primary objective of the tourism sector and local governments. Within the policy of product diversification, cultural tourism plays a central role. The present case, of the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna, is a paradigmatic case. This is because it is a city declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO (1999) and is located in an enclave of mass tourism of sun and beach. Through a study by the University of La Laguna, we detail a survey of tourists, realized at the end of the visit to that city. The objective of the research was to determine the sociodemographic characteristics of the tourists, their behavior and their main motivations and perceptions during the visit.RESUMENLa isla de Tenerife es un destino maduro de sol y playa, visitado en 2013 por más de 4.600.000 turistas. La inten-ción de diversificar la oferta y ofrecer servicios y productos con valor añadido es un objetivo primordial del sector turístico y de las administraciones locales. Dentro de la política de diversificación de productos, el turismo cultural tiene un papel central. El caso que presentamos, de la ciudad de San Cristóbal de La Laguna, es un caso paradigmático. Lo es por tratarse de una ciudad declarada Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la UNESCO (1999) y por estar situada en un enclave de turismo masivo de sol y playa. A través de un estudio realizado por la Universidad de La Laguna, detallamos una encuesta realizada a turistas al finalizar su visita a esa ciudad. El objetivo de la investigación fue conocer las características sociodemográficas de los turistas que la visitan, el comportamiento durante su estancia y sus motivaciones y percepciones principales.

scholarly journals Tourist valorization of architectural cultural heritage of Sabac

2009 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ljiljana Grcic
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Geography ◽  
National Interest ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
The Other ◽  
City Tourism ◽  
The City

Sabac is an important centre in the cultural geography of Serbia. A great number of architectural buildings that are listed in cultural-historic heritage of national interest were built in the city. The goal of this work is to note and highlight the values of architectural cultural heritage of Sabac, which can be valorized for the purpose of tourism. The restoration, protection and inclusion of architectural values in the tourist offer of Sabac, combined with the other types of city tourism such as the event and cultural tourism, contribute to the affirmation of this city as a tourist centre of West Serbia.

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