scholarly journals Environmental Diversity Assessment to Enhance Attractineness of Eco-tourism in Asir Region, Saudi Arabia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamilah Al Mohaya ◽  
Mena Elassal
Keyword(s):  
Satellite Images ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Environmental Diversity ◽  
Diversity Assessment ◽  
Domestic Tourism ◽  
Tourism Resources ◽  
Asir Region ◽  
Geomorphological Features ◽  
Climate Comfort

This is study follows environmental diversity assessment for geotourism development in Asir region. Geotourism seeks to supporting the tourism landscape in its interaction with the historical and archaeological, architectural or immaterial heritage, and requires diversification in terms of product, market and geographical potential. The study is based on various tourist facades and environmental diversity in Asir. As tourism development is a comprehensive undertaking involving many sectors, and these are the challenges to which the country’s tourism industry should respond to promote domestic tourism. quality and spatial pattern of tourism resources, climate comfort, and natural disaster possibility. Based on analyze multi-source datasets collected, geomorphological features of this area, we created a GIS database comprising geologic and topographic maps, and satellite images using these datasets. The findings of the study provided valuable insights into the role of environmental diversity in achieving tourism. The study examined the interrelationship between tourism and environmental diversity.

scholarly journals KENYAMANAN IKLIM LOKASI WISATA BERBASIS ALAM DI KAWASAN TROPIS

Agromet ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-61
Author(s):  
Nofi Yendri Sudiar
Keyword(s):  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Botanical Gardens ◽  
Visitor Perceptions ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Climate Comfort ◽  
Selection Of

This research reveals visitors perceptions of climate comfort in nature-based tourism areas in Ecopark Ancol, Bogor Botanical Gardens (KRB) and Cibodas Botanical Gardens (KRC). In addition to calculating the comfort score using the TCI and HCI methods and modifying their thermal aspects, a survey was also carried out in all three tourism areas simultaneously. The survey was conducted to collect data on climate comfort perceptions and the role of the weather on these comfort. A total of 793 respondents participated in this study. The majority of visitors stated that the weather affected the comfort of the climate during the tour. But weather conditions do not fully influence decisions in the selection of tourist visits. The level of perceived climate comfort for the three tourism sites namely Ecopark was perceived as neutral (57.3%), KRB was perceived as comfortable (60%) and KRC was perceived as comfortable (78.4%). While based on the score calculation approaching the survey results in Ecopark is TCI index modified in its thermal aspect with PET Tianjin (57.2). KRB is HCI without modification (59) and KRC is HCI modified by its thermal aspect with PET Tianjin (77.6). Statistically there are significant differences between sex, age, education level and topography. By understanding visitor perceptions, strategies and appropriate actions can be developed to increase comfort in the nature-based tourism industry.

scholarly journals INNOVATION-DRIVEN OPPORTUNITIES AND SOLUTIONS TO PROMOTE EUROPE-ORIENTED TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN UKRAINE

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-40
Author(s):  
Oleksandra V. Olshanska ◽  
Mykola O. Khmelevskyi ◽  
Daryna V. Hryhorchuk
Keyword(s):  
Customer Service ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Domestic Tourism ◽  
The Government

The article presents an in-depth analysis of innovation opportunities and solutions to promote Europe-oriented tourism development in Ukraine, which is especially relevant given the significant lag in economic indicators of Ukraine's tourism industry against the world tourism leaders. The findings reveal that the tourism industry, as well as in Ukraine, is adapting fast enough to the global challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic and other crisis phenomena and is gradually returning to its normal functioning, even under heavy restrictions. Particular emphasis is put on the growing role of innovative solutions to boost the process of adaptation to new realia. It is argued that tourism innovations and reforms will contribute to promoting both short-term and long-term tourism demand, raise the number of tourism businesses and, consequently, will create more jobs in this sector, along with enhancing the quality and competitiveness of domestic tourism product and increasing the tourism industry share in GDP. The purpose of this article is to identify opportunities to innovate and search for optimal solutions to ensure Europe-oriented vector of tourism development in Ukraine. To attain the research agenda, a range of general research methods have been employed, in particular, analysis and synthesis, monograph methodology, as well as methods of abstraction and concretization. The study asserts that in modern economic settings to secure the European vector in tourism development, there is a vast variety of innovative solutions available to tour operators and travel agents, ranging from radical changes in their management and marketing activities up to diversification of tourism products and customer service models. To facilitate further Europe-oriented development of domestic tourism, a focus is also placed towards the essential role of innovation-driven transformations of a tourist product at the regional level which assume new services, new tourist attractions and travel routes or their modifications, including the use of digital technologies and new tourism types, such as glamping, immersive tourism, fitness tourism, virtual tourism, travel journalism, film tourism, etc. In addition, the study discusses the specifics of backpacking as one of modern innovative tourism trends. It is argued that the key pathway for the tourism industry to innovate is building a single national tourist information base with an easy access and customer-friendly interface. Such an electronic database will combine the capabilities of an interactive travel guide and a marketplace. According to the results of the study, to enhance the Europe-oriented development of the tourism industry in Ukraine, the government should design sound investment and innovation policies that will help to support both nation-wide and regional innovative projects. The summary concludes that the implementation of innovations will contribute to gaining a competitive edge in the global tourism market.

The role of the cultural economics in the development of Bulgarian wine tourism

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 59-66
Author(s):  
Ivo Iv. Velinov
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Cultural Economics ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
Wine Industry ◽  
Wine Tourism ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
Tourism Resources ◽  
Basic Concepts

The author of this report examines basic concepts in the field of wine tourism. The main theoretical ideas, embedded in the cultural economics, aim to represent the dynamics of economic and cultural processes in the tourism industry. The first part of the report outlines thematic assumptions about the role of culture and economy in the wine industry as prerequisites for the development of wine tourism. Therefore, aspects of the emotional, practical and intellectual experience of wine cultural landscapes are analyzed using theoretical statements in the cultural economics. The thematic study summarizes the result of the current cultural and economic situation of wine tourism in relation to Bulgarian natural and anthropogenic tourism resources.

scholarly journals Interdependence of Museums and Tourism Industry in Jordan

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Nermeen Khasawneh
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Domestic Tourism ◽  
Arabic And English

Museums are educational, cultural and recreational centers; cares for objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical value and other artifacts linked to the cultural and popular heritage of particular people, exhibiting and preserving these collections for subsequent generations. Heritage is the basis of civilization as it represents the nation's memory and a bridge linking its authenticity with its present and future as well as the foundations of its representation and identity. The aims of this retrospective study are to review the consistence and historical development of the Jordanian museums and to evaluate its current status, its contribution in sustainable tourism industry and to adjoin a new contribution to the current knowledge in this field. This study based on two approaches; the first was conducted on the numbers of visitors to five selected museums in Jordan for the years 2016-2017, taking into account the residence variable. The second approach used a sort specially designed questionnaires, written in Arabic and English languages were given non- selectively to (120) visitors, designed to determine the role of museums in supporting tourism in Jordan. Data were collected and a descriptive analysis was performed. The findings of this study revealed that museums play a prominent role in supporting the tourism industry through its active educational and recreational activities (94.33%), supporting domestic tourism (92.67%), and promote loyalty and national identity (92.33%). Our study confirmed the vital role of museums in the tourism industry, which in turn provides a fundamental tributary to the Jordanian Gross Domestic Product. The diversified Jordanian museums with its authentic holdings, in addition to the unique tourist destinations call for immediate support to boost Jordanian tourism globally.

scholarly journals From a Machine Service to a New Kind of Identity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Pogorel’skaya ◽  
◽  
Leonid Chernov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
The Social ◽  
Consumer Services ◽  
Phenomenological Methodology ◽  
New Type ◽  
Tourism Resources ◽  
Changing Role

In the new economic and epidemiological climate, the tourism industry is becoming a political and economic priority for Russia’s development. Domestic tourism resources shall be used to the maximum extent whereas patterns and models of international tourism shall be comprehended anew and reformatted. Given the increasing introduction of technology into the fabric of human life and the associated political decisions in the fields of professional employment in tourism and socio-cultural services, the article poses the problem of dialogue between man and machine, and predicts a new dimension of human nature. The phenomenological methodology and analytical approach embraced in the article allows us to argue that engineering content, the technical, the machine, ceases to be a useful service tool to serve human desires and needs. The ‘technical’ becomes a means and a way of shaping ‘new images of the world, values and realities’. New types of social connections and relations arise, in which technical items interact with humans ‘as equals’, and thereby often substitute living interlocutors and partners. Hence the social relationship concept expands. The tourism, hospitality and entertainment industry is concentrating on the changing role of the technical in human life. Through tourism and consumer services, a new type of individuality is being formed, for which the technical becomes an ‘additional living organ’ of natural human nature.

scholarly journals Research on Ningxia Global Tourism Intelligent Construction

2020 ◽  
Vol 214 ◽  
pp. 03051
Author(s):  
Chai Ruiyang
Keyword(s):  
Smart Cities ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
Domestic Tourism ◽  
Global Tourism ◽  
Smart Tourism

With the rapid development of China’s tourism industry, in recent years, how to promote the transformation and upgrading of the tourism industry and meet the diverse personal needs of tourists has not only become the focus of the tourism industry’s general attention, but also an important content of domestic tourism research. The 2016 Tourism + Internet Action Plan issued by the National Tourism Administration emphasized that smart tourism will become one of the inevitable trends in the development of urban tourism. Therefore, based on the study of tourism informatization, smart tourism, and smart cities and their relationships, this article summarizes the current status of Ningxia’s smart tourism construction, elaborates the role of smart tourism construction on the development of Ningxia’s tourism industry, and analyzes the main influences of Ningxia’s tourism wisdom of holistic tourism destination .In the end, the paper puts forward some reflections and suggestions on the intelligent construction of tourism in Ningxia.

scholarly journals Geocultural potential and historic-cultural tourism resources of very small urban settlements in Lviv region

2015 ◽  
pp. 58-67
Author(s):  
Natalia Dnistryanska ◽  
Myroslav Dnistryanskyy
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Urban Settlement ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
Tourism Resources

The essence of the concept of “geo-cultural potential settlement” is uncovered. Leading role of ethnic and religious factors in the formation of geo-cultural potential of very small urban settlements is grounded. The main stages of transformation of ethnic and religious structure of the population of Lviv region are defined and her influence on the formation of the cultural heritage of small urban settlements. It is concluded that the basis of geo-cultural potential of very small urban settlements of the region are Ukrainian cultural traditions, combined with the experience of other ethnic groups, especially the Polish, German and Jewish. The differentiation of urban villages and small towns a concentration on features monuments are analyzed and its socio-geographic importance are defined. Some options for using geo-cultural potential of very small urban settlements in the tourism industry are outlined. Key words: cultural heritage, geo-cultural potential settlements, a small urban settlement, historical and cultural tourism resources, tourism.

scholarly journals Research on the Development of Micro-Tourism Market in Changsha City Under the Background of the Internet Era

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Peng Chen ◽  
Jia-Wei Tang
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Hot Spring ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Current Development ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Domestic Tourism ◽  
Tourism Resources ◽  
Changsha City

With the advent of the 21st century, China has entered the era of the Internet, and the tourism industry has continued to develop. The demand for domestic tourism and national leisure consciousness has been continuously improved. As the transformation of tourism forms has gradually shifted to leisure, experience and diversification, micro-tourism springs up. In 2011, micro-tourism was officially put on the agenda as an emerging form of tourism. After that, it became popular and developed rapidly. Large numbers of micro-tourism products dominated by 1-2 days of hot spring tour, ancient town tour, island tour, country tour, and suburb tour were launched online instantly. This paper first expounds the background, formation, development and characteristics of micro-tourism and then interprets the current development of micro-tourism from online survey data, finding that the development of micro-tourism market is good, but the related facilities and systems are comparatively lagging behind. Finally, the paper analyzes the micro-tourism resources and development conditions of Changsha city, finding that the foundation and market platform for developing micro-tourism in Changsha is sound. Given the actual development, the paper then puts forward development strategy for micro-tourism of Changsha City under the background of the Internet era, which may provide reference for other cities with similar conditions to develop micro-tourism.

SOURCES OF FINANCING INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TOURISM SECTOR

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 70-78
Author(s):  
Aziza Karimova ◽  
◽  
Shaxzoda Sobirova
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Innovative Development ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Tourism Sector

This article discusses the role of the tourism industry in the development of the country's economy and the problems associated with the sources of financing for this activity. There are also proposals, the introduction of which would contribute to the solution of existing problems.

The Role of New Media in Facilitating Entrepreneurship in Tourism - Case Study: Promoting Komodo Island in East Nusa Tenggara

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-72
Author(s):  
Dessy Kania
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Foreign Visitor ◽  
Printed Media ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
High Inflation ◽  
Tourism Destinations

Tourism is an important component of the Indonesian economy as well as a significant source of the country’s foreign exchange revenues. According to the Center of Data and Information - Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the growth of foreign visitor arrivals to Indonesia has increased rapidly by 9.61 percent since 2010 to the present. One of the most potential tourism destinations is Komodo Island located in East Nusa Tenggara. With the island’s unique qualities, which include the habitat of the Komodo dragons and beautiful and exotic marine life, it is likely to be one of the promising tourism destinations in Indonesia and in the world. In 1986, the island has been declared as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism continuously promotes many of the country’s natural potential in tourism through various media: printed media, television and especially new media. However, there are challenges for the Indonesian tourism industry in facilitating entrepreneurship skills among the local people in East Nusa Tenggara. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (2011), East Nusa Tenggara is considered as one of the poorest provinces in Indonesia where the economy is lower than the average, with a high inflation of 15%, and unemployment of 30%. This research is needed to explore further the phenomenon behind the above facts, aiming at examining the role of new media in facilitating entrepreneurship in the tourism industry in Komodo Island. The results of this study are expected to provide insights that can help local tourism in East Nusa Tenggara. Keywords: Tourism, Entrepreneurship, New Media

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