Shedding light upon the shadows Exploring the link between country destination image and dark tourism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stella Kladou ◽  
Maria Psimouli ◽  
Georgios Skourtis ◽  
Antonios Giannopoulos ◽  
Nilgün Handan Eskitark
Keyword(s):  
Developing Country ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Quantitative Approach ◽  
Previous Experience ◽  
Destination Image ◽  
Country Image ◽  
Dark Tourism ◽  
Tourism Potential ◽  
Shed Light

Dark tourism is one of those tourism types that currently attracts growing interest and varying interpretations. The present study aims to determine the importance of specific dark tourism motives (namely those relevant to war and terrorism) for dark tourism development, taking destination and country image into consideration. The research was carried out in the context of Turkey, a developing country, which exhibits dark tourism potential in relation to the motives explored. An explanatory quantitative approach was followed. The results reveal the importance of motivations, previous experience, intention to visit and the significance of different tourism types according to destination image in a tourism context. The findings shed light on aspects that can drive dark tourism development, without falling into the fallacy of prioritizing a “better mousetrap (dark tourism site) that nobody will want”.

Strategi Pengembangan Pariwisata Pasca Bencana Tsunami di Kabupaten Lampung Selatan

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-257
Author(s):  
Sofyan Sofyan ◽  
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Dian Kagungan ◽  
Nana Mulyana ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Data Presentation ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Tsunami Disaster ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Tourism Potential

Lampung is one of the provinces that has a considerable tourism potential in which each region has tourism potential with its own unique attraction in South Lampung regency. However, the Tsunami disaster that struck the coastal areas of Banten and South Lampung on 22 Desemeber 2018, impacted the decline in the number of tourists visiting the archipelago and abroad to tourist destinations by the end of year 2018. Based on the problems raised above, the purpose of this research is to describe and analyze the strategy conducted by the Tourism and culture Office of South Lampung Regency in the effort to develop tourism sector in South Lampung district after Tsunami disaster. This type of research is qualitative research with a descriptive approach. The research informant is determined purpossive. Data collection techniques are conducted with observations, interviews and documentation. Data analysis techniques are carried out with data reduction, data presentation, drawing conclusions and data triangulation. Data is presented and in a descriptive analysis. Based on the results of the research is known that the Tourism and culture Department of South Lampung district has a strategy to develop tourism potential in South Lampung regency. In determining a strategy for tourism development in South Lampung District after the Tsunami disaster pay attention to four basic factors. These four factors are strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats with some sectors involved in the tourism development process. The conclusion of this research is based on the SWOT anilisis which produces four strategies i.e. SO strategy, WO Strategy, Strategy ST, and WT strategy

scholarly journals Tourism Potential and Rural Tourism: A Case Study of the Municipality of Andrijevica

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 33-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Goran Rajović ◽  
Jelisavka Bulatović
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Rural Economy ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Tourism Potential ◽  
Distinguished Group

The paper analyses tourism potential and rural tourism of the Municipality of Andrijevica. Existing tourism and recreation supply is not sufficiently developed and affirmed nor organized and connected both within the scope of the Municipality and with the neighbouring municipalities. One of the prerequisites for tourism development might be good transport infrastructure. However, in the territory of the Municipality of Andrijevica is not adequate. On the territory of the Municipality of Andrijevica, natural and anthropogenic values are distinguished group deployment and characteristics of complexity and complementarily. Natural values are particularly come to the fore, if we know that modern tourism trends emphasize the value of untouched nature. Marketing affirmation of the Municipality of Andrijevica is one of the most important processes that represent a momentum for its tourism development. In this sense, all kinds of tourism propaganda must be enhanced, which affirmed the value of tourism (for example the eco-pasture Štavna), which would lead to a more comprehensive tourism development that would provide a profitable economic performance. Particularly it is very important to encourage and support rapid development of economic activities in rural areas and development of human resources. Furthermore, the economic progress and independence rural settlements of the Municipality of Andrijevica must be improved in accordance with the ecological principles and sustainable development in rural development. In finding a new identity and direction of development of the rural economy, the Municipality of Andrijevica must accept new trends in Europe and the countries that have been through a period of transition, in terms of adapting and complementing so far the role of villages and rural areas within diversified supply and the introduction of tourism as one the essential activities. Such guidelines already exist in spatial and urban plans of the Municipality of Andrijevica, starting as of 2010

scholarly journals THE EFFECT OF FESTIVAL QUALITY ON REVISIT INTENTION: MEDIATING ROLE OF DESTINATION IMAGE IN JEMBER FASHION CARNAVAL, JEMBER, INDONESIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 1195-1202
Author(s):  
SUPRIONO SUPRIONO ◽  
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Edy YULIANTO ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Approach ◽  
Destination Image ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Revisit Intention ◽  
Program Content ◽  
The Relationship

This study aims to investigate and explain festival qualities that are applied to festival organizers that affect the destination image and the tourist revisit intention. This research uses a quantitative approach through statistical analysis of PLS-SEM and distributed questionnaires that have been designed to 200 tourists. The findings of this study indicate that the constructs of the variables that shape the quality of the festival, namely program content, convenience, and staff, have a positive and significant effect on the image of the destination. In addition, the relationship between destination image and revisit intention has a positive and significant effect.

Image transfer between mega business event, hosting destination and country and its effects on exhibitors’ behavioral intention

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongmei Zhang ◽  
Shanshan Liu ◽  
Billy Bai
Keyword(s):  
Attribution Theory ◽  
Behavioral Intention ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Destination Image ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Country Image ◽  
Image Transfer ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Event Image

Purpose The primary purpose of this study is to investigate the image transfer and its effects on exhibitors’ behavioral intention. Specifically, the study attempted to examine the effect of mega business event image on destination and country image from exhibitors’ perspective and the effect of mega business event image on exhibitors’ behavioral intention toward the event. Design/methodology/approach The data for this study were collected through an on-site survey. Based on a sample of 393 respondents, structural equation modeling was used to test the proposed hypotheses. Findings The results showed that business event image has a stronger effect on country image than on destination image; event image has a significant effect on exhibitor’s behavioral intention toward the event directly and indirectly through the mediating role of country image; and country image has a significant influence on destination image. Practical implications The event organizer should improve the exhibitor’s perceptions of the event experience from providing a clear and attractive theme for the target audiences; exhibiting the products with the most cutting-edge technologies and offering various opportunities for forums and promotions; and planning and organizing the event in every detail carefully including the facilities, layout of booths, ambience and other related services. Originality/value The study expands the event type to business events, explores the image transfer process between event, destination and country and examines the effects of such image transfer on the exhibitors’ behavioral intention. The results confirm the explanatory power of image transfer theory. Attribution theory and halo effect are viewed as the mechanisms of image transfer.

INVESTMENT ROLE IN TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN THE SAMARA REGION

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoya Gagikovna Khechoyan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Development ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Current State ◽  
Tourism Activity ◽  
Tourism Potential

The article considers the modern tourism potential of the Samara region, the current state of tourism, and the key objects of tourism activity located in the Samara region, the problems of tourism development in the Samara region and the need to invest in this industry, advantages in the investment development of the tourism industry.

Protected Natural Areas and Sustainable Development

2019 ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
Zaharia Marian ◽  
Rodica-Manuela Gogonea ◽  
Daniela Ruxandra Andrei
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Environmental Resources ◽  
Natural Areas ◽  
Protected Natural Areas ◽  
Tourism Potential ◽  
The One

The process of tourism development has come to include, step by step, the expansion potential of areas where it could be practiced in less accessible natural spaces, which are more problematic from the point of view of tourist penetration and the organization of tourism activities. In this context, making tourism under the umbrella of this concept of expansion, has led, on the one hand, to the expansion of protected natural areas, to their advertising and implicitly to the increase of demand for this type of tourism, and, on the other hand, to the amplification of danger posed to the integrity of the ecosystems included in the tourism circuit. The paper, starting from the actual context of sustainable development, highlights the fact that the tourism potential of protected natural areas constitute an important factor for sustainable development only, if is doing in condition of responsibility and respect for environmental conservation and regeneration of environmental resources

scholarly journals Using Destination Image and Place Attachment to Explore Support for Tourism Development: The Case of Tourism Versus Non-tourism Employees in EILAT

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 951-973 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Stylidis
Keyword(s):  
Place Attachment ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Destination Image ◽  
Behavior Support ◽  
Intentional Behavior ◽  
Two Factors

Apart from the economic motive, little attention has been given to factors such as destination image and place attachment in explaining how potential differences in intentional behavior (support for tourism, intention to recommend) develop between tourism employees and non-tourism employees in a community. This study, conducted in the remote resort of Eilat, explores whether these resident groups’ representations of and attachment to their place shape their intentional behavior toward tourism, and tests the explanatory ability of the two factors to account for potential differences in groups’ intentional behavior. Findings suggest that the relationships between: (a) place attachment and destination image, (b) place attachment and intention to recommend, and (c) between destination image and intention to recommend, vary across the two groups. The study contributes to tourism theory by empirically validating the role of image and attachment as antecedent of such differentiation. Additional implications to tourism theory and practice are discussed.

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