scholarly journals Exploring Residents’ Perceptions and Attitudes towards Sustainable Tourism Development in Traditional Villages: The Lens of Stakeholder Theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 13032
Author(s):  
Hongmei Song ◽  
Chris Zhu ◽  
Lawrence Hoc Nang Fong

As Chinese traditional villages are receiving increasing attention from the country, society and business in terms of sustainable tourism development, their residents’ perceptions have not been thoroughly investigated. To contribute to the literature, this qualitative study, which was based on stakeholder theory, conducted semi-structured in-depth interviews with 12 different stakeholders in Hongcun, one of the most well-known traditional villages in China. Using grounded theory approach, this study found that residents’ perceptions and attitudes of sustainable development differed in four main areas—economic, environmental, social, and cultural—and several sub-themes were developed to influence these four areas. The study results have important theoretical and practical implications for current sustainable tourism development in traditional villages. In particular, these results have substantial value for the country, society, and business levels with respect to developing traditional village sustainable tourism based on the perceptions and attitudes of the residents.

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (18) ◽  
pp. 67-77
Author(s):  
Elvi Citraresmana ◽  
Wahya Wahya ◽  
Fatimah Djajasudarma

This article is aimed at describing how the legend of Kancra Bodas fish or God-fish could raise sustainable tourism development strategies. This research is under the theory of tourism such as the theory of Concept of Sustainability, the theory of Sustainability in Tourism and the theory under the literary study, folklore, and legend. The study conducted by interviewing the custodian of graveyards, the District Government, and Education and Cultural Service in Kuningan. Through the legendary story, there are four important factors which will be beneficial for Cibulan tourist destination, that is the increasing numbers of visitors, maintaining the existence of God-fish, teach the younger or next generation and visitors to learn and practice the local wisdom into their daily lives and also pass down this story legend to the next generation so this story legend still persists in the society whether inside or outside Kuningan society. The study results show that Cibulan through the legend of Kancra Bodas fish has a potential one of sustainable tourism development strategies that should be pertained and promoted by the District Government and also the local people.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-163
Author(s):  
Teddy Tandaju ◽  
Steven Y. Kawatak ◽  
Mesak Kadepa

Amungme Tribe, residing in Mimika Regency, has important roles in developing the Papua Province’s tourism sector. Up to now, this tribe has experienced various obstacles in developing its community and region. Authors conducted a qualitative-based method research to find strategies to elevate this tribe to have competitive advantages to increase its prosperity. In this research, surveys and in-depth interviews with relevant stakeholders were conducted in Timika City to generate effective strategies. Authors have designed a comprehensive approach, namely Amungme-Based Sustainable Tourism (ABST), which focuses on the development of 4Rs: Revitalization, Reconstruction, Remuneration, and Reconciliation. Through effective and efficient applications of 4Rs, it is expected that there will be great changes for Amungme Tribe and the community of Mimika Regency.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 301
Author(s):  
Yanuarius F Lagut ◽  
Ida Bagus Suryawan

The Development of the Tri Hita Karana concept start begins the study results by Pusat Kajian Bali in 2000. This study involved the local communities, scientists and various observers of development. This study resulted in a lot of concepts about the development of Tri Hita Karana which require development in Bali based on the concept. Tri Hita Karana concept is the basic for the implementation or benchmarks in sustainable tourism development in Bali. Beratan Lake is one of the many examples of tourist attraction that based on the concept of Tri Hita Karana. Researchers used the Tri Hita Karana Award and Accreditation in 2014 as a reference to provide an assessment of the existence of the Beratan Lake. The results of this study showed that the condition of the Beratan Lake at the stage of development belonging to very good.


Author(s):  
Tek B. Dangi ◽  
Birendra Kc ◽  
Laxman Gautam

Abstract While presenting the history of tourism development in Nepal with reference to some global initiatives, this chapter discusses the major achievements and challenges in (sustainable) tourism development and offers some recommendations, along with practical implications for policy-making bodies and practitioners.


2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 970-987 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Hennekam

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how artists deal with having multiple potentially incompatible work-related identities as a result of a career transition from making a living exclusively as artists to taking on additional work outside the creative industries. Design/methodology/approach In all, 40 semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted by telephone with artists in the Netherlands. A grounded theory approach was used to analyze the findings. Findings Four different strategies for dealing with multiple potentially incompatible identities were identified: integration, accumulation, separation and dis-identification. The findings suggest that the informal social context, the support of rejection of important others, influenced the strategy adopted by the artists. Invalidation from the environment often leads to stress and separation or dis-identification strategies, while validation seems to lead to integration and accumulation strategies that are less psychologically straining. Practical implications The findings stress the importance of the external environment. While the workers had to deal with their own psychological stress and regret about not succeeding at working exclusively as artists, they also had to create a feasible story that allowed them to “sell” their transition to others. Originality/value Careers are becoming increasingly non-linear, and the number of workers who need to juggle multiple (potentially conflicting) work-related identities is rising. However, how workers deal with this has received only limited attention from researchers.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gede Ginaya ◽  
Made Ruki ◽  
Ni Wayan Wahyu Astuti

As an icon of national tourism, Bali has become a world-top tourist destination. In 2018, Bali gained an award from Trip Advisor as the world’s best tourist destination. It has helped Bali to boost the number of foreign tourist arrival including Chinese. However, the increase visitor of Chinese tourist has caused a dilemma between the quantity and quality tourists as it is shown by the current issue of zero-dollar tour. This article critically analyses discourse on Chinese tourist market segment and its challenges to realise tourism sustainable in Bali. Data were obtained by observation and in-depth interviews with stakeholders and from literature review. Discourse of power/knowledge, deconstruction, and communicative action theories were applied eclectically to undertake this study. The results revealed that a space of discussion to find solution for the problem faced on the discourse of Chinese tourist market segment are needed as this could contribute to realise sustainable tourism development in Bali.


Author(s):  
Carla Silva ◽  
Cláudia Seabra ◽  
José Luís Abrantes ◽  
Manuel Reis ◽  
Andreia Pereira

Towns and cities have always been places where tourism and leisure experiences are constantly produced and consumed and a source of special fascination for visitors and tourists (Hall & Page, 2014). The development of tourism generates different degrees of impact on destination places, environments, and on the local population. Understanding resident perception of those impacts is crucial to the successful and sustainable development of tourism (Šegota, Mihalič & Kuščer, 2017). Residents are the most important destination stakeholders and, because of that, they should participate in the planning of sustainable tourism development in order to control the impacts of tourism on the places where they live (Lawton & Weaver, 2015; Garrod, Fyall, Leask & Reid, 2012). As a consequence, it is important to establish awareness of host communities’ experiences, perceptions, and attitudes towards sustainable tourism development, particularly in locations with a small population base (Thompson-Fawcett & McGregor, 2011). Once a community becomes a tourist destination, the lives of its residents become affected. Even though most of the studies conducted on tourism impacts focused on economic, social, and environmental wellbeing, the central question is still the need to understand how community residents perceive the impacts of tourism (Kim, Uysal, & Sirgy, 2013). Another crucial concept regarding sustainable tourism development is place attachment, commonly defined as the emotional bond between an individual and a specific place (Manzo, 2003). However, affection, emotions, and feelings are not the only concepts of place attachment. Cognition and practice are important as well (Low & Altman, 1992; Vorkinn & Riese, 2001). People may feel attached to a place because of emotional and social ties, but also because of the physical aspects of the place (Hidalgo & Hernández, 2001; Lewicka, 2011). Places are above all social constructions and include physical, social, and psychological connotations that help build attachment (Knez, 2014).


2020 ◽  
pp. 146144482093331
Author(s):  
Qing Yan ◽  
Fan Yang

Star worship is an ever-growing phenomenon around the globe. Across various social media platforms in China, a new idol–fan relationship model has emerged, such that the fans have stepped up from merely worshipping the idols to being able to co-cultivate their idols, including their public images, the scope of their work, and even their personal lives. Based on a grounded theory approach, this study utilized text analysis and in-depth interviews to explore parakin relationships between fans and idols and proposed a dual motivation model to explain the motivations of fans for forming such a relationship. The findings extend current fandom literature by exploring a new front of fan–idol interactions in the context of social media. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.


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