scholarly journals Africa’s Strategies to Build Supportive Business Environment for Tourism Businesses

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (11) ◽  
pp. 747-759
Author(s):  
Boitumelo Caroline Rasethuntsa
Keyword(s):  
Business Environment ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
Global Tourism ◽  
African Context ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
Shed Light

The Travel and Tourism Competitive Index regards the business environment as one of the pillars supporting the tourism industry wellbeing. Africa has failed to stay competitive in the global tourism industry since 2007; hence studies that have the potential to positively influence the tourism policies are critical at this point. Although the importance of the business environment has been emphasised, researchers have not been keen to explore this area, especially in the African context. This study aims to create an understanding on the business environment support structures, policies and practices employed by best tourism performing African countries. Using the secondary research approach, the findings of this study shed light on the legal frameworks, taxation policies, public sector institutions, and business policies utilised by the benchmarking countries to enable a supportive business atmosphere. A comparative analysis of strategies practiced by the benchmarking countries is presented to identify the similarities and differences of the strategies implemented in the benchmarking countries. 

scholarly journals Adapting to context: Creative strategies of video streaming services in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
pp. 135485652110173
Author(s):  
Godwin Iretomiwa Simon
Keyword(s):  
Video On Demand ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Operational Environment ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Innovative Strategies ◽  
African Context ◽  
The Media ◽  
Streaming Services

This article examines the contextual challenges that characterize the video on demand (VOD) market in Africa. It provides critical analysis of the creative strategies employed by Nigeria-based streaming services to navigate the peculiar business environment on the continent. This research is on the background of the poor Internet infrastructure and economic divides in many African countries including Nigeria. Streaming services operating in these markets must understand a context where Internet access is complicated on the levels of availability and/or affordability, including significant lack of confidence in e-payment facilities. All these, together with epileptic power supply and poor standard of living, indicate that streaming services must innovate to capture subscribers within the continent. Despite the harsh operational environment, streaming services in Nigeria have continued to increase in number within the past 5 years. This is attributed to the transnational reach of the streaming services as they are patronized by Africans in diaspora across the globe, while they also enjoy popularity within African countries. This article specifically focuses on the innovative strategies employed by Nigerian streaming services to operate within their African markets in the context of their peculiar challenges. In so doing, it extends extant scholarship about Internet-distributed video using the African context. This article is situated within the Media Industry Studies framework and draws from semi-structured interviews with 7 streaming executives in Nigeria and 10 creative professionals in the Nigerian Video Film Industry (Nollywood). It also relies on desk research of press reports, industry publications, as well as the interfaces of streaming portals. This article underscores the necessity of contextualized research with the digital turn in video distribution. Through contextualized analysis of VOD market realities in a less studied terrain like Africa, it aligns with scholarly call to expand theories of Internet-distributed video to marginal contexts.

scholarly journals Indian Tourism Industry and COVID-19: A Sustainable Recovery Framework in a Post-Pandemic Era

2021 ◽  
pp. 097226292110432
Author(s):  
Kshitija Pandey ◽  
Kala Mahadevan ◽  
Sujata Joshi
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Global Business ◽  
Analysis And Evaluation ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
Narrative Literature ◽  
Narrative Literature Review ◽  
Sustainable Recovery ◽  
The Way

The COVID-19 outbreak has impacted the global business environment and has resulted in significantly challenging multiple industries across the business spectrum. One of the industries facing severe adverse consequences is the travel and tourism industry. This study aims to assess and assimilate the overall impact posed by this pandemic to the Indian tourism industry and propose a sustainable recovery framework that would provide a guideline to all the Indian tourism industry stakeholders to forge the way forward in the post-pandemic era. The study adopts a narrative literature review-based approach to arrive at a sustainable recovery framework based on the analysis and evaluation of the literature on the proposed topic. The study finds that the Indian tourism industry has been significantly impacted by the ongoing pandemic and has altered the functioning of all the stakeholders in the industry.

The Israeli travel and tourism industry faces COVID-19: developing guidelines for facilitating and maintaining a nuanced response and recovery to the pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Schmidt ◽  
Alex Altshuler
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
The Government

Purpose This paper aims to discuss how the tourism industry is contending with the economic and interorganizational challenges wrought by the COVID-19 outbreak and heightened by a lack of communication between the government and local businesses in the state of Israel. The researchers examine the dependency of the tourism industry on the general preparation programs that were developed and are currently being deployed by the relevant national stakeholders and question whether instead, it should use the pandemic as a catalyst for formulating its own nuanced tourism-travel-and-hospitality-oriented strategies and procedures. Design/methodology/approach Applying an ethnographic-based mix-methods research approach, this paper draws on insights from data compiled by fusing existing theoretical and emerging practical knowledge with empirical research (qualitative and quantitative) conducted among numerous relevant macro (governmental/centralized industry) and micro (hotels, travel and tourism operators and service providers) stakeholders as well as potential consumers. Findings It is essential that national and local government bodies form collaborative interorganizational relationships with local stakeholders to jointly activate case-specific hospitality and travel-specific risk mitigation management strategies. Moreover, the pandemic laid bare the tentative and fragile nature of the globalized tourism industry supply and demand chains, a condition that may be remedied via a pivot toward using national or even regional supply chains and goods and service providers. Within Israel, such changes could lead to increased economic benefits that extend beyond the tourism industry to provide certain security-related benefits. Originality/value Relating to idiosyncratic factors relevant to an Israeli cultural context, this paper uses the ethnographic field-borne familiarity of the researchers with the tourism and travel industries in Eilat and the Dead Sea to offer applicable suggestions for leveraging certain industry resources to both meet the demands of the present-day circumstances and cultivate a multifaceted organizational web of macro and micro social, economic and environmental networks so as to foster a more diversified and therefore resilient local tourism and travel economy.

The relationship between business ethics diffusion, knowledge sharing and service innovation

2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
pp. 1343-1358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen-fong Wu
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Service Innovation ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
The Taiwan Strait ◽  
And Behavior

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider business ethics as a concept and behavior that is worthy of attracting more proponents, and to explore how the diffusion of business ethics can effectively promote service innovation in an organization. Design/methodology/approach – This study applies a quantitative research approach to 357 businesses in the travel and tourism industry on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Findings – The results reveal that the increased visibility of business ethics activities in an organization strengthens its ability to display service innovation, with the condition that knowledge sharing actively occurs as the mediating variable. Originality/value – This study proposes a business ethics diffusion model that is advantageous for industries seeking innovations in service provision.

scholarly journals Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Tourism Industry: Possible Reconciliation Strategy for Bangladeshi Tourism Industry

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Industry ◽  
International Travel ◽  
World Health ◽  
World Population ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
Community Mobility ◽  
Global Tourism ◽  
World Tourism Organization ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Tourism Organization

The novel corona virus (COVID-19) has created a significant impact with international travel bans affecting over 90% of the world population and extensive restrictions on public gatherings and community mobility, tourism mainly comes to a halt in March 2020. Especially Tourism is at a risk to assess to counteract pandemics because of restricting mobility and social distancing. This paper is based on secondary document analysis from various journals, newspaper articles, World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation (BPC), reports, and papers of various tourism-related Bangladeshi organizations’ (PATA, TEAB, TOAB etc.). The paper provides a critical assessment of the reported impacts of COVID-19 on global tourism, particularly on Bangladesh, and is looking for way-out and regional recovery suggestions against the uncertainty of COVID-19. Keywords: COVID-19, Travel, Community, Mobility, Tourism, Pandemics, Global, Bangladesh

scholarly journals Current trends in the global tourism industry: evidence from the United States

2010 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 1125-1137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nejdet Delener
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Global Tourism ◽  
Travel Industry ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The U.S

Tourism is one of the largest U.S. industries, serving millions of international and domestic tourists yearly. Tourists visit the U.S. to see natural wonders, cities, historic landmarks, and entertainment venues. Americans seek similar attractions as well as recreation and vacation areas. Tourism competes in the global market, so it is important to understand current trends in the U.S. travel industry. Therefore, this article offers insight into important trends and suggests strategies for policy makers involved in the travel and tourism industry.

scholarly journals The Competitiveness of Travel and Tourism Industry of Sub-Saharan African Countries in the World Market

2021 ◽  
Vol 10(1) (10(1)) ◽  
pp. 131-144
Author(s):  
Mekonnen Bogale ◽  
Muluken Ayalew ◽  
Wubishet Mengesha
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Comparative Advantage ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
World Market ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
The World ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Ssa Countries

The purpose of this study was to investigate competitiveness of Travel and Tourism industry of Sub-Saharan African countries in the world market. The study used Normalized Revealed Comparative Advantage (NRCA) and Relative Trade Advantage (RTA) indexes as a measure of competitiveness based on secondary data from ITC trade database covering between 2000 and 2019. The findings of the study revealed that SSA countries like Mauritius, South Africa, Seychelles and Namibia have competitive T&T industry consistently in the years between 2000 and 2019. However, SSA countries such as Botswana, Tanzania, Senegal, Kenya and Rwanda have competitiveness vary by years. Moreover, South Africa has highest comparative advantage followed by Tanzania and Mauritius. The study provided valuable information to industry leaders, policy makers, business owners and international organizations such as UN and UNESCO to design appropriate strategies and systems aiming to sustain and improve travel and tourism industry competitiveness in SSA countries. It is the first study in applying NRCA and RTA indexes to investigate the competitiveness of T&T Industry in SSA countries. Keywords: Competitiveness; export; import; performance; tourism; travel

scholarly journals Economical – Financial Crisis and the Tourism Trends in the Crisis Period

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-155
Author(s):  
Cosmin Tileaga ◽  
Oana Nitu ◽  
Claudiu Valentin Nitu
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Industry ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Environmental Implications ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
Global Tourism ◽  
Eu Policies ◽  
New Vision ◽  
Accommodation Sector ◽  
Tourist Accommodation ◽  
The Eu

Abstract Challenges generated by the global economic crisis, terrorism, epidemics, wich therefore directly affected global tourism industry, raised the global question to approach the tourism in a new vision, more complex. Thus, WTO and the World Travel & Tourism Council considered that this will be important condition for the reception destinations and local communities development. The new tourism ventures to include a new dimension of travel and tourism, as a mature response to a world more complicated. Global awareness of the importance of tourism has triggered a new vision on the opportunities offered by global tourism. TThis article provides information on the latest statistics on tourism in the European Union (EU). The tourism is an important sector due to its economic potential, employment of labor and its social and environmental implications. Tourism statistics are used to monitor not only EU policies in tourism but also regional policy and sustainable development policy. The role of tourism, for both business and citizens, has grown considerably in recent decades. According to the estimates of DG Enterprise and Industry of the European Commission, tourism accounts for over 5% of the EU-27 GDP. Tourist accommodation sector provides 2.3 million jobs in the EU-27 and the total number of jobs in the entire tourism sector in the EU-27 is estimated to be between 12 and 14 million people (according to preliminary estimates of tourism satellite accounts).

ASPECTS OF IMPROVING RUSSIA 'S GLOBAL TOURISM COMPETITIVENESS

2020 ◽  
pp. 214-223
Author(s):  
Elena Yu. Alekseycheva ◽  
◽  
Elena Yu. Kulomzina ◽  
Olga V. Shinkareva ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
State Support ◽  
Cultural Wealth ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Private Investments ◽  
Global Tourism ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Stimulation Of

This article is devoted to the assessment of the tourism industry of the Russian Federation. The article analyzed the development of the tourism industry of Russia, showed the contribution of tourism revenues to the domestic gross product of the country, compared this indicator with other countries. The situation of the country on the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index was considered, changes in the rating of the country in this index for 2007-2018 were analyzed, strengths and weaknesses of Russia in terms of development of this industry were revealed. It is noted that tourism in Russia is a developing industry with great potential due to the presence of both natural and cultural wealth in the country. However, Russia 's position in this industry is not optimal due to a certain number of factors noted in the article. The conclusion concluded that with increased state support and stimulation of private investments the industry can become one of the directions of development of the economy of the country.

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.

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