TOURISM POLICY: POTENTIAL INCREASE OF ORIGINAL LOCAL INCOME

Garut Regency called "Swiss van Java" has very beautiful natural scenery. This rich natural resource potency has not been the largest contributor to local original income. The poor implementation of tourism policy, particularly in exploring, inventorying, and developing tourist objects existing as the main attraction to tourists is one of its causal factor. The objective of research was to find out the effect of tourism policy implementation to local original income in Garut Regency. The research method employed was quantitative one; data collection was carried out by distributing questionnaire to 130 respondents. The data collected was then analyzed using simple regression data analysis with SPSS 23 help. The result of research showed that the implementation of tourism policy measured using standard and target, resource, inter-organization communication, executing organization characteristic, executive’s attitude, and social, economic, and political environment dimensions contributed to local original income by 38%.

LOS PLANES DE MODERNIZACIÓN, MEJORA E INCREMENTO DE LA COMPETITIVIDAD DE PRIMERA GENERACIÓN DE CANARIAS: UNA APROXIMACIÓN ANALÍTICA DESCRIPTIVA

Dentro de la política turística en Canarias, los Planes de Modernización, Mejora e Incremento de la Competitividad se posicionaron como un instrumento fundamental para la renovación de las áreas turísticas. Planteado como un híbrido entre un plan estratégico y un instrumento de ordenación urbanística, su regulación insta a la concreción de un modelo turístico para el ámbito de actuación sobre el que interviene. No obstante, al menos los de primera generación, centrarían la renovación en la intervención física, dejando al resto de operativas en un segundo plano. El presente trabajo tiene tres objetivos: exponer las características generales de los planes; realizar una clasificación de los planes en función del momento de elaboración y aprobación, considerando el marco normativo vigente en cada momento; y realizar un estudio pormenorizado de los planes de primera generación, como caso práctico con mayor recorrido, a fin de evidenciar el peso que la operativa urbanística ha tenido en ellos en detrimento de otras operativas. Within the tourism policy in the Canary Islands, the Plans for Modernization, Improvement and Increase of the Competitiveness were positioned as a fundamental instrument for the renovation of tourist areas. Posed as a hybrid between a strategic plan and an urban planning instrument, its regulation urges the concretion of a tourism model for the field of action on which it intervenes. However, at least the first generation, would focus the renovation on physical intervention, leaving the rest of operations in the background. The present work has three objectives: expose the general characteristics of the plans; make a classification of the plans according to the time of elaboration and approval, considering the regulatory framework in force at each moment; and carry out a detailed study of the first generation plans, as a longer case study, in order to demonstrate the weight that the urban planning operation has had on them to the detriment of others operation.

MANAGEMENT CONTROL SYSTEMS AND LODGING BUSINESS MODEL IN JAPANESE RYOKANS

The lodging sector in Japan has experienced a shrinking market size of traditional lodging providers (known as ryokans). Ryokans, which account for about 40% of Japanese lodging market, have operated their lodging businesses based on a unique business model that has been in existence for over 1,000 years. About 30% of ryokans are in a declining stage, where they are unable to break away from the traditional business models and are in a negative spiral of continuing deficits. The intent of this paper is to understand how ryokans innovate their business model while maintaining some of their traditional fundamental elements. This paper adopts a multiple-case study approach based on the two high-performing ryokans with long histories. Our findings add the ryokans’ commercial-cultural context to existing literature that describes the role of management control systems (MCS) in supporting business model innovation. Understanding the achievement of their business model innovation from a long-term perspective of about thirty years provides our paper with theoretical originality. We conclude that the weights of formal and informal controls in MCS are equal in the long term regardless of the direction of their business model innovation. In recent years, tourism policy has encouraged ryokans to use management accounting information to overcome their low-profit businesses. Our practical suggestions complement the tourism policy that presupposes the use of management accounting information alone, and support ryokan managers to use it as a part of MCS.

role of social media instagram community to tourism promotion in Baubau city

compete in terms of promotion with several other regions. The tourism policy carried out by the local government has not been able to make tourism the main asset of the City of Baubau. This study examines the role of community social media in the tourism promotion of Baubau City, particularly on Instagram social media accounts. The research is focused on Instagram accounts that have tourism content and searches for hashtags that have the most posts about tourist objects. The research method used is descriptive qualitative. Next, to check the validity of the data, what the researchers did was to make previous observations on various relevant Instagram accounts randomly. Then the data that has been obtained is confirmed, described, categorized which is the same view, which is different, and which one is specific from the data sources. Finally, the data were analyzed by researchers to produce conclusions. The analysis technique used by these researchers is the source and content triangulation analysis technique. The results showed that community accounts on Instagram were very helpful in providing promotion for tourism in Baubau City, besides that the popular hashtags used made it easy for the public to get information about content, location, and access to several tourism objects in Baubau City.

Sustainable Tourism Policy, Destination Management and Sustainable Tourism Development: A Moderated-Mediation Model

In the recent years, the rapid growth of the tourism industry has risen to prominence as a global concern. Tourism empowers communities and uplifts the economy. However, it poses social and environmental challenges, which in turn draws attention to tourism patterns. Sustainable tourism promises protection of the environment and the social-cultural elements of any given destination. Hence, this study aims to understand the complex relationship between sustainability policy, management, and tourist behavior. Thus, we examined the relationships between sustainable tourism policy and destination management, destination social responsibility, and tourist value orientation with sustainable tourism development. We recruited participants at managerial level coming from 163 Malaysian companies and conducted a cross-sectional quantitative study, using partial least square structural equation modeling. We propose that sustainable tourism policy and destination management and destination social responsibility significantly impact sustainable tourism development. Moreover, destination social responsibility partially mediates the relationship between sustainable tourism policy destination management and sustainable tourism development.

Assessing the Performance of Current Strategic Policy Directions towards Unfolding the Potential of the Culture–Tourism Nexus in the Greek Territory

In the UN Agenda 2030, tourism acquires a salient position as a critical sector, directly or indirectly influencing a number of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The pursuit of Sustainable Tourism (ST) is founded on the respectful exploitation of the sector’s core ‘raw material’, i.e., the precious and vulnerable nexus of natural and cultural heritage, and a cooperative multi-actor endeavor of all those having a stake in this shared good. Strategic tourism policy decisions, formulated at the state level, frame actors’ actions, favoring a balance among economic, societal and environmental goals; and a transparent, concrete and supportive investment landscape, allowing the tourism sector to blossom. But how successful are these policy decisions in promoting a sustainable, resilient and durable tourism model by instigating the entrepreneurial community to invest in the vibrant culture–tourism complex? An effort to respond to this concern is made in this work, grounded in the ‘Culture–Tourism–Policy’ triptych and their interaction, the ‘policy cycle’ as a means of assessing policy performance towards establishing a sustainable/resilient ‘marriage’ of ‘Culture–Tourism’, and GIS-enabled spatial data management for an evidence-based assessment of policy outcomes. These three factors are closely intertwined in the assessment of strategic tourism policy decisions’ performance in a culturally vibrant and highly reputed destination, Greece.

Role of Chhattisgarh Tourism Board in Development of Chhattisgarh Tourism Industry

Tourism is recognized as a major service industry governed by the laws of supply and demand. Tourism is one of the important economic contributors of GDP and employment generation. Chhattisgarh Tourism Board is playing an important role in development and improvement of tourism destinations. The focus is also on tourism policy made by CTB. All program, policies and work show that it is done in effective manner.