•The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has heavily hit small tourism enterprises.•Resilience directly and indirectly influence sustainable tourism development.•Performance mediates relationship between ...resilience and sustainable development.•Enterprise type significantly affect the results and the research model.•Small restaurant owner-managers showed more resilience than their hotel counterpart.
Tourism is one of the hardest-hit industries by the global pandemic of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). Small tourism enterprises have been heavily affected and have had difficulty in business recovery. This research is an early attempt to explore the direct impact of small hospitality enterprises’ resilience on sustainable tourism development as well as indirect impact through performance. A pre-tested questionnaire survey was self-administered to owner-managers of small hospitality enterprises in Greater Cairo, Egypt. The results of structural equation modeling (SEM) using AMOS showed a positive, direct, and significant impact of resilience (planned and adaptive) on sustainable tourism development and indirect influence through performance. The results of the multi-group analysis showed that enterprise type has a significant effect on the results, where restaurant owner-managers expressed more resilience than their hotel counterparts. Several theoretical (for scholars) and practical implications for tourism policy-makers and owner-managers have been discussed and elaborated.
This discussion aims to find a sustainable community-based development model through a multi-stakeholder participatory approach. Rural planning in Indonesia has undergone significant changes in the ...last decade. Community-based development and participation is now an established agricultural development planning policy. Community participation produces planning and design decisions based on community needs, priorities, and affordability which often results in better and more realistic designs, plans, and programmes. In the development of kampung tourism, implementing community participation can reduce cost, increase the use of local resources, and socially empower the community. Kampong Grangsil is a hamlet of hardworking and civic-minded flower farmers. These farmers and members of their community organized and developed their village into a tourism destination that they named Kampoeng Boenga Grangsil (KBG) – Grangsil Flower Village. The high level of community participation as well as a Villages Partner Development Programme, made possible through the collaboration of village governments and university research teams, succeeded in making KBG into what it is today. Mentoring, through in-situ assistance (in Grangsil) and ex-situ assistance (at the Campus and Woodcraft Gallery), was carried out to strengthen resources. Throughout the mentoring programme, the research team acted as both a mediator and facilitator for developing Grangsil into an environmentally-friendly tourism destination. The role and involvement of mediators in the participatory development process increased the ability of communities to organize and build sustainable villages.
•To compare the IVFN based Fermatean, new score and accuracy functions is developed.•To aggregate Fermatean fuzzy numbers, Einstein aggregation operators are proposed.•A new integrated CRITIC-COPRAS ...method on under IVFFNs to solve MCDM problem.•A case study of sustainable community-based tourism assessment is presented.
As a generalization of the Fermatean fuzzy set, the theory of interval-valued Fermatean fuzzy set (IVFFS) is a more robust and reliable tool to address the imprecise and incomplete information in the process of multi-criteria decision making (MCDM), thus can be employed on wider range of applications. The aim of this study is to purpose a novel decision-making approach by combining two well-recognized methods, named as the criteria interaction through inter-criteria correlation (CRITIC) and the complex proportional assessment (COPRAS) with IVFFSs. In this line, to compare the interval-valued Fermatean fuzzy numbers (IVFFNs), a new score function is proposed and its feasibility in comparison with existing interval-valued Fermatean fuzzy score and accuracy functions is discussed. To combine the various IVFFNs, some interval-valued Fermatean fuzzy Einstein aggregation operators are introduced. Further, the CRITIC is utilized to derive the objective weights of attributes within IVFFS context. To prioritize the alternatives, the IVFF-COPRAS method is presented on IVFFSs settings. Later, to assess the performance quality of the developed methodology, an illustrative case study is discussed to evaluate and rank the sustainable community-based tourism (CBT) location candidates. Moreover, the comparative study and sensitivity investigation are conducted to prove that the developed framework efficiently handles the problem of sustainable CBT locations evaluation and selection problem under IVFFSs environment. The findings of this study conclude that the developed method is a systematic, more comprehensive, accurate, and structured approach in the assessment of sustainable CBT locations under uncertain environment.
This study investigates the mediating role of Top Management Commitment (TMC) on the relationship between Energy Management Practices (including Energy Awareness EAW, Energy Efficiency EE, and Energy ...Knowledge EK) and Sustainable Tourism Development (STD) in Jerash, Jordan. Amid growing global concerns about environmental sustainability, understanding the dynamics between energy management and sustainable tourism has become critically important. The study utilizes Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) to analyze the collected data. The empirical results reveal that EAW, EE, and EK have a significant positive influence on STD, indicating the direct impact of energy management practices on the sustainability of tourism. Furthermore, the findings suggest that these energy management variables also significantly influence TMC. Intriguingly, TMC emerges as a substantial mediator, enhancing the positive effects of EAW, EE, and EK on STD. This signifies the crucial role of top management's commitment to leveraging energy management practices effectively to foster sustainable tourism development. The study, despite focusing only on the context of Jerash, Jordan, contributes valuable insights to the existing literature and informs managerial practice in the tourism sector. Future research should expand its scope to different geographical regions and consider additional dimensions of energy management practices to further enrich the understanding of sustainable tourism development.
This pioneering study explores the powerful mediating effect of community participation on both residents' attitudes toward sustainable tourism development and their personal environmentally ...responsible behaviour. It establishes residents' attitudes when the concept of sustainable tourism development is introduced, measures its influence on their participation in public affairs, and the importance of their own environmentally responsible behaviour. It explores the complex relationships between attitude, community participation, and environmentally responsible behaviour involved, using a survey of 362 residents from 5 eco-tourism communities in Taiwan. Results show that residents' attitudes towards sustainable tourism development positively and significantly affect both community participation and environmentally responsible behaviour. The degree of residents' community participation also positively affects environmentally responsible behaviour. Residents' attitudes toward sustainable tourism development also directly affected environmentally responsible behaviour as well as indirectly affect behaviour via the mediator, "community participation".
Five mechanisms are suggested to encourage these changes: (1) Institutions develop community sustainable tourism civic education, (2) cohesion and insight for consciousness events to promote sustainable tourism development attitudes, (3) lively public hearings should be encouraged to turn passive into active participation, (4) mechanisms for reporting environmental damage should be created, and (5) community environmental clean-up days should be held.
•A comprehensive framework developed to evaluate sustainable community-based tourism.•To analysis the SCBT framework, a novel IVPF- SWARA-MULTIMOORA approach is proposed.•To calculate the weights of ...SCBT criteria, a new IVPF-SWARA method is introduced.•To evaluate and rank SCBT options, IVPF-MULTIMOORA is developed.•Economic opportunities had the first rank among others to evaluate SCBT.
During these years, the sustainable Community-Based Tourism (CBT) notion has received more attention in the context of the tourism industry. Sustainable CBT mainly emphasizes social, environmental, and cultural sustainability and gives power to local communities in any aspect of tourism management. This manuscript aims to propose a novel approach to examine the current status of sustainable CBT in the Indian Himalayan region context. In this regard, a comprehensive framework was developed using experts’ opinions, and the relevant literature in tourism studies was reviewed based on sustainable CBT. To this end, this study proposed an integrated decision-making method using Step-wise Weight Assessment Ratio Analysis (SWARA) and MULTIMOORA (Multiple Objective Optimization based on the Ratio Analysis plus Full Multiplicative Form) under Interval-Valued Pythagorean Fuzzy Sets (IVPFSs). Additionally, some comparisons were discussed with the outcomes obtained from the developed approach and those of extant ones to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed model. To confirm the applicability of the proposed IVPF-SWARA-MULTIMOORA approach to real-world decision-making problems, a sustainable CBT problem was considered as a case study. The final results confirmed the efficiency of the proposed approach as well as its consistency with the existing ones.
This research is applied research, which seeks to encourage research to develop and manage destinations with the concept of sustainable tourism development (STD). STD is a concept that integrates the ...four pillars of tourism destination governance. This concept has been stated in the Regulation of the Minister of Tourism of the Republic of Indonesia Number 14 of 2016. The STD concept consists of four variables, among others; a) the implementation of effective management that is integrated and sustainable, b) strengthening the impact and economic benefits for local communities, c) strengthening and preserving socio-cultural, and d) paying attention to environmental sustainability around tourist destinations. This research aims to apply the STD concept for the development of tourism village potential. Specifically, this research is intended to encourage tourism village potentials in Sei Bingai and Tanjung Pura Districts, Langkat Regency, North Sumatra Province. So that in the end, it is hoped that Langkat Regency can have a well-managed tourist village based on the STD concept. The results showed that, based on the results of Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) using AMOS 22 software, it was found that the existing variables were indeed relevant for analyzing the application of sustainable tourism development. Furthermore, based on the scoring carried out in the Focus Group Discussion (FGD) activities with key stakeholders, a ranking is carried out. Of the four existing aspects, the environmental aspect is in the good category (based on the excellent, good, average, and poor categories), while the sustainable integrated management variable, the variable economic benefits for the surrounding community, and the environmental conservation variable are in the good category. The results of the FGD also concluded that the majority of key stakeholders agreed that in Rumah Galuh Village and Pematang Serai Village, Langkat Regency would continue to be developed into a tourist village with a sustainable tourism development model.
This paper presents experimental research into the attitudes of tourists
towards the significance of protected areas with regard to tourism in the
Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, in the northern ...part of the Republic of
Serbia. It is an area with significant rare plant and animal resources, as
well as w?tlands, ecosystems, and hilly and mountainous areas. Several
research methods have been used in the paper. The first method is to collect
data using a written questionnaire that was completed by 215 visitors to
different protected areas in AP Vojvodina. Their answers revealed their
attitudes toward sustainable tourism in selected protected areas. After
examining the differences in the answers using the Kruskal-Wallis test, the
results of the survey conducted by the authors were examined by means of two
comparative analyses of identical, related, and similar answers in selected
case studies. Based on the results of the Kruskal-Wallis Test, it can be
concluded that there is a statistically significant difference in the
assessments of the importance of activities and the forms of tourism chosen
when visiting protected areas. The most important forms of tourism are
ecotourism and adventure tourism. Tourists also identified hiking, cycling,
and wildlife watching as the most important activities.
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