"This book offers a comprehensive global examination of the relationship between public transport and tourism as well as exploring other sustainable transport modes. It offers a unique view by ...analysing tourism through the public transport lens and vice versa. The volume provides an account of how the public transport experience can be improved for tourists so that its value can be maximised and a greater number of people can be encouraged to shift modes. It features a wide range of case studies and examples showing how the tourism industry, as well as regional economies, communities and the environment, benefit when public transport is widely used by tourists. The book will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of tourism and transport as well as destination marketing organisations and tourism, transport and urban planners."
Tourism planners rely on accurate demand forecasting. However, despite numerous advancements, crucial methodological issues remain unaddressed. This study aims to further improve the modeling ...accuracy and advance the artificial intelligence (AI)-based tourism demand forecasting methods. Deep learning models that predict tourism demand are often highly complex and encounter overfitting, which is mainly caused by two underlying problems: (1) access to limited data volumes and (2) additional explanatory variable requirement. To address these issues, we use a decomposition method that achieves high accuracy in short- and long-term AI-based forecasting models. The proposed method effectively decomposes the data and increases accuracy without additional data requirement. In conclusion, this study alleviates the overfitting issue and provides a methodological contribution by proposing a highly accurate deep learning method for AI-based tourism demand modeling.
The impact of technology on tourist cities and destinations has led to the emergence of renewed management approaches that seek to adapt the planning processes to new challenges and opportunities ...derived from the smart scenario. The smart city and smart tourist destination approaches are aimed at improving efficiency in management, the quality of life of the residents and the tourist experiences. However, little is known about how these ideas are being translated into real policies and whether they are having a real impact. The objective of this paper is to understand how the smart approach is being deployed in the planning processes of Spanish tourist cities and destinations, and its implications in terms of the governance, sustainability and data-driven public management. The planning instruments that guide the smart strategies of different Spanish cities are identified and analysed. This is complemented with a questionnaire administered among managers of the smart city and smart destination initiatives. The findings reveal the diversity of smart initiatives, their benefits and limitations. The results contribute to generating a necessary debate on the implications of the smart discourse for urban and tourism planning and enrich the international debate around this approach.
•Contrasts the theoretical and international smart discourse with practical application in Spanish cities•Critically analyses smart city and smart destination plans, identifying categories•Surveys smart city and destination managers to unveil their perception of impacts•Contributes to overcome the insufficient consideration of tourism within the analysis and development of smart cities•Identifies implications for global urban and tourism planning of the uneven development of the smart approach
Coastal and marine space is “home” to a constantly growing number of human activities and facilities, the most important of which are those related to coastal and marine tourism. Being one of the ...largest segments of the maritime economic sectors, as well as the largest component of the tourism industry, coastal and marine tourism often raise controversy regarding the environmental impacts and the compatibilities with other human activities.
Marine Spatial Planning (MSP), is considered to be a promising procedure in tackling developmental and management issues related to the oceans and seas, and thus issues related to coastal and marine tourism. Indeed the present paper argues over the significant role of MSP in organizing and planning coastal and marine tourism activities and especially in ensuring: a) good environmental conditions for the tourism industry to prosper, b) quality of seascapes and coastal landscapes and other resources of importance to tourism, c) adaptation to climate change effects, d) spatial regulations so that coastal and marine space is not overwhelmed by tourism facilities and activities and e) wise allocation of human uses in the coastal zone so as to avoid conflicts and create synergies among sectors.
•Coastal and marine tourism is threatened by sea-uses and infrastructure downgrading seascapes and landscapes.•Coastal and marine tourism is threatened by activities downgrading the coastal and marine environmental status.•M.S.P. can mitigate conflicts and create synergies between coastal and marine tourism with other human uses.•MSP can ensure that important tourism resources are wisely managed and protected.•MSP can wise allocate all human activities so as they can both prosper and limit their environmental impacts.
This paper examines progress in tourism planning and policy knowledge and identifies gaps and future directions for research. The study employs a post-structuralist perspective presented in two ...analytical movements: a bibliographic study of tourism policy and planning publications in Scopus and Science Direct and thematic analysis, plus an archaeological excavation. This combined approach pays attention to the disruptions, silences and diversity of knowledge in tourism policy and planning. It highlights the way tourism planning and policy has been problematized and reveals the social regularities shaping the production of tourism planning and policy knowledge. Multi-disciplinary, mainstream subjects related to destination development and management dominate while critical analysis of economic and political structures, interests and values is lagging. The results point to an urgent need to progress tourism planning and policy towards greater visibility, legitimacy and importance in tourism studies through more critical engagement with tourism public policy and planning practice.
•Progress in tourism planning and policy is assessed using a post-structural approach.•A thematic bibliographic analysis and a critical policy archaeology was used.•We reveal the constitutive grid of forces that shape policy knowledge.•Progress is shaped by problematization and social regularities.•A paradox of policy problematization is uncovered.
This study aims to address the critical challenge of enhancing safety within the domain of health and wellness tourism through the framework of sustainable travel design. Given the rising demand for ...secure and sustainable tourism experiences, this investigation explores the integration of safety considerations into the strategic planning and execution of tourist journeys. The central focus of this research revolves around the development and application of the Modified Reinforcement Learning-Artificial Multiple Intelligence System (MRL-AMIS). Operating within a multi-objective framework, the objective of this study is to optimize essential parameters encompassing environmental sustainability, economic viability, tourist preferences, and societal acceptability, with a specific emphasis on safety. The efficacy of the proposed methodology is rigorously evaluated across various tourist group scenarios, providing a comprehensive assessment of its applicability. Our computational analyses unequivocally demonstrate the superiority of the proposed approach in enhancing safety, surpassing existing methods such as genetic algorithms, differential evolution algorithms, particle swarm optimization, etc., by 15%-25%. These findings underscore the effectiveness of the proposed method in seamlessly integrating safety considerations into the realm of sustainable tourism planning. This study highlights the potential of the proposed method as an advanced tool in the strategic planning of sustainable tourism, particularly within the context of health and wellness tourism. It constitutes a significant contribution to the field of sustainable tourism by offering an innovative approach that prioritizes safety while upholding the principles of environmental stewardship, economic viability, and societal sustainability.
•MRL-AMIS enhances safe, eco-friendly wellness travel.•Study merges safety, preferences, and eco aspects in tourism.•MRL-AMIS tops others in dual-goal optimization.•Tackles multi-faceted trip planning complexities.•Offers advanced support for health tourism decisions.
Indicators are a fundamental tool for destinations in their progress towards a more sustainable tourism development. However, the lack of real progress and the accelerated technological change are ...obliging policy makers to rethink the existing indicator systems. This paper examines the relationship between smart cities and destinations and sustainable tourism indicators by analyzing proposals at different scales. It provides a critical review of international smart city standards and the role that sustainability indicators play within them. Then, it conducts a content analysis of planning instruments applied in smart strategies in Spain, focusing on how sustainability indicators are considered under the smart paradigm. At the regional-local scale, this research compares two sets of indicators and tests the scientific validity of one of them for addressing the imbalance suffered by many indicators between their usefulness for policy makers and their academic rigor. The results show that little progress has been achieved despite the appropriation of the sustainability discourse by smart city and smart destination promoters. These findings reveal the (limited) real contribution made by smart cities/destinations to sustainable tourism development and contribute to identifying weaknesses and opportunities so as to redirect smart policies and projects. A final discussion contextualizes the findings within the novel framework of smart sustainability and highlights the need to reinforce public governance of urban and tourist spaces.
The research aims to emphasise the significance of sustainable tourism and the topics it’s being associated with. It is also intended to analyse the shift in literature during the selected time. A ...bibliometric analysis was conducted on highly cited documents about the Topic “sustainable tourism” from 2017 to 2022, using the Web of Science database. The analysis involved examining the number of research papers, their respective journals, co-authorship, country of origin and keywords. The keywords “sustainable tourism”, “covid-19” and “tourism” were used more frequently in the 50 articles collected. The majority of the articles were published in 2020 and 2021, coinciding with the pandemic, which demonstrates the emerging focus on sustainability given by researchers in this period. By relying on a specific database and specifically selecting highly cited papers, the study was limited. However, preferring these papers aligns with the goal of this research. The literature review synthesises the themes and perspectives from different authors and the relevance given to sustainable tourism due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It identifies key trends and viewpoints in the field while recognising its limitations and provides visual information on the topic.
Film tourism has gained significant notoriety in recent years, emerging as a prominent phenomenon to promote destinations, attract visitors, and stimulate economic and social development. Despite the ...popularity of Portugal as a filming destination, the extent to which film tourism in Portugal is planned for and managed is currently unknown. Thus, this research examines the current provision and implementation of strategies to plan for and manage film tourism at a national and regional level in Portugal through a quantitative content analysis approach to existing tourism planning and management plans and strategies in Portugal. Findings revealed an overwhelming lack of planning provision for film tourism at national and regional levels. Although some regions appear to promote film tourism, no transparent efforts are being made to plan for or manage its development or impacts sustainably. As such, there is a need for a more strategic and sustainable approach to planning for and managing film tourism at regional and local levels. This could ensure that destinations harness, in the long-term, the multifaceted benefits that can be derived from film tourism while also ensuring that the negative implications of film tourism activities are minimised or mitigated to preserve the sustainability and competitiveness of the film tourism industry.
This conceptual paper develops and justifies a pro-active, design-driven approach to sustainable destination development. Using insights from design science, it helps explain the limited practical ...usability of concepts such as the Tourism Area Life Cycle, by noting that these often focus on an aggregated ‘topological’ level of destination design, while a focus on experiences and product development on a ‘typological’ and ‘morphological’ level is key to constitute change. The ‘Tourism Destination Design Roadmap’ is introduced, its potential to scrutinise ‘visitor flows’ is explored as well as ways in which it can contribute to developing desirable qualities in a destination, while minimising negative impacts. The paper concludes by highlighting its conceptual contribution and identifying directions for future research.
•Uses insights from design science to explain complexity of ‘managing’ tourism•Builds on ‘visitor flows’ to provide a pro-active destination design perspective•Presents and operationalises a roadmapping approach to tourism design•Discusses implications for sustainable tourism development in practice
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