Tourism and Heritage in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) uses an ethnographic lens to explore the dissonances associated with the commodification of Chornobyl’s heritage. The book considers the ...role of the guides as experience brokers, focusing on the synergy between tourists and guides in the performance of heritage interpretation. Banaszkiewicz proposes to perceive tour guides as important actors in the bottom-up construction of heritage discourse contributing to more inclusive and participatory approach to heritage management. Demonstrating that the CEZ has been going through a dynamic transformation into a mass tourism attraction, the book offers a critical reflection on heritagisation as a meaning-making process in which the resources of the past are interpreted, negotiated, and recognised as a valuable legacy. Applying the concepts of dissonant heritage to describe the heterogeneous character of the CEZ, the book broadens the interpretative scope of dark tourism which takes on a new dimension in the context of the war in Ukraine. Tourism and Heritage in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone argues that post-disaster sites such as Chornobyl can teach us a great deal about the importance of preserving cultural and natural heritage for future generations. The book will be of interest to academics and students who are engaged in the study of heritage, tourism, memory, disasters and Eastern Europe.
The Phenomenon of Tourism and Hospitality Industry Flavia Cut-Lupulescu; Ana-Mariana Dincu; Ioan-Constantin Borlovan
Lucrări științifice zootehnie şi biotehnologii,
09/2023, Volume:
47, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Open access
Tourism today is manifested as a distinct field of activity, with a more active presence in social and economic life evolving rhythms of the highest. Generator of profound transformations in social ...dynamics, tourism has also stated as a factor of progress and civilization, as a promoter of international relations and, more recently, the argument of globalization and sustainable development.
The development of technology, the comfort of air transport and the annual reduction in prices have been the motivating factors for tourists. Despite this motivation, travelling abroad is a cause for ...concern. One of the biggest sources of concern is the risk of a terrorist act. The country that wants to develop tourism must take various measures to prevent these problems. Initially, literature review was conducted in this study and it revealed how the terrorist acts affect the tourism industry in Turkey. At the same time, information on prevented terrorist acts in Azerbaijan has been given for years, with statistics showing how these events affect the number of tourists. In the end, recommendations were given on what measures could be taken in the future for sustainable tourism.
This study measures the convergence degree of the health tourism industry in 31 provinces and autonomous regions of China by input-output method and investigates the convergence driving force of the ...health tourism industry from five factors: economic growth, talent training, market perfection, technology input, and capital investment. The empirical study shows that the level of economic growth, talent training, market perfection, technology input, and capital investment all have a positive effect on the convergence of the health tourism industry in China. Moreover, K-cluster analysis is used to divide 31 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions into three types according to the measured convergence degree, and the five driving forces play different roles in different types of regions with different convergence degrees. For regions where the tourism industry and health industry are well integrated, the two industries can be integrated according to the demand by improving the market system. At the same time, talent training and technology input can also more effectively promote the convergence of the two industries. For regions where the tourism industry is well integrated with the health industry, strengthening capital investment and talent training can better promote the integration of the two industries. For regions where the health industry is well integrated with the tourism industry, by increasing capital investment, meeting market demand, and improving infrastructure investment, the industrial convergence can be promoted.
•Past pandemic crises operated mostly through idiosyncratic shocks' channels.•Expose domestic tourism sectors to large adverse shocks.•Private and public policy support must be coordinated to ...capacity building.•Corona vouchers, nautical tourism, social distance hospitality services, automation.•Recovery of the tourism industry worldwide will take more time than the average expected recovery.
Our paper is among the first to measure the potential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the tourism industry. Using panel structural vector auto-regression (PSVAR) (Pedroni, 2013) on data from 1995 to 2019 in 185 countries and system dynamic modeling (real-time data parameters connected to COVID-19), we estimate the impact of the pandemic crisis on the tourism industry worldwide. Past pandemic crises operated mostly through idiosyncratic shocks' channels, exposing domestic tourism sectors to large adverse shocks. Once domestic shocks perished (zero infection cases), inbound arrivals revived immediately. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, is different; and recovery of the tourism industry worldwide will take more time than the average expected recovery period of 10 months. Private and public policy support must be coordinated to assure capacity building and operational sustainability of the travel tourism sector during 2020–2021. COVID-19 proves that pandemic outbreaks have a much larger destructive impact on the travel and tourism industry than previous studies indicate. Tourism managers must carefully assess the effects of epidemics on business and develop new risk management methods to deal with the crisis. Furthermore, during 2020–2021, private and public policy support must be coordinated to sustain pre-COVID-19 operational levels of the tourism and travel sector.
With the development of communication and information technologies, smart tourism is gradually changing the tourism industry. Internet of Things (IoT) plays an important role in smart tourism. ...However, it is a challenge to apply IoT for smart tourism because of the need for dealing with a vast amount of data and low-latency communication. To this end, in this article, we outline 5G and AI-empowered IoT systems for smart tourism. Efficient data transmission based on 5G technology and smart data processing based on AI technology are significant to unlocking ioT based smart tourism applications. To demonstrate the superior performance of our proposed method, we perform a case study on POI recommendation. The experiment results demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of our proposed method.
The restaurant and hospitality industries are crucial socio-economic sectors that contribute immensely to the global economy. However, these sectors are vulnerable and sensitive to natural hazards ...such as the COVID-19 pandemic and any resultant economic downturns. This study investigates the impact of COVID-19 on the global restaurant industry using data from OpenTable and other sources. The study found that sit-in guests dropped to zero in many countries as governments across the world instituted social distancing initiatives, movement restrictions and lockdowns. COVID-19 also led to an unprecedented loss of employment and revenue, resulting in millions of jobs and billions of dollars in potential revenue lost. The work recommends extra-ordinary financial and other support measures for the sector. It further recommends a raft of safety and health protocols as the industry gradually reopens.
Drawing on social exchange theory and the service-dominant logic framework this paper explores the association between value co-creation and the willingness to engage in customer citizenship behavior ...in the hospitality and tourism context. Tourism and hospitality firms are increasingly offering opportunities for co-production and value-in-use not only to increase revisit and repurchase intentions but also to benefit from manifestations of customer citizenship behavior such as customer feedback, advocacy, customer-to-customer assistance and tolerance in less satisfactory future services. The paper offers a building block for future work to investigate the causal relationship between the dimensions of value co-creation (co-production and value-in-use) and customer citizenship behavior.
•Value co-creation is correlated with willingness to engage in customer citizenship behavior.•Value co-creation is correlated with guest satisfaction.•Guest satisfaction is correlated with willingness to engage in customer citizenship behavior.•Social exchange theory can explain the relationship between these variables.
Peer-to-peer markets, collectively known as the sharing economy, have emerged as alternative suppliers of goods and services traditionally provided by long-established industries. The authors explore ...the economic impact of the sharing economy on incumbent firms by studying the case of Airbnb, a prominent platform for short-term accommodations. They analyze Airbnb's entry into the state of Texas and quantify its impact on the Texas hotel industry over the subsequent decade. In Austin, where Airbnb supply is highest, the causal impact on hotel revenue is in the 8%-10% range; moreover, the impact is nonuniform, with lowerpriced hotels and hotels that do not cater to business travelers being the most affected. The impact manifests itself primarily through less aggressive hotel room pricing, benefiting all consumers, not just participants in the sharing economy. The price response is especially pronounced during periods of peak demand, such as during the South by Southwest festival, and is due to a differentiating feature of peerto-peer platforms--enabling instantaneous supply to scale to meet demand.
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•A TOE framework for analyzing tourism industry ecologization (TIE) was developed.•TIE depends on the configuration of technology, organization, and environment.•The fsQCA elucidated ...pathways for high and non-high levels of TIE.•Fiscal decentralization, industrial structure, and green coverage are key factors.•The optimization strategy of TIE needs to be contextualized.
Global tourism sustainability goals call for a higher tourism industry ecologization (TIE) level. Previous studies have focused on TIE’s conceptual definition and assessment framework but have not yet to explore its driving mechanisms. This study builds an analytical framework for TIE based on the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework. It proposes that TIE depends not on a single condition but on the configurational effects of technology, organization, and environment. Using Getis-Ord Gi* to analyze the spatial distribution of TIE and then fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to analyze the effect of conditions on TIE, the results show that: 1) From 2011 to 2019, the level of TIE in 30 Chinese provinces is generally stable, but its spatial distribution varies. 2) There are three configurations to achieve high TIE levels: green drive, organization pull environment, and comprehensive conditions drive. Moreover, there are two configurations to achieve not-high TIE levels: comprehensive conditions miss and organization-environment miss. 3) Fiscal decentralization and industrial structure are the main conditions for high levels of TIE, and low green cover is the primary condition for non-high levels of TIE. The impact of technology innovation capacity and digital economy development level on TIE depends on specific combinations of conditions. This study provides a valuable reference for tourism destination managers coordinating technical, organizational, and environmental conditions to promote TIE according to local conditions.
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