Tourism planning is a vital link in tourism. Compared with the traditional tourism planning based on experience, it is more scientific and reasonable to formulate through mathematical modeling ...methods. This paper mainly studies the construction of tourism planning information system based on ant colony(AC) algorithm. In the solution process, for the problems with more attractions, you need to divide the area first, then solve each area separately, and then transform the result of the solution into the regional self-driving tour route planning, and finally form a self-driving tour route planning. The experiments in this article found that most of the area tour time is closer to 15 days, which reduces the number of outings in a year and effectively reduces the round-trip time. In this paper, the system construction of self-driving tour route planning problems and ideas for solving specific problems are suitable for route planning in scenic spots or scenic spots, and have certain reference value.
This study is premised on the idea that sporting events have been used as part of strategic tourism development, particularly for the domestic tourism market. The study examines the nature and ...characteristics of domestic sport tourism in Central Africa using the context of Cameroon. Using data collected from event attendees (n=963) across multiple events within various time frames, and interviews conducted with 16 key stakeholders involved in sport and tourism, the key findings from this enquiry revealed that many of the domestic sport tourists are educated and employed youth, who travel to different provinces from urban cities and are motivated by both the sport and VFR intentions. They tended to link the event attendance with other commitments with friends and relatives as well as trading and business endeavours in the informal business sector. Thus, the study contributes to an enhanced understanding of domestic sports tourism, especially within the Central African region underscoring its significance as a sector with potential to further harness domestic tourism benefits for host destinations.
Rural tourism has been used to revitalize traditional villages by integrating creative tourism service facilities. This paper focuses on the role of physical bookstores as a significant tourism ...service facility in rural China. In urban settings, physical bookstores have faced numerous challenges, leading them to evolve into new forms and offer immersive experiences to visitors. Bookstores have also ventured into traditional Chinese villages that leads to rural revitalization. Despite the evidence of rural tourism initiated by bookstores, it received little attention in academia. This paper aims to propose the concept of bookstore-led rural tourism, investigates its tourism development process and impacts on rural communities. Three bookstore villages were selected as case studies and the research was conducted using qualitative and inductive approaches. The findings confirm that (1) rural bookstores play a leading role in the rural tourism development process through the three stages; (2) bookstore-led rural tourism also revitalizes traditional Chinese villages at the material, social, and spiritual levels, with rural bookstores playing a crucial role in shaping rural identity. This paper recommends that the application of bookstore-led rural tourism to revitalize traditional villages using a holistic approach should be valued in future research studies and real-life practice.
Recent research underlines the importance of understanding the tourist destination as a demand-driven construct. Visitors activate different configurations of supply elements that produce a complex ...and dynamic fabric referred to as a space of flows. Today, we have the means to understand how these flows shape the evolution and gestalt of tourist places. This article proposes a new framework combining three concepts and related foundational theories: visitor flows, trajectories, and corridors. In tandem, they describe how tourism manifests itself in space and time. Trip decision, trip execution, and tourist performance unfold through social mechanisms generating the totality of visitor flows. Stakeholders must understand how visitor flows in their destinations emerge and evolve in order to decide on specific design interventions.
•Visitors assemble during their trips their destination experience.•Corridors make visitors generate traceable trajectories.•Trajectories collectively produce visitor flows.•All of this takes place in continuous situations of decisions.
Local participation is essential in rural tourism development in the Philippines. However, as technology becomes a critical factor in the digital transformation of the rural tourism paradigm, local ...participation evolves into local community empowerment. How does this local community empowerment affect the transition through digital transformation? The stakeholder engagement theory was utilized to ensure the relevance of the selected informants' roles and responsibilities in the local community empowerment process. Using a purposive sample of local tourism stakeholders engaged in the digital transformation functions and responsibilities, a semi-structured interview was conducted to describe the role of local community empowerment towards a more effective digital transformation of rural tourism development. The findings revealed that as residents engage in the digital transformation process, residents are empowered based on individual, gender, political, and social aspects. Individual empowerment constitutes the improvement of technical capabilities and setting higher goals, while gender empowerment leads to gender equality specialization and breaking the glass ceiling. Political empowerment was attained through the boosting of their influence and the taking of a decision-maker role. In contrast, social empowerment promotes building industry networks and implementing a family-centric approach. This study contributes to the academic landscape on rural tourism development that determined specific factors of community empowerment essential in the digital transformation of tourism management processes.
•Residents were empowered based on individual, gender, political, and social aspects due to digital transformation.•Individual empowerment allows the improvement of technical capabilities and setting of higher goals.•Political empowerment boosts the influence of residents while taking the decision-maker role in rural tourism development.
This study aims to identify the barriers to stakeholder involvement during the planning process of sustainable tourism development of the Thrace region in Turkey. The dimensions analyzed to assess ...these barriers included stakeholder awareness of critical issues and the current state of tourism, their knowledge of sustainable tourism principles, and their vision of the planning process and effective governance models for their region. The research is based on quantitative and qualitative data obtained from leading stakeholders through workshops. The integration of respondents' individual opinions and group consensus results indicates that lack of institutional structures for effective collaboration and leadership hinders stakeholders' participation in the planning process. Additionally, stakeholders' narrow vision, lack of strategic orientation and financial focus based on self-interest may impede the realization of sustainable tourism despite the local community's involvement in the planning process.
•Lack of institutional structures for collaboration hinders stakeholders' involvement.•Effective leadership mechanisms independent from political authority are needed.•Stakeholders show an outcome-rather than process-based approach to planning.•Stakeholder involvement might not lead to sustainable tourism development.•Narrow economic focus and lack of strategic vision might hinder sustainability.
Tourism saturation and unsustainability have been studied in urban political ecology. Both of these problems are inseparable from tourism planning and they have resulted in proposed solutions based ...on growth containment and even degrowth. These types of measures have been applied to varying degrees in mature coastal destinations in Spain since the 1990s, and they are currently being used for the country's main urban destinations due to problems generated by tourism saturation. This study examines the progressive incorporation of these measures in territorial tourism planning in Spain and it points out that the traditional emphasis on urban-tourism growth is declining and that more restrictive policies are now being implemented. This shift is illustrated through the analysis of three innovative territorial tourism planning instruments in Barcelona, the Balearic Islands and the Autonomous Region of Valencia. These ostensibly progressive processes suffer from crippling contradictions due to their inability to directly confront the capitalist accumulation model underlying the tourism growth they address. Consequently, much stronger measures capable of transcending this accumulation model in pursuit of genuine, and fair degrowth without systemic constraints are needed.
The paper examines the political and social realities of China pertaining to its pro-poor rural tourism policies. It provides a discussion of those policies by drawing on an analysis of changes in ...the village of Qiyunshan, which is being developed as a tourist destination by the Huangshan authorities. It contextualises the wider policies of current rural reforms under the Xi and Li regime within the specificities of the experiences of this village based upon two sets of observations, (a) one based on several visits over a period of years and (b) a more structured period of participant observations by the first author since 2011. It points to the increased role of state owned enterprises under the Xi regime while highlighting specific differences between different actors in the process of transition toward becoming a major tourist destination.
•The paper describes and assesses Chinese rural tourism policies.•The case is based on research completed between 2009 and 2015.•The case study is a Daoist village of antiquity set in Danxia landscape.•The paper addresses the interests of differing stakeholders.•The paper examines role of corporate capital in Chinese rural tourism.
This research focuses on residents' perceptions of personal benefits from tourism, identifying not only the relationships between personal benefits from tourism and residents' attitudes toward ...tourism but also the nature of benefits associated with tourism. The study was conducted in a small rural community where tourism is still at its emerging stage. It was found that residents' perceptions of personal benefits from tourism were closely associated with their attitudes toward tourism in a positive direction. The significant contribution of this study falls on the recognition of noneconomic perspective of tourism benefits for residents in a community where tourism has not yet explicitly emerged. In particular, the data lend support for social exchange theory and improve its understanding in tourism investigations.
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