Sustainable Tourism in the Open Innovation Realm: A Bibliometric Analysis

This study evaluates bibliometric analysis of sustainable tourism in the open innovation realm, depicts emerging themes, and offers critical discussion for theory development and further research. Through the use of bibliometrix, this paper investigates the amount of studies conducted in this area and verifies if such studies have represented a contribution to the evolving research in the field of sustainable tourism. Specifically, the paper identifies whether and to what extent scholars have explored these interconnections and maps to get to a conceptual structure of the field under investigation. The results identify the development status and the leading trends in terms of impact, main journals, papers, topics, authors, and countries. The analysis and the graphical presentations are crucial, as they can help both researchers and practitioners to better understand the state of the art of sustainable tourism in the experiential and digital era

Critical review of strategic planning research in hospitality and tourism

Strategic planning remains one of the most popular management tools, but theoretical and empirical developments in the academic literature have been a slow burn. This paper addresses this gap and provides an up-to-date review of hospitality and tourism strategic planning research. We review strategic planning research from 1995 to 2013 in seven leading tourism academic journals, and adopt a modern and broad conceptualization of strategic planning. While there is some awareness of effective tourism strategic planning processes, academic research has not kept pace with practice. To stimulate a resurgence of research interest, we provide future research directions. We observe a methodological introspection and present some new research methodologies, which are critically important in researching the turbulent, chaotic and nonlinear tourism environment

Memorable tourism experiences and their consequences : An interaction ritual (IR) theory approach

Tourism experiences, memories thereof, and their consequences tend to be analysed separately, often focusing on the individual’s perspective. This paper introduces Collins’ (2004) interaction ritual (IR) theory to develop a micro-sociological interpretation of these phenomena as interconnected elements of IR chains. A longitudinal qualitative study of a multi-cultural festival held in Italy, the Mondiali Antirazzisti (Anti-racist World Cup), is used to show how emotional experiences and patterns of collective action are reproduced by the returning attendees in their home communities through the trans-local appropriation of the event’s format. Findings lead to a revised model of IR chains to explain the trans-local dimension of transformational event tourism. The implications for wider application of IR theory within tourism are discussed

Collaborative schemes for anticipating negative impacts of the tourists\u27 visit

The purpose – The aim of this paper is to propose alternative schemes for anticipating possible negative impacts in nature-based tourism attractions. The area used as case study is called ‘Rammang-Rammang’, Maros regency of Indonesia. A new tourism attraction potentially reduces the quality of the environment and possibly impacts the socio-cultural life of the host people. Thus, it is necessary to investigate such impacts and recommend approaches or strategies that can tackle possible negative consequences of tourism activities. Design/methodology – This paper is based on a qualitative study conducted in 2015. Qualitative research is relevant in understanding the complexity of social life. Social research entails discovering the meanings that people assign to their reality. It is particularly appropriate in the case of developing destinations in areas not used to tourist visits, yet assumed to be eager to improve their well-being. Finding – The study reveals that the increasing numbers of visitors potentially degrade the quality of the environment. Although economic benefits are obtained by the host people, collaborative efforts by different stakeholders are required to tackle potential negative consequences. Originality of the research – Host people should be given knowledge to tackle negative impacts as well as skills for getting involved in tourism. This paper has developed two schemes for collaborative work among different stakeholders. This paper is expected to contribute to ideas and concepts about anticipation and mitigation of future negative impacts of the tourists’ visit when developing new nature-based tourism attractions

L’altérité et le tourisme : construction du soi et d’une identité sociale

This article examines one of the reasons why third world alterity is one of the motors of tourism. What do travelers seek when they visit those remote sites? A stop in a village built by the government of Myanmar where women with exotic cultural practices can be photographed led me to raise this question. Landscapes as much as spaces, including tourist destinations, are socially constructed to enable those who cross them to confirm their subjectivity. Looking at attitudes and practices of tourists and tour operators allows us to explore how exotic or everyday landscapes support selective self-identities and a hierarchy of social differentiations. Tourists do not look for true alterity but rather for the possibility of encountering its romantic mystery whose staging makes more familiar. The form of exoticism marketed by tourism is but a pale imitation of voyages of exploration of past centuries. However, it permits tourists who enjoy only short holidays, to construct some cultural capital while they work on maintaining their social hierarchical position relative to local residents and other visitors. Far from leading to an understanding of others, the staging of their alterity is used for self-identity construction and to justify such practices. These practices do remain constrained, however, by the social and cultural habitus of tourists, whatever their origins, and by the demands of international capital