A comparative study on the effect of soundscape and landscape on tourism experience

Abstract

This paper explores how soundscape and landscape influences tourism experience by the cases of Leshan Giant Buddha and Mount Emei, China. Results show that there is a mutually positive relationship between soundscape perception and landscape perception; soundscape perception indirectly affect tourism experience through “the congruence between soundscape and landscape”; and only landscape can directly affect shallow experience. This study also brings implications for tourism research and practice: soundscape should be given more attention as it can significantly affect the tourism experience, and relevant industrial sectors can improve tourism experiences through the design or control of soundscape.

Estimating the Economic Value of Soundscapes in Nature-Based Tourism Destinations: A Separation Attempt of a Pairwise Comparison Method

“…Finally, the separation coefficient of the Qiantang River tide soundscape can be obtained by multiplying the two factors. Currently, there are few related research results, and most studies focus on the differences between soundscapes and visual landscapes in tourism experiences [27]. Therefore, this study improved the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) [67], collected score data of the first three impressive landscapes and senses listed by the subjects, compiled the mathematical calculation program by using database technology, calculated the proportions of the Qiantang River tide and soundscape, and finally obtained a reasonable soundscape separation coefficient.…”

“…First, in the context of gradual attention to soundscapes, the problems of reasonably assessing the economic value of soundscapes and how to separate the value of soundscapes from the overall landscape value of the scenic area have not been effectively solved [27]. The first innovation of this study was to try to apply the pairwise comparison method to the separation of a soundscape from the whole landscape, and to improve the test method of the validity of the separation coefficient when the data consistency test index is difficult to apply.…”

“…The study of soundscape has been gradually extended to the fields of ecology [18,19], urban and rural planning [20,21], geography [22,23], and tourist experiences [24,25]. Under the background that "multisensory" tourism experiences receive more attention, soundscapes play an increasingly important role in scenic planning and sustainable development [26]; therefore, the proportions of the soundscapes in overall economic value of scenic spot resources need further study, and a separation method has not been well established [27].…”

Satisfaction Factors That Predict Loyalty in Ecotourism: A Study of Foreign Tourism in Costa Rica

“…The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) index and the Bartlett sphericity test were used to determine if it was appropriate perform factor analysis [85].…”

Ciberconfigurações para a Gestão Sustentável de Experiências Turísticas Focadas no Patrimônio Biocultural

“…Desde o início deste século, a oferta de experiências turísticas atraentes, satisfatórias, extraordinárias ou memoráveis no setor também significou um interesse renovado em seu estudo, ligando-os a vários aspectos e variáveis do turismo, entre muitos documentos publicados, podemos citar os de Uriely, Yonay e Simchai (2002), Wickens (2002), Quan e Wang (2004), Govers (2005), Obenour, et al (2006, Jennings e Polovitz (2006), Gelter (2010), Moscardo, (2010), da Costa, et al (2010, Small e Darcy (2011), Frochot e Wided (2013), Prebensen, Chen e Uysal (2014), De Bruin e Jelinčić (2016), Eide, Fuglsang e Sundbo (2017), Gardiner e Scott (2018), Calleja e Gonzalez, 2018;Bec, et al (2019), He, et al (2019 De fato, a produção acadêmica em torno do tema tem sido tão profusa que já existem trabalhos abundantes focados em revisões, reorientações e precisões sobre as formas e maneiras necessárias para investigá-lo em profundidade, algumas delas, as de Lengkeek (2001), Ryan (2002), Uriely (2005) Tussyadiah (2014), Kim (2014), Adhikari e Bhattacharya (2016) e Estaregue 2017).…”