A Self-Evaluation System of Quality Planning for Tourist Attractions in Taiwan: An Integrated AHP-Delphi Approach from Career Professionals

Chen, Luan; Ng, Eric; Huang, Shyh Chang; Fang, Wei

doi:10.3390/su9101751

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“…However, the integration of technology within a tourism destination is not the sole condition for becoming smart, and thus the goal is to integrate the whole range of smartness components. For that, ICTs should be complemented with information provided by experts, including government officials and researchers, in order develop an evaluation system for quality management in tourist attractions [71]. Nevertheless, smart tourism draws attention to some issues regarding information governance [72] and appropriately extracting the value of information.…”

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Identifying Tourist Places of Interest Based on Digital Imprints: Towards a Sustainable Smart City

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Abstract:As cities become increasingly complex, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) bring smartness into organisations and communities, contributing to a more competitive tourism destination, i.e., smart tourism destinations. Enhanced information access coupled with a new kind of tourists avid for online content and predisposed to share information on social media, allows for a better understanding of tourist behaviour regarding their spatial distribution in urban destinations. Thus, smart tourism portrays individuals as information makers, refining the available alternatives for tracking their location. Big data analytics is a technology with the potential to develop Smart City services. From the analysis of the spatial distribution of tourists in the city of Lisbon based on data collected from the 'Panoramio' social network, we identify the most popular places in the city in a context of tourist visits. This new data largely contributes to understanding the consumption of space within urban tourist destinations and therefore enables us to differentiate the overcrowded places from the ones with potential to grow. This allows decision-makers to imagine new ways of planning and managing towards a sustainable 'smart' future.

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Identifying Tourist Places of Interest Based on Digital Imprints: Towards a Sustainable Smart City

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“…The method was first developed by RAND Corporation in the 1960s to explore ideas and seek consensus among a panel of experts [35,36]. Nowadays, the method is widely used in a variety of sectors, such as nursing studies [37]; marketing [38]; tourism [39]; urban studies [40]; and education [41]. Given the exploratory nature of this study, using the Delphi method was an appropriate way to address the research goals.…”

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Research as a Base for Sustainable Development of Universities: Using the Delphi Method to Explore Factors Affecting International Publishing among Vietnamese Academic Staff

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In recent years, the Vietnamese government has put significant effort into the internationalization of research in the higher education system via the use of international publications (i.e., publications indexed by citation databases such as ISI Web of Science and Scopus) in evaluating their academic staff and doctoral students. Academic staff in Vietnam, who traditionally have low numbers of international publications, have thus been pushed to improve their competencies in order to meet the new requirements for research productivity. However, we have little understanding of the factors influencing international publication as perceived by Vietnamese academic staff. This study aims to fill the gap by using the Delphi method. Academic staff with at least one international publication were invited, via purposeful sampling, to participate in a two-round Delphi survey. The survey revealed 14 key factors, which were further classified into three dimensions: "policy-related factors," "capability-related factors," and "networking-related factors". These factors were the key determinants in the success of international publishing, according to the study participants. The findings provide implications for policymakers and university leaders for enhancing the research capacities of Vietnamese universities, forming a basis for the sustainable development of the higher education sector in Vietnam.

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“…Moreover, the Delphi method was used alone [90,98,99,[103][104][105][106] or with other quantitative and/or qualitative investigative instruments, for example, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) [91,94,95,107], Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) [94,[107][108][109][110][111][112][113][114], cluster analysis [92,115,116] or Nominal Group Technique (NGT) [117][118][119][120][121]. NGT aims at building consensus among different stakeholders belonging to a group [114] and it is useful when difficulties in identifying problems and their solution within a community or group occur [122].…”

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Tourism Development in Inner Mountain Areas—The Local Stakeholders’ Point of View through a Mixed Method Approach

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Tourism in inner areas, especially in the mountains, is a complex phenomenon due to the different tourist’s needs and to the specific local features that vary considerably from one destination to another. Consequently, a unique tourism development strategy cannot be defined and adopted anywhere. When considering tourism-based territorial development in mountain areas, it is crucial to take the vision of local stakeholders into consideration. To drive different and/or unexpressed opinions towards shared tools, this study analyses the local stakeholder’s point of view using a mixed method consisting of a Delphi method followed by a Group Nominal Technique. The research was performed in Soana Valley, a small mountain community in the Northwestern Italian Alps. It involved 17 local stakeholders divided into three main groups—local administrators (n = 3), hospitality operators (9) and retailers (5). Results show how operators converge on three common aspects—local food product offering, territorial promotion and collaboration among operators, on which the community should focus to build a territorial integrated tourism offering.

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A Self-Evaluation System of Quality Planning for Tourist Attractions in Taiwan: An Integrated AHP-Delphi Approach from Career Professionals

Cited by 41 publications

References 98 publications

Identifying Tourist Places of Interest Based on Digital Imprints: Towards a Sustainable Smart City

Identifying Tourist Places of Interest Based on Digital Imprints: Towards a Sustainable Smart City

Research as a Base for Sustainable Development of Universities: Using the Delphi Method to Explore Factors Affecting International Publishing among Vietnamese Academic Staff

Tourism Development in Inner Mountain Areas—The Local Stakeholders’ Point of View through a Mixed Method Approach

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