An integrative framework to evaluate impacts of complex tourism change initiatives

Roodbari, Hamid; Olya, Hossein

doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2023.104829

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“…This holistic stakeholder approach, well known and used in regional development projects, is now at the heart of sustainable tourism management (Muzy & Furt, 2022). More recently, Roodbari & Olya (2024) have reaffirmed the relevance of this global approach to tourism transformations, demonstrating that considering the 'sustained perceived value' of each stakeholder is the key to maintaining their commitment throughout the transformation process.…”

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“…At the local level, the key point of the alignment method requires understanding the trade-offs between stakeholders' brakes and levers. Thus, following the prescriptions of Roodbari & Olya (2024), we have highlighted how the perceived value (Rivière & Mencarelli, 2012) of each of the stakeholders is an essential element for identifying the conditions of engagement of actors in a collective process of resolving tensions in tourist territories. As explained by Barnard (1995), the environment of the actors strongly influences individual decision-making: each tourism stakeholder takes a position according to its context and what it perceives as its interest (Crozier & Friedberg, 1977).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Can Renewed Tensions of Tourist Areas Be Resolved? The Key Issue of Stakeholders’ Alignment

Caudan

2024

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Tensions in tourist areas (over-visiting, waste management, traffic jams, conflicts of use, etc.) raise fundamental questions about sustainable development, the distribution of wealth, social justice, cultural identity and inclusion. Paradoxically, few decisions are taken to resolve these tensions, despite the dissatisfaction of all tourism stakeholders. The aim of this study is to help resolve the tensions in tourism areas by identifying a global method for aligning stakeholders. We conducted 72 interviews with all the tourism stakeholders in two very different tourist areas (Brittany and Bali) and used the concepts of sustainable tourism, stakeholders and strategic alignment. The results show that (1) the stakeholders, whether in favour of tourism development or not, all agree on the need to resolve the tensions in the tourist areas; (2) the obstacles and levers of the stakeholders play a decisive role in their commitment to collectively resolving the tensions in the tourist areas; (3) the existing data on tourist numbers are the subject of debate among the stakeholders and slow down the commitment to concrete action. Our conclusions are encouraging, since tensions in tourist areas constitute a problem like any other, which makes it possible to envisage a global methodology for aligning stakeholders. However, the subject of tourist numbers remains a stumbling block in the project to resolve tourism tensions in these areas. Three avenues of research are proposed to help overcome this dead end: integrating the notion of perceived value into measures of tourist numbers in tourist areas, mobilising participatory science to increase the potential of measures of tourist numbers, and adapting the technological acceptance model to tourist numbers.

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Section: Literature Review Stakeholder Theory For Sustainable and Inc...mentioning

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Section: The Brakes and Levers Of The Stakeholders Are Classic Identi...mentioning

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Can Renewed Tensions of Tourist Areas Be Resolved? The Key Issue of Stakeholders’ Alignment

Caudan

2024

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“…We advise using an effective evaluation model (e.g. ToCRESA) to track the change of complex projects aimed at mitigating the negative impacts of the hospitality and tourism industry on climate change (Roodbari and Olya, 2024). It is imperative to consider the two-way impacts between climate change and the hospitality and tourism industry.…”

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Ethical consumption and climate change in hospitality and tourism: challenges, solutions, and prospects: Guest editorial

Taheri,

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Batat

2024

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“…To explore new initiatives related to tourists' experiences between cities and their tourism activities such as at theme parks and museums, first, DMOs need to analyse tourists' preferences, and then design digital marketing campaigns that can improve the sustainability of the tourism industry in cities [37,38]. DMOs must monitor how residents and tourists acquire information through DMOs' websites and apps to improve cities' tourism supply at both their origin and destination [39].…”

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Analysis of Latin American Theme Parks in a Tourism Context

Florido-Benítez

2024

Tourism and Hospitality

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The main goal of this manuscript is to analyse Latin American theme parks as tourist attractions for stimulating future tourism demand after the pandemic crisis. The methodology used in this study is a set of qualitative and quantitative indicators for measuring the most visited Latin American parks from 2011 to 2022 and where they are localised to address the importance of the location of these theme parks and the cities in which they are operating. The results reveal that Latin American parks such as Six Flags Mexico, Beto Carrero World, Hopi Hari, La Feria de Chapultepec and Parque Xcaret are tourist attractions that promote and improve the tourism industry in Latin American cities, and their entertainment activities attract millions of visitors each year. One of the most important findings from this study is that the bus is the primary and most efficient (regarding travel time) mode of transportation in the cities analysed, as well as that there is a high correlation between the success of tourist attractions, their accessibility by plane and on land and their distance to Latin American cities. Moreover, this research constitutes an empirical illustration of the importance of theme parks in cities as tourist attractions and provides a new emerging contribution to the literature on the relationship between theme parks and the means of transportation at tourist destinations.

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An integrative framework to evaluate impacts of complex tourism change initiatives

Cited by 11 publications

References 94 publications

Can Renewed Tensions of Tourist Areas Be Resolved? The Key Issue of Stakeholders’ Alignment

Can Renewed Tensions of Tourist Areas Be Resolved? The Key Issue of Stakeholders’ Alignment

Ethical consumption and climate change in hospitality and tourism: challenges, solutions, and prospects: Guest editorial

Analysis of Latin American Theme Parks in a Tourism Context

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