Measuring the Economic Impact of Rural Tourism Membership on Local Economy: A Korean Case Study

Shin, Hio-Jung; Kim, Hyun No; Son, Jae-Young

doi:10.3390/su9040639

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“…This fact highlights the importance of social capital. This result is well reflected in the literature [93]. This is extremely important for increasing the attractiveness of wine tourism, because in this way visitors can experience different wine types and other tourism services.…”

Section: Wine Tourism Development and Sustainabilitysupporting

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Building Coalitions for a Diversified and Sustainable Tourism: Two Case Studies from Hungary

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The development of the tourism sector has been a question of strategic importance for Hungary, a small, open economy with limited natural resources. At the same time, these efforts often generate considerable environmental conflicts, decreasing the sustainability of the environment. To understand the potential methods of sustainable tourism development, and to develop the optimal policy, it is essential to clarify the actors, their systems of interest and the potential ways of forging coalitions between them. The article presents an analysis of two case studies of rural tourism development: the "softening" of tourism at the most important touristic attraction in Hungary, Lake Balaton; and the conflicts arising from wine tourism development. Based on institutional economics, principle-agent theory and strategic management, and applying the MACTOR method, the authors identify the key actors, present the network of their mutual influences and goals, determine the most important conflicts and highlight the potential coalitions between them from the point of view of sustainable rural tourism development, as well as ways to further develop the regulatory environment. Based on this analysis, the article proves: (1) the importance of the modernization and reorganization of the public administration structure, focusing on optimal utilization of resources, as opposed to attaching to traditions; (2) the importance of forming clusters of different partners; (3) the strengthening of the knowledge base of decisions concerning sustainable tourism management; and (4) increasing conscious planning, based on the inclusion of different interest groups and long-term prognoses in local decision making, minimises the environmental burden of tourism.

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Section: Wine Tourism Development and Sustainabilitysupporting

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Building Coalitions for a Diversified and Sustainable Tourism: Two Case Studies from Hungary

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“…Hio-Jung et al [10] examined households' preferences for rural tourism experience in association with sales of local agricultural products. Using a choice experiment method developed by experimental designs, they examined households' preferences to trade off purchasing costs of local agricultural products against various benefits provided by the rural tourism membership.…”

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“…Supported by this act, rural communities which have plentiful tourism resources are provided with various supporting systems for systematic tourism planning in order to revitalize those local areas [10]. Nevertheless, rural tourism has frequently been found to under-deliver with regard to expected economic benefits.…”

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“…This can result in generating more wealth and income in rural areas by means of enhancing sales of local products and farm profits since the creation of regional income relies on how well the quality of tourism services is managed in tourism sites. Shin et al [10] investigated the economic effect of rural tourism membership on a rise in sales of agricultural products. However, few studies have, to my knowledge, been conducted focusing on rural tourism choice in the perspective of a socio-economic preference in South Korea.…”

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The Economic Valuation of Change in the Quality of Rural Tourism Resources: Choice Experiment Approaches

Kim

2018

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This study examined tourists' preferences for the change in the quality of rural tourism resources in Korea. This study measured tourists' satisfaction levels about their recent tourism experience in a stated preference mechanism to estimate the economic value of qualitative improvement associated with tourism resources. Using a pivot-style experimental design approach in developing the choice experiment, this study estimated econometric models that allow for flexible structures in error components of the utility function. The results revealed that the welfare impacts of increase in satisfaction levels for tourism resources appear to be substantial. Among tourism resources, the households are more sensitive for the change in the quality of local amenities than other tourism resources. Total aggregated benefits generated by the improvement of satisfaction levels for local amenities make up 17.9-18.1% of the total tourism costs. This suggests that the continuous efforts to enhance the quality of tourism resources in rural areas and attract and satisfy rural tourists are important and necessary for the sustainability of rural economies.

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“…Tourism is known to have a far more visible effect in rural areas and developing countries than in urban and developed ones, and perhaps a greater effect on rural residents [14]. Moreover, tourism generates impacts on other sectors related to sustainable development, such as the local agriculture [15]. In both developed and less-economically developed nations, public sector attention has increasingly focused on the perceived economic benefits of tourism, which has progressively been adopted as a vehicle for the regeneration of rural areas suffering economic decline or deprivation [16][17][18][19][20][21].…”

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Assessment of the Tourism’s Potential as a Sustainable Development Instrument in Terms of Annual Stability: Application to Spanish Rural Destinations in Process of Consolidation

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Tourism has established itself as an instrument that supports the sustainable development of rural destinations and has both, negative and positive effects. The annual instability of the flow of visitors, known as tourist seasonality, contributes to the intensification of some of these negative effects. In this work, we perform an analysis on the evolution of the seasonality intensity during the process of consolidation of the Spanish rural destinations, designed to improve the knowledge about the tourist activity's capacity to generate a sustainable development alternative steady throughout the year. To guarantee an accurate measurement, we propose the use of a synthetic indicator as a methodological innovation, such as the Method of Distance Pena DP2, that brings together the supply and demand variables. We can observe that tourist seasonality is restrained in smaller destinations that experience a growth in terms of tourists' arrivals, so it is associated with the early stages of the consolidation process. However, the destinations with a lower seasonality level do not match with those that welcome a larger number of visitors. Those destinations with the potential to obtain more benefits because of their level of consolidation do not have the necessary annual stability to provide employment and income in a steady way throughout the year.

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Measuring the Economic Impact of Rural Tourism Membership on Local Economy: A Korean Case Study

Cited by 25 publications

References 22 publications

Building Coalitions for a Diversified and Sustainable Tourism: Two Case Studies from Hungary

Building Coalitions for a Diversified and Sustainable Tourism: Two Case Studies from Hungary

The Economic Valuation of Change in the Quality of Rural Tourism Resources: Choice Experiment Approaches

Assessment of the Tourism’s Potential as a Sustainable Development Instrument in Terms of Annual Stability: Application to Spanish Rural Destinations in Process of Consolidation

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