Need for Service Design Development for Sustainable Rural Tourism in Azerbaijan

Heikkilä, Jonna; Poladova, Aytan; Kääriä, Juha

doi:10.2478/bjes-2014-0017

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“…The project's purpose is developing "agroecotourism" that will lead to further improvement of social welfare in villages, introduction of new job opportunities and alternative sales channels, and diversification of income for rural residents and small and medium-sized farms, as well as support for their family businesses (Ministry of Agriculture, 2019). In 2012, a similar project was also implemented by a joint initiative of two NGOs, one Azerbaijani and one Finnish, and Turku University of Applied Sciences, albeit on a smaller scale and with a focus on three villages, where capacity building for rural entrepreneurship on a PPP basis was the major aim (Heikkilä et al, 2014). According to DM2, such projects enable the farmers and their associates to engage in a business that is seasonally complementary to their agricultural activities, mutually adding value to the local supply chains of both sectors.…”

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“…completing fieldwork for the case study country, desk research, mainly based on policy documents (Administrative Department of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, 2013; Arnegger & Mayer, 2015; COMCEC Coordination Office, 2018a; b; Ministry of Agriculture, 2019; Ministry of Economy, 2017; 2019; State Housing Development Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan, 2016; State Tourism Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan, 2020), academic and grey literature(Altman, 2010;Elliott, 2019;Heikkilä et al, 2014; Ministry of Culture and Tourism, 2018; Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources and the National Academy ofSciences, 2013;Seyidov & Adomaitienė, 2016;Soltanova, 2015) and statistics (SESRIC, 2019; State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan, 2019; WTTC, 2019; UNESCO, 2019; 2020), was carried out.…”

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Managing Emerging Destinations: the Case of Azerbaijan

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This study aims to explore the evolution of governance frameworks in emerging destinations. The literature signals a continuum along which the frameworks move from state-led, formal governance to public-private-partnerships, where more flexible, market-driven systems are in play. In this study, an emerging tourism country, Azerbaijan, is analyzed in terms of its tourism development and institutionalization process. For this purpose, policy documents and six expert interviews were analyzed, followed by a validation process. The results revealed that the country is on the verge of rapid transitions regarding destination governance. Tourism has been prioritized on the political agenda for the past decade, and in the period from the declaration of 2011 as "Year of Tourism" to the COVID-19 pandemic, growth was registered in both supply and demand. Concordantly, institutional transformation has been initiated by launching the national Destination Management Organization (DMO) and three other regional DMOs, with new DMOs underway.

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Managing Emerging Destinations: the Case of Azerbaijan

Müller¹

2021

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“…According to the obtained results, rural tourism has a great impact on sustainable livelihood of indigenous people. For many years, rural tourism was implicated as a strategy towards development for rural areas (Heikkilä, Poladova, & Kääriä, 2014). From fishing in Norway to farming in West America, all are baits to attract tourists to rural areas (Macdonald & Jolliffe, 2003).…”

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The Effects of Rural Tourism on Sustainable Livelihoods (Case Study: Lavij Rural, Iran)

Kheiri

Nasihatkon²

2016

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Using a quantitative methodology and questionnaire, this study sought to evaluate the impacts of tourism on sustainable livelihoods of local people of Lavij rural in Iran. Data collected from 230 local residents of the study area were analyzed using Pearson’s correlation and linear regression. The results show that rural tourism has been able to play an effective role in sustainable livelihoods of people and there is a significant relationship between the development of rural tourism and sustainable livelihoods in Lavij. Rural tourism can predict a high percentage of changes in people’s livelihoods sustainability. Therefore, with a proper planning, rural tourism can be used to development of sustainable livelihoods, quality of people's lives, job opportunities and poverty reduction.

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“…Moreover, Sheki-Zagatala and two other economic regions, Astara-Lankaran and Absheron, were at the heart of a project aimed at creating rural businesses and services in order to attract tourists in these areas. This project, implemented in 2012-2014, raised several challenges, many issues of development in rural tourism were identified, and participation was considered crucial for the long-term future of eco-cultural tourism through the involvement of various stakeholders from small-scale entrepreneurs to national authorities (Heikkilä, Poladova & Kääriä, 2014). In the same perspective, based on a recent "smart region" paradigm (Garau, 2014), the territory of Mormilla on Italy's island of Sardegna, comprising 18 communes, was chosen as a case study to highlight how the development of sustainable rural tourism can indeed represent an important tool for strengthening and revitalizing lands that would otherwise not be competitive (Garau, 2015).…”

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Towards Tourism Sustainability: General Aspects and Empirical Evidence of the Italian Experience at Decentralized Level, with Specific Reference to Sicily

Cassar

Creaco

2016

Baltic Journal of European Studies

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Even though the concepts and observations underlying sustainability are not a novelty, sustainable development was given impetus and made popular in 1987 by the Brundtland Report. This report introduced development policies and strategies that acknowledged the importance of resource and environmental constraints and the limitations imposed on growth patterns. Although sustainable development proved difficult to define and make operative, the concept was progressively applied to those economic sectors which had major detrimental effects on income, employment and wealth. Sustainable tourism was effectively one part of the effort to take full account of the current and future economic, social and environmental impacts of the sector, addressing the needs of visitors, industry, environment and host communities. After reviewing the main questions referring to the environmental, economic and social aspects of tourism development, this paper tries to identify a balanced indicator showing the impact of tourist accommodation facilities and related infrastructure in Sicily in terms of the three fundamental pillars of sustainability. Based on this indicator, the ranking of the nine Sicilian provinces is provided. In a wider perspective, the proposed approach is applied to make a comparison of tourism sustainability in Sicily and in other Italian regions.

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Need for Service Design Development for Sustainable Rural Tourism in Azerbaijan

Cited by 4 publications

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Managing Emerging Destinations: the Case of Azerbaijan

Managing Emerging Destinations: the Case of Azerbaijan

The Effects of Rural Tourism on Sustainable Livelihoods (Case Study: Lavij Rural, Iran)

Towards Tourism Sustainability: General Aspects and Empirical Evidence of the Italian Experience at Decentralized Level, with Specific Reference to Sicily

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