Positioning spice tourism as an emerging form of special interest tourism: perspectives and strategies

Nair, Bipithalal Balakrishnan; Mohanty, Patita Paban

doi:10.1186/s42779-021-00086-4

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“…In addition, despite the global health crisis, gastronomy tourism can still be booming and the gastronomy experience is still essential. Specifically, studies have addressed issues such as the influence of risk perception on destination visiting intention (Dedeo glu et al, 2022), the domestic market in the post-COVID-19 era (Fountain, 2021) and medical benefits and immune-boosting properties (Nair and Mohanty, 2021). Nevertheless, as stated by Everett (2019, p. 9): Food tourism research is still very much on a journey and has much still to offer, therefore I urge scholars to consider adding new empirical contributions which analyze new aspects of this form of tourism activity.…”

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Affective components of gastronomy tourism: measurement scale development and validation

Hsu

Liu

Lin

2022

IJCHM

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Purpose Our knowledge of what emotions are elicited explicitly from food consumption and gastronomy experiences in the travel destination and how these emotions establish a relationship with tourists’ behavior is limited. Thus, this study aims to enrich the current knowledge in the gastronomy tourism field from the affective experience perspective and develop a scale to measure tourists’ affective gastronomy experiences (TAGES). Design/methodology/approach Both qualitative scale development and quantitative scale validation were conducted to ensure the psychometric properties of TAGES. Findings With the focus group’s contributions and experts’ validation, 12 gastronomy experience affects were identified in the first stage. In the second stage, a quantitative data collection involving 650 samples helped refine the scale. Finally, a reliable and valid scale with five items measuring TAGES was successfully developed. Originality/value This study provides a novel perspective by viewing tourists’ gastronomy experiences through an affective lens. Moreover, this study successfully provides evidence for the psychometric properties of the newly developed TAGES by systematically applying item response theory (IRT) and classical test theory (CTT). This study enriches the gastronomy tourism domain by developing the TAGES and presenting a rigorous and exhaustive investigation of its psychometric properties based on an integration of IRT and CTT. A valid and reliable scale that measures the TAGES fills the gastronomy literature gap and proposes an effective tool for future gastronomy experience studies.

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Section: Literature Review 21 Gastronomy Tourism and Destination Gast...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Affective components of gastronomy tourism: measurement scale development and validation

Hsu

Liu

Lin

2022

IJCHM

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“…The eruption of COVID-19 has widely affected the sustainability of the tourism industry and has had wide-ranging impacts on destinations [35,36], bringing global tourism activities to a halt [37]. The occurrence of crises has unprecedentedly transformed the reality of tourist destinations worldwide by producing an unusual scenario of undertourism [5,[38][39][40].…”

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“…COVID-19 ceased the global tourism activities and caused a paradigm shift from over-tourism to under-tourism or zero tourism. [5,15,37] 2.…”

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Tourism Sustainability and COVID-19 Pandemic: Is There a Positive Side?

Seabra

Bhatt

2022

Sustainability

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The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the tourism industry like never before, resulting in massive losses of revenue and jobs around the world. Accordingly, the pandemic exacerbated the already existing sustainability challenges of the tourism industry. However, there is also a positive side of the pandemic which is often overlooked by international scholarship. Thus, the present study aims to review the extant literature in the area of COVID-19 and the tourism industry’s sustainability and resilience in future crises. Through a synthesis of secondary data, it was possible to bring attention to the negative as well as the positive effects of COVID-19 on the global tourism industry. This article contributed to a better understanding of the positive side of the pandemic in terms of rethinking, resetting, and redefining the industry in a more sustainable way. The study lays out a conceptual framework for tourism managers and destination planners to identify the pandemic as an opportunity and adopt sustainable solutions to deal with the post-pandemic challenges, thereby developing more sustainable and resilient tourism businesses and destinations.

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“…Several tourism scholars suggest that in a post-COVID-19 environment tourism is likely to see mobility patterns which are marked by a shift away from large group travel to a preference for smaller groups where the risk of catching an infection is reduced (Chebli and Said, 2020). Indeed, as an outcome of the risk perceptions surrounding COVID-19 the tourism sector is projected to see an expansion in various forms of special interest or 'niche travel' which will be driven primarily by the confidence of travelling in smaller groups and less risk-prone environments (Nair and Mohanty, 2021). COVID-19 introduces the opportunity to investigate tourism offerings in which smaller-scale, controlled and operated niche products can be established to satisfy the changing demands and needs of consumers.…”

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African Tourism in Uncertain Times: Covid-19 Research Progress

Rogerson¹,

Economics²,

Rogerson³

2021

GTG

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COVID-19 is a trigger event which is changing the complexion of African tourism and the directions of African tourism research. This article offers an overview and commentary on the state of African research produced during the uncertain times of 2020-2021 in specific response to the immediate impacts and changes which have been catalysed by the pandemic. The article is a progress report to capture and profile the body of focussed contributions on COVID-19 and tourism which have appeared for sub-Saharan Africa. Further, it is a contribution towards strengthening our understanding of tourism and change in the Global South. Overall, the discussion serves to highlight an emerging African scholarship which is engaged on a range of issues around three core themes of ramification, adaptation and transformation.

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Positioning spice tourism as an emerging form of special interest tourism: perspectives and strategies

Cited by 17 publications

References 30 publications

Affective components of gastronomy tourism: measurement scale development and validation

Affective components of gastronomy tourism: measurement scale development and validation

Tourism Sustainability and COVID-19 Pandemic: Is There a Positive Side?

African Tourism in Uncertain Times: Covid-19 Research Progress

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