Prioritizing the barriers to tourism growth in rural India: an integrated multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) approach

Jena, Rabindra Kumar; Dwivedi, Yogesh K.

doi:10.1108/jtf-10-2020-0171

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“…However, the region faces other challenges, particularly in terms of infrastructural amenities for the tourism industry, which are also mentioned by tourism service providers in their remarks. A recent study on barriers to tourism growth by Jena and Dwivedi (2021) found “insufficient investment in tourism” as the controlling barrier to tourism development. They placed lack of access and connectivity as a shallow influencing barrier while in this study we have found lack of a sound transportation system and lack of connectivity as the primary barriers to tourism development.…”

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Barriers to tourism participation: A case of first‐generation local community service providers

Yaja

Kumar

Swamy³

2022

Int Social Sci J

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Participation in tourism businesses for the local community often comes with various challenges. A better understanding of barriers to tourism development can help manage and smoothen community participation in tourism. Over the past two decades, an effort has been made to understand the barriers to tourism, but the perspective of first-generation community participation is not explored in the existing literature. The current study measures barriers to tourism participation through four parameters, i.e., sociocultural, infrastructural, operational, and personal barriers. The study examined the barriers of first-generation service providers from the rural tribal belt of Arunachal Pradesh, India. Data were collected using the purposive sampling technique from various tourism and allied services owned and managed by the local tribal community. The findings indicate that barriers related to the infrastructural support system are the dominant form of barriers. In contrast, the sociocultural factors do not act as a strong barrier among service providers. However, this report defers to other studies on tribal communities that indicate specific sociocultural barriers to participating in the tourism business. The study shows that willingness and conducive sociocultural aspects alone are not sufficient to lead a profitable tourism business. Furthermore, the study also recounts the importance of external intervention for macro-level planning in tourism infrastructure.

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Barriers to tourism participation: A case of first‐generation local community service providers

Yaja

Kumar

Swamy³

2022

Int Social Sci J

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“…However, the effect in terms of magnitude is more pronounced for High-Income Countries (HIC) and Upper Middle-Income Countries (UMIC), which alludes to structural differences between these groups that make globalization more effective. These differences may include better security provisions, improved and more flexible tourist mobility, or a greater policy focus on enhancing tourism (Fereidouni et al, 2014;Jena & Dwivedi, 2021). A similar tendency was apparent in the case of the de-facto measure of globalization, i.e., the state of globalization tends to have a significant positive effect on the tourism trade balance.…”

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Tourism Trade Balance and Globalization

Tufail,

Sherbaz,

Rafi

2023

Tourism (Zagreb, Online)

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This study investigated the relationship between the tourism trade balance and globalization. We developed a novel and encompassing approach to measuring the tourism trade balance, including several inflows and outflows. The responsiveness of the tourism trade balance is examined not only for globalization processes depicted by indicators like de facto economic, social, and political globalization but also for globalization policies, i.e., de jure globalization. A comparative analysis across countries - belonging to different income groups, different quartiles of the tourism trade, globalization, and economic growth - revealed considerable heterogeneities among the other grouping of countries for the tourism-globalization relationship. The study suggested that it is of utmost importance to recognize that countries with a high level of globalization and well-developed tourism industry are in a better position to materialize the benefits of globalization.

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“…Out of the twenty, only thirteen experts agreed to participate in the study. Past MCDM studies suggest that the number of experts should be between 5 and 50 for good decision-making (Aghasafari et al, 2020;Jena and Dwivedi, 2021;Nguyen, 2022). The details of the experts are given in Table A1 in Appendix.…”

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Analysis of barriers to organic farming adoption in developing countries: a grey-DEMATEL and ISM approach

Dixit

Suvadarshini²

2022

JADEE

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PurposeFarmers in India are hesitant to adopt organic farming (OF) despite high demand for organic products and favorable policy measures to encourage the practice. Therefore, this study aims to assess the OF adoption barriers faced by Indian farmers using a systematic method of multi-criteria decision making (MCDM).Design/methodology/approachThe authors explored eighteen barriers to OF adoption by conducting a literature survey and discussion with experts on OF. Then the authors used a combined method of Grey Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) and Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) methodology to rank the barriers and analyze their interactions.FindingsThe analysis reveals that “Lack of knowledge and information,” “lack of financial capacity of farmers’ and “lack of institutional support” are the cause (independent) barriers that significantly impact other barriers. The top three effect (dependent) barriers are “lack of availability of organic inputs,” “personal characteristics such as age, attitudes and beliefs” and “lack of premium pricing,” which are affected by the other barriers.Research limitations/implicationsThis research work will help the decision makers understand the barriers to OF adoption in India and their interrelationships. The proposed framework enables them to focus on the high-priority independent barriers, which will subsequently impact the other dependent barriers.Originality/valuePrevious research on OF adoption barriers lacked a multifaceted scientific approach, which is necessary because OF is a complex system and needs a thorough investigation to assess the interaction between the barriers. The research attempts to fill this gap and addresses the complex nature of adoption barriers.

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Prioritizing the barriers to tourism growth in rural India: an integrated multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) approach

Cited by 20 publications

References 49 publications

Barriers to tourism participation: A case of first‐generation local community service providers

Barriers to tourism participation: A case of first‐generation local community service providers

Tourism Trade Balance and Globalization

Analysis of barriers to organic farming adoption in developing countries: a grey-DEMATEL and ISM approach

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