Success factors for small rural tourism units: an exploratory study in the Portuguese region of Serra da Estrela

Teodoro, Ana Paula Evaristo Guizarde; Dinis, Isabel; Simões, Orlando; Gomes, Gonçalo

doi:10.54055/ejtr.v17i.298

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“…The priorities of service quality and homestay geist and community co-prosperity strongly imply customer orientation in the operation of homestay businesses, and they are viewed as competitive advantages in the market, particularly in rural tourism [75]. Tourist satisfaction is ensured when all operations are customer-oriented [76]. The better the profitability, the higher the sustain-ability practiced by the company [77].…”

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An Integrated Approach with CLFPR-Based ANP and Fuzzy TOPSIS for Evaluating Business Performance of Rural Homestays: Study from China

Peng

Jian-ji

et al. 2022

Sustainability

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Given the high importance of the performance of rural homestays to the local economy, this study aims to fill the gap in homestay performance research and make rural homestays more competitive and sustainable after the coronavirus disease epidemic (COVID-19). Integrating a consistent linguistic fuzzy preference relations-based analytic network process (CLFPR-based ANP) and a fuzzy technique for order performance by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS), this study constructs a comprehensive evaluation model of the performance of rural homestays and empirically analyzes homestay performance in Zhejiang. The results show the following: (1) Among the criteria’s weights by CLFPR-based ANP, homestay operation and management, service quality, and homestay geist and community co-prosperity should be given much more attention; the importance of factors regarding the environment and building of rural homestays is gradually weakening. (2) In light of ranking alternatives based on performance evaluation by fuzzy TOPSIS, the homestay with the optimal performance has been found, which practitioners can use as a benchmark. Therefore, the priorities of these criteria further deepen the understanding of the performance of rural homestays and underline the development direction for practitioners. Simultaneously, in terms of feasibility and reliability, the integrated approach comprises a beneficial attempt and becomes an effective evaluation tool for practitioners to improve effectiveness.

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An Integrated Approach with CLFPR-Based ANP and Fuzzy TOPSIS for Evaluating Business Performance of Rural Homestays: Study from China

Peng

Jian-ji

et al. 2022

Sustainability

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“…Indonesia has a wonderful rural nature and an abundant culture in which each region has its own uniqueness so that Indonesian tourism becomes one of the industries in which development is encouraged. According to Teodoro et al [4], rural tourism is recognized as a strategic approach to regional development [5]. Tourism is an engagement that directly involves and impacts the local community, as underscored by Ibanescu's research conducted in rural areas of Romania, revealing tourism's potential to contribute to sustainable growth in these regions [6].…”

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Strengthening Tourist Village Attractions Through Empowerment of Rural Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs)

Fafurida,

Putri,

Bowo

et al. 2024

IJSDP

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One of the efforts to improve the rural economy can be conducted by developing tourist villages. The attractions of tourist villages that all this time have relied on natural potential are apparently not capable enough to guarantee the sustainability of tourist villages to be existing and favoured by the tourists. There should be innovative attractions so that the tourists have the will to make return visits and increase the length of stay. This research aims at developing a model for empowering the rural MSMEs in strengthening the attractions of tourist villages. This research is the qualitative one, which uses the primary data taken using observation techniques and Focus Group Discussions. The analytical method used in this research is the Delphi method and qualitative descriptive. The Delphi method was used to develop a model for empowering MSMEs by involving experts, while qualitative descriptive analysis was used to explain the mechanism for implementing the model. The implementation of the model has been tested in a tourist village in Central Java. This research has found that the right model for empowering the rural MSMEs to support the attractions of tourist villages can be conducted by establishing partnerships between the owners of rural MSME and the manager of tourist village. In Candirejo Tourist Village this model has been implemented. The production activities of MSMEs become a showcase, and are also able to increase the activities of tourists who stop at tourist villages. The results of implementing the model show that empowering the MSMEs owned by the community as an attraction to be visited by tourists is actually able to significantly increase the income of the owners of MSMEs, and to increase the tourists' interest in visits and length of stay.

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“…Based on Teodoro et al, (2017), rural tourism is seen as a strategy for regional development. It is an activity that directly connects and involves community so that people involved in it can feel the impacts.…”

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A Systematic Literature Review of Development Rural Tourism

2023

QAS

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Rural tourism development is increasingly implemented by a lot of countries. By involving the community this kind of tourism is able to improve rural areas economy and earnings of villagers. This paper aims to examine studies on rural tourism clusters with the basis of Community Based Tourism in many countries. It is a systematic literature review whose data collection was carried from Google Scholar and Scopus data base and collecting journal article papers published within 2010-2020. Of that search, 70 articles which have similar themes to the present study were obtained. To process the literature, VOS viewer software was utilized to analyze and visualize the data. Findings showed that there are three big themes of rural tourism study. Upon the three clusters, it is recognizable that studies focusing on rural tourism, rural tourism cluster, and community based tourism have been conducted partially. However, there has been no study that combines two concepts of cluster and community based tourism simultaneously. From the results of the literature review, it was found that the development of rural tourism using a cluster approach or community based tourism has been proven to be successful in improving the rural economy. In addition, studies on rural tourism were mostly done during 2014-2018, while after these periods there was none. According to the findings, gaps in study of the implementation of two approaches, namely cluster and Community Based Tourism are widely open to be studied.

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Success factors for small rural tourism units: an exploratory study in the Portuguese region of Serra da Estrela

Cited by 12 publications

References 44 publications

An Integrated Approach with CLFPR-Based ANP and Fuzzy TOPSIS for Evaluating Business Performance of Rural Homestays: Study from China

An Integrated Approach with CLFPR-Based ANP and Fuzzy TOPSIS for Evaluating Business Performance of Rural Homestays: Study from China

Strengthening Tourist Village Attractions Through Empowerment of Rural Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs)

A Systematic Literature Review of Development Rural Tourism

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