Tourism and Food Imports: The Case of Jamaica

Bélisle, François

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“…The link between agriculture and tourism is one of the means through which leakages can be avoided and the benefits of tourism dispersed to local communities (Thomas‐Francois, Von Massow, & Joppe, ). Food purchases can comprise about one third of tourist expenditures (Belisle, ) and have the potential to generate income and employment to local economies. Recent research investigates leakages and linkages between agriculture and tourism in different contexts around the world.…”

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“…Further, researchers Pratt () and Telfer and Wall () have proposed that chefs should be encouraged to produce more local dishes, as opposed to international cuisine, as this can be a tourist attraction in itself. However, Belisle () notes that by developing stronger links with agriculture, the tourism industry can promote hinterland development and strengthen urban–rural networks but can also harm local food production by using land and diverting labour that would otherwise be engaged in agrarian production (Telfer & Wall, ).…”

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Economic sustainability? Examining the linkages and leakages between agriculture and hotels in Bhutan

Pratt

Suntikul

Dorji

2018

Journal of Tourism Research

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Bhutan is known for its approach to high-value, low-volume tourism development.Bhutan has been cited as an example of a best case approach to sustainable tourism.However, like other landlocked countries, Bhutan relies heavily on imported goods from neighbouring countries such as India and Thailand, leading to significant economic leakages. This raises the question of how economically sustainable Bhutan's tourism is. This research employs a mixed microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis of linkages and leakages between different sectors in the Bhutanese tourism industry, in particular hotels and agriculture to ascertain the volume and value of these leakages.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Economic sustainability? Examining the linkages and leakages between agriculture and hotels in Bhutan

Pratt

Suntikul

Dorji

2018

Journal of Tourism Research

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“…Liu and Var (1982) found that central, large, affiliated, and externally owned establishments in the accommodation sector in metropolitan Victoria, BC, Canada, had smaller multipliers due to smaller linkages created in the local economy. Other studies in developed (Andriotis, 2002) and developing (Be´lisle, 1984;Rodenburg, 1980;Scheyvens and Russell, 2012) countries support that the larger the firm, the greater the possibility of purchases being made outside the locality. Telfer and Wall (2000) found in their study that large hotel enterprises can maintain strong linkages with the local economy, albeit proportionately fewer when compared with the smaller hotel.…”

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Exploring the potential operation of a local tourism production system: The case of Messinia, Greece

Drakakis

Papadaskalopoulos

Christofakis

2017

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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The local tourism production system has been used in the literature as a territorial model to analyse a tourism destination and examine the interrelationships among its stakeholders. In this paper, we elaborate on this model by additionally analysing the economic linkages of the local tourism production system activities with local sectors, and seek to examine whether Messinia, a region in south-western Greece, fulfils the conditions for the operation of a local tourism production system. For this purpose, in conjunction with secondary data, 276 questionnaires were used from a business survey conducted via personal interviews at enterprises that are directly or indirectly affected by tourism. The results of the analysis show that our study area fulfils all four criteria set for the operation of such a system, though it does display strengths (high concentration of small- and medium-sized enterprises, strong economic linkages) and weaknesses (marginal specialisation, unsteady social ties). Meanwhile, the operation of a large tourism enterprise in the region does not act competitively but rather as a propulsive activity to the local tourism production system, thus supporting the notion that a large enterprise can boost a local production system and extending it within the tourism context. The paper concludes that investigating the economic linkages of the local tourism production system activities allows for a more accurate assessment of its operation, which in our case could be further enhanced by establishing a focal actor in a tourism network or cluster.

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“…In the following year, the same author illustrated how these threats were found in Jamaica (Bélisle, 1984). In the 1990s, the terms 'food tourism', 'culinary tourism', and 'gastronomy tourism' began to emerge in the tourism-related literature and an edited book titled Culinary Tourism was published in 1998 (Long, 2004).…”

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Food tourism: consumer behaviour in relation to traditional food

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Traditionally, sun, sea, and sand are the major reasons why tourists travel, however, in postmodern tourism, tourism products are no longer restricted by these types of natural resources. In order to extend the tourism life cycle and to attract more inbound tourists from overseas, more and more niche markets are developing. One such market that has been highlighted recently is food tourism. Over the past two decades, food tourism is emerging as an area of practical interest for both the host country and tourists as food is an inevitable experience at the travel destination.Food, unlike other natural resources can be provided year-round by utilizing local ingredients.For destination managers there is a need to develop a sense of regional distinctiveness and to maintain the local cultural traditions of their regions. For tourists, food provides the tourists with a novel experience and the chance to become more deeply involved in the local culture and traditions.Accordingly, because of the benefits of food tourism, it has also created interest among scholars to investigate in greater depth. However, even though the study of tourism is increasing, research issues and topics are still somewhat limited. At this stage, there is still a lack of research regarding the tourist's traditional food consumption behaviour. In redressing this omission, this study examines consumer choice behaviour of traditional Taiwanese foods. The specific objectives of this study are to: firstly, explore the food choice behaviour in relation to traditional food; secondly, to examine the impact of personality traits on tourists' traditional food choice behaviour. After a review of the literature, the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) was selected to help explain tourists' traditional food buying behaviour. This theory of TPB was used as it explained human's behaviour from the perspective of the attitude-behaviour relationship and allows the researcher to conduct empirically based research. Furthermore, personality traits have been regarded as an important factor that influences people's food choice behaviour. Therefore, in order to examine the influence of food tourism, two personality traits, food neophobia and sensation-seeking have been examined in this study.A quantitative research study design was adopted which was based on the postpostivism paradigm. A pilot survey was conducted in Australia involving 149 respondents to confirm the iii validity and reliability of the six scales used in the pilot study. As a result, the final questionnaire consisted of a total of 44 items in six different scales and two open-ended questions. The final survey was conducted using face-to-face interviews in Taiwan, with Caucasian tourists using a convenience sampling design. This resulted in 389 completed questionnaires. SPSS version 21 and AMOS version 21 were employed to analyse the numeric data and to test the hypotheses.Statistical techniques used with the pilot survey data included item analysis, reliability, and exploratory factor analysis. Fo...

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Tourism and Food Imports: The Case of Jamaica

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Economic sustainability? Examining the linkages and leakages between agriculture and hotels in Bhutan

Economic sustainability? Examining the linkages and leakages between agriculture and hotels in Bhutan

Exploring the potential operation of a local tourism production system: The case of Messinia, Greece

Food tourism: consumer behaviour in relation to traditional food

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