区域合作背景下的地方旅游产品结构调整研究——以云南参与泛珠三角区域合作为例

地方旅游产品结构调整是当前国内外旅游需求多样化和个性化的必然要求,也是区域旅游合作中的重要内容之一.文章以云南参与泛珠三角旅游区域合作为例,在分析泛珠三角区域旅游产品结构的基础上,指出了参与泛珠三角区域合作对云南旅游产品结构调整的要求,分析了泛珠三角区域合作背景下的云南旅游产品结构的调整优化.     

面向泛珠三角区域合作的湖南旅游发展战略分析

泛珠三角区域旅游合作是一项重要的区域发展战略。区域内旅游业地缘关系紧密，旅游资源富集程度不均，旅游市场对粤港澳的依赖性大，旅游企业发展水平不一，各自的资源与市场优势尚未匹配协调发展。湖南省应采取突出重点、纵横兼顾、市场运作、研究先行的旅游发展战略积极参与泛珠三角区域旅游合作。     

泛珠三角温泉旅游高峰论坛在广东韶关召开

由广东省旅游局、韶关市人民政府主办的“第二届泛珠三角温泉旅游高峰论坛”9月20-22日在广东韶关举行。广东省旅游局局长郑通扬等来自泛珠三角各省区的旅游局官员、旅游研究者、业界知名人士和60多家温泉企业的高层管理人员200余人出席了论坛。中国社会科学院旅游研究中心副主任刘德谦教授、中山大学彭华教授、泛珠三角各省区旅游协会代表和多家具有代表性的全国著名温泉经营负责人等，应邀先后就“温泉旅游的可持续发展”、“泛珠温泉资源保护开发及规划建设”、“中国温泉旅游产业的开发建设和经营管理”等问题在大会作了主题发言。被一些媒体称为“泛珠三角9省区旅游合作温泉先行”的这届论坛，引起了相关方面的极大重视，海内外到会采访传媒多达60余家。会议决定，下届泛珠温泉论坛将于明年四川旅游国际博览会期间在四川举行。     

基于博弈论的“泛珠三角”区域旅游协作问题研究

泛珠三角区域旅游协作是一项需要"9+2"各方和国家相关部门通力合作、共同推进的系统工程.借鉴博彝论和帕累托最优理论的方法和模型,厘清泛珠三角区域旅游协作中存在的问题和障碍,创建一套科学的旅游产业政策和旅游协作机制.在不同类型的区域,制定盖剐灵活的旅游产业政策,从而实现泛珠三角区域旅游协作的理想状态--区域均衡.     

“9+10”区域旅游合作凸显立体优势

2013年12月3日,第五届"9+10"区域旅游合作会议暨第7届旅游研究北京论坛在北京召开。会议提出,积极引入市场机制,提升区域旅游合作水平,并达成"北京共识"、成立"9+10"区域旅游合作四大联盟,以积极有效的举措深化和完善区域旅游合作。本届会议由"9+10"地区省市旅游局(委)主办,北京市旅游发展委员会承办。为推动区域旅游合作、实现共同发展,2008年初,由北京倡议发起,环渤海地区5省市(北京市、天津市、河北省、辽宁省、山东省)、环北京4省区(内     

区域旅游合作中感知形象的差异性与可整合性分析——以大珠三角城市群为例

本文首先对区域旅游合作中形象差异性和可整合性的关系进行了探讨,认为提升区域旅游整体影响力在于形象的整合,而旅游线路促销中则应突出各自形象的差异性,差异和整合共同存在于区域旅游合作中.在对大珠三角城市的实证分析中,通过聚类分析得到了城市间形象的亲疏关系和可能进行的形象板块划分,这将为大珠三角今后旅游合作中对外推广提供了一个思考的方向和操作的策略,同时也为我国其他区域正在开展的旅游合作提供参考.     

旅行模式对目的地旅游经济影响的空间差异——以长三角世博旅游线路为例

旅游业通常被认为对地方经济有促进作用,然而对这种作用很少从旅游者旅行模式的角度进行分析,旅游线路模式导致的旅游经济影响的空间差异要远大于游客活动分布的空间差异.文章以651条国内长途团队世博旅游线路详细报价单为基础数据,结合长三角城市地理空间背景条件,比较分析了旅游线路模式中基于线路节点特性的旅行模式、角色、功能、停留时间与旅游花费,对世博线路中的旅游目的地合作圈层进行了划分,深入探究基于旅游线路模式的长三角城市目的地旅游经济收益的空间差异.研究发现:(1)充分了解并建立与其他目的地的合作关系将从中受益.(2)目的地节点在各客源地旅游线路模式中的角色和功能不同,旅游收益存在显著差异,因此,应有针对性地在不同客源地进行差别化的旅游宣传和营销.(3)整个旅行时间长度是影响游客在目的地区域扩散模式的主要因素,也影响地区间经济利益的分配.目的地日花费与旅行天数呈U形曲线拟合,基于线路中目的地停留时间和花费的估算,长三角地区的旅游经济收益存在着显著的空间差异.该研究的实践意义在于为各目的地进行客源市场定位、宣传与营销提供参考.     

加快广西旅游业发展的探索

近年来,广西结合自身实际,创新发展理念,把全域旅游作为加快广西旅游业发展的重要方向,广西旅游规模、发展布局、区域合作和特色旅游等各方面都取得了显著的成就,广西旅游业已经成为广西经济发展重要的支柱性产业之一。在广西旅游发展良好的态势下,广西旅游发展也存在着困难和问题,如何在经济全球化和区域经济一体化的趋势下,保持广西旅游发展高速发展,是我们急需解决的问题。本文通过深入研究广西旅游发展现状和存在问题,阐述其发展存在的优势和劣势,在如今新形势的发展下,针对存在的相关问题,寻找发展突破口,为广西旅游产业发展提出相应的解决对策和建议。     

联合营销:经济全球化背景下边境旅游发展的必然选择

边境旅游是我国旅游业的一个重要组成部分,又是国际旅游的特殊形式.自从1987年我国政府首先开放辽宁丹东-朝鲜新义州一日游以来,我国东北、西北、西南地区的9个边境省区利用其丰富的边境旅游资源与优势,与接壤的15个国家开展了各种各样的边境旅游活动,从而促进了边境地区的经济繁荣和社会稳定,增强了与周边国家的联系与合作.     

对区域旅游合作研究几个基本问题的讨论

区域旅游合作研究在很多基本问题如合作空间范畴、主体和机制等方面都没有形成共识,这种状况制约着研究的进一步发展.对上述问题的讨论得出如下结论:第一,区域旅游合作应该理解为区域之间的旅游合作;第二,政府是区域旅游合作的主要主体;第三,区域旅游合作机制包括动力机制、过程机制、保障机制、空间作用机制等方面.     

Entrepreneurs in RomanceTourism in Indonesia

This article addresses the extent to which the opportunity to enter into a sexual relationship with Western female tourists poses a challenge to the vast number of self-employed young men in Indonesian tourism destinations. The areas compared in this article (Lombok and Yogyakarta) differ in terms of Butlers resort area cycle. Whereas Yogyakarta is about to enter the consolidation phase, Lombok has only started to develop tourism. The position in the area life cycle affects the opportunities and restrictions that self-employed young males encounter in their participation in the informal tourism sector and, as a consequence, their expectations regarding relationships with female tourists.     

Conceptualizing volunteering in tourism in China

The current literature on volunteering in tourism is very Western-centric, and volunteering in different cultural contexts needs to be further explored. This study is devoted to exploring the local understanding of tourism-related issues in China so as to give critical tourism by engaging local epistemology. Through a qualitative design, this research explores how volunteering is conceptualized in the context of tourism in China. Findings identify that the highlight of voluntary spirit, serving others by giving time/skills/knowledge and mutual help are three dimensions of conceptualization. It indicates that there are different meanings of volunteering in the Chinese context. This research takes a further step and reflects the applicability of the Western conceptualization of volunteering in the Chinese tourism context. This research presents a contribution to the epistemological decolonisation of tourism knowledge production in Chinese context.     

Conflict in tourism development in rural China

This paper explores the phenomenon of conflict in tourism development in rural China. Four cases were selected and analyzed as part of this exploration. The study identified eight major conflict issues: land expropriation, ticket revenue distribution, vending rights, tourism management rights, house demolition, house building, entry restrictions, and village elections. The conflict evolution process indicates that these issues are dynamic and connected rather than static and isolated. Local government was found to be the most important conflicting party for local people due to its authority and economic interests in tourism development. In addition, an often-ignored conflicting party, villagers' committees, was found to have limitations in maintaining local people's interests. The findings of this study shed light on this complicated and sensitive tourism conflict phenomenon in rural China. A couple of practical implications for local authorities and UNESCO are outlined at the end of the paper.     

Government involvement in tourism in developing countries

The article examines the case for involvement of government in the tourism sector in developing countries and makes definitional distinctions between passive and active involvement. It is argued that in most developing countries government involvement in tourism is required not only to attain long-term objectives but to compensate for the absence of a strong and tourism-experienced private sector. Five areas of concern for government involvement are discussed, and conclusions relate to the need for government-private sector cooperation for development purposes.     

Local community participation in ecotourism and conservation issues in two nature reserves in Nicaragua

This paper explores the factors influencing community participation in ecotourism and how this affects conservation in the Nature Reserves of Mombacho Volcano and Datanlí-El Diablo in Nicaragua. Information was collected using individual structured and semi-structured interviews and focus groups, with local people, farmers and tour operators, combining quantitative and qualitative techniques. The farmers in the two communities are engaged in the protection of the reserves because of environmental concern and also because their own welfare is at stake. In different ways, the farmers and communities benefit from ecotourism, but not enough. Either they are excluded from the management system, or they lack resources to promote the sites and improve infrastructure. Community participation is to a large extent dependent on the management system, but it is not the only aspect required to make ecotourism successful. A minimum of governmental support to infrastructure and local entrepreneurship is required. In the case presented, there are direct economic benefits from ecotourism, as the records of visitors illustrate. But there are many differences between the two reserves and their communities, illustrating that ecotourism development is complex and demanding, and demonstrating that ecotourism is not a “one size fits all” approach to sustainable development.     

Literature in strategic management in the hospitality industry

This literature review of the research in strategic management in the hospitality industry covers the 2 year period of 2002–2003. Using a contingency model framework for the analysis the research reported in refereed journals in the field of hospitality is reported. Additionally, research that considered the context of the hospitality industry but published in non-hospitality refereed journals was also included. Key issues and needs in the area are provided at the conclusion.     

Commitment to Environmental Management in Hotels in Accra

The sporadic development of hotel facilities in a developing West African city like Accra in Ghana, coupled with their consumption of natural resources and generation of waste has implications for environmental sustainability. This article therefore seeks to ascertain hotel managers’ attitude towards environmental management and to examine their commitment to environmental management through the implementation of environmental policies and programs. The study took the form of a survey of managers of 200 hotels, ranging from budget to four-star rated, employing the stratified random sampling procedure. Though a greater number of hotel managers had a positive attitude towards environmental management, it was the upscale and larger hotels that were more committed to environmental management especially in terms of having; a designated officer responsible for environmental management, written environmental policy statement, environmental action plan, a history of implementing environmental programs and ecolabelling or environment related certification. The article proposes interhotel collaboration in environmental management so that smaller hotels could profit from the experiences and resources of larger hotels.     

Gendered practices in urban ethnic tourism in Thailand

The purpose of this research is to investigate the gendered economy of ethnic minority souvenir vending in Thailand’s urban and coastal tourist areas. Increasing numbers of the Akha minority group have migrated towards tourist hotspots to engage in urban souvenir vending. Ethnographic research shows that according to the Akha gender division of labour, souvenir production and distribution are considered women’s work. Peddling on foot, female Akha souvenir vendors are at the bottom of the informal tourism economy. It is shown that urban ethnic tourism primarily reproduces gender asymmetry in the division of work and that contestations of gender roles prove to be difficult. Mobile street vending enables ethnic minority women to become breadwinners of households but simultaneously reinforces gender inequality.     

“高速时代”的中国旅游业发展

中国交通体系的全面革新推动了“高速时代”的到来,而旅游业的格局和增长与地理集聚之间具有高度的相关性,交通的改善,将降低旅游业的交易成本,推动集聚和扩散作用的互动变化,改变旅游业的空间格局和增长方式,这将对中国旅游业产生深刻而全面的影响.“高速时代”将开创旅游业新的局面,发生同城化、近城化、网络化、网格化等多种变化,游客时间成本和空间成本也将发生新的变化,旅游目的地选择将被重新分配,中国旅游业还将拥有新的价值、面对新的问题.文章旨在从区域经济的角度研究这些变化,分析中国旅游业将产生的新的格局,并提出相关的政策建议.     

Engaging volunteer tourism in post-disaster recovery in Nepal

There is limited research published on the significance of volunteer tourism in assisting host communities in the recovery of a tourism destination and its industry after a disaster. Our paper addresses this research gap with reference to a case study of Nepal's tourism recovery after the country's 2015 earthquake. We argue that a clear post disaster volunteer tourism framework could validate volunteer tourism's potential role to ensure that communities do not miss out on any form of assistance that may be of use in re-establishing destination or community lifestyle. Our paper provides an initial exploratory understanding of how post disaster volunteer tourism might be effective; it uses a disaster management framework to conceptualise the phenomenon.