Tourist walkability and sustainable community-based tourism: conceptual framework and strategic model

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作者
Yeap, Peik-Foong [1 ]
Liow, Melissa Li Sa [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Newcastle, Coll Human & Social Futures, Callaghan, Australia
[2] PSB Acad, Sch Business & Management, Singapore, Singapore
关键词
Tourist walkability; Triple bottom line; Sustainable community-based tourism; Quality of life; QUALITY-OF-LIFE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; WALKING; CITIES; RESIDENTS; SATISFACTION; DESTINATIONS; PERCEPTIONS; PERSONALITY; DIMENSIONS;
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10.1108/IJTC-05-2022-0117
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F [经济];
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摘要
Purpose - This paper aims to determine the significance of tourist walkability on three community-based tourism sustainability indicators, namely, the economic, social and environmental benefits and costs impacting community's quality of life through the lens of the triple bottom line approach with the institutional theory. Design/methodology/approach - This study views institutions as either enabling or restricting the sustainable community-based tourism because institutions influence resource integration and value assessment by the beneficiary. Moreover, institutions also lead the co-creation of sustainable community based tourism among various stakeholders. Drawing on this conceptualisation, the notion of sustainable community-based tourism is filtered through the lens of institutional theory. Thus, this work approaches sustainable community-based tourism as a dynamic process of co-creating a tourist destination formed by different actors' and institutions within the ecosystem of the tourist destination. Meanwhile, the triple bottom line benefits and costs experienced by the overall community would produce net effects on the residents' perceptions of sustainable tourism. Findings - This paper classifies both tangible and intangible costs and benefits because of tourist walkability and its triple bottom line trade-offs experienced by tourists and residents. This paper penetrates new grounds by reviewing the triple bottom line impacts of tourist walkability on residents' quality of life. Government policies as mediating variable and national culture and individual personalities of tourists and residents as moderating variables were discussed. A conceptual framework named Tourist Walkability Sustainable Tourism Impact on Residents (TWSTIR) is proposed. Finally, a Sustainable Community-based Tourism Strategic (SCBTS) model which is based on the two dimensions of intensity of tourist walkability and residents' quality of life is proposed. Research limitations/implications - Research limitations may include a lack of assessment on political, technological and legal issues, and therefore, future research is warranted in these three areas. Some emotions and attitudes of the residents may not be captured since the Gross National Index (Gross National Happiness) may have its inherent blind spots. Practical implications - This paper would be of interest to the scholarly world, as its original idea and concluding research agenda are burrowing into a new sub-field of tourism research. In view of growth and degrowth of sustaining community-based tourism, the SCBTS model is presented to provide directions for tourism policymakers and entrepreneurs to formulate and implement appropriate strategy for the tourist walkability activity per se and investment in the accompanying infrastructure. Social implications - This paper also presents the sacrifices and inequities in the communities and the relevance of government policies, national culture and individual personalities of tourists and residents, in which the attention of tourism policymakers and the communities that thrive on the travel and tourism industry should not be neglected. Originality/value - The idea and discussion of this paper is original. This paper burrows into a new sub field of tourism research. Tourist walkability needs more attention from the scholars, as this tourist activity can have positive and negative effects on residents' quality of life. The TWSTIR framework is developed to discuss the relationships of tourist walkability, triple bottom line concept and residents' quality of life within the sustainable community-based tourism scope. The SCBTS model is presented for tourism policymakers and entrepreneurs to perform appropriate strategy for the tourist walkability activity and investment in the accompanying infrastructure.
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