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Southern Cross University
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Publisher: Emerald
Date: 14-08-2009
DOI: 10.1108/17506200910982037
Abstract: Many studies underline the critical relationship between local communities and rural‐based industries. However, the dynamics of the relationship between wineries and local communities is rarely considered in research despite the importance of these links for rural communities. This paper investigates this dimension from the perspective of Canary Islands' small wine growers. A total of 23 winery operations located on the islands of Tenerife and La Palma accept the invitation to participate in the form of face‐to‐face interviews. The level of participation and contribution to the community varies between operations, with some small family operations in particular limiting their external involvement, while others see it as a necessary and/or beneficial relationship. Most wineries in the study are active in their communities, participating in local events and employing local residents. However, generational changes that threaten both the wine business and tradition, or mass tourism leading to land value increases are critical challenges to the winery‐community relationship. With over 200 largely small‐family wineries in the Canary Islands, it is acknowledged that the s le of wineries in this paper may not be representative of the region's wine industry. The strengthening relationships between wineries and local communities for cultural events can build nostalgia for local wine production. This, in turn, appears to be vital for preserving the local wine culture and tradition by making winery ownership and work well‐regarded by the local community. To date limited research has been conducted on the redeveloping Canary Islands' wine industry, particularly from winery operators' points of view.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2013
Abstract: The caravan park sector of the Australian leisure accommodation industry currently provides 50% of total domestic bed capacity. Recent decades have seen a gradual decline in caravan park establishments and despite its continuing market dominance in terms of bed capacity, the industry today is only a mere shadow of its former glory days in the mid 1970s. A current resurgence in caravanning, as a subset of drive tourism, has seen an increase in registrations of new c ervans and motor homes of over 19% in the last 5 years alone. This inverse relationship between downward-trending park capacity and upward-trending recreational vehicle 1 registrations raises significant capacity issues for leisure accommodation. This article examines supply-side elements of caravanning – elements largely overlooked in the demand-side focused literature – through a case study of caravan parks of the Tweed Shire in northern New South Wales (NSW), Australia. It innovatively adapts the theoretical framework of Butler’s ( Canadian Geographer 1980 24: 5–12) tourist area life cycle (TALC) to an industry subsector, caravan parks, to examine time-series trends in park-based site-mix options and capacity. The study found that traditional site infrastructure, geared towards mobile accommodation forms of caravans and tents, is giving way to fixed forms of relocatable homes and ensuite cabins. In an environment of increasing demand for the caravanning experience but decreasing parks, and thus decreasing total site capacity, the contrasting trends are predicted to create a serious accommodation facilities shortage for the caravanning sector of the tourism industry. It concludes that the broad pattern of caravan park development, through site-mix analysis, is in alignment with the six stages of the TALC, as proposed by Butler ( Canadian Geographer 1980 24: 5–12). Market forces have, to date, propelled caravan parks to their current stage of the TALC. However, the path to a sustainable future for Australian caravan parks will now predominately be determined through their own proactive management intervention.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-03-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-01-2014
Publisher: University of La Laguna
Date: 2008
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2009
DOI: 10.1002/JTR.713
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2021
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 04-12-2014
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 04-12-2014
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 09-10-2019
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 16-03-2020
DOI: 10.1108/IJCTHR-07-2019-0134
Abstract: This paper aims to purposely place community and its stakeholders at the forefront of an investigation of positive and negative social, economic and environmental impacts of the sharing economy in the specific context of Airbnb by drawing upon the triple bottom line (TBL) framework of sustainability. A qualitative enquiry through a “scoping approach” with the search of relevant electronic databases identified a range of conceptual and empirical studies in the period from 2008 to 2018 informing a profile focussed on the triple bottom line impacts. The criteria limited search yielded 23 focal articles, which investigated or discussed Airbnb impacts on local communities. Analysis of these articles informed a three-pillar tabulation of positive and negative impacts, which are presented against four key stakeholder groupings. The study is exploratory, and further research, especially confirmatory research, is recommended. The study’s value extends to praxis. Guided by findings, real-time planning and policy-making are already underway within the authors’ community. Additionally, an extension project, as requested by the community, is now investigating direct traditional accommodation provider impacts. Understanding of the social issues concerning Airbnb and indeed, the wider sharing economy, is broadened through identified need for further social impact research. To the best of authors’ knowledge, this is one of the first studies to apply a “scoping approach” to holistically illuminate the positive and negative impacts of Airbnb at the micro-level in each of the three domains of sustainability. The research methodology is shown to be effective, with positive community impact, and will easily adapt to other destinations grappling with policy decisions.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2010
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2009
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 14-02-2020
Abstract: This paper aims to track the evolution of an innovative Aboriginal tourism business model with deliberate social and community enterprise objectives in a remote setting. It adopts an in-depth exploratory case study approach to discover key characteristics of an emerging tourism enterprise. The qualitative data sources include publically available planning, promotional and organizational materials, in-depth interviews with key informants and on-site observations. Yunus et al.’s (2010) social business model provides the framework for the case analysis. Findings highlight the gradual deepening of Indigenous engagement – from simply providing a place for a non-Indigenous tourism business – to running a fully Indigenous-controlled, staffed and themed on-country tourism business. Complementing existing non-Indigenous tourism experiences reduced the need for start-up infrastructure and market recognition, thus reducing business risk for the Traditional Owners. Despite substantial changes in the business structure in response to political and maturation factors, the core motivations seemed to remain strong. The business model facilitates value creation to stakeholders in varying ways. The contextual nature of Indigenous tourism reflects limitations of qualitative case study methodology. The resulting business model provides a contextually appropriate structure to engage in tourism for achieving cultural and societal goals. It mitigates against the identified risk of low market demand for Indigenous tourism experiences by connecting with established non-Indigenous tourism products, while also allowing for product offering independent thereof. Social benefits are high and have potential for replication in similar contexts elsewhere. The paper contributes to the emerging research on culturally appropriate business models in Indigenous tourism contexts and validates a strategy to overcome low demand. It offers a model that for the tourist facilitates a sustainable experience which enables co-production while for the hosts fosters community resilience, intergenerational learning and improved livelihoods. The case highlights opportunities for further research into the interrelationship, dependencies and thresholds between the social and economic profit equations, particularly in the context of the culture conservation economy.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-11-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-06-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-04-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-04-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-10-2021
Publisher: WIT Press
Date: 23-08-2006
DOI: 10.2495/ST060101
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-02-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2006
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-10-2014
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 17-04-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2021
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-08-2017
DOI: 10.1007/S00267-017-0917-1
Abstract: Knowledge exchange involves a suite of strategies used to bridge the ides between research, policy and practice. The literature is increasingly focused on the notion that knowledge generated by research is more useful when there is significant interaction and knowledge sharing between researchers and research recipients (i.e., stakeholders). This is exemplified by increasing calls for the use of knowledge brokers to facilitate interaction and flow of information between scientists and stakeholder groups, and the integration of scientific and local knowledge. However, most of the environmental management literature focuses on explicit forms of knowledge, leaving unmeasured the tacit relational and reflective forms of knowledge that lead people to change their behaviour. In addition, despite the high transaction costs of knowledge brokering and related stakeholder engagement, there is little research on its effectiveness. We apply Park's Manag Learn 30(2), 141-157 (1999) Knowledge and Participatory Research, London: SAGE Publications (2006) tri-partite knowledge typology as a basis for evaluating the effectiveness of knowledge brokering in the context of a large multi-agency research programme in Australia's Ningaloo coastal region, and for testing the assumption that higher levels of interaction between scientists and stakeholders lead to improved knowledge exchange. While the knowledge brokering intervention substantively increased relational networks between scientists and stakeholders, it did not generate anticipated increases in stakeholder knowledge or research application, indicating that more prolonged stakeholder engagement was required, and/or that there was a flaw in the assumptions underpinning our conceptual framework.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-11-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-02-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-04-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2005
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 26-09-2008
DOI: 10.1108/00070700810906606
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of the tasting room for wineries from a re‐developing Spanish wine region, and identify the challenges winery owners currently face in their pursuit to market their wines through the tasting room. Between May and June of 2007 a total of 23 winery owners, managers and wine makers located in the Canary Islands were interviewed from a s le of 61 wineries identified in Tenerife and La Palma islands. The findings confirm the vital importance of the tasting room as a marketing, branding, and educative vehicle for the wine product. Overall, wineries focus on the tasting room as a way to advertise and present their wines to visitors and passers by as part of a long‐term strategy, rather than as a way to make direct wine sales. It is acknowledged that the s le of only 23 participating businesses may not be enough to make generalisations about the impact of the tasting room on wineries of the Canary Islands. However, the s le does provide useful insights into the benefits, issues and challenges of the tasting room in this context. The findings demonstrate the innovative and proactive spirit of winery management, including the push for quality and educating visitors, as key to survival and success in this very competitive industry. In this process, the role of the tasting room becomes critical to achieve those objectives. The study provides new insights into the role of the tasting room in a Spanish wine region that has received very limited attention. The exploratory nature of this study also provides an avenue for future studies into an industry that is growing around a region's main income magnet: tourism.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2017
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-2013
DOI: 10.1111/APV.12016
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Date: 2010
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2017
No related grants have been discovered for Pascal Scherrer.