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on Cultural Economics |
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Issue of 2025–10–06
three papers chosen by Roberto Zanola, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale |
| By: | Patteera Pantaratorn (" Rangsit University, Pathumthani, Thailand" Author-2-Name: Noppadol Dharawanij Author-2-Workplace-Name: " Rangsit University, Pathumthani, Thailand" Author-3-Name: Author-3-Workplace-Name: Author-4-Name: Author-4-Workplace-Name: Author-5-Name: Author-5-Workplace-Name: Author-6-Name: Author-6-Workplace-Name: Author-7-Name: Author-7-Workplace-Name: Author-8-Name: Author-8-Workplace-Name:) |
| Abstract: | " Objective - This study aims to explore the potential for developing sustainable creative tourism in Ban Khlong Bang Phai, Nonthaburi, by analyzing both supply and demand factors. The research adopts an empirical approach to assess the integration of local cultural and natural resources into tourism planning and the influence of tourist motivations on satisfaction. Methodology - A mixed-methods design was employed, combining qualitative interviews with 12 key community stakeholders and quantitative surveys of 169 tourists. Qualitative data identified local resources, cultural activities, and development opportunities, while quantitative data assessed tourist motivations, satisfaction, and decision-making factors using structured questionnaires, descriptive statistics, and multiple regression analysis. Findings - Ban Khlong Bang Phai possesses rich cultural and natural resources, including traditional arts, crafts, agricultural practices, and religious activities, which can serve as the basis for creative tourism. Tourists were primarily motivated by the uniqueness of the destination and the cultural activities it offered. High satisfaction was reported with cultural experiences, local hospitality, and destination authenticity, while infrastructure challenges such as transportation and signage were identified as areas for improvement. Significant correlations were found between tourist motivations and satisfaction. Novelty - The study offers an empirical framework linking community cultural resources with tourist motivations and satisfaction to guide sustainable creative tourism development. It provides actionable insights for planning tourism activities that preserve cultural authenticity while promoting local economic growth, addressing a research gap in community-based creative tourism in Thailand. Type of Paper - Empirical" |
| Keywords: | Sustainable tourism; Creative tourism; Tourist satisfaction; Cultural heritage; Community-based tourism; Thailand; Tourist motivation |
| JEL: | M14 M19 |
| Date: | 2025–09–30 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:gtr:gatrjs:jber260 |
| By: | Boris Gershman; Tinatin Mumladze |
| Abstract: | Empirical research on culture and institutions in economics often relies on cross-cultural data to examine historical or contemporary variation in traits across ethnolinguistic groups. We argue that this work has not adequately addressed the problem of cultural non-independence due to common ancestry and show how phylogenetic regression, along with newly available global language trees, can be used to directly account for this issue. Our analysis focuses on Murdock's Ethnographic Atlas (EA), a widely used database of preindustrial societies, with broader implications for any cross-cultural study. First, we show that various economic, institutional, and cultural characteristics in the EA exhibit substantial phylogenetic signal - they tend to be more similar among societies with closer ancestral ties. Second, through simulations in a sample resembling the EA, we demonstrate that phylogenetic correlation leads to severe inefficiency of the standard OLS estimator and unacceptably high type I error rates, even when clustered standard errors are used. Phylogenetic generalized least squares (PGLS), exploiting the information on shared ancestry contained in language trees, improves estimation accuracy and enables reliable hypothesis testing. Third, we revisit some of the recently published results in a phylogenetic regression framework. In many specifications, PGLS estimates differ markedly from their OLS counterparts, indicating a smaller magnitude and weaker statistical significance of relevant coefficients. |
| Keywords: | Common ancestry, Cross-cultural analysis, Culture, Cultural non-independence, Ethnographic Atlas, Institutions, Phylogenetic comparative methods |
| JEL: | C10 O10 N30 Z12 Z13 |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:amu:wpaper:2025-02 |
| By: | Berger, Lara Marie |
| JEL: | D83 D91 G41 L82 |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:vfsc25:325388 |