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on Tourism Economics |
| By: | Rivera, John Paolo R.; Bolalin, Marga Clarence P.; Ocbina, John Joseph S. |
| Abstract: | The study presents a comprehensive review of the Philippine travel, tourism, and hospitality sector through an analysis of the Tourism Satellite Account, comparative data from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and stakeholder inputs from focused group discussions. This review highlights the sector's structural composition, performance trends, recovery trajectory from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and strategic directions aligned with the National Tourism Development Plan (NTDP) 2023–2028. Data show that while the Philippines exhibits strong tourism gross value added, particularly driven by domestic travel, investment, and employment, it lags in international visitor receipts compared to ASEAN peers. The analysis identifies significant opportunities to rebalance the tourism portfolio by strengthening international inbound markets and enhancing infrastructure, connectivity, and global competitiveness. Additionally, regional disparities in visitor arrivals underscore the need for inclusive tourism development beyond major gateways. Drawing from ASEAN and Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership benchmarks, strategic levers such as improved visa policies, revitalized product development, integrated marketing, and sustainability initiatives are highlighted. These findings inform key recommendations aligned with the NTDP 2023–2028 to maximize tourism’s contribution to economic growth, employment, and export revenues. Ultimately, it is affirmed that with targeted reforms and coordinated efforts, the Philippines can harness tourism’s full potential as a pillar of economic growth and resilience in ASEAN. Comments to this paper are welcome within 60 days from the date of posting. Email publications@pids.gov.ph. |
| Keywords: | Philippine tourism, Tourism Satellite Account, ASEAN tourism competitiveness, international visitor expenditure, domestic travel markets |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:phd:dpaper:dp_2025-43 |
| By: | Drago Cvijanović; Darjan Karabašević; Aleksandra Vujko; Svetlana Vukotić; Gabrijela Popović; Vuk Mirčetić (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Applied Management, Economics and Finance (MEF)) |
| Abstract: | Community-led rural tourism plays a crucial role in promoting economic sustainability and cultural preservation by prioritizing local needs and values. Active resident participation fosters a sense of ownership and empowerment, essential for the long-term success of tourism initiatives. A study of 386 residents from Bregenzerwald, Austriaselected for its established community-led tourism model and strong local engagementcharacterized by a balanced gender distribution and high education levels, investigated the factors influencing local engagement in tourism, including perceived benefits, empowerment, trust, place attachment, and resource accessibility. Complementary interviews with 31 stakeholders from Fruška Gora, Serbia-chosen as an emerging rural tourism destination with potential for sustainable development-further emphasized the significance of community agency and empowerment. Through factor analysis and structural equation modeling (SEM), the research validated its conceptual framework, demonstrating the transferability of the Bregenzerwald model to other rural contexts. Two key constructs emerged: tourism empowerment and sustainable belonging, jointly explaining 84.655% of the variance. Tourism empowerment underscores residents' recognition of tourism as a vehicle for economic growth, job creation, and cultural safeguarding, while sustainable belonging reflects a strong commitment to eco-friendly practices and social cohesion. Stakeholders from Fruška Gora echoed these findings, highlighting tourism's role in economic development, cultural identity reinforcement, and environmental stewardship. The results illustrate that rural tourism, when community-led, serves as a comprehensive development tool, fostering economic resilience, environmental sustainability, and social solidarity. The Bregenzerwald model offers a valuable framework for enhancing community participation and sustainable tourism development in other rural regions seeking holistic growth. |
| Keywords: | and Contextual Framework Development Theoretical Modeling, and Contextual Framework Development semi-structured interviews and Thematic Analysis, community-led tourism, rural development, tourism empowerment, sustainable belonging, bregenzerwald model on the rural tourism, Literature Review, and place attachment literature. ➩ Method: Theoretical Modeling, community empowerment, community-led tourism rural development tourism empowerment sustainable belonging bregenzerwald model on the rural tourism |
| Date: | 2025–06–13 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05475470 |
| By: | Tijana Ljubisavljević; Aleksandra Vujko; Martina Arsić; Vuk Mirčetić (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Applied Management, Economics and Finance (MEF)) |
| Abstract: | Digital twins are emerging as promising yet underexplored tools for addressing overtourism, sustainability, and governance challenges in tourism. This study assessed their acceptance using a mixed-methods design that combined a large-scale survey of tourists (N = 1286) with semi-structured stakeholder interviews across four Spanish destinations (Barcelona, Málaga, Valencia, and Benidorm). Factor analyses validated a six-dimensional acceptance model comprising trust, usefulness, ease of use, perceived risks, sustainability attitudes, and awareness. The quantitative results demonstrated that trust, usefulness, and ease of use strongly predicted adoption intentions, while risk perceptions negatively influenced acceptance. Sustainability orientations and digital familiarity further enhanced support. Qualitative insights revealed that governance capacity, equity concerns, and readiness critically shaped stakeholder evaluations, highlighting that adoption is mediated not only by individual perceptions but also by local infrastructural and institutional contexts. The study advances technology acceptance theory by integrating sustainability and awareness as domain-specific constructs and by showing how governance dynamics condition adoption across destinations. Practically, it underscores the need for institutional trust, transparent risk management, equitable participation, and alignment with sustainability agendas. While limited to Spanish destinations, the findings offer broader lessons for European cities seeking to embed digital twins in tourism governance. |
| Keywords: | sustainability, governance, destination management, smart tourism, technology acceptance, digital twins, digital twins technology acceptance smart tourism sustainability governance destination management |
| Date: | 2025–11–06 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05475496 |
| By: | Alberto Hidalgo; Francisco J. Velázquez |
| Abstract: | Short-term rental (STR) platforms such as Airbnb have reshaped urban and tourism economies worldwide. By lowering transaction costs and enabling peer-to-peer accommodation at scale, they have expanded visitor capacity beyond traditional hotel districts and channeled tourism demand directly into residential neighborhoods (Zervas et al., 2017; Farronato and Fradkin, 2022). This transformation a!ects multiple urban markets simultaneously (housing, local economic activity, tourist accommodation, and neighborhood dynamics), making STR one of the most consequential developments in contemporary urban policy. |
| Date: | 2026–02 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fda:fdaddt:2026-02 |
| By: | Aleksandra Vujko; Darjan Karabašević; Aleksa Panić; Martina Arsić; Vuk Mirčetić (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Applied Management, Economics and Finance (MEF)) |
| Abstract: | Tourism is a key spatial process linking human mobility, resource consumption, and environmental change. Despite growing awareness of climate risks, sustainable travel behavior often remains inconsistent with pro-environmental attitudes, reflecting the persistent attitude-behavior gap. This study examines how psychological factors-sustainability motives, ecological identity, and climate attitudes-interact with artificial intelligence (AI) transparency to shape travel decisions with spatial and environmental consequences. Using survey data from 1795 leisure travelers and a discrete-choice experiment simulating hotel booking scenarios, the study shows that ecological identity and climate attitudes reinforce sustainability motives and intentions, while transparent AI recommendations enhance perceived clarity, data visibility, and reliability. These transparency effects amplify the influence of eco-scores on revealed spatial preferences, with trust mediating the relationship between transparency and sustainable choices. Conceptually, the study integrates psychological and technological perspectives within a geographical framework of humanenvironment interaction and extends this lens to rural destinations, where travel decisions directly affect cultural landscapes and climate-sensitive ecosystems. Practically, the findings demonstrate that transparent AI systems can guide spatial redistribution of tourist flows, mitigate destination-level climate pressures, and support equitable resource management in sustainable tourism planning. These mechanisms are particularly relevant for rural areas and traditional cultural landscapes facing heightened vulnerability to climate stress, depopulation, and uneven visitation patterns. Transparent and trustworthy AI can thus convert environmental awareness into spatially sustainable behavior, contributing to more resilient and balanced tourism geographies. |
| Keywords: | spatial decision-making, ecological identity, climate attitudes, tourism geography, resource management, rural destinations, cultural landscapes, trust, AI transparency, sustainable travel, sustainable travel AI transparency trust spatial decision-making ecological identity climate attitudes tourism geography resource management rural destinations cultural landscapes |
| Date: | 2025–12–14 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05475497 |
| By: | Milena Turčinović; Aleksandra Vujko; Vuk Mirčetić (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Applied Management, Economics and Finance (MEF)) |
| Abstract: | This study investigates hotel employees' perceptions of AI-driven human resource (HR) management systems within the Accor Group's properties across three major European cities: Paris, Berlin, and Amsterdam. These diverse urban contexts, spanning a broad portfolio of hotel brands from luxury to economy, provide a rich setting for exploring how AI integration affects employee attitudes and work-life balance. A total of 437 employees participated in the survey, offering a robust dataset for structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis. Exploratory factor analysis identified two primary factors shaping perceptions: AI Perceptions, which encompasses employee views on AI's impact on job performance, communication, recognition, and retention, and balanced management, reflecting attitudes toward fairness, personal consideration, productivity, and skill development in AI-managed environments. The results reveal a complex but optimistic view, where employees acknowledge AI's potential to enhance operational efficiency and career optimism but also express concerns about flexibility loss and the need for human oversight. The findings underscore the importance of transparent communication, contextual sensitivity, and continuous training in implementing AI systems that support both organizational goals and employee well-being. This study contributes valuable insights to hospitality management by highlighting the relational and ethical dimensions of algorithmic HR systems across varied organizational and cultural settings. |
| Keywords: | work-life balance, AI-driven HR systems, employee perceptions, hospitality industry, algorithmic management, algorithmic management hospitality industry employee perceptions work-life balance AI-driven HR systems |
| Date: | 2025–10–04 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05475493 |
| By: | Glathoud, Romain |
| Abstract: | This study aims to identify strategies for the development of agritourism in the Gauja bioregion (surrounding the national park of the same name, in Latvia), in order to better valorize both economically and socially the local productions, particularly through short supply chains, in the face of the decline of typical agriculture threatened by land pressure, lack of generational renewal, dependence on imported inputs, and market difficulties. This study is an exploratory study during which 27 stakeholders of the bioregional agritourism system were interviewed through hybrid interviews. These interviews made it possible to identify an assortment of barriers and drivers that manifest at several levels: at the level of the agritourism system in general, at the level of intra-bioregional dynamics, and at the level of the local product itself. These barriers and drivers, combined with the expectations of the interviewed stakeholders, led to the proposal of 3 strategies to develop this agritourism: clearly defining the agritourism system to make it an attractive and coherent tourist destination, establishing governance to structure this system and encourage the development of initiatives, and taking into account sustainability constraints to ensure the long-term continuation of this agritourism system. |
| Date: | 2025–09–29 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:nf3re_v1 |