Barriers to Start and Develop Transformative Ecotourism Business

IF 1.2 Q3 GEOGRAPHY

European Countryside Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI:10.2478/euco-2021-0039

Dalia Vidickienė, Živilė Gedminaitė-Raudonė, Rita Vilkė, P. Chmieliński, A. Zobena

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Abstract

Abstract This article aims to fill the cognitive gap by providing evidence for different barriers hampering the innovative activity in ecotourism which concerns the promotion of the so-called transformative tourism concept. The research is devoted to identifying what are the most important barriers in the two areas: i) policy and regulation; ii) regional economic development. The observed absence of appropriate representative data for defining the state of the art in the field of transformative ecotourism as a new phenomenon is evident; therefore, it is suggested to use an expert survey for barriers identification in the field. The expert survey was done in the four post-socialist Baltic Sea countries/regions: Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and the St. Petersburg region (Russia) in autumn 2020. Research results disclose the existing similarities among barriers in researched regions and highlight the key areas for improvement in policy and regulation and economy-related fields, aiming to create a more favorable environment for promoting transformative ecotourism as prosperous innovation of future tourism.

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启动和发展转型生态旅游业务的障碍

摘要本文旨在填补认知空白，为阻碍生态旅游创新活动的不同障碍提供证据，这些障碍涉及所谓的变革性旅游概念的推广。这项研究致力于确定两个领域中最重要的障碍是什么：一政策和监管；ii）区域经济发展。显而易见的是，在将转型生态旅游作为一种新现象的领域中，缺乏适当的代表性数据来界定其技术现状；因此，建议采用专家调查的方法进行该领域的障碍识别。专家调查于2020年秋季在波罗的海四个后社会主义国家/地区进行：拉脱维亚、立陶宛、波兰和圣彼得堡地区（俄罗斯）。研究结果揭示了研究区域中存在的障碍之间的相似性，并突出了政策法规和经济相关领域需要改进的关键领域，旨在为促进转型生态旅游作为未来旅游业的繁荣创新创造更有利的环境。

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European Countryside GEOGRAPHY-

CiteScore

2.90

自引率

12.50%

发文量

审稿时长

39 weeks

期刊介绍： European Countryside scope: ecology of rural landscape, rural sociology, demography and gender, multi-functional rural development, agriculture and other branches, rural geography, rural borderland, rural and agro-tourism, rural settlement, small towns as centers of rural micro-regions, rural planning and architecture.