Factors affecting the willingness of tourists to visit cultural heritage sites in Jordan
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the factors affecting the willingness of tourists to visit the cultural heritage sites (CHS) located in the Northern Badia of Jordan, and estimated expenditures for their visit to the CHS.
Abstract: This study examined the factors affecting the willingness of tourists to visit the cultural heritage sites (CHS) located in the Northern Badia of Jordan, and estimated expenditures for their visit to the CHS. A questionnaire was developed to collect demographic and economic information about tourists during their visit to Jordan. Three hundred tourists were included in the survey at nine different sites during the summer of 2010. A logistic regression model was employed in the analyses. Factors that affected tourism at CHS included: education, variety of sites, multiple destinations, cost, and reasons for the visit. These factors had a significant impact on tourists' willingness to travel to CHS in the Northern Badia. This study recommends improving CHS and working closely with local communities to expand training and funding.
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TL;DR: It is revealed that the wearable augmented reality application helps visitors to see connections between paintings and personalize their learning experience, however, there are some drawbacks such as lack of visitor–visitor engagement and the social acceptability.
Abstract: The potential of Information and Communication Technology-enhanced visitor learning experience is increasing with the advancement of new and emerging technologies in art gallery settings. However, studies on the visitor learning experience using wearable devices, and in particular, those investigating the effects of wearable augmented reality on the learning experience within cultural heritage tourism attractions are limited. Using the generic learning outcomes framework, this study aims to assess how the wearable augmented reality application enhances visitor’s learning experiences. Forty-four volunteers who were visiting an art gallery were divided into two groups, an experimental group and a control group. Following their visit to the gallery, the volunteers, who had and had not used wearable computing equipment, were interviewed, and the data were analysed using thematic analysis. Findings revealed that the wearable augmented reality application helps visitors to see connections between paintings and ...
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...ICT-enhanced Learning Experience in Museums and Art Galleries Museums and art galleries are popular tourist attractions and cultural heritage tourism has increased in importance over the last decade (Abuamoud et al., 2014)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative analysis including participatory in-depth interviews was conducted to compare changes in the social culture induced by tourism development at the World Heritage sites (WHSs) comprising three ancient villages in China.
Abstract: The development of tourism induces changes in the social character of a destination. Tourism is a globalized business activity and thus presents growing challenges in terms of traditional social culture. With the continuous development of the tourism industry, traditional social culture has changed dramatically at many World Heritage sites (WHSs). Additionally, the growing dependence of many regions’ economies on the tourism industry has brought about an inexorable shift in the perception of many rural residents. These transformations include the impact of tourism development and its economic efficiency on inhabitants’ traditional values, lifestyles, and interpersonal relationship in ancient villages serving as WHSs. A qualitative analysis including participatory in-depth interviews was conducted to compare changes in the social culture induced by tourism development at the WHS comprising three ancient villages in China. Furthermore, a qualitative content analysis was chosen to examine the impact of tourism development on residents’ perceptions of changes in moral values. The results demonstrate that tourism development is the major catalyst for change in local residents’ moral values.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the sociodemographic profile of tourists, the variables that influence their levels of satisfaction and loyalty, and the classification of the travelers through different variables, showing the significant educational level of the surveyed tourists, as well as the high level of satisfaction with the visit, the high number of countries of origin and the outstanding motivation for knowing the city's heritage roots.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the emotional experience during the visit to the Auschwitz Death Camp, and its relationship to the perceptions of benefits gained from the visit as well as the quality of the experience.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a survey method to analyze various opinions of 113 Islamic accounting stakeholders in Indonesia related to the need of revision of Shariah Accounting Conceptual Framework (SACF) and agreed that Maqasid Shariah as a common foundation for the formulation of a new Sharia conceptual framework.
Abstract: Various standard boards such as FASB, IASB, AAOIFI, make adjustments to the conceptual framework of financial reporting on a regular basis to respond to various internal and external changes. The first conceptual framework for Financial Reporting in Indonesia, the Framework for Preparation and Presentation for Financial Statements (FPPFS), was adopted from the IASC in 1994 and in 2007 it was adapted to the Sharia Framework for Preparation and Presentation for Financial Statements (SFPPFS). FPPFS in 2016 was replaced with the IASB Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting (CFFR). This paper aims to explain the views of Islamic accounting stakeholders in Indonesia about the need for revision of the SFPPFS after the severing relationship between SFPPFS and FPPFS together with the increasing complexity of Sharia entity operations, conceptual incoherence in SFPPFS, and conceptual incoherence between SFPPFS and Islamic financial accounting standards. This study uses a survey method to analyze various opinions of 113 Islamic accounting stakeholders in Indonesia related to the need of revision of Shariah Accounting Conceptual Framework (SACF). The results show that, in general, the stakeholders want a change in the SACF and agree that Maqasid Shariah as a common foundation for the formulation of a new Sharia conceptual framework.
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TL;DR: Hosmer and Lemeshow as discussed by the authors provide an accessible introduction to the logistic regression model while incorporating advances of the last decade, including a variety of software packages for the analysis of data sets.
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TL;DR: Applied Logistic Regression, Third Edition provides an easily accessible introduction to the logistic regression model and highlights the power of this model by examining the relationship between a dichotomous outcome and a set of covariables.
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TL;DR: Amiran and Hagen as mentioned in this paper showed that there can be a substantial divergence between the WTA and WTP for a public good even when there is a nonzero elasticity of substitution between market goods and the public good, provided that the indifference curves are asymptotically bounded.
Abstract: I agree with the point made by Edoh Y. Amiran and Daniel A. Hagen (2003) that there can be a substantial, or even infinite, divergence between the WTA and WTP for a public good even where there is a nonzero elasticity of substitution between market goods and the public good, provided that the indifference curves are asymptotically bounded with respect to market goods in the manner they describe. This is an important point. They are also correct to point out that the elasticity of substitution is a local concept, whereas their asymptotic boundedness condition applies also for discrete changes. My 1991 paper used a local analysis because it was following the structure of the analysis in Robert D. Willig (1976) and Alan Randall and John R. Stoll (1980); I wanted to show that, while Randall and Stoll appeared to extend Willig’s local result on WTA versus WTP from price changes to changes in the quantity of a public good, the relevant elasticity was in fact different and involved the substitution elasticity as well as the income elasticity. I view these points by Amiran and Hagen as not two separate results but essentially the same result: their asymptotic boundedness condition generalizes my zero elasticity of substitution condition to discrete changes. The asymptotic boundedness condition can be expressed as follows: assuming a bivariate utility function u( x, q), and given a reference point ( x*, q*) associated with a reference utility level u* u( x*, q*), there exists some q q* such that, for all q q , there exists no x such that u( x , q) u*. In other words, no amount of x can substitute for the reduction in public good from q* to q q . In the case of a zero elasticity of substitution, q q* but, as Amiran and Hagen show in their Theorem 1, this is unnecessarily restrictive when dealing with a discrete reduction in q. Furthermore, their Theorem 2 can be viewed as a special case of their Theorem 1 in which q 0, which makes q an essential commodity. It is well known in consumer theory that the WTA to avoid the loss of an essential market good is infinite; their Theorem 2 extends this result to the case of an essential nonmarket good. But, as their Theorem 1 shows, essentialness is not necessary for an infinite WTA. The boundedness condition is the key, and this implies a fundamental lack of substitutability between money (market goods) and the public good.
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01 Jan 1996
TL;DR: In this paper, tourism, ecotourism, and protected areas, Tourism, ecology, and conservation of protected areas are discussed. But the focus is on tourism, not ecology.
Abstract: Tourism, ecotourism, and protected areas , Tourism, ecotourism, and protected areas , مرکز فناوری اطلاعات و اطلاع رسانی کشاورزی
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the need for cultural and heritage facilities to look carefully at their operating policies and practices to focus on issues such as customer service, partnerships and packaging opportunities and to be open to entrepreneurial approaches while continuing to meet their heritage preservation and education mandates.
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...Silberberg (1995) also found that education level and income are associated with people who travel to cultural heritage destinations....
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