Special Issue "Impacts and Sustainability of Tourism, Hospitality, and Events"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 December 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Susan Ryan
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Guest Editor
Department of Business, Economics, and Enterprise Sciences, California University of Pennsylvania, California, PA 15419, USA
Interests: agritourism; dark tourism; destination marketing; sustainable community tourism planning; development; and management; responsible tourism
Dr. Jacob Bethem
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Guest Editor
Department of Business, Economics, and Enterprise Sciences, California University of Pennsylvania, California, PA 15419, USA
Interests: zero waste; green building; renewable energy; electric vehicles; and valuing all forms of life

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce an upcoming issue of Sustainability, our open access journal that may interest you or those in your network of colleagues. We hope you consider circulating this call for papers announcement that will focus on the topics of sustainable tourism and the interrelated fields of events, hospitality, recreation, and sport.

As the tourism industry is currently on hold due to COVID-19, the research community has an ideal opportunity to examine its socio-cultural, economic, and environmental consequences more thoroughly. Scholarly inquiry can embrace this lull in a way that contributes to a more responsible tourism future. Please join us at this important time by contributing new information and ideas to the literature in sustainable tourism, events, hospitality, recreation, and sports.

We aim to attract a range of potential interdisciplinary contributors to make this issue reflective of the totality of the tourism super sector. Welcome disciplinary perspectives include business, commercial recreation, culinary arts, destination marketing, economics, education, ecology, entrepreneurship, environmental sciences, gaming entertainment, hotels and resort administration, land use, sociology, psychology, parks and recreation, sports management, wildlife conservation, and urban and regional planning.

Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050; CODEN: SUSTDE) is an international, cross-disciplinary, scholarly, peer-reviewed and open access journal of the environmental, cultural, economic, and social sustainability of human beings. For more about the scope and subject aims of Sustainability open access journal, please click here.

We hope you considering submitting a paper that will help inform the scholarly community and in turn the future of the tourism industry and the related sectors of events, hospitality, recreation, and sport.

Dr. Susan Ryan
Dr. Jacob Bethem
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • sustainable tourism
  • sustainable hospitality
  • sustainable recreation
  • sustainable events
  • sustainable sport
  • tourism impact
  • tourism strategies
  • ecotourism
  • tourism attractions
  • tourism management
  • social sustainability
  • ecological impact
  • sustainability
  • sustainable communities
  • social values
  • sports tourism
  • events tourism
  • sustainable experiences
  • tourist experiences
  • tourism policy
  • protected areas
  • rural tourism
  • rural development
  • tourism economics
  • conservation and natural resources
  • culinary tourism
  • heritage tourism

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Sentiment Analysis to Measure Quality and Build Sustainability in Tourism Destinations
Sustainability 2021, 13(11), 6015; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13116015 - 26 May 2021
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The models used for analyzing and measuring quality in tourist destinations are changing with the incorporation of new techniques derived from data science and artificial intelligence. Recent studies show how social media and e-word of mouth (e-WoM) are playing key roles in the [...] Read more.
The models used for analyzing and measuring quality in tourist destinations are changing with the incorporation of new techniques derived from data science and artificial intelligence. Recent studies show how social media and e-word of mouth (e-WoM) are playing key roles in the perception and image diffusion of tourist destinations. Thus, it is necessary to look for new methods for analyzing the tourist management and attractiveness of tourist spots. This includes conducting a sentiment analysis of tourists that modifies former research methods based on previously proposed model, supported by a survey, which obtained predefined and incomplete results. This study analyzed the quality of tourism in Spain, a major tourist destination that is considered to be the country with the greatest tourist competitiveness according to the World Economic Forum, and in China, the country with the greatest level of development and potential. A sentiment analysis was carried out to measure the quality of tourist destinations in Spain, and this involved three challenges: (1) the analysis of the sentiments of Chinese tourists obtained from e-WoM; (2) the use of new models to measure the quality of a destination based on information from Chinese social networks, and (3) the use of the latest artificial intelligence analytical technologies. Our findings demonstrate how sentiment analysis can be a determining factor in measuring WoM and identifying areas of development in tourist destinations in order to build a more sustainable destination. The results includes the following aspects: (1) the use of real images with more empirical evidence, (2) the use of impressive and disappointing sentiments, (3) a “no comment status”, (4) elimination of stereotypes, and (5) the identification of new opportunities and segments. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Impacts and Sustainability of Tourism, Hospitality, and Events)
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