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An exploration of visitor satisfaction and loyalty with nature based tourism product in Sri Lanka
Get PDFSri Lanka's future development identifies a significant contribution from
tourism industry. Nature based tourism being the pivot of Sri Lankan tourism product;
rich vegetation, wild life and rich bio-diversity have a unique opportunity to capitalize
on the growing tourist interest in nature-based tourism activities (NBTA). Contrarily,
visitor satisfaction is of pivotal to operators of tourism businesses to generate loyalty,
with no exception for nature-based tourism attractions. This presents a range of
challenges to the NBTA supply sector, whose role is now shifting from environmental
stewardship and education to one of customer service agent. Against this background
this study addresses the issue of quality product/service provision in satisfying nature
based tourists in Sri Lanka. The perceive-performance theory was identified to be more
appropriate for this analysis. The study area was seven nature-based tourism attractions
in Sri Lanka, where convenience sampling was used for the selection of the attractions.
Primary data for this research was collected through a questionnaire using the on-site
survey method. Out of 300 questionnaires, 276 were usable. Statistical analyses such as
frequencies, descriptive statistics, t-test and regression analysis were used to meet the
respective objectives. The overall visitor satisfaction with NBTA in Sri Lanka was
satisfactory according to the findings of this study. Further, findings illustrate a high
degree of satisfaction with the natural resources and tangible aspects of the product.
Contrarily, price factor, communication and empathy of staff showed lesser satisfaction
as per the analysis. Based upon the factors that are critical to the sample population in
terms of explaining and predicting both satisfaction and future behavioral intention,
recommendations were made to increase visitor satisfaction with the nature-based
tourism attractions. In particular, tangibility of the product to be improved to make
visitors satisfied with the price while maintaining the standards of the other five areas
under the study
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on tourism in Poland in March 2020.
Get PDFThe outbreak of Coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic caused global economic gloom in the first quarter of 2020. This crisis has particularly impacted tourism, which is the subject of this paper. Data regarding air traffic in March 2020 compiled by Polish Air Navigation Services Agency has been put to a detailed analysis. Accommodation occupancy rate in this period was analysed using statistics presented by STR company. The analyses’ conclusion clearly indicates on significant decrease in Poland’s tourism in March 2020. Occupancy rate declined in about 40% in comparison to data from last year, with fall in air traffic on Polish airports (resulting from stopping international air links) in about 80-90% in comparison to the same period last year
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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