Social Network Analysis and Qualitative Interviews for Assessing Geographic Characteristics of Tourism Business Networks
This study integrates quantitative social network analysis (SNA) and qualitative interviews for understanding tourism business links in isolated communities through analysing spatial characteristics. Two case studies are used, the Surselva-Gotthard region in the Swiss Alps and Longyearbyen in the Ar...
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ftrepec:oai:RePEc:plo:pone00:0156028 2023-05-15T14:28:53+02:00 Social Network Analysis and Qualitative Interviews for Assessing Geographic Characteristics of Tourism Business Networks Ilan Kelman Tobias Luthe Romano Wyss Silje H Tørnblad Yvette Evers Marina Martin Curran Richard J Williams Eric L Berlow https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0156028 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0156028&type=printable unknown https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0156028 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0156028&type=printable article ftrepec 2020-12-04T13:32:39Z This study integrates quantitative social network analysis (SNA) and qualitative interviews for understanding tourism business links in isolated communities through analysing spatial characteristics. Two case studies are used, the Surselva-Gotthard region in the Swiss Alps and Longyearbyen in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, to test the spatial characteristics of physical proximity, isolation, and smallness for understanding tourism business links. In the larger Surselva-Gotthard region, we found a strong relationship between geographic separation of the three communities on compartmentalization of the collaboration network. A small set of businesses played a central role in steering collaborative decisions for this community, while a group of structurally ‘peripheral’ actors were less influential. By contrast, the business community in Svalbard showed compartmentalization that was independent of geographic distance between actors. Within towns of similar size and governance scale, Svalbard is more compartmentalized, and those compartments are not driven by geographic separation of the collaboration clusters. This compartmentalization in Svalbard was reflected in a lower density of formal business collaboration ties compared to the communities of the Alps. We infer that the difference is due to Svalbard having higher cultural diversity and population turnover than the Alps communities. We propose that integrating quantitative network analysis from simple surveys with qualitative interviews targeted from the network results is an efficient general approach to identify regionally specific constraints and opportunities for effective governance. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Archipelago Arctic Longyearbyen Svalbard RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) Arctic Longyearbyen Svalbard |
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This study integrates quantitative social network analysis (SNA) and qualitative interviews for understanding tourism business links in isolated communities through analysing spatial characteristics. Two case studies are used, the Surselva-Gotthard region in the Swiss Alps and Longyearbyen in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, to test the spatial characteristics of physical proximity, isolation, and smallness for understanding tourism business links. In the larger Surselva-Gotthard region, we found a strong relationship between geographic separation of the three communities on compartmentalization of the collaboration network. A small set of businesses played a central role in steering collaborative decisions for this community, while a group of structurally ‘peripheral’ actors were less influential. By contrast, the business community in Svalbard showed compartmentalization that was independent of geographic distance between actors. Within towns of similar size and governance scale, Svalbard is more compartmentalized, and those compartments are not driven by geographic separation of the collaboration clusters. This compartmentalization in Svalbard was reflected in a lower density of formal business collaboration ties compared to the communities of the Alps. We infer that the difference is due to Svalbard having higher cultural diversity and population turnover than the Alps communities. We propose that integrating quantitative network analysis from simple surveys with qualitative interviews targeted from the network results is an efficient general approach to identify regionally specific constraints and opportunities for effective governance. |
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Ilan Kelman Tobias Luthe Romano Wyss Silje H Tørnblad Yvette Evers Marina Martin Curran Richard J Williams Eric L Berlow |
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Ilan Kelman Tobias Luthe Romano Wyss Silje H Tørnblad Yvette Evers Marina Martin Curran Richard J Williams Eric L Berlow |
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Social Network Analysis and Qualitative Interviews for Assessing Geographic Characteristics of Tourism Business Networks |
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Social Network Analysis and Qualitative Interviews for Assessing Geographic Characteristics of Tourism Business Networks |
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Social Network Analysis and Qualitative Interviews for Assessing Geographic Characteristics of Tourism Business Networks |
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Social Network Analysis and Qualitative Interviews for Assessing Geographic Characteristics of Tourism Business Networks |
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social network analysis and qualitative interviews for assessing geographic characteristics of tourism business networks |
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