Sustainably changing small traders' harassment behaviors – A theoretical framework
Annmarie Nicely,
Jonathan Day,
Sandra Sydnor and
Raslinda Mohd Ghazali
Tourism Management, 2015, vol. 47, issue C, 273-285
Abstract:
The goal of the paper was to put forward a theoretical model for sustainably changing small traders' harassment behaviors and to apply it to a destination that has been grappling with the problem for decades. One hundred and eighty-one newspaper articles, 37 annual tourism reports, and 20 other government documents were reviewed to determine Jamaica's visitor harassment mitigation initiatives and activities from 1957 to 2013. Also, seven leaders from 14 of the island's craft markets were interviewed to determine the effects of these programs on their constituents' harassment behaviors. The archives and interview transcripts were analyzed using thematic content analysis. The case analysis revealed that while Jamaica had initiatives likely to discourage their small independent traders' engagement in harassment behaviors, the initiatives developed to strengthen their knowledge of the desired less aggressive trading behaviors had deficiencies likely to limit their engagement in these behaviors. The framework had implicationsfor how measures to curtail visitor harassment are developed and tested.
Keywords: Visitor harassment; Jamaica; Learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)
Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261517714002015
Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.
Export reference: BibTeX
RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan)
HTML/Text
Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:touman:v:47:y:2015:i:c:p:273-285
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2014.10.002
Access Statistics for this article
Tourism Management is currently edited by Chris Ryan
More articles in Tourism Management from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().