New Year’s Eve Show: An Opportunity to Further Develop Sustainable Local Tourism in Chile

Ángel Acevedo-Duque, Tohtli Prado-Sabido, Tatiana Gomes Ramires, Luiz Vicente Ovalles-Toledo, Lidyeth Azucena Sandoval Barraza, Rina Álvarez-Becerra and Gonzalo R. Llanos-Herrera
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Ángel Acevedo-Duque: Public Policy Observatory, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Santiago 7500912, Chile
Tohtli Prado-Sabido: Faculty of Accounting and Administration, Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Culiacán 80020, Mexico
Tatiana Gomes Ramires: Business and Technology School, Universidad Gabriela Mistral, Santiago 7500533, Chile
Luiz Vicente Ovalles-Toledo: Faculty of Accounting and Administration, Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Culiacán 80020, Mexico
Lidyeth Azucena Sandoval Barraza: Faculty of Accounting and Administration, Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Culiacán 80020, Mexico
Rina Álvarez-Becerra: Graduate School, Universidad Nacional Jorge Basadre Grohmann, Tacna 23001, Peru
Gonzalo R. Llanos-Herrera: School of Economics and Business, Universidad Finis Terrae, Santiago 7501015, Chile

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 7, 1-23

Abstract: Although the pandemic is still with us and COVID-19 continues to saturate the news, everyone has abundant reasons to travel, whether it be physical and mental exhaustion from prolonged shutdowns, vaccine tourism, family reunions, long-awaited vacations, summer in the southern hemisphere, school break or year-end holidays. The main purpose of this research was to examine and understand the main motivations that lead consumers to attend national events as part of their local tourism activities. Through interviews, we have therefore collected the complementary experiences of specialists who work day-in-day-out to encourage local, quality and sustainable tourism. Using a naturalistic qualitative methodology, our hermeneutic analysis is structured in five phases and based on data—of a social nature—from public and private institutions which believe in endurable tourism. In order to validate these results and for them to be considered by other institutions and other countries when modifying and proposing activities to maintain sustainable tourism, the interviewees had to be representatives of public and private institutions and national tourists who have worked and attended the celebrations of the end of the year 2021 in this region of Chile. Our main conclusions from the analyzed units show that these types of local events enhance local tourism and lead to sustainable political, economic, social, and ecological activities.

Keywords: local tourism; inland tourism; sustainable tourism; tourism development; national tourism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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