Journal of Place Management and Development: Volume 11 Issue 4

The place sustainability scale: measuring residents’ perceptions of the sustainability of a town

Viriya Taecharungroj, Thunwadee Tachapattaworakul Suksaroj, Cheerawit Rattanapan

The purpose of this research is to develop a scale that assesses place sustainability from the perspectives of residents, who are the main stakeholders. The resulting place…

Indigenous residents’ perceptions towards tourism development: a case of Sabah, Malaysia

Normah Abdul Latip, S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh, Mastura Jaafar, Azizan Marzuki, Mohd Umzarulazijo Umar

This paper aims to investigate the perceptions of indigenous people towards tourism development and the factors that influence their perceptions of the economic, social and…

Downtown management and homelessness: the versatile roles of business improvement districts

Wonhyung Lee

Homelessness in the public place presents a complex issue to downtown redevelopment and management efforts. Although business communities are commonly perceived to take hostile…

Quality, satisfaction and loyalty indices

Ana Ma Castillo Canalejo, Juan Antonio Jimber del Río

The main purpose of this research was to develop a universal model to evaluate the perceived value of tourism services and satisfaction with, and loyalty to, destinations from the…

Participatory place management in the age of shrinkage: The case of Kunitachi within Tokyo’s peripheral areas

Marco Capitanio

This paper aims to focus on citizen participation as a crucial place management factor in Tokyo’s shrinking suburbs as a way to facilitate the goal of retaining and attracting…

Assessing the strategic needs of local territorial systems (LTSs): The case of a southern Italian province

Giovanni Pino, Gianluigi Guido, Alessandro M. Peluso, Marco Pichierri

This paper aims to contribute to the literature on place marketing by focusing on the concept of strategic needs, i.e. the set of strategic priorities that a place could achieve…