Characterization of Olive Oil Tourism as a Type of Special Interest Tourism: An Analysis from the Tourist Experience Perspective

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Indicators cannot be simply predetermined by the authors based on literature and through a pilot test of experts.  They must be confirmed by conducting an exploratory factor analysis with a complete interpretation of results  including factor loadings and test of reliability and validity of new scale prior to interpreting the factor means.  Once the constructs are defined with EFA use CFA and SEM to test the relationship among the constructs. I do not understand the use and interpretation of KMO and Bartlett's test in this manuscript.  

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,

According with your Review Report Form, we have proceeded to change in order to improve our manuscript.  In the following points you can find the answer to your review:

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Rw 1 Comment 1: "Though the section materials and methods is well structured and the results clearly described, a discussion section which compares the results of your research with other similar already published in relevant journal is absent."

Authors:

• There are virtually no studies that analyse olive oil tourism as a type of SIT, and of those that do, none uses a method based on tourist opinions. Nevertheless, following the reviewers’ recommendations, we have tried to improve the discussion of the results by referring to other related studies, such as that of Pulido-Fernández et al., (2019) and Soleimani et al., (2019).

Rw 1 Comment 2:"Therefore, I suggest you to add more literature in the state of the art of you research in order to highlight in the discussion section the novelty of the results achieved in your research study."

Authors:

Regarding the state of the research, there is scant literature on special interest tourism as it relates to our field of research in olive oil tourism, hence the novelty of this research. However, we have improved how the article addresses the state of the research by incorporating some more current articles related to the term special interest tourism:

• Soleimani, S.; Bruwer, J.;Gross M.J.; Lee, R. Astro-tourism conceptualisation as special-interest tourism (SIT) field: a phenomenological approach. Current Issues in Tourism, 2019, 22:18, 2299-2314.
• Agarwal, S.; Busby, G.; Huang, R. Special interest tourism: an introduction, in Special Interest Tourism: Concepts, Contexts and Cases. London, CABI, 2018. pp. 1-17.
• Jun, W.; Mao-Ying, W. How special is special interest tourism – and how special are special interest tourists? A perspective article in a Chinese context. Current Issues in Tourism, 2020, pp. 1-5.
• Ma, S.; Kirilenko, A.; Stepchenkova, S. Special interest tourism is not so special after all: Big data evidence from the 2017 great American Solar Eclipse. Tourism Management, 2020, 77, pp. 1–13.
• McKercher, B.; Chan, A. How special is special interest tourism? Journal of Travel Research, 2005, 44(1), pp. 21–31.
• Jin, X.; Sparks, B. Barriers to offering special interest tour products to the Chinese outbound group market. Tourism Management, 2017, 59, pp. 205–215.

The articles have been included in the literature review and have complemented the information provided, improving the rationale and theoretical basis for our article.

Rw 1 Comment 3: Furthermore I think that a moderate English changes is required.

Authors:

The proposed changes have been made.    We attach the paper with changes in order to submit this to your evaluation.   Kind regards,

Reviewer 2 Report

Dear Authors, the topic of the manuscript is interesting and potentially scientific soundness for the journal.However, though the section materials and methods is well structured and the results clearly described, a discussion section which compares the results of your research with other similar already published in relevant journal is absent. Therefore, I suggest you to add more literature in the state of the art of you research in order to highlight in the discussion section the novelty of the results achieved in your research study. 

Furthermore I think that a moderate English changes is required.

 

 

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,

According with your Review Report Form, we have proceeded to change in order to improve our manuscript. In the following points you can find the answer to your review:

Comments in red

Rw 2:  Mistakes in terms of line spacing in the second page (lines 62 to 82) and in the page 8 (lines 227 to 231).

The proposed changes have been made.

Rw 2: Material and methods: It would be interesting to introduce current information about how important is olive oil in Jaen, which is a global reference in the production of olive oil.

The importance of the province of Jaén in terms of global olive oil production has been highlighted, with reference to olive oil production data for the last five years (worldwide and in the province of Jaén). This information comes from the International Olive Council (IOC) and the Food Information and Control Agency (AICA) of the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

 

Rw 2: References: The 3 and 33 references are the same. I ask you to change it. Also, it would be convenient to update the literature used, because lots of articles presented prescribe a considerable antiquity.

 

The proposed changes have been made.

 

We attach the paper with changes in order to submit this to your evaluation.

Kind regards,

 

 

 

Reviewer 3 Report

The paper presented is very interested because it envolves olive oil tourism by a new perspective. However, this document has to carry out some modifications as:

• Mistakes in terms of line spacing in the second page (lines 62 to 82) and in the page 8 (lines 227 to 231).
• Material and methods: It would be interesting to introduce current information about how important is olive oil in Jaen, which is a global reference in the production of olive oil.
• References: The 3 and 33 references are the same. I ask you to change it. Also, it would be convenient to update the literature used, because lots of articles presented prescribe a considerable antiquity.

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,

According with your Review Report Form, we have proceeded to change in order to improve our manuscript. In the following points you can find the answer to your review:

Comments in red

Rw 3: Mistakes in terms of line spacing in the second page (lines 62 to 82) and in the page 8 (lines 227 to 231).

The proposed changes have been made.

Rw 3: Material and methods: It would be interesting to introduce current information about how important is olive oil in Jaen, which is a global reference in the production of olive oil.

The importance of the province of Jaén in terms of global olive oil production has been highlighted, with reference to olive oil production data for the last five years (worldwide and in the province of Jaén). This information comes from the International Olive Council (IOC) and the Food Information and Control Agency (AICA) of the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

 

Rw 3: References: The 3 and 33 references are the same. I ask you to change it. Also, it would be convenient to update the literature used, because lots of articles presented prescribe a considerable antiquity.

 

The proposed changes have been made.

 

We attach the paper with changes in order to submit this to your evaluation.

Kind regards,

Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

The authors modified the article according to my previous review.