Tourism

Tourist perception of recreational environment and management in a marine protected area

by Giovanni Zurlini

The Construction of an Alpine Landscape: Building, Representing and Affecting the Eastern Alps, c. 1885-1914

by Ben Anderson

Published in Journal of Cultural Geography, 29:2 (2012), pp. 1-29

Between 1885 and the First World War, German and Austrian alpinists talked of ‘opening up’ the Alps in Germany and the... more Between 1885 and the First World War, German and Austrian alpinists talked of ‘opening up’ the Alps in Germany and the Austrian Empire with a vast network of huts and paths. This article argues that this effort to develop the Alps arose from a series of relationships between people, objects, representations and affects which linked urban spaces of middle-class conduct to the alpine environment. Alpinists utilised media such as landscape reliefs and panoramas not merely to represent the Alps, but to inculcate a particular affective response amongst Germany’s urban middle-class, or Bürgertum. Instead of a Romantic ideal of mountains as unknowable symbols of nature’s power, these alpinists promoted a modern gaze which would see all, from the safety of a controlled, governable landscape. In doing so, alpinists legitimised their intervention in the Eastern Alps, developing these once unknown landscapes as a bürgerlich [bourgeois, or middle-class] cultural resource.

Baia, Portus Julius and surroundings. Diving in the Underwater Cultural Heritage in the Bay of Naples (Italy)

by Michele Stefanile

in 'Oniz, H., Cicek, B. (eds.), Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Underwater Research - Antalya-Kemer 2012, pp. 28-47'

AS CONTRIBUIÇÕES DOS ESTUDOS CULTURAIS NA ANÁLISE DO TURISMO CULTURAL

by ADRIANA BRAMBILLA

Hilma Granqvist, Louise Baldensperger et la "tradition de rencontre" au village palestinien d'Artas

by falestin naili

Civilisations, no. 57, décembre 2008

Underground Tourists/Tourists Underground: African American Tourism to Mammoth Cave

by Katie Algeo

Soon to be published in Tourism Geographies

This paper uses structuration theory and the methods of historical geography to explore the conditions in which a Jim... more This paper uses structuration theory and the methods of historical geography to explore the conditions in which a Jim Crow-era hotel run by and for American Americans flourished at the edge of one of the nineteenth century's most popular tourist destinations, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. It identifies structures, legal and customary, that hindered African American travel, but also, in this particular region, other structures linked to early twentieth-century capitalism that allowed room for agency on the part of the hotel's proprietors. It demonstrates the importance of understanding networks of social relations when undertaking micro-scale structuration analysis and contributes to our understanding of a little-studied aspect of Jim Crow-era tourism, the use of temporal and spatial strategies to create separate places within white tourist destinations for African American tourists.

Vocational work experience in the hospitality industry: characteristics and strategies

by John D Mulcahy

Anthropological Interventions in Tourism Studies (2009)

by Naomi Leite

in The Sage Handbook of Tourism Studies, ed. Mike Robinson and Tazim Jamal. London: Sage, pp. 35-64, 2009 (first author, with Nelson Graburn).

A critical survey of the anthropology of tourism, past and present, and a discussion of emerging areas of future... more A critical survey of the anthropology of tourism, past and present, and a discussion of emerging areas of future research. Written for the interdisciplinary Sage Handbook of Tourism Studies.

Visual identity and Indigenous tourism: power, authenticity, hybridity and the Osoyoos Indian Band's Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre

by Katie Bresner

Masters Thesis

The tourism industry is particularly reliant on the use of imagery to create a brand for a destination or attraction... more The tourism industry is particularly reliant on the use of imagery to create a brand for a destination or attraction in order to effectively market its product. In the case of Indigenous tourism, a paradox often exists between maintaining a level of recognition and familiarity that mirror the expectations of the public imagination, and conveying a representation that is locally meaningful and emblematic. Investigation into the visual representation and communication of identity through tourism is a means to illustrate three overlapping issues that are prevalent throughout the literature on Indigenous tourism. These are: control, authenticity, and hybridity. This research project addresses these issues through an extensive review of anthropological and tourism-related literature and its application to the specific case study of one Indigenous tourism business, the Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Centre (NDCC), owned and operated by the Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB) in Osoyoos, British Columbia (BC), Canada. Semiotic and visual analyses are used to elucidate the messages about OIB identity communicated through the Centre’s visuals, in order to bring the example of the OIB and NDCC into conversation with the larger issues found within Indigenous tourism.

Indian for a Night: Sleeping with the “Other” at Wigwam Village Tourist Cabins

by Katie Algeo

Frank Redford of Horse Cave, Kentucky, started a chain of Wigwam Village tourist cabins in 1933, an enterprise that... more Frank Redford of Horse Cave, Kentucky, started a chain of Wigwam Village tourist cabins in 1933, an enterprise that eventually expanded to seven locations stretching from Florida to California. With individual cabins in the shape of tepees, Wigwam Village capitalized on the appeal of kitschy roadside attractions and on Americans’ fascination with Native Americans. In the waxing days of automobile travel by the masses, each Village also served as a practical agglomeration of tourist services – in addition to accommodations, each offered a gas station, restaurant, and gift shop. By drawing on methods of deconstruction and hermeneutic analysis, this paper explores themes related to the appropriation and commercialization of Native American culture represented by this tourism enterprise, including the geographically displaced authenticity of a dwelling style indigenous to the Great Plains, the entrenched American habit of “playing Indian,” the social construction of a pan-Indian identity through markers of generic “Indian-ness” rather than specific tribal cultures, and the surprisingly enduring appeal of this decidedly not politically correct landscape.

The Puzzling Mr. Janin and Mammoth Cave Management, 1900-1910

by Katie Algeo

Published in the Proceedings of the Max Kämper Centennial Symposium & 9th Science Symposium: Cultural History and Research. Mammoth Cave, KY: Mammoth Cave National Park, pp. 11-21.

Albert Covington Janin was the key architect of tourism development at Mammoth Cave for two decades at the start of... more Albert Covington Janin was the key architect of tourism development at Mammoth Cave for two decades at the start of the twentieth century, yet little has been written about his tenure. This paper explores his background and accomplishments for the period 1900 to 1910 as an initial attempt to understand his contributions to Mammoth Cave. Material about  his activities in relation to Mammoth Cave is synthesized from primary sources in the archival collections of the Huntington Library (HL) of San Marino, California, and the Historical Society of Washington, DC (HSW).

A Informatização no Turismo na Serra da Estrela – O Caso de Estudo da Hotelaria e Restauração na Cidade de Seia

by Vitor Roque

Roque, Vítor; Fernandes, Daniela; Coelho, Luís e Eusébio, Pedro
ISBN 978-972-8681-31-9
2011 Instituto Politécnico da Guarda - Col. Politécnica
A INFORMATIZAÇÃO NO TURISMO NA SERRA DA ESTRELA: O CASO DE ESTUDO DA HOTELARIA E RESTAURAÇÃO NA CIDADE DE SEIA
In Fernandes, Gonçalo; Sardo, Anabela e Melo, António (Coords.) (2011).Inovação em Turismo & Hotelaria

Actualmente é, cada vez mais, visível que as novas tecnologias se têm tornado uma mais-valia para todos os sectores... more Actualmente é, cada vez mais, visível que as novas tecnologias se têm tornado uma mais-valia para todos os sectores económicos, inclusive o sector do Turismo e em particular o subsector da Hotelaria e Restauração, que é o subsector em estudo neste trabalho. Utilizar o computador na ajuda da contabilidade da empresa, ou mesmo para facilitar o trabalho na mesma, são alguns do factores que levam as empresas da área da Hotelaria e Restauração a usufruir destas tecnologias. Assim, de forma a conhecer um pouco melhor o grau de informatização do subsector da Hotelaria e Restauração da cidade de Seia, realizaram-se inquéritos às empresas de hotelaria e restauração pertencentes à mesma. Os resultados obtidos, assim como, todas as conclusões tiradas são divulgadas ao longo deste trabalho.

Place Representation in Tourist Guidebooks: An Example from Singapore

by Alan A. Lew

Published in 1991 in the "Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography" 12(2):124-137. (pre-publication version)

Tourist guidebooks provide an important source of information on places. Different guidebooks are written for... more Tourist guidebooks provide an important source of information on places. Different guidebooks are written for different types of visitors to better meet their individual travel needs. This is demonstrated through a content analysis of four guidebooks written for Singapore in the early 1980s. Two of the guidebooks represent variations on mainstream, mass travel interests. The third source presents the long-term expatriates perception,
while the fourth source presents the alternative or youth tourist view of Singapore. Urban tourism is shown to be multifaceted, allowing for a diversity of travel motivations, experiences, and behavior.

Keywords: travel literature, urban tourism, content analysis, environmental perception, Singapore.

Managing Tourist Space in Pueblo Villages of the American Southwest

by Alan A. Lew

Prepublication version. Published in In Singh, Tej Vir, ed., Tourism Development in Critical Environments, pp. 120-36. Elmsford, NY: Cognizant Communications Corporation.

Keywords: Tourism, Pueblo Indians, Acculturation, Village Design, Tourist Behavior, Environmental Management
more Keywords: Tourism, Pueblo Indians, Acculturation, Village Design, Tourist Behavior, Environmental Management

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Acculturation is defined as the process of culture change that occurs when a society with superior technological sophistication comes into contact with one of inferior technological sophistication.  The latter is most likely to become an acculturated society, experiencing dramatic shifts in social structure and world view.  The North American experience has largely been one in which American Indians have experienced pressure to change under the expanding influence of European settlers (Bodine 1972).  Societies can react in a variety of ways under pressure of this kind (Lew 1989).  In general, these reactions can be classified into two types: innovation diffusion, and cultural adaptation.

Sojourners, Gangxi and Clan Associations: Social Capital and Overseas Chinese Tourism to China

by Alan A. Lew

With Alan Wong. Published in D. Timothy and T. Coles, eds., (2004) Tourism, Diasporas and Space, pp. 202-214. London: Routledge.

Unlike traditional forms of economic capital, human capital, or cultural capital (all of which relate to attributes of... more Unlike traditional forms of economic capital, human capital, or cultural capital (all of which relate to attributes of individuals), social capital is situated in the quality of relationships and is not easily quantifiable or measured (Mohan and Mohan 2002). Friendship and goodwill are examples of this. They are best created through face-to-face interactions and they become resources when “mobilized to facilitate action” (Adler and Kwon 2002). Tourism can be used to enhance social capital by bringing people together in face-to-face interactions that can, in properly structured circumstances, lead to mutually beneficial relationships. Belief in this aspect of tourism underlies support for sustainable tourism approaches and ecotourism product developments, as well as broader assertions of tourism as a force for intercultural understanding and global peace-making . Unfortunately, few tourist experiences actually achieve the goal of creating social capital, even if the capital is as amorphous as understanding and peace.

Existential Tourism and the Homeland: The Overseas Chinese Experience

by Alan A. Lew

Published with Alan Wong (2005) In Cartier, C. and Lew, A.A., eds., Seductions of Place: Geographical perspectives on globalization and touristed landscapes, pp. 286-300 (Chapter 18), Abingdon, UK: Routledge. (pre-publication version)

This chapter explores conditions of existential tourism among overseas Chinese, focusing on relations with their... more This chapter explores conditions of existential tourism among overseas Chinese, focusing on relations with their ancestral homeland areas in China. Like other disaporic ethnic groups, overseas Chinese migrants, in both historic and contemporary times, have followed long established paths, bound by ‘networks of ethnicity’, which “extend the group’s identity spatially, and are an important facet of social and economic organization, particularly within migrant communities” (Mitchell 2000: 392). Highly structured ethnic networks support existential tourism to China and several major fields of influence shape this structuration process, overlapping in different ways. Overseas Chinese institutional structures support ideas about traditional Chinese values, thereby working to enable and maintain a sense of ‘Chineseness’. ‘Traditional values’, however, have also adapted to meet the special conditions of the migrant/diasporic community, as migration creates both ‘outsider’ and ‘home out there’ experiences, the evolution of multiple homes, and the need for mechanisms to overcome geographic spaces between old, new and transitory homes (Leung 2003). The influence of space-shrinking technologies and globalizing modernity provide further realms of influence, shaping the form and experience of both migration and ‘Chineseness, by, for example, enabling closer relationships and easing the strain of return visits.

Where the World Meets: Regionalism and Globalization in Singapore’s Convention Industry

by Alan A. Lew

Published with T.C. Chang (1999) in Journal of Convention and Exhibition Management 1(4):17-36. (pre-publication version)

Singapores meetings, incentive, convention and exhibition industry (M.I.C.E.) attracts over 4,000 events and over... more Singapores meetings, incentive, convention and exhibition industry (M.I.C.E.) attracts over 4,000 events and over 400,000 foreign participants every year. Since 1982, Singapore has been the top convention destination in Asia and today ranks among the top ten in the world. An assessment of Singapore MICE attractiveness shows that while the country has many strengths, particularly infrastructure and management, it has a number of weaknesses, as well, including limited entertainment and cultural attractions. Further analysis shows that much of Singapores success has been based on regional meetings, rather than truly global events. As regional competition heats up, Singapore will need to better develop the global market. To do this Singapore is attempting to leverage its well developed transportation, hospitality and human resources, along with its role as a
regional and global economic center. Keywords: Singapore, MICE attractions, Market positioning

Tourism Planning and Traditional Urban Planning Theory: Planners as Agents of Social Change

by Alan A. Lew

Invited commendaty, (2007) In "Leisure/Loisir: Journal of the Canadian Association of Leisure Studies" 31(2):383-392. (pre-publication version)

In terms of community focus, the field of urban and regional planning is much more comprehensive in both subject... more In terms of community focus, the field of urban and regional planning is much more comprehensive in both subject matter and outcomes than is most tourism planning, as least as each is taught in higher education around the world. Tourism planning, however, draws upon a good portion of urban and regional planning methods, especially in the area known as rational planning. As such, the more narrow area of tourism planning could be considered a subfield of urban and regional planning. One major shortcoming of tourism planning is an apparent lack of attention to the normative issues of (1) how planners should plan and (2) what issues planners should focus on in their planning efforts. These questions address the complexity of data and issues that planners deal with, including questions of what
data or information is collected, how it is organized, and how the information will be used to make decisions. Tourism planners could benefit from greater familiarity with these fundamental concepts of planning theory.

Keywords: tourism planning, urban planning, planning theory

Long Tail Tourism: New geographies for marketing niche tourism products

by Alan A. Lew

Published (2009) Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing 25(3/4): 409-419.

The Long Tail concept refers to the Internet-based economy that has enabled company success through a focus on highly... more The Long Tail concept refers to the Internet-based economy that has enabled company success through a focus on highly specialized services and products that are not in high volume demand, but maybe in high-value demand. The concept of the post-tourist, for example, is a Long Tail phenomenon. Long Tail marketing approaches are proving success due to advances in communication technology and social networking that have given more people access to a broader range of goods and services and information. The Long Tail is not without its challenges, including increased global competition, and it has not abandoned geographic considerations. Geography, in fact, can help to differentiate niche products and must still be overcome to consummate the tourist experience.

KEYWORDS. The Long Tail, social software, marketing, geography, the Internet

Social Networks at the Service of Tourism - The InforTur platform

by Vitor Roque

proc. of the Conference Advances in Tourism Research – ATR 2010, Oviedo, Spain,  9-10 November 2010

As in the case of other industry and services areas, the tourism sector navigates at a different pace according to the... more As in the case of other industry and services areas, the tourism sector navigates at a different pace according to the investment capacity and the perception of the developments’ owners in relation to their profitability. With a Web presence has significantly high compared to other industries, there is still much work to do in the communication infrastructure operation area, management software and CRM (Customer Relationship Management), but who's ahead begins to roam the new paths linked to social networks, the Web 2.0 and the potential of geo-referencing of content to attract new customers by addressing the economic crisis has also affected the sector.