Tourism Geography

The modernities of heritage and tourism: interpretations of an Asian future

by Tim Winter

Migration Impacts on Australian Inbound and Outbound VFR and Total Tourism Flows

by Neelu Seetaram

Dwyer, L., Seetaram, N., Forsyth, P., King, B. (2012). “Migration Impacts on Australian Inbound and Outbound VFR and Total Tourism Flows" Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE) International Conference, 6th to 9th of February, Melbourne, Australia.

Keywords : VFR, Tourism Demand, Inbound and Outbound, Australia, Immigration and Tourism.

Glow-worm tourism in Australia and New Zealand: Commodifying and conserving charismatic micro-fauna

by C. Michael Hall

Hall, C.M., Glow-worm tourism in Australia and New Zealand: Commodifying and conserving charismatic micro-fauna, in Insects in Leisure and Tourism, ed.R.H. Lemelin, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, forthcoming. (draft manuscript of chapter)

Introduction

Although more usually associated with Waitomo Caves in New Zealand, snare-forming glow-worms... more Introduction

Although more usually associated with Waitomo Caves in New Zealand, snare-forming glow-worms (Arachnocampa spp.) are an important element of tourism in both Australia and New Zealand. The larvae of all glow-worms construct mucus tubes from which they hang a snare or web of silk and mucus to capture prey that is attracted by its bioluminescence (Richards 1960; Baker 2002a). In Australia glow-worm tourism has been described as ”a multi-million dollar industry, thereby making glow-worms a commercially valuable organism” (Baker 2003: 13). In New Zealand Waitomo Caves attracts on average more than annual 400,000 tourists visits, and in summer visitor numbers rise to approximately 2,000 people per day. However, despite their longstanding role as a tourist attraction relatively little research has been conducted into their tourism significance or their management as compared to other charismatic fauna and flora. This chapter therefore provides an overview of the different glow-worm species in Australia and New Zealand, their role in tourism and the development of appropriate visitor management strategies.

Fregonese, S. "Between a refuge and a battleground. Beirut’s discrepant cosmopolitanisms".

by Sara Fregonese

Forthcoming (July 2012), Geographical Review.

The Lingering Moment

by Garth Lean

Living the “Real” Dream in la France profonde? Lifestyle Migration, Social Distinction and the Authenticities of Everyday Life

by Michaela Benson

(In press) ‘Living the “Real” Dream in la France profonde? Lifestyle Migration, Social Distinction and the Authenticities of Everyday Life’, Accepted by Anthropological Quarterly

For the British residents of rural France, the desire for authentic (rural) living underscored the decision to... more For the British residents of rural France, the desire for authentic (rural) living underscored the decision to migrate, while through residence they gain more nuanced understandings of authenticity. This article explores the purpose that these authenticities have for my respondents. As the ethnography in the article demonstrates, claims to the authentic are equally claims to distinctiveness, and should thus be read within the context of the continual processes of social distinction in which these migrants engage.

Andriotis, K. (2009). The Morphology of a Coastal Cretan Municipality. In: Dowling, R. and Pforr, C. (eds.), Coastal Tourism Development: Planning & Management Issues, Cognizant.

by Konstantinos Andriotis

BOOK CONTRIBUTION

Andriotis, K. (2010). Heterotopic erotic oases: The Public Nude Beach Experience. Annals of Tourism Research, 37(4): 1076-1096.

by Konstantinos Andriotis

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160738310000447

Despite the importance of beaches for a broad spectrum of recreational activities, very little is known about the... more Despite the importance of beaches for a broad spectrum of recreational activities, very little is known about the multitude of beach use in marginalized spaces offering a range of opportunities for transgressive behaviour. To explore the ways that the principles of Foucault’s heterotopia are articulated by users of a gay nude beach, functioning as an erotic oasis, this study adopted a covert ethnographic approach which involved non-participant observation. The results of the study offer a unique glimpse into the role of beach, body and sexuality in the tourism experience and unlock the complexities and entanglements engaged in deviant beach use.

Keywords: heterotopia, erotic oasis, beach experience, nudism, gay space, sexual body.

Investigative Management and Consumer Research on the Internet

by Peter Lugosi

A final version of this paper will be published as Lugosi, P., Janta, H. and Watson, P. (2012) Investigative Management and Consumer Research on the Internet. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management Vol. 24, No. 6. Please consult the final published version if citing.

This paper introduces the notion of Investigative Research on the Internet (IRI) and conceptualises its processes... more This paper introduces the notion of Investigative Research on the Internet (IRI) and conceptualises its processes through the principle of streaming. It discusses the similarities and differences between IRI and netnography and considers various aspects of the IRI process, including site selection, sampling, data collection and analysis. It is argued that streaming can help to understand the processes involved in conducting netnographic research. Moreover, it is suggested that streaming is a more appropriate way to conceptualise some internet-based studies that do not conform to netnographic or ethnographic ideals. Three international empirical cases are used to illustrate the application of IRI and streaming in research on international workers, consumer cultures and on emerging business phenomena.

kem.mak

by Erdal Akpınar

kem.mak

by Erdal Akpınar

DÜNYAMİRASIMAK

by Erdal Akpınar

Making wilderness: Tourism and the history of the wilderness idea in Iceland

by C. Michael Hall

Sæþórsdóttir, A.D., Hall, C.M. & Saarinen, J., Making wilderness: Tourism and the history of the wilderness idea in Iceland. Polar Geography, <10.1080/1088937X.2011.643928>. (copy provided here is the uncorrected page proof)

The notion of wilderness is often associated with high latitudes. This paper focuses on the historical and cultural... more The notion of wilderness is often associated with high latitudes. This paper focuses on the historical and cultural processes that construct the wilderness idea in Iceland.Throughout the centuries histories have mirrored the feelings and opinions toward the wild and dangerous. These include the sagas and folktales about outlaws and supernatural beings in the Icelandic Highlands. Despite its harsh nature occasionally travelers did visit. However, in early times few knew the wilderness from personal experience but all had heard stories about it and contributed to its social construction. Later when more scientific knowledge was collected,the stories changed and a new meaning was created for the Highlands. Tourism led to a new commodified image that attracted more and more travelers to the Highlands, both Icelandic and foreign visitors. However, present contestation between different forms of wilderness use as well as new sets of visitor demands are leading to the construction of new understanding of the nature of the Icelandic wilderness.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1088937X.2011.643928

Consumer behaviour and demand response of tourists to climate change

by C. Michael Hall

Gössling, S., Scott, D., Hall, C.M., Ceron, J-P., & Dubois, G. (2012) Consumer behaviour and demand response of tourists to climate change. Annals of Tourism Research, 39(1): 36-58. (copy here is the uncorrected proof) doi:10.1016/j.annals.2011.11.002

The influence of climate change on tourism demand patterns will be shaped by the response of tourists to the... more The influence of climate change on tourism demand patterns will be shaped by the response of tourists to the complexity of mitigation policy and its impacts on transportation systems, the wide range of climate change impacts on destinations, as well as broader impacts on society and economic development. Tourists have the largest adaptive capacity of elements within the tourism system because of their flexibility to substitute the place, timing and type of holiday, even at very short notice. Consequently, understanding tourist perceptions and reactions to the impacts of climate change is essential to anticipating the potential geographic and seasonal shifts in tourism demand, as well as the decline or increase of specific tourism markets. Yet, despite a wide range of publications assessing reactions of tourists to various environmental and climate-related changes, little is actually known about the complexity of demand responses. The paper reviews and discusses existing studies, and provides a framework for a better understanding of perceptions of change, as well as identifying major current uncertainties and research needs.

Keywords: behaviour, climate change, demand responses, perceptions, travel motivation.


[For those interested a number of the issues raised in this paper are enlarged upon and dealt with in more depth in Scott, D., Hall, C.M. & Gössling, S. (2012) Tourism and Climate Change, Routledge, London.]

Cosmopolitan Memory in Europe’s ‘Backwaters’: Rethinking Civility

by Rodanthi Tzanelli

Book. Alternative webpage at: https://sites.google.com/site/rodanthisartsite/cosmopolitan-memory-in-europe-s-backwaters

Cosmopolitan Memory in Europe’s ‘Backwaters’ reconsiders the definitional relationships of ‘national character’ and... more Cosmopolitan Memory in Europe’s ‘Backwaters’ reconsiders the definitional relationships of ‘national character’ and ‘national heritage’ in the context of Western industrial modernity. Taking as a case study the Greek islands of Skiathos and Skopelos which served as cinematic locations for the blockbuster Mamma Mia! (2008), the book explores how national identity - once shaped by political, cultural and religious practices - can now be reduced to little more than an ideal, created and sold globally by Western industries such as tourism and film.

Tzanelli argues that the film encouraged the development of regional competitions that further enhanced the emotive potential of a Greek nationalist discourse that projects the blame for regional favouritism onto Western agents and the nation-state itself. It also takes into consideration the historical background of this controversy, which finds roots in the religious heritage of the South-eastern Mediterranean region – in particular, the notions of Byzantine Christianity which the Greeks used to set against the Islamic traditions of their Ottoman colonisers to affirm their European civility.

Domesticating the Tourist Gaze in Thessaloniki's Prigipos

by Rodanthi Tzanelli

The paper will be published in Ethnography

The article examines how Prigipos, a cafe´ in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, communicates Greek cosmological... more The article examines how Prigipos, a cafe´ in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, communicates Greek cosmological themes through the way it ‘stages’ urban memories. The staging suggests an ‘Oriental’ tourist-like flaˆnerie that matches, and is directed towards the cafe´’s physical and symbolic surroundings (notably, the Turkish Consulate, the adjacent paternal house of Turkey’s first President, Kemal Atatu¨rk, but also the old part of the city, historically populated by Greek refugees from Anatolian
Turkey). My ethnographic eye is examined as constitutive of this flanerie, especially since I grew up in Thessaloniki. Through the employment of mixed research tools and methods, I explore how Prigipos’s spectacular self-presentation replaced old migrant
kafeneion culture with new aesthetic fusions to enable its global consumerist mobility. At the same time, the article argues that old ethno-national formulas are enmeshed in Prigipos’s design and narratives, endorsing a Thessalonikiote permutation of culture.

Keywords: cosmology, consumption, ethnographic travel, flaˆnerie, tourism, tourist gaze, methods,
Orientalism

Transportation Systems as Cultural Landscapes in National Parks: The Case of Yosemite

by Yolonda Youngs

Migrant Relationships and Tourism Employment

by Peter Lugosi

Janta, H., Brown, L., Lugosi, P. and Ladkin, L. (2011) 'Migrant relationships and tourism employment', Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 1322-1343.
If citing please consult the corrected published version.

This paper examines how tourism employment and workplace experiences influence migrant workers' adaptation in the host... more This paper examines how tourism employment and workplace experiences influence migrant workers' adaptation in the host society. It is argued that tourism employment provides access to multiple social networks, which subsequently supports the improvement of foreign workers’ social and cultural competencies. Such networks also help to compensate for the negative aspects of tourism work and migration. In addition, the paper considers how relationships among international workers inform chain migration and influence subsequent recruitment practices and migration experiences. The findings stem from a wider study of the experiences of Polish migrant workers employed in the UK tourism sector using qualitative and quantitative data. 

Local transport and social representations: Challenging the assumptions for sustainable tourism

by Janet Dickinson

Dickinson, J.E. & Dickinson, J. 2006 Local transport and social representations: challenging the assumptions for sustainable tourism, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 14, 2, 192-208.

The dilemma of how to manage tourism related traffic at rural destinations in the UK is examined using a social... more The dilemma of how to manage tourism related traffic at rural destinations in the UK is examined using a social representation perspective. In transport initiatives, alternatives to the car typically gain low use levels and their perceived success is poor, while measures to limit car access and use are negatively perceived by the public. Traditional transport planning is based on analysis of objective data, such as road capacity, and
measures of individual attitudes that predict how people will respond to a transport initiative. However, studies show that people do not behave in predictable patterns related to their attitudes. Travel is a social and cultural phenomenon and the social and cultural assumptions that underlie reported attitudes to transport have not been investigated. This paper poses a challenge to the assumptions of current research and
proposes an approach that explores the multiplicity of social realities that underpin our attitudes towards transport, tourism and subsequent behaviour.Areview of initiatives and transport research in this field examines how representations of transport and tourism are created, evolved and accepted into people’s thinking about transport. Directions and approaches for future research are proposed together with directions for sustainable transport at destinations.

Using the car in a fragile rural tourist destination: a social representations perspective

by Janet Dickinson

Dickinson, J.E. & Robbins, D. 2007 Using the car in a fragile rural tourist destination: a social representations perspective, Journal of Transport Geography, 15, 116-126.

The visitor experience of place is inextricably linked to our ability to travel around an area at will, yet this... more The visitor experience of place is inextricably linked to our ability to travel around an area at will, yet this mobility creates many
problems especially in scenic rural areas of the UK. The study presented here attempts to unravel visitors’ experiences of mobility using Moscovici’s social representations approach. Travel diaries were employed to explore visitors’ transport choices and mobility patterns during the peak season in Purbeck, Dorset, UK. Analysis focuses on how such patterns reflect a social representation of mobility and the implications this has for visitor travel at destinations.