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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Tourism Studies"”.
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The Interdisciplinarity of Tourism Education as an Opportunity for Emancipation
… of pedagogical practices in higher education in tourism. Based on Freirean Pedagogical Theory, which sees education as the main democratic tool for building awareness of reality and its emancipatory power. Thus, through the methodology of Critical Theory and Freirean Pedagogical Theory, the …
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The role and use of travel guidebooks by Japanese overseas tourists
… has been an extensively researched area in tourism studies, there are few studies which have specifically investigated the topic of travel guidebooks. The overall aim of the present exploratory study is to develop a better understanding of the use of travel guidebooks as a source of …
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Danger-zone tourism: Emotional performances in Jordan and Palestine
This thesis discusses danger-zone tourism in Jordan and Palestine. It explores emotional performances in tourist places of ongoing socio-political conflict. I bring together dark tourism, emotional, affectual and sensuous geographies as well as psychoanalytic theories on the death drive to examine …
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The Price Tag of a 5-Star Culture: Cultural Performance and the Politics of Luxury in Oʻahu’s Hotel Industry
… thesis examines the intersection of cultural tourism and luxury branding with settler colonial dynamics in Oʻahu’s high-end hospitality industry. Focusing on Disney’s Aulani Resort, the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, the Sheraton Princess Kaiulani, and the Moana Surf Rider, the study investigates how …
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Social impact management through planning and development : Hedonic Psychology and a new approach to tourism in Zanzibar
This study proposes a new approach to tourism planning and development based on three threads in the literature on social impact management: (1) the current approach to tourism studies; (2) the writings and activities of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture; and, (3) the emerging field of Hedonic …
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Tourism development in transition economies: an evaluation of the development of tourism at a Black sea coastal destination during political and socio-economic transition.
… of Bulgaria. It takes further the tradition in tourism studies that calls for the incorporation of the contextual change in the process of destination development. The purpose of this study was to determine whether, and in what ways, the nature of the socio-economic and political transition has …
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How do self-guided trails contribute to the creation of tourist spaces?
… a collection of conceptual and applied studies in the area. The body of work examines trails within the wider concept of the socio-cultural construction of place and their contribution to the formulation of static, themed settings is contrasted with their potential to encourage a more …
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A critical evaluation of tourism product diversification: the case of Cyprus
… diversification strategy of the Cyprus coastal tourism product by investigating the degree of success of the strategy in fulfilling its goals of economic improvement, tourist satisfaction increase and image enhancement. The evaluation of the strategy’s success is performed through an examination …
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Mourning at Mount Vernon: Memory, Commemoration, and Thanatourism in the Creation of Nineteenth-Century American Identity
… location falls within the definitions of thanatourism developed by Tourism Studies to explore the motives of tourists who choose to visit places related to death and disasters. For nineteenth-century American tourists, steeped in the cultural traditions of death and mourning, visits to …
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Neuro-Fuzzy Forecasting of Tourist Arrivals
This study develops a model to forecast inbound tourism to Japan, using a combination of artificial neural networks and fuzzy logic and compares the performance of this forecasting model with forecasts from other quantitative forecasting methods namely, the multi-layer perceptron neural network …
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Time for me and time for us: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of accompanying spouses’ participation in conference travel
… in academic research, specifically in tourism studies. To present new knowledge about the phenomenon, the research for this thesis investigates the conference travel experience for accompanying spouses by providing information on how accompanying spouses make sense of their conference …
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Consent and meaningful experiences at regional Burning Man events
Within the field of leisure and leisure travel (tourism), consent is often couched inside the idea of free choice. Participants in an activity must freely choose that activity for it be considered leisure, and they must willingly choose to travel for it to be considered tourism. But what about …
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Attributes contributing to the travel behaviour of trail runners
Worldwide, the sport tourism industry is growing rapidly every year, as it attracts large numbers of participants and spectators to sport events. Many nations host sport events as it contributes to the economic growth of a country, acts as a promoting instrument and leads to the development of …
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Towards Sustainable Tourism Development Planning: The Case of Egypt
… important for the success of any balanced tourism development. This cannot be achieved without full consideration and integration of sustainable development principles into the planning mechanisms of the tourist destination/s. This study was initiated to justify the role of planning as a …
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An Examination of Salient Dimensions of Senior Tourist Behavior: Relationships among Personal Values, Travel Constraints, Travel Motivation, and Quality of Life (QoL)
… and learn to effectively manage their time. Tourism and gerontology researchers have been aware of the importance of seniors tourism and leisure activities to enhance their well-being. However, limited attention has been recently devoted to senior consumers, who are still often not included …
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Tourist encounters with other tourists
… in Chapter 1. The focus was first placed on the studies of cultural contact and nationality differences. Concepts such as individualistic and collectivistic cultures, and ingroup and out-group evaluation were emphasized as well as the process of personto-person contact. A review of studies on …
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Tourism, Geography and Nation-Building : The Identity-Political Role of Finnish Tourism Images
This dissertation examines the role of tourism images in the construction of Finnish national identity. The study is informed by the notion that identity construction manifests itself in places and landscapes which are invested with meanings through mundane practices and representations. Tourism …
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'Existential migration': voluntary migrants' experiences of not being-at-home in the world
… reformulating existing areas within migration studies, cultural anthropology, tourism studies, cross-cultural training, refugee studies, and psychotherapy. In contradistinction to most concepts, 'existential migration' is presented as a process concept, guided by the philosophical work of …
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(Re) Presenting Study Abroad through the 'Colonial Library'
… Relying on scholarship from postcolonial studies, critical tourism studies, and higher education, this analysis addresses the social imaginary that anchors study abroad programs in such host countries on the African Continent. Specifically, it concentrates upon how and why the depiction of …
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Strange(r) Maps: The cosmopolitan geopolitics of Sri Lankan tourism
… examination between postcolonial studies, critical tourism studies, critical geography, and Sri Lankan studies that examines the continued politics of vision and access to space with both international and domestic political-economic implications.
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