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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Tourist Experience"”.
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An Exploration of the technology enhanced tourist experience.
The notion of creating unique and memorable experiences for consumers has become of primary importance for tourism research and practice. The way contemporary tourist experiences are created has however undergone a fundamental change. Experiences are transforming as consumers are increasingly …
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Strangers in the city: an assessment of the urban tourist experience
… and its spatial understanding as accrued by tourists. The assessment of urban tourist experience embraces three distinct concepts that discern this work from previous approaches to date. Namely, that tourist experience consists of behaviour and meaning, with either part incomplete without the …
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Tourist Perceived Destination Innovativeness (TPDI) and its Impacts on Tourist Experience and Tourist Satisfaction -The Case Study of Hunan (China)
… is to develop a comprehensive understanding of tourist perceived destination innovativeness (TPDI) and to assess its impacts on tourist experience and satisfaction, and the thesis accordingly develops a multidimensional scale for measuring the concept of destination innovativeness. TPDI in this …
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Tourist Perceived Destination Innovativeness (TPDI) and its Impacts on Tourist Experience and Tourist Satisfaction -The Case Study of Hunan (China)
… is to develop a comprehensive understanding of tourist perceived destination innovativeness (TPDI) and to assess its impacts on tourist experience and satisfaction, and the thesis accordingly develops a multidimensional scale for measuring the concept of destination innovativeness. TPDI in this …
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Postmodern tourism as signification: definitional constructs of authenticity in the context of tourism and their influence on the urban tourist experience
… has been explored in a wide range of tourist activities, from traditional tourist activities like visiting museums or historic sites to more popular activities like shopping or watching sports. Due to its contextual, fluid nature and expansive range of connotations, the concept of …
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Tourist experiences of urban historic areas: Valletta as a case study
… research is to take a closer look at the tourism experience, with special reference to the experience of historic areas. The basis for the research is an urban design model based on three elements of urban spaces, namely form, activity and meaning. The model is often used and discussed in urban …
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The role of gender, patriarchy and culture in the Asian female travel experience.
… study provides a unique insight into the travel experiences of Asian female tourists, a topic that to date has received limited consideration within the tourism literature. It is often suggested that travel experiences are socially constructed, therefore it is difficult to separate women’s travel …
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Co-producing the nature-based adventure tourism experience: tourist, environment and management contributions
… explored factors and processes that influence tourists’ experience and satisfaction, guided by the view that the tourist experience and satisfaction is co-produced by tourist, environment, and management. A review of the satisfaction research in marketing, tourism, and recreation found that the …
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The landscape of tourism: a case study of the development of Rotorua : a dissertation submitted for partial fulfilment of the Diploma in Landscape Architecture, Lincoln College
The presence of tourists and tourism has, over the decades, increased in importance on a national, regional and local scale. Both the physical and cultural components of the total landscape have been affected in many ways. When taking an historical perspective, the original landscape character …
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Mapping motivations for a Canadian leisure experience : impact of social media engagement
Mapping Motivations for a Canadian Leisure Experience seeks to reveal the impact social media has on the leisure tourist experience in Canada. Desired experiences vary from generation to generation. How influential are informally generated images shared through modern day technology such as social …
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SHOP/VEND : reconciling the future of (in)formal exchange in Saigon's public market
… 17th century, and where throngs of locals and tourists alike come to buy, eat, and engage in general exchange and consumption. This marketplace and its vendor population have been instrumental in shaping the form of the surrounding urban structure and patterns of life, as well as the nature of …
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Understanding the flow experiences of heritage tourists.
No two tourists receive the same experience which are unique to the individual (Lounsburya and Polik 1999; Walls et al. 2011; Sharpley and Stone 2012; Nguyen and Cheung 2014). Therefore, understanding experiences from the perspective of tourists has become an arena of growing interest to …
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Architecture's grand tourism : the emergence of Prishtina within a global discipline
… Kosovo, to redefine the relationship between tourists and local places. Globalization has created an explosion of world tourism; however, it has homogenized the global landscape and therefore the tourist experience. To counteract this erosion of the identity and sense-of-place, leadership in …
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The artist in the field: investigating tourist performativity and ethnographic methodology through art practice
… ethnographic methodologies whilst investigating tourist performativity and the presentation of self within tourist documentation. Central to this presentation is the performance of the documented smile. The materiality of this research comes from documentary evidence (video, sound, photography, …
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Prosuming visuality, authenticity and urban exploration within tourist experiences
… years. These books, papers and chapters explore tourist motivation and experiences in a range of contemporary contexts. The body of work moves from mainstream discussion around sustainability and slow tourism in the tourist decision making process to the use of visual media to explore, understand …
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Exploring Cork City's tourist scene: sites, facilities and mobility
… industry, it encompasses components such as tourist sites, hospitality facilities, and mobility, which all play a crucial role in shaping a destination's appeal and success. This study was aimed at providing a comprehensive understanding of the tourist scene in Cork city, with a focus on …
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The Costs of Cuba Libre: U.S. Neo-Imperialism, Tourism in Cuba, and the Habana Hilton
… international expansion at mid-century, the tourist experience its hotels orchestrated, and the Cold War ideology that underpinned both. If North Americans saw the Habana Hilton as Cuba’s latest and grandest monument to U.S. superiority and righteousness, I argue, it was a symbol of empty …
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Customer feedback systems in tourism : a study of interdependent services of German travel agencies, tour operations and airlines
… many independent suppliers contribute to the tourist experience. This concept is critical to the industry as poor performance within one sector may result in low tourist satisfaction and subsequently reflect poor on all providers. Customer feedback systems have the potential to help management …
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Tripping the light fantastic: exploring the imaginative geographies of Lord of the Rings ‘film tourism’ in New Zealand
… spaces, the Lord of the Rings film-tourism experience – that is, tourism to New Zealand apparently motivated by the popular film trilogy which was filmed there – has received much anecdotal attention, yet little scholarly examination. In particular, how tourists are affected by the “you’ve …
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Drawing the line : spatial street vendor management in Ho Chi Minh City
… and examines data from news articles and tourist surveys. These three levels of research reveal significant mismatches in policy goals and existing practices, such as the government's targeting mobile street vendors when they take up significantly less space than business spillover and …
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