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Showing 1 to 20 of 673 for “"tourist"”.
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The tourist
<p>My novel, <em>The Tourist</em>, is not intended to revolutionize modern literature. It is intended to assemble the myriad refractions of my experience, in their myriad tonalities, and make them whole, enduring, literary–and integral in a way that only they can be integral. It is the first …
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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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Sporting Pasts – Tourist Futures
… to the knowledge in the areas of sport tourist motivation with particular reference to nostalgia and heritage. More specifically, the synthesis demonstrates that the selected studies have contributed in laying the foundations of sport tourism by introducing and explaining the synergistic …
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Outbound tourist demand from Northeast Asia and implications for the Australian tourist industry
This study investigate the perceptions of the tourist industry in Northeast Asia regarding outbound tourist demand. The purpose of doing so is to provide insights into, and analysis of, the main characteristics of the demand and their implications for the Australian tourist industry.
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Tourist Photography and the Tourist Gaze: An empirical study of Chinese tourists in the UK
… to deepen knowledge and understanding of the tourist gaze and tourist photography. The original concept of the ‘tourist gaze as proposed by John Urry is inherently Western-centric and, as a consequence, it is arguably of limited value as a conceptual framework for appraising the tastes, gazes …
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Determinants of cultural event tourist motivation
This thesis investigates the determinants of tourist motivation to ascertain the new audience potential of Western and Asian tourists for locally-based, cultural attractions and events, and the associated effective marketing strategies necessary to attract these tourism markets.
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Neuro-Fuzzy Forecasting of Tourist Arrivals
… Visitor arrivals from the 10 most popular tourist source countries to Japan, and total arrivals from all countries were used to incorporate a fairly wide variety of data patterns in the testing process. This research has established that neuro-fuzzy models can be used effectively in tourism …
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Linking climate change, tourist destination adaptation and tourist atttitudes : a case study of the Victorian Surf Coast region
… best applied at the local level. The role of the tourist was also largely neglected, which was of some surprise given that tourism is a consumer driven industry, and it is the tourist who has the greatest adaptive capacity in terms of choosing when and where they go on holiday and the activities …
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Forecasting international regional tourist arrivals to China
This study develops models to forecast international arrivals to regional China, using time series as well as causal explanatory methods. The nine quantitative forecast methods applied in this study are Holt, Exponential Smoothing, Naïve, ARMA, Neural, and Basic Structural Model (BSM) with and …
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Challenges facing tourist hotels towards provision of good customer service: A case study of tourist hotels in Arumeru District
… study was to investigate the challenges facing tourist hotels in provision of good customer services in Arumeru district, Arusha region. Specifically, the study sought to address the following specific objectives, that is, to examine contributions of good customer’s services to tourist hotels, …
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Developing host-guest relationships in Thai tourist resorts
… relationships between local and international tourists and Thai resort operators on Samui Island, Thailand. It proposes that a quality relationship between tourists and resort operators, which is characterised by high levels of trust and commitment, is the major determinant of customer loyalty. …
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Location-based mobile E-commerce for tourist services
There are many instances where tourists become strangers in foreign countries and have no way of discovering available services in place they visit. These services, which are known as location based services, are normally available to only subscribers of those services. For mobile users who are not …
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Feasibility study for an Umlazi tourist information centre
… make this region one of the most sought after tourist destinations of the world. Tourism, like all other industries in this country, has been badly affected by sanctions, violence, crime and internal political conflict. Furthermore, the media has created a turbulent atmosphere through its …
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Cuba's tourist industry: Parallel economies and social stratification
… to show that the consequences of Cuba's emerging tourist industry has not only compromised the ideology of the revolution, but has in fact seen a return of a pre-revolution stratified society and parallel economies, one based on the peso and government subsidies the other on the dollar and …
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Tourist victimization in and around the artificial environment
Despite a new emphasis on tourism and the resulting victimization of travelers to the "artificial environments," such as those offered in Las Vegas and Orlando, little empirical research has been conducted to estimate the extent to which the traveler is victimized when in these different areas. …
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An Exploration of the technology enhanced tourist experience.
… research and practice. The way contemporary tourist experiences are created has however undergone a fundamental change. Experiences are transforming as consumers are increasingly empowered to co-create their own experiences. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have represented a …
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Wildlife tourism: tourist expectations, experiences and management implications.
… activity which is attracting attention from tourists and destinations. There are both positive and negative impacts associated with wildlife tourism. It can contribute to the conservation of threatened habitats / species, provide economic benefit to local communities attract new types of …
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Identification as a motivator of environmentally responsible tourist behaviour
… in environmental behaviour. Three groups of tourists were given either no information; factual information, consistent with current educational techniques used to influence behaviour; or identification information designed to produce feelings of identification with the quokka directed at …
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Visitor attitudes to authenticity at a literary tourist destination.
… is the literary work of authors. Literary tourist destinations are places visited because of their associations with books or other literary outputs and with their authors. Such destinations are becoming increasingly popular as visitor attractions. This research examines the visitors to one …
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