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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"travel experiences"”.
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Understanding Chinese travellers' travel experiences in the UK: a critical analysis of an online community.
… seeks to deepen our understanding of Chinese travellers’ travel experience and the meanings they derived from their holiday in the UK by critically analysing the largest online travel community in China, namely www.go2eu.com. This is an online community created by travellers themselves, hence …
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Sustainable transport in rural tourism: a social practice perspective of visitor travel experiences in the New Forest National Park.
… a failure to acknowledge the distinction between travelling as an activity and travelling to reach a destination. Furthermore, the significance of localised transport impacts on these special and fragile landscapes is not fully taken into account. The aim of this research is to examine how …
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The role of gender, patriarchy and culture in the Asian female travel experience.
This 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 …
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Exploring travel and spirituality: The role of travel in facilitating life purpose and meaning within the lives of individuals
… Up Holidays, a tour operator marketing their travel as ‘spiritual’. Hands Up Holidays views spirituality as being a broader concept than religion and attracts both religious and non-religious individuals who are seeking personally meaningful experiences. With the exception of the religious …
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Achievement of Expectations in Leisure Travel Satisfaction: An Application of Expectation -Disconfirmation Theory
… that people remember their past leisure travel experiences in a comparatively favorable manner. The findings further suggest that achievement of on-site experience, compared to disconfirmation, better predicts on-site satisfaction, while disconfirmation, compared to achievement, better …
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Exoskeletons
… dealing primarily with childhood/adolescent experiences and reflections on my parents. The second part is dedicated to impressions from various international travel experiences, a fixation on my need for these to have some kind of meaning, my desire to understand why I travel, and my general …
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Women going places : women and transport in a competitive environment
… attention being paid to women and women's experiences in their use of both cars and public transport: their travel patterns and mobility issues remain largely unexplored. In addition, the current policy environment of privatisation and competition in the transport arena contributes to the …
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Ascending Mango Hill
… and The Short Stories. The essays detail my own experiences at being an outsider while exploring the topics of family and personal growth. In the stories, characters must overcome unresolved childhood issues, recognize unhealthy relationships, and decide when to set off on new journeys. I bring …
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Embedded and Exposed: Exploring the Lived Experiences of African American Tourists
… explanations of differences in African American travel suggest that decisions are made due to marginality (generally economic) or ethnicity (subcultural values). Because travel preferences may be a byproduct of learned behaviors passed down through generations, it is imperative to understand both …
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junction
… and others by the writer's photography and travel experiences, specifically, her semester abroad in China. Although the content varies, the subjects of perception, human relationships, death, and a focus on the seasons and urban landscape serve to create a connection between the pieces. The …
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An Investigation of Transformative Tourism Outcomes and Strategies
… Transformative tourism proposes to design travel experiences in which travelers are encouraged to self-reflect, become more tolerant of cultural differences, and are eager to become agents of change in their community by fostering social empowerment and taking concrete actions to promote a …
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Dream of an elsewhere: contemporary African American travel writing
African American literature is infused with travel. Experiences of physical journeying have been pivotal to the story of men and women of African descent in the United States for hundreds of years, since the original traumatic forced displacement of the Middle Passage that generated a diasporic …
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Jackson Creek Arts and Trails, LLC: Museum Travel Immersion Programs
… similar changes are taking place in the leisure, travel and tourism industries. A continuously rapid increase in globalism and cultural access contributes to an atmosphere in which travelers can expand their goals and purposes within the context of a travel experience. This report will demonstrate …
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The Effects of Superstition as Destination Attractiveness on Behavioral Intention
… to Visit, and respondents' demographics and travel experiences. A mixed-method data collection procedure was adopted to populate the sample. A total of 323 questionnaires were collected from Virginia Tech students, at both undergraduate and graduate level. A multiple regression analysis …
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Bodies in Vertigo: the language of liminalities
Starting with my own travel experiences, and with the help of poets, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorie Graham, and Emily Dickinson, I create a theory of displacement, called Vertigo. Vertigo is not only a sense of falling, but a sense of detachment from reality that I felt traversing through different …
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Working Tourists: Identity Formation in a Leisure Space
Young budget travellers who work as they travel the world have often escaped academic attention. This thesis will begin to correct this omission by illustrating how the working and travelling practices of these young budget travellers affects their perception and construction of self. Taking an …
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Learning outcomes of leisure travel : explorations towards the development of educational programs
… gain an understanding of the impact of leisure travel from a woman's perspective and to gain insights into strategic educational applications. Qualitative research, based on the philosophy of phenomenology, was used. Eight women from the baby boomer generation with some travel experience were …
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How "global" are global history teachers? Secondary social studies teachers' understandings of global awareness and global education
… have limited global awareness and intercultural experiences that impact the ways in which they teach global history. Therefore, this dissertation examined how global history teachers in upstate New York construct their global awareness and the content they teach, and how their understandings of …
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Imagining and performing The Self in NAZI Germany: Leisure and travel in the correspondence of Hilde Laube and Roland Nordhoff, 1938-39
… themselves in their narratives of leisure and travel. They frequently incorporated their travel experiences into their narratives in order to imagine aspects of their selves and to perform their selves to one another. They made similar use of other leisure activities like film, literature, and …
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