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Volunteer tourism in the context of development thinking Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Jim Butcher
Volunteer tourism is sometimes discussed as contributing to development goals in economically impoverished countries. Others argue that it contributes little if anything at all to material development, and others again claim that this is simply not its aim. Putting aside its contribution (or lack thereof), there is little doubt that volunteer tourism influences how development issues are constructed
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‘Enjoyers’, ‘seekers’ and ‘vacationers’. Proposal for a typology of motorhome travellers in Europe Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 João Filipe Marques, Teresa Isabel Rodrigues
Motorhoming consists of a way of travelling in vehicles that incorporate a living space. These vehicles usually include a sleeping area, a kitchen, a dining area and, in some cases, a bathroom and shower. People who travel in motorhomes choose a type of tourism that does not rely on traditional touristic infrastructures. They sleep in their own beds, cook their own food and can be self-sufficient and
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‘He Wei Gui’: The wisdom and action of tourism photography vendors to handle conflicts in Canton Tower Scenic Area Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Qiang Guo, Tong Wen, Bo Zhang, Jieyi Li
Given both the popularity of street vendors and the government resistance to them in tourism governance, we interview vendors between September 2014 and May 2021 to gain insights into the interacti...
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Responsible tourists in the time of Covid-19? Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Bente Heimtun, Arvid Viken
COVID-19 effectively stopped tourism mobilities for a time. Theoretically, this qualitative study draws on the notion of responsibility, as in responsibility to act and responsibility to Otherness....
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Dwelling on the move: Negotiating home and place with resident communities Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Antonio Paolo Russo
This paper explores how places are culturally constructed through the practices, bodily performances and memories of dwelling in the context of places that stand out as destinations of temporary mo...
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Power, community involvement, and sustainability of tourism destinations Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Xuan Dam Dong, Thi Quynh Trang Nguyen
Power to influence is essential to encourage stakeholder involvement in tourism development, yet little is known about how power can affect stakeholder involvement in achieving sustainable tourism....
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Beyond self-Orientalism: Asian masculine landscapes in Chinese and Thai martial arts tourism Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Jiange Deng
Martial arts tourism is a burgeoning form of tourism typified by Western ‘martial arts pilgrims’ travelling to Asian ‘martial arts cradles’ for leisure-based learning, training and spectatorship. D...
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Wild bears, real bears and zoo bears: Authenticity and nature in Anthropocene tourism Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Jill NH Bueddefeld, Bruce Erickson
Within nature-based tourism research, authenticity has received a great deal of attention in relation to existential authenticity and in examining the authenticity of experiences. Yet very little r...
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Dark tourism and Rwandan media industries: Promoting nation and the mythology of memory Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Andrew Phillip Young
The purpose of this study is to delve into the range of ways that acceptable public discourse and reconciliatory language impact Rwandan memorial space and its various stakeholders. The goal is to ...
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On the Tracks of Musical Screenscapes: Analysing the Emerging Phenomenon of Bollywood Filmi-song Tourism in Iceland Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Apoorva Nanjangud, Stijn Reijnders
Around the world, cities and regions are welcoming tourists after being in the spotlight of popular movies, games, novels, TV series or other forms of popular media culture. Popular Hindi cinema (B...
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Contingent and affective disruptions: Towards relational tourism geographies of what makes things food Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Anna de Jong, Gordon Waitt
Human intentionality forms just one aspect in understanding the tourist’s engagement with food, and yet tends to dominate food tourism research; whilst food itself tends to remain somewhat ‘passive...
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Interscopic fan travelscape: Hybridizing tourism through sport and art Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Vassilios Ziakas, Rodanthi Tzanelli, Christine Lundberg
Contrary to the common compartmentalization of popular culture and events to specialized forms of fandom-induced tourism (e.g. film-, music-, sport-tourism), event-tourism spaces may also derive fr...
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Escape? But where? About ‘escape tourism’ Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2022-05-01 Dagmara Chylińska
Escape tourism seems to be difficult to define. It is related to many different kinds of tourism, including the so-called Robinson tourism. Given that escape tourists’ motives, ways of travelling a...
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Overcoming urban frontiers: Ordering Favela tourism actor-networks Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Maria Eugenia Altamirano
This paper examines the multiple and heterogeneous, current and potential, relations between hybrid actors of tourism in Favela Santa Marta, Rio de Janeiro. It seeks to elucidate the legitimizing p...
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Co-creating ecological restoration experiences at Aotearoa (New Zealand) eco-sanctuaries: An environmental philosophical approach Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Guojie Zhang, James ES Higham, Julia N Albrecht
With the continuing biodiversity crisis in New Zealand, an increasing number of eco-sanctuaries have been established to restore local ecology through the active management of invasive predator spe...
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Medical Brigades to El Salvador and Honduras: Travel imaginaries and volunteer tourist recruitment Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2022-01-06 Marietta Morrissey
In this paper, I explore travel imaginaries in the recruitment of participants to short-term medical brigades in El Salvador and Honduras. I look in particular at how trip leaders and organization ...
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‘Hayan na ang mga Hampas-dugo! (the Penitents are coming!)’: Penitensya as religious-dark tourism Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Alexander Craig Wight, Mabel Victoria
This paper applies indigenous research methods to understand the motives of visitors attending Penitensya (a Lenten Filipino ritual involving violent ritualistic performances) which we introduce as a novel form of religious-dark tourism. The paper also examines the tourism product potential of Penitensya as a controversial, yet potentially valuable feature of Filipino public culture. The motives of
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Tourism and struggles for domination: Local tourism communities and symbolic violence in Kashmir Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2021-11-14 Rafiq Ahmad
Community-based tourism development in rural tourist destinations is hindered by the complex interplay of power struggles between the State, hoteliers, travel agents, local tourism players, host community and activists. Following Bourdieu’s ‘epistemologically reflexive’ sociology of everyday life, including his concepts of ‘capital’, ‘habitus’ and ‘field’, I examine the power relations between the
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Quality of life perspectives for different social groups in a World Centre of Tourism and Leisure Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2021-08-21 Jaeyeon Choe, Michael O’ Regan, Albert Kimbu, Niels Frederik Lund, Adele Ladkin
While the quality of life (QoL) concept in tourism research has gained momentum, scholarly work has focused on host QoL and tourist-host relations, rather than exploring and analysing the perception, interpretation and understanding of QoL among different social groups in a given tourist destination. Macao is a densely populated tourism destination and designated World Centre of Tourism and Leisure
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Social innovations and sustainability of tourism: Insights from public sector in Kemi, Finland Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2021-08-18 Mari Partanen, Simo Sarkki
This article proposes new insights on sustainability of tourism through social innovations. The underlying aim is to find practical ways to enhance sustainability in and through tourism, as sustainability has been criticized for its abstract nature. The marginally studied relationship of sustainability of tourism and social innovations is explored by utilizing ethnographic data on tourism, which is
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Exploring the world together: The colonial continuity of family adventure travel Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2021-08-03 Katarina Mattsson
The article examines notions of family holidays in the marketing of family adventure travel, a small but growing segment of the alternative tourism sector in Sweden. In family adventure travel, the family vacation is oriented toward exotic destinations in the Global South. The analysis is conducted through a multimodal discourse analysis of web-based marketing material from seven Swedish travel agencies
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Unsettling the aesthetics of air travel through participatory tourist photography Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2021-05-27 Kaya Barry
Air travel has been an integral part of contemporary tourism, but has been relatively under explored in terms of how it is visualised and represented as part of tourism experiences. This paper explores how the seemingly banal aspects of tourism – such as time spent waiting or transiting – are captured and represented through tourist photography. Reflecting on the process of creating a participatory
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Tourism worldmaking and market post-truth: Borat’s new spirit of capitalism Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2021-05-27 Rodanthi Tzanelli
The article develops a theoretical framework for the critical examination of cinematic tourist design. Considering ‘film-induced tourism’ as part of a bigger system involving the design of mobilities, it interrogates the connection between the aesthetic and ethical principles that end up informing the engineering of national hospitality in media platforms. The design, which is managed by a ‘worldmaking
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The road worth taking, the life worth living, and the person worth being: Morality, authenticity and personhood in volunteer tourism and beyond Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2021-05-27 Netta Kahana
This article explores what volunteer tourists designate as moral in the practice of volunteering. Findings from in-depth interviews demonstrate how this experience’s moral worth relates to notions of moral personhood, rather than to responsibility for others. This article argues that in late modernity middle class volunteer tourists see the moral worth of the practice as resting on its capacity as
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Tourist guides and free tours: A controversial relationship Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2021-05-13 Rosario Navalón-García, Carmen Mínguez
Like other tourism subsectors, guided tours have been affected by the emergence of the sharing economy. Although this subsector of tourism is not as well known, it constitutes an interesting scenario for studying these new business models and it is also generating debate. This article analyses the uniqueness of the tourist guide services provided through online platforms under the name of free tours
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Bubble-wrapped sightseeing mobilities: Hop on–hop off bus experiences in Copenhagen Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2021-04-06 Jonas Larsen, Mónica Sylvia Gomes Bastos, Line Isselin Skovslund Hansen, Lieke Maureen Hevink, Katerina Jostova, Dovilé Smagurauskaité
This article explores the staging of the Hop On–Hop Off buses, bus-tour and actual embodied performances enacted by tourists on the move. We draw on a performance-inspired terminology to explore the co-production of mundane tourist experiences. Following calls for not making moral judgements or belittling sightseeing tourists and understanding the mundane dimensions of tourist practice, we conduct
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Studying how tourism is done: A practice approach to collaboration Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2021-03-29 Daniela Chimirri
This article seeks to contribute to empirically grounded theoretical conceptualizations of “collaboration,” by offering a practice-theoretical take on both tourism and one of its pillars: daily tourism actor collaboration. It argues that practice theory offers an important approach to investigating tourism in applied situations. This is empirically illustrated by drawing on data material generated
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Hope, frustrations and progressive potentials: a mild polemic Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2021-03-16 David Crouch
The complexities of the creative sector are well rehearsed both within and beyond tourism. In tourism, creativity manifests in a range of ways and tends to be regarded as something that the commercial sector indulges, through film and apps to enable virtual visiting. Customers, tourists, have their ideas – and to a degree feeling of experiences, sites, staged events, framed, even shaped, by the touristic
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Twenty years on: Reflections on the journeys travelled and future directions for tourist studies Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2021-03-16 Michelle Duffy, Caroline Scarles, Tim Edensor, Gordon Waitt, Adrian Franklin
As founding, past and current editors, we are very excited to welcome you to this special issue celebrating the 20th anniversary of Tourist Studies. In 2001, this journal was established in what the founding editors, Franklin and Crang (2001), called an ‘exciting and challenging time for work on tourism’ (p. 1). In their inaugural editorial, they questioned the apparent trajectory of tourist studies
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Performing a walking holiday: Routing, immersing and co-dwelling Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2021-03-05 Chiara Rabbiosi
This article discusses the relationship between space, material practices, cognitive work and the emotions at work during a personal walking holiday as a way of contributing to a wider debate on walking tourism. In doing so, this article revises the concept of ‘dwelling-in-motion’ and employs a mobile perspective that combines both the phenomenological and post-phenomenological approaches to tourism
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Tourist’s mobilities: Walking, cycling, driving and waiting Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2021-02-17 Kevin Hannam, Gareth Butler, Alexandra Witte, Dennis Zuev
This commentary reviews recent research in terms of tourist’s mobilities in terms practices of walking, cycling and driving. It concludes by reflecting on the contemporary lock down of travel in terms of the global pandemic and its consequences for waiting, stillness and immobility – particularly in terms of flying.
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Advancements in technology and digital media in tourism Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2021-02-12 Tom van Nuenen, Caroline Scarles
This article discusses the concomitant processes of increasing familiarisation, responsiveness and responsibility that digital technology enables in the realm of tourism. We reflect on the influence of the proliferation of interactive digital platforms and solutions within tourism practice and behaviour through a range of lenses, from user generated content and associated interactive digital platforms
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Future trajectories of festival research Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2021-02-12 Michelle Duffy, Judith Mair
In their editorial for the first issue of Tourist Studies, Adrian Franklin and Mike Crang made us aware that tourism research had shifted to an exploration of the extraordinary everyday where ‘more or less everyone now lives in a world rendered or reconfigured as interesting, entertaining and attractive – for tourists’. From our standpoint 20 years later, we suggest this particular departure point
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20th anniversary reflective commentary – from its drifter past to nomadic futures – future directions in backpacking research and practice Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2021-02-06 Michael O’ Regan
While the label ‘backpacker’ didn’t originate in 1990 when first presented at an academic conference by the late Philip L. Pearce, its usage rose within an emerging academic discourse community that established shared interests, sources of information, terminology, and methods of communication, along with a certain level of expertise and knowledge on the subject. While the community internationalised
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Trajectories of embodiment in Tourist Studies Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2021-01-31 Phoebe Everingham, Pau Obrador, Hazel Tucker
In this article we map the 20 year trajectory of theorising embodiment in Tourist Studies. From its inception in 2001, embedded within the turn in the social sciences towards embodiment, Tourist Studies has paved the way in pushing the boundaries of theorising the links between embodiment, sensuality and performativity. Tourist Studies has opened up novel trajectories in tourism research away from
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(Staying with) the trouble with tourism and travel theory? Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2021-01-28 Carina Ren
It has now been 20 years since Adrian Franklin and Mike Crang’s The trouble with tourism and travel theory? introduced the first volume of Tourist Studies. In the year of 2001, business-oriented approaches to studying tourism were thriving due to the rapid growth of tourism. In their diagnosis of tourism research of the day, Franklin and Crang pointed to the lack of theory and “a tendency for studies
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Theorising tourism in crisis: Writing and relating in place Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2021-01-28 Chris Gibson
Recent headline events – most notably the COVID-19 pandemic – have illustrated the fragility of tourism capitalism, prompting forward-looking analyses among critical scholars. While grappling with political and philosophical implications, commentaries have tended towards the prescriptive and general: contemplating the collapse of tourism as-we-know-it, and foregrounding opportunities to reconstitute
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Deep-colonising narratives and emotional labour: Indigenous tourism in a deeply-colonised place Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2021-01-26 Marnie Graham, Uncle Lexodious Dadd
Sydney is an Indigenous place – Indigenous Country – infused with Indigenous stories and lore/Law. Yet as the original site of British colonisation in 1788, Sydney today is also a deeply-colonised place. Long-held narratives of Sydney as a colonial city have worked hard to erasure Indigenous peoples’ presences and to silence Indigenous stories of this place (Rey and Harrison, 2018). In recent years
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(Re)producing wilderness tourism discourses in Algonquin Provincial Park Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2021-01-25 Brandon J. Pludwinski, Bryan S.R. Grimwood
Particular types of nature-based tourism programs, including multi-day children’s overnight/residential summer camp canoe tripping programs in North America, often (re)produce (neo)colonial constructions of nature and the “wilderness.” The purpose of this paper is to expose how wilderness is constructed and circulated in the context of a particular summer camp’s canoe trips in Algonquin Provincial
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“Gazing” and “performing”: Travel photography and online self-presentation Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Kaylan C. Schwarz
This article illustrates the self-presentations young people foreground when they visually communicate international volunteer experiences to social media audiences. Through a “categorical-content” analysis of repeated semi-structured interviews and photographic content posted to Facebook, and with theoretical support from Urry’s “tourist gaze” and Goffman’s “presentation of self,” I describe three
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Earthly tourism and travel’s contribution to a planetary genre de vie Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2021-01-09 Edward H Huijbens
In this reflective commentary celebrating 20 years of Tourist Studies I draw on my forthcoming book, Developing Earthly Attachments in the Anthropocene, explicitly relating its message to a future looking tourist studies agenda. I outline how such an agenda can underpin the development of ‘earthly tourism’ and thereby explore practices of travel and mobilities informing a planetary mode of living,
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A phenomenological study of the learning experience of children in rural tourism destinations Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2021-01-07 Hamdollah Sojasi Qeidari, Hamid Shayan, Zahra Solimani, Davood Ghorooneh
Increasing the level of awareness and knowledge of children is one of the families’ main goals and concerns. Informal learning through communication, experience, and objective observation during tourism can be one of the appropriate methods in this field. Particularly tourism in rural environments is a new, tangible, empirical, and observational experience. In this study, using a phenomenological approach
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Tourists’ private social dining experiences Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2021-01-07 Pearl MC Lin, Chihyung Michael Ok, Wai Ching Au
While private social dining has emerged as a new activity in the sharing economy, associated research is limited. This study aims to conceptualize tourists’ private social dining experiences by incorporating the concept of the experience economy with the sharing economy. Thematic analysis of 29 interviews unveiled a hierarchical framework, beginning with a personalized experience and leading to sensory
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Exploring the hospitality-tourism nexus: Directions and questions for past and future research Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2021-01-05 Peter Lugosi
Hospitality has often been conceived primarily as a supporting component of the tourism product. This commentary synthesises inter and multidisciplinary literature to examine alternative and more complex intersections of hospitality and tourism. It discusses four thematic areas of hospitality research: labour; the transformation of place (experiences); socio-material and socio-technological practice;
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Tourist Studies: 20th Anniversary reflective commentary – On the need for sustainable tourism consumption Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2021-01-05 Richard Sharpley
Sustainable tourism has remained the dominant tourism development paradigm within both academic and policy circles for more than three decades. However, little if any progress has been made towards implementing sustainable tourism in practice. Reflecting on this failure to achieve a more sustainable tourism sector, manifested not least in its increasing contribution to climate change, this paper argues
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Adoption return trips: Family tourism and the social meanings of money Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Johanna Gustafsson
Through a focus on the planning and making of family adoption return trips, this paper explores how the social meanings of money are entangled with family-making practices and family holidays. Adoption return trips are a global phenomenon, and travel agencies offer tailored adoption return-trip packages marketed as a type of family tourism. The new trend towards conducting adoption return trips as
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Personalising disaster: Community storytelling and sharing in New Orleans post-Katrina tourism Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2020-10-30 Churnjeet Mahn, Caroline Scarles, Justin Edwards, John Tribe
This paper seeks to extend existing discussions of post-disaster tourism in New Orleans by considering how competing narratives of disaster operate within the tourist experience available in New Orleans. More specifically, we explore how personal reflections and the collective memories of a community are practiced and mobilised as occasions for tourists to connect with and share in memories of disaster
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Developing sustainable tourism through public-private partnership to alleviate poverty in Ghana Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2020-10-22 Tamakloe Geoffrey Deladem, Zhongdong Xiao, Tito Tomas Siueia, Spencer Doku, Isaac Tettey
Encouraging sustainable tourism is an essential aspect of driving economic growth, social responsibility and safeguarding the ecology. This study, therefore, aimed at examining how Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in sustainable tourism development helps eradicate poverty in tourism host communities. A qualitative design was employed by using a semi-structured interview to collect primary data from
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Messy realities and collaborative knowledge production in tourism Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2020-10-22 Carina Ren, René van der Duim, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson
In this paper, we draw on a relational ontology to explore what collaborative ways of knowing might mean in the field of tourism research. Using tourism as a prism to explore the messy realities of collaborative knowledge production, we argue that knowledge is always co-created through situated practices. By focusing on collaboration and co-creation of research and based on a discussion on what, how
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Young tourists’ experiences at dark tourism sites: Towards a conceptual framework Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2020-10-08 Mary Margaret Kerr, Philip R Stone, Rebecca H Price
While dark tourism aimed at adults reminds them of past tragic fights, faults and follies, thousands of children and youth also consume inherent memorial messages at dark tourism sites. This paper addresses these unnoticed childhood encounters, about which scholarly discourse remains conspicuously silent. At present, dark tourism research focuses almost exclusively on adults and does not adequately
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Conspicuous souvenirs: Analysing touristic self-presentation through souvenir display Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2020-09-28 Friedericke Kuhn
Holiday travel offers the opportunity for self-definition and enhancement of social prestige. Due to the growing importance of self-expressive values within the ongoing course of individualisation, tourists increasingly make use of their travel experience to self-present in a positive way. Yet, tourism studies have not investigated what tourists actually want to communicate about themselves when representing
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Social sanctions of leisure and tourism constraints in Nepal Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2020-09-02 Kalyan Bhandari
This study deals with the role of social sanctions in exploring the leisure-tourism engagement in Nepal. It then examines how people respond to societal norms and partake in leisure tourism vacations. The study applies the qualitative method and data is collected through in-depth interviews of purposely selected samples of 18 individuals in Kathmandu. The findings identify that the Nepali conception
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After Eat, Pray, Love: Tourism, Orientalism, and cartographies of salvation Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2020-08-24 Rumya Sree Putcha
This article examines certain kinds of travel and tourism as extensions of colonial and examples of neocolonial forms of Orientalist engagement between the global North and global South. Focusing on areas that border the Indian Ocean, and the South Asian context in particular, I interrogate the gendered, racial, and geopolitical attachments that have historically drawn and continue to draw travelers
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The transmedia tourist: A theory of how digitalization reinforces the de-differentiation of tourism and social life Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2020-07-16 André Jansson
This article elaborates the post-tourist de-differentiation thesis in the light of digitalization and the coming of transmedia as the dominant mode of cultural circulation. It is argued that transmedia extends and provides new facets to the de-differentiation of tourism and social life. Based on an overview of previous research, three versions of the ‘transmedia tourist’ are theorized – the ubiquitous
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Simulated authenticity: Storytelling and mythic space on the hyper-frontier in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Westworld Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2020-07-16 Jane Lovell, Sam Hitchmough
This article explores how the mythic, nineteenth-century American frontier is authenticated by postmodern forms of storytelling. The study examines accounts of William Cody’s extensive 1902–1903 Buffalo Bill’s Wild West tours in the United Kingdom and the futuristic television series, HBO’s Westworld (2016–), which is set in an android-hosted theme park. Comparing the semiotics of the two examples
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Chain tourism in post-disaster recovery Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2020-07-07 Elyse Zavar, Brendan L Lavy, Ronald R Hagelman, III
Post-disaster research relating to tourism tends to focus on broad economic measures that can miss local-scale actors and contemporaneous impressions by tourists and tourism-based business owners in places undergoing recovery from a disaster. Hurricane Harvey, a Category 4 storm, swept across coastal Texas in August 2017. Many of the communities affected by Harvey have economies largely based on family
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Taking a walk: The female tourist experience Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2020-06-10 Lorraine Brown, Delysia de Coteau, Natalia Lavrushkina
This feminist, qualitative study explores the experiences of female tourists who like to walk during their holiday. The findings highlight that women’s full access to the benefits of walking while on holiday are constrained by their feelings of vulnerability and their perceptions of possible risk if walking alone, particularly at night and in isolated spaces. In order to cope with perceived risk, participants
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Understanding the place-making practices of backpackers Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2020-06-07 Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto
The place-making practices of tourists have long captured the attention of tourism researchers. This article examines how the everyday practices of backpackers contribute to place-making in the enclave and the hostel – two places common to backpacker destinations. Using participant observation supplemented by interviews, the research revealed these places to be characterised by a range of extraordinary
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Tour guides and the transnational promotion of human rights: Agency, structure and norm translators in responsible travel Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2020-05-24 Jonathan Liljeblad
Within tourism studies, the movement for ‘responsible tourism’ seeks to direct tourism in support of ideals such as sustainability and human rights. Central to the promotion of such ideals, however, is the tour guide who holds a critical position influencing the orientation of a tourism encounter. This article explores the capacities of tour guides to direct tourism encounters in support of human rights
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Speed tourism: The German Autobahn as a tourist destination and location of “unruly rules” Tourist Studies (IF 2.759) Pub Date : 2020-02-19 Matthias Gross
The German Autobahn has inspired many people’s imagination with its lack of a general speed limit, the quality of its road surface as well as its allegedly well-behaved drivers. One of the consequences of this positive reputation has been the emergence of a phenomenon I would like to call “speed tourism.” In this article, I treat speed tourism as a special form of tourism that involves viewing the