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MSc Responsible Tourism Management
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Annals of Tourism Research
Volume 23, Issue 4, Pages 739-979 (October 1996)

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Analysis of tourism trends in Spain, Pages 739-754
Pilar González and Paz Moral
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This paper studies the evolution of the international tourism demand for Spain in order to forecast its trends. The analysis is carried out within the framework of structural time series models that are formulated in terms of unobserved components stochastically specified. A measure of the underlying rate of growth of the international demand is derived in order to evaluate whether the sector is in a period of expansion or recession. The empirical results show that the worst period of the crisis suffered at the end of the 80s by the industry is over now and the future prospects are optimistic in the short run.

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Residents' attitudes towards an instant resort enclave, Pages 755-779
Sigfredo A. Hernandez, Judy Cohen and Hector L. Garcia
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Researchers have suggested that residents' attitudes towards tourism depend on the expected costs and benefits of tourism. While many studies have examined this proposition towards the later stages of development, few have examined the pre-tourism phase. This study used in-depth interviews with residents of Isabela, Puerto Rico, to examine their attitudes towards a proposed "instant" enclave resort in their community. At the time the research was conducted, Isabela was the planned site of the largest resort in the Caribbean. Results indicate that respondents are aware of both some of the positive and negative impacts of tourism, and are quite ambivalent about the planned tourist site.

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Tourism dance performances authenticity and creativity, Pages 780-797
Yvonne Payne Daniel
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Despite shifts in scale and context, dance performance in tourism settings, unlike some other artistic expressions, remains "authentic" and creative. Possible explanations for this include the manner in which "authentic" and "creative" are defined, the unique properties of dance as expressive behavior, and the particular politico-economic situation of different settings. The data used for this study are cross-cultural, assessing Native American, Oceanic, Caribbean, and African studies of dance performance, primarily those collected during fieldwork in Haiti and Cuba. The analysis is interpretive, based on cultural framing and examination of dance behavior and its affect.

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Tourism experiences within an attributional framework, Pages 798-810
Mervyn S. Jackson, Gerard N. White and Claire L. Schmierer
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This paper reports on a conceptualization of previously reported data by the authors. Using the critical incident technique, tourists were asked to recount their most positive and most negative tourism experiences. These qualitative data were reduced using the attribution theory. This framework allows researchers to determine which of four causes (ability, effort, task ease/difficulty, and luck) they use to explain their experiences. Results showed an attribution bias where tourists are more likely to use internal (dispositional) attributions for positive tourism outcomes compared to more external (situation) attributions for negative experiences. Tourists perceive less personal control for both positive and negative experiences. Implications for the industry, tourism education, and tourists themselves are discussed.

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A tourist space-time budget in the Shetland Islands, Pages 811-829
David A. Fennell
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This paper addresses the need to better understand tourist pressure in selected regions of the Shetland Islands, United Kingdom, using measures of space, time, perception, region, and core-periphery. Normally an economic theory, core-periphery was applied in the context of this study as a locational and mental construct in examining tourism group movement (behavior). Respondents were placed into two groups on the basis of their activitybased motivations for visiting Shetland and asked to complete a daily space-time budget regarding their use of attractions, facilities, accommodation, and transportation. It was discovered that both groups differed marginally in their space-time use of the aforementioned variables within the various regions of Shetland.

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Ghettos as tourism attractions, Pages 830-842
Joseph M. Conforti
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If increased historic preservation, restoration, and reconstruction reflects the maturation of America, they also reflect controversy over what is preserved, by whom, and to what ends. Using Little Italy as a case in point, this paper explores issues likely to arise and potential implications when urban areas depicting an ethnic or racial heritage are preserved for the purposes of tourism. That such areas were initially oppressive and restrictive ghettos portrayed by derogatory stereotypes of their residents, particularly poses the question of whether those images and the attitudes they stimulated are preserved, restored, or reconstructed along with material artifacts.

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An evaluation of ecotourism in Amazonas, Brazil, Pages 843-873
George N. Wallace and Susan M. Pierce
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Registered "ecotour" lodges were studied using observation and interviews with visitors, employees, and local people. Findings were evaluated using proposed ecotourism principles. Besides providing employment, lodges improve access, stimulate new services (health utilities, etc.), and make valued but limited local purchases. In other ways, lodges fall short of the ideals inherent in the principles. They contribute little to conservation education, resource protection, or the involvement and empowerment of local people. Tourists wish to see and would support conservation and community development programs both financially and via their future selection of ecotour operators. Numerous implications for concessions, protected area management, and rural development in Amazonas are discussed.

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Habits of thought and cultural tourism, Pages 874-890
Alf H. Walle
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The way cultural tourists think about the people they visit impacts upon their travel experiences. Cultural tourism professionals can benefit by understanding this diversity of thought. By examining four travelogs concerning Native American cultures in the 19th century, the value of new research techniques from consumer behavior which employ methods paralleling literary criticism are demonstrated and related to the empirical evidence at hand. In particular, the works of Sir Richard Burton, Francis Parkman, Washington Irving, and Louis Henry Morgan are compared and juxtaposed. It is hoped that this combining of tourism theory with mythological theory will help the field to mesh with similar developments taking place in marketing and consumer behavior.

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Econometric forecasts of tourism demand to 2005, Pages 891-907
Egon Smeral and Stephen F. Witt
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A complete system of demand equations which was developed previously to generate forecasts of tourism imports and exports is modified to allow for destination-specific demand structures in the tourism export functions. The new model is shown to be considerably more realistic than the original one, and represents a major conceptual improvement. Furthermore, the modified complete system of demand equations yields more accurate outof-sample forecasts, across both varying time horizons and types of forecast. The new model is used to generate forecasts of tourism imports and exports for 18 countries and various major geographical areas, including the recently expanded European Union, for the period up to 2005 for different scenarios.

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Involvement and opinion leadership in tourism, Pages 908-924
Ute Jamrozy, Sheila J. Backman and Kenneth F. Backman
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Nature-based tourism, science tourism, and ecotourism are some of the emerging and growing trends in special-interest tourism. This study utilized a southeastern sample of the United States who had an interest in travel and the environment. A modified Dillman total design method survey was used to collect the data. The study demonstrated that widely used concepts of marketing are applicable for nature-based tourism. Results indicate that highly involved nature-oriented travelers tend to be more receptive to information concerning the travel product or destination and spread that information willingly. Findings of this study suggest that opinion leaders take more trips and use slightly more information sources.

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Sustainable tourism: Technical issues and information needs, Pages 925-928
Ralf Buckley
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Economic impact of the Israeli tourists on North Cyprus, Pages 928-931
Hasan Ali Biçak and Mehmet Altinary
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Users and non-users on the expectation Item of the SERVQUAL Scale, Pages 931-934 Chris Ryan and Andrew Cliff
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Joint University programs, Pages 934-935
Daniel E. Wegner
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Attitude towards tourism development, Pages 935-938
Diane Burns
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Improving tourism survey response rates, Pages 939-941
Vern Vincent and Gilberto de los Santos
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A theoretical explanation of international tourism investments, Pages 941-943
Peter J. Buckley and Necla V. Geyikdagi
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Ecotourism impact awareness, Pages 944-945
Scott L. Walker
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Defining vernacular tourism, Pages 945-948
Karen De Bres
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Cultural tourism as serious leisure, Pages 948-950
Robert A. Stebbins
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Wilderness images of tourism and community, Pages 950-953
Greg Ringer
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Developing cultural tourism opportunities, Pages 954-955
Robyn Bushell and Jafar Jafari
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Culture and International tourism, Pages 955-958
Jack Carlsen and Jafar Jafari
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World conference on sustainable tourism, Pages 958-960
Jafar Jafari
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Innovation, technology, and information, Pages 960-962
Brian Mihalik, William C. Gartner and Muzaffer Uysal
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WTO general assembly, Pages 962-964
Scott Wayne and Jafar Jafari
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Asia Pacific tourism association is launched, Pages 965-966
John L. Crompton
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