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Journal Source: Annals of Tourism Research Volume 31 Volume 30 Volume 29 Volume 28 Volume 27 Volume 26 Volume 25 Volume 24 Volume 23 Volume 22 J. Sustainable Tourism Tourism Management  |
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Responsible Tourism Management Annals
of Tourism Research [Volume 28, Issue 2][Volume 28, Issue 3][Volume 28, Issue 4]
Authenticity
and sincerity in tourism, Pages 7-26 The paper explores the concept of authenticity with regard to the presentation of Maori in New Zealand. It is argued that the creation of authenticity is important to tourism as a distancing device which prompts desire and the production of value. However, this analysis also suggests that its temporal implications and "tradition" in tourism have tended toward the reification of modernist essentialization concerning Otherness, and to a negativity that would undermine experience and the touristic presentation of local identities. A further term, "sincerity", is introduced by way of contrast to the notion of authenticity and illustrated by corresponding examples of two kinds of Maori tourism. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From collective
provision to commodification of tourism?, Pages 27-49 Domestic tourism was not homogenous under state socialism but involved collective, commercial, and informal provision. Moreover, it had not been monolithically institutionalized, but was significantly influenced by different social and cultural legacies in the Czech and Slovak territories. During the transformation there was an apparent paradox, for some forms of holiday increased during the economic crisis. However, this can be seen as a logical outcome to changing economic conditions, and access to tourism actually became more socially differentiated. This paper concludes that extensive privatization has not meant a unilinear and inexorable shift to a market system, for tourism remains a bricolage of collective, market, and informal provision. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Exploring social
interactions of backpackers, Pages 50-67 This study employs the concepts of social situation analysis to examine the nature of interactions among backpackers in an attempt to better understand their informal networks of information dissemination. Results indicate that gathering information on destinations/businesses is a motivation for them to interact with one another. However, several factors influence the value placed on information, including the consistency of reports received, personal feelings or attitudes towards the provider, and previous expectations regarding the destination/business under discussion. Recommendations are made regarding steps businesses catering to the backpacker market can take to encourage positive word-of-mouth promotion and facilitate social interaction among customers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monthly seasonal
variations: Asian tourism to Australia, Pages 68-82 Tourist arrivals series from Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore to Australia exhibit strong seasonality. For data and policy analysis, it is useful to obtain seasonally adjusted data for international tourism from the respective origin countries. This paper applies the moving average technique for estimating the seasonal components of time series to monthly tourist arrivals time series data to Australia. The autocorrelation and partial autocorrelation functions, the Lagrange multiplier test for the absence of serial correlation, and model selection criteria, namely the Akaike Information Criterion and Schwarz Bayesian Criterion, are used to examine which time series processes best describe international arrivals data for Australia. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Correcting response
bias in tourist spending surveys, Pages 83-97 Many studies that estimate economic impact, use onsite tourist contacts followed with mailed expenditure surveys. Typically, response rates to such surveys are under 50%. A recent study of tourism impacts in the Florida Keys (USA) had similar problems. Response bias was considered to be a significant concern. This paper documents the tests for response bias used to identify socioeconomic factors related to survey response and expenditures per tourist. These included income, age, race, and domestic residence. Corrective weights were developed from the four variables. Uncorrected expenditure means underestimated average spending slightly for the summer season, but overestimated it for winter by almost 9%. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Forecasting
tourism demand: An STM approach, Pages 98-112 Since tourism is the most important economic activity in many Caribbean countries, the forecast of tourism is the key to predicting overall macroeconomic performance in this region. This study utilized Structural Time Series Modeling to explain and forecast tourist arrivals to Barbados from its major generating markets. The procedure will allow one to extract the maximum amount of information contained in the series on tourist arrivals while at the same time to include any other information relevant to forecasting arrivals. This study found these models offered valuable insights into the stylized facts of tourism behavior and provided reliable out-of-sample forecasts. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Community integration:
Island tourism in Peru, Pages 113-139 This paper examines tourism planning and management in the Andean community of Taquile Island, Peru. A framework of community integration in tourism was developed and applied to this community in a case study approach. The intention of this framework is to help guide planning, development, management, research, and evaluation of community-based tourism projects. Community integration in tourism was primarily defined in terms of decision-making power structures and processes, local control or ownership, type and distribution of employment, and the number of local people employed in the local tourism sector. It was found that a high level of community integration on Taquile Island led to greater socioeconomic benefits for a majority of residents. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tourists and
strippers: Liminal theater, Pages 140-163 This paper is based upon participant observation at a striptease club in Australia. It is argued that striptease is a forgotten section of sex tourism that within its rituals both challenges and exemplifies generally understood notions of male–female relationships. Simple dominant male–subordinate female or dominant female–submissive male explanations continually break down as the ritual is deconstructed. The paper is a contribution, albeit incomplete, to the literature of sex tourism. Further, in examining a situation of social touristic marginality, the striptease club has parallels with other forms of tourism wherein the constructs of power are subject to a gaze whereby the normal is made strange and the strange, normal. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why people travel
to different places, Pages 164-179 This study aims at providing an economic explanation for the observed variety in the actual consumer choice of destinations. Despite its contribution to tourism research, the traditional demand theory is insufficient to justify comprehensively the direction of tourist flows in space and time, mainly because it cannot account for the importance of product differentiation and corporate power. To address these issues, the Gorman/Lancaster characteristics framework is applied to tourism and a comparative exercise is undertaken in six different fields. The theoretical conclusions are appealing as they match demand and supply, offering a holistic answer to the question of tourist choice and a useful benchmark for further research in the area. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Other) bodies
and tourism studies, Pages 180-201 Research findings on two gay pride parades in New Zealand and Australia are offered in order to argue that critical social theory on embodiment can provide new challenges to, and exciting possibilities for, tourism research. Such studies tend to produce hegemonic, disembodied, and masculinist knowledges. Social sciences have been built on a mind/body dualism that privileges the former over the latter. Feminist writing on the body has thrown the Cartesian separation of the two into question. Explicit inclusion of gendered/sexed and sexualized bodies in tourism research problematizes this dualism, thereby subverting the masculinism of tourism discourse. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Validating quality
dimensions, Pages 202-223 This article is primarily methodological and is concerned with the psychological dimensions which form the basis of evaluative judgment on hotels. The study takes six dimensions which have empirical and conceptual support in the literature and attempts to validate them using methods which are different from the now common measuring procedures in this area. The methods applied are Q-Methodology and Guttman procedure. The study highlights the special properties of these methods and shows their utility in hotel evaluation. Of the six dimensions tested only three were found to be valid. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Asian Contagion:
impact on Singapore tourism, Pages 224-226 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The HMAS Swan
Artificial Dive Reef, Pages 226-229 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Predicting Tourist
Attachment to Destinations, Pages 229-232 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tourism and
cyberspace, Pages 232-235 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Senior tourism,
Pages 235-238 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Space Tourism,
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