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0000-0002-2666-9453
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University of Tasmania
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-01-2022
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 05-09-2022
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 04-11-2019
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to report novel information about the use of gay apps by the patrons of an exclusively gay resort in Queensland, Australia. This novel research environment facilitates an understanding of the embeddedness of gay dating apps within contemporary gay culture and community and the spatial reorientation that comes alongside the juxtaposition of physical and digital geographies. An ethnographic study was conducted at the resort, and qualitative data presented here are drawn from semi-structured interviews with 27 gay-identifying male patrons of the resort. Critical ethnography provided beneficial access to situated perspectives and realities. These data indicate that gay apps remain a pervasive way of making connections, even in an environment where common homosexuality is a reasonable expectation and where open self-expression is permitted and even encouraged. This complicates assumptions that gay apps’ emergence was in response to a need for privacy or anonymity for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in wider, straight society. This paper reports the results of an ethnographic survey conducted in a highly novel research environment and particularly seeks to address ergent experiences of social and cultural change by LGBT people, including generational ides. It has value in demonstrating clear differences, ambiguities and mixed implications of gay apps and their relationship with changing LGBT spaces.
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 19-11-2020
Publisher: Asia Institute, University of Tasmania
Date: 2021
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Date: 31-12-2021
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Date: 31-12-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2019
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Date: 31-12-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2018
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Date: 31-12-2021
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 18-01-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-08-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2021
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Date: 24-06-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-10-2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 14-07-2015
DOI: 10.1002/JTR.2059
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-2021
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-12-2020
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 07-08-2019
DOI: 10.1108/IJTC-01-2019-0015
Abstract: The visitor economy is increasingly being recognised by local authorities, governments and destination marketing managers as having a significant effect on local retail precincts. This research note proposes that there is a link between the rise of the sharing economy (notably Airbnb) and the growing awareness and appreciation of the impact of the visitor economy. The purpose of this paper is to provide an ex le of the marketing efforts of a specific retail precinct to attract visitors engaged in the sharing economy. The approach taken involves a review of the literature pertaining to the sharing and visitor economies. Using an ex le from an Australian tourist city – Hobart, Tasmania, this research reviews a collaborative marketing c aign undertaken by retailers in a city precinct designed to appeal to stakeholders in the visitor economy. Shopping at local stores and retail precincts form an integral part of the travel experience. This research note offers an overview of the nexus between the sharing and visitor economies. In particular, it presents the potential implications of collaborative marketing efforts to attract visitors to a retail precinct. It is suggested that the development of new marketing and branding strategies, specifically retailer-led collaborative efforts, are a positive approach to attract stakeholders involved in the sharing and visitor economies. This research note is one of the first to recognise the relationship between the rise of the sharing economy and the subsequent conceptualisation of a visitor economy. This note recognises the particular importance of the nexus between the sharing and visitor economies for retail precincts.
Publisher: Cognizant, LLC
Date: 11-11-2022
DOI: 10.3727/152599522X16419948694720
Abstract: Australia hosts several world-renowned events catering to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/ questioning, intersex, and gender erse (LGBTQI+) people such as Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and Melbourne's Midsumma Festival. Such events enable LGBTQI+ communities to celebrate their identities, political achievements, and self-acceptance. The objective of this study was to understand the role urban LGBTQI+ festivals and events are designed to play in contemporary Australia. To address this objective, the annual reports of Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and Melbourne Midsumma Festival between 2010 and 2019 (inclusive) were analyzed and five overarching themes related to the role of LGBTQI+ events were identified. These were: 1) Mainstreaming LGBTQI+ events as tourist attractions 2) Supporting LGBTQI+ communities 3) Encouraging the visibility and education of and about LGBTQI+ culture 4) Challenging the political and social status quo and 5) Addressing intersectionality and including other marginalized groups.
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Date: 31-12-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-06-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-08-2020
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 16-01-2017
Abstract: The literature pertaining to critical tourism studies has sought to challenge the traditional scientific dichotomy between the detached researcher and research participant in the production of tourism knowledge. This article argues for the value of an ethnographic approach in further challenging that dichotomy, by way of a study seeking to better understand a specific culture in tourism: gay resorts. We aim to outline the methodological component of this research project, centred on a gay resort in Australia, and to argue for the value of ethnography in understanding other specific tourism cultures. Often a researcher’s proximity to and pronounced familiarity with a topic is obfuscated in service of ‘non-biased’ and ‘value-neutral’ results, but in this article, we attend closely to the value of insider research in critical tourism studies. The experiences reported here – around insider perspectives, rapport building, in-depth interviews, participant observations, becoming embedded in a research environment and respecting participants – are argued to have much wider currency.
Start Date: 2020
End Date: 2020
Funder: Port Authority of New South Wales
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