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Publisher: Emerald
Date: 06-06-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2013
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 27-09-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2010
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 27-09-2016
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2019
Publisher: Chiang Mai University
Date: 2015
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 07-06-2010
DOI: 10.1108/17506181011045172
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explore the cultural interaction between communities and visitors to islands using social exchange theory to enhance the understanding of the island experience. The method consisted of 30 in‐depth interviews with community and tourism stakeholders, and formed part of a multi‐phase study that used social exchange theory as the lens to illuminate a range of perspectives of island interaction. This paper presents a comparative case study of Bruny Island in Tasmania, and Magnetic Island in Queensland, Australia. Findings revealed that local community members have a wide range of motivations for entering into social exchanges with visitors, ranging from solely economic, to a genuine desire to provide quality experiences. Additionally, findings showed the nature of island cultural interaction could vary immensely, from welcoming and meaningful exchanges through to superficial and even hostile contact. As this research is on two islands in Australia, within a particular timeframe, the results may not be representative of island communities generally. Nonetheless, the results are indicative of locals' perceptions of their interactions with visitors. The findings have a range of practical implications for the management of local and visitor interaction on islands. A key implication for island communities is the importance of developing programs that educate and inform locals about the potential benefits of interaction. Additionally, this research illustrates how islands can use cultural interaction to differentiate their tourism product and market island experiences. The paper's contribution is its use of social exchange theory at a micro‐level to illuminate a range of local community members' perspectives of their tourism exchanges, in order to enhance understanding of the complex process of interaction between locals and visitors to islands.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-10-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-04-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-06-2017
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 30-10-2017
Abstract: Tourism doctoral dissertations have grown exponentially in recent years. Despite this, there have been limited studies which examine the contribution of specific disciplines to tourism doctoral research over time. Subsequently, this article explores the theories, concepts and methods employed in tourism doctoral dissertations informed by the foundation disciplines of anthropology and sociology. Drawing on a database of 2155 dissertations from four countries, findings revealed exponential growth in doctoral theses grounded in anthropology and sociology between 1969 and 2013. The United States is the primary location for tourism doctoral theses informed by anthropology and sociology, with the University of California as the leading institution. Analysis revealed identity theory was the predominant theory, with socio-cultural change, ethnicity and culture core concepts. Results also showed an increase in qualitative and mixed-methods research. Future research should examine tourism doctoral theses housed in other disciplines, drawing inferences for future scholarly inquiry.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-04-2018
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 26-03-2018
DOI: 10.3390/SU10040968
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-04-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2014
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-08-2016
Abstract: One way national parks can sustain their societal relevance and ensure ongoing political and community support is through conscious and deliberate repositioning. This study investigates the potential for psychologically repositioning national parks using persuasive communication designed to shift public perceptions of the benefits of visitor experiences in parks. The experimental communication interventions were selected to target benefits where gaps were identified between the perceptions of park managers and the parks’ constituent publics. Using a pre–post design on 1,055 respondents split evenly across two Australian states, the experiment revealed that the website and the video used as interventions were highly effective at improving public perceptions of park benefits. This was attributed to the persuasiveness of the website and the video, which respondents rated as having positive valence, as highly vivid and as credible. This research provides theoretically informed insights into the application of persuasive communication theory to psychologically reposition national parks.
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 05-03-2018
DOI: 10.1108/IJCTHR-06-2017-0073
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to explore the benefits and drawbacks of visual methods, specifically architectural drawings, for assessing locals’ perceptions of proposed tourism development in a cultural tourism precinct. To explore the use of visual methods 21 in-depth interviews were conducted with locals working in the tourism industry in Ubud, Bali. During the interviews, respondents were shown a series of architectural drawings depicting a new Western-branded hotel development. The use of visual methods, specifically architectural drawings to gauge reactions from respondents revealed mixed levels of support for future tourism development. Respondents were supportive of an increase in visitors but were cautious about the nature of new development. Visual research methods should also be considered in an interview setting to supplement traditional questioning techniques. This study provides an outline of how visual methods can either support or detract from qualitative methodologies and allow for a considered design if incorporated into future studies.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-02-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 31-01-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-10-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-07-2020
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-01-2018
Abstract: Chinese inbound tourism constitutes Australia’s fastest growing and largest international tourist market. Currently, most of this travel is conducted via group package tours (GPTs). While there is anecdotal evidence of dissatisfaction with some aspects of Chinese tourists’ service experience such as commission-based shopping, little empirical evidence is available about the salient dimensions of service quality or their respective performance. The aim of this study is to identify the core service components offered by Chinese GPTs and to examine any service shortfalls. Findings from a survey of 520 tourists revealed three dimensions of Chinese package tour service: attractions, tour leader and food and accommodation. The study identified significant gaps between expectation and performance across all dimensions. Theoretical and service quality implications for researchers, tour operators and policymakers are presented and discussed.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-02-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-04-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-04-2015
Publisher: Cognizant, LLC
Date: 16-03-2021
DOI: 10.3727/154427320X15888322468764
Abstract: Nature recreation can be beneficial for human health and well-being, and this article invites discussion about whether environmental behavior nature contact can influence nature contact. As human life becomes more urbanized, people interact less closely with nature, and nature connections are weakened. Tourism provides an opportunity to enhance nature contact, and hence nature connection, and may motivate proenvironmental behavior. This study uses the R statistical package to analyze questionnaire data from 679 participants who have encountered marine mammals in the wild, as part of an ecotour, and in captive settings. It considers the questions: Does a connection to nature mediate the role between nature contact and well-being? Do marine mammal experiences specifically contribute to human well-being and environmental behavior? The role of nature connection as a mediator between nature contact and well-being is described in a structural equation model. Marine mammal experiences are shown to be significantly and positively related to human well-being (three-way ANOVA) and environmental behavior (Kruskal–Wallis H test). We conclude that nature connectedness mediates the effect of nature contact on well-being, and marine mammal experiences have an effect on well-being and environmental behavior. This study adds to research on cetacean experiences by including all marine mammals across different experience types. The results assist identify paths through which recreation time may achieve a two-way benefit of well-being and environmental behavior.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-09-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2008
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2014
Publisher: Cognizant, LLC
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.3727/108354220X15950029382777
Abstract: Business and tourism researchers show continuous interests in determining the dimensionalityof service quality and investigating how service quality influences profit-related outcomes suchas customer loyalty. Despite the inconsistencies in results across industries, types of servicesand culture, little is known how the choice of measurement influences the results. The aim ofthe study was to assess the use of the gap measure and the performance-only measure in a touroperating context, and compares and contrasts how the gap measure and the performance-onlymeasure may or may not produce different results. Survey data from 309 respondents wereanalysed to reveal the factor patterns of tour service and how tour service influenced touristloyalty to the tour operator. Both measures showed validity, reliability and clearly-cut factorpatterns with more similarities than differences. Tour arrangements were found to be asignificant predictor of tourist loyalty no matter which measure was used. However, theperformance-only measure showed favourable ratings while the gap measure indicatedsignificant gaps between performance and expectation.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-03-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2011
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-12-2013
Abstract: Tourism on islands, as elsewhere, can have positive and negative economic, environmental, and sociocultural impacts. Previous research has focused on residents’ perceptions of these impacts with little emphasis on those of the visitor, resulting in a lack of theorizing and empirical investigation into how visitors perceive and evaluate their impacts. Based on the premise that a better understanding of the visitor perspective can underpin the proactive management of some tourism impacts, this study uses Social Exchange Theory to explore visitors’ perceptions of tourism impacts on two Australian islands. Overall, visitors recognized that tourism activity increases impacts and evaluated these as mostly positive for the island communities. While visitors were aware of a range of positive and negative impacts, they judged their own impact to be more positive than that of tourism collectively. The findings point to how research can be used to underpin visitor-focused management and mitigation strategies of island destinations.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 28-07-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2016
Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert Inc
Date: 09-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-10-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-02-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-09-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-11-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-11-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-06-2019
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 19-11-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2016
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-03-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-11-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2020
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2016
Abstract: The personal and community-wide benefits of parks are well documented in previous studies. Despite a strong recognition of park benefits in the literature, there has been limited inquiry focused on the relationship between visitation and perceptions of the personal and community-wide benefits of parks. Consequently, this paper revisits the influence of visitation, as well as other key variables, on public perceptions of the benefits of parks. To achieve this objective, a survey was administered to 1584 participants from Australia. Overall, the Australian public was quite positive about the benefits of parks. Results revealed a strong association between visitation, age, gender and public perceptions of park benefits. Residing in an urban or regional location had little effect on perceptions of park benefits. Future research and management attention should be directed towards improving non-visitors', young people's and males' perceptions of the benefits of parks.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 30-01-2017
Abstract: Recently, there has been increasing scholarly interest in the relationship between tourism and quality of life (QOL). While the concept of QOL is contestable, a number of studies have revealed that travel can increase an in idual’s perceived and actual QOL. To date, the focus has been on vacation travel, highlighting that travel primarily for the purpose of rest or recreation, whether to a holiday destination or touring, is a component of many people’s perceived QOL, and in some cases is a critical component. However, these more expensive forms of vacation travel are less accessible to those classified as socio-economically disadvantaged. Many such in iduals can and do visit friends and relatives (VFR), suggesting that VFR may be a critical means by which socio-economically disadvantaged people can travel for pleasure and thereby maintain or improve their QOL. The article suggests a number of potential strategies based on the 8 Ps of the marketing mix, and these in turn inform avenues for future research.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2013
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-01-2014
Abstract: This study examined the effects of both cognitive and affective tour guide interpretation outcomes on tourist satisfaction and behavioral intention in a heritage tourism context. Data were collected via a survey of 282 inbound mainland Chinese tourists to Sovereign Hill, Ballarat, a heritage tourism site in Victoria, Australia. A hierarchical structural model was constructed based on a comprehensive literature review of tour guiding, interpretation, and tourist satisfaction and was tested applying partial least squares structural equation modeling. Results show that cognitive interpretation outcome has a greater impact on tourist satisfaction and sustaining visitor arrivals than affective interpretation outcome, whereas satisfaction with the guided tour experience directly affects behavioral intention and largely mediates the effect of cognitive interpretation outcome on behavioral intention. The study offers both theoretical insights in relation to interpretation and tourist satisfaction and practical implications for interpretive tour guiding.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-05-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2012
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