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Managing local heritage in low- and middle-income countries through small accommodation firms: The case of Ghana

open access: yesIl Capitale Culturale: Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, 2023
This study aims to provide empirical evidence about how sustainable heritage tourism paths can be developed in Ghana by focusing on the relationship between 20 guesthouses and various other local and multi-local actors.
Silvia Baiocco   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

CHARACTERISTIC OF RESIDENCE TYPE GUESTHOUSE IN CITY

open access: yesJournal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of AIJ), 2009
This study aims to investigate the characteristic of guesthouse as a kind of residence type in metropolitan city, for efficient utilization of existing housing stock. The conclusions of this study are as follows;1. Many guesthouses use a small scale house and are shared by a few people. Therefore, management is done by resident's self-responsibility.2.
NAKAMURA, Tomoki   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

BEHIND THE FACES OF AESTHETICIZED URBANISM IN TUNXI, CHINA

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban policy in China has become increasingly predicated on securing an approved aesthetic that reflects ideological campaigns and political programmes. In highlighting the role of the aesthetic in Chinese urbanism, this article argues that the party‐state draws on an aesthetic palette that places the contemporary urban landscape in a ...
Yanpeng Jiang, Paul Waley, Asa Roast
wiley   +1 more source

ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
wiley   +1 more source

GUESTHOUSES AS CATALYSTS FOR RESPONSIBLE TOURIST BEHAVIOR AND DESTINATION SUSTAINABILITY [PDF]

open access: yesGeo Journal of Tourism and Geosites
: This study examines how guest houses contribute to responsible tourism development in Djerba, Tunisia. Using a qualitative research design, we conducted in-depth interviews with 30 international tourists to explore their experiences and behavioral ...
Nourhene FATNASSI   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Mobile Core: Perpetuating Tourism Leakage Through the Socioecological Fix in South Korea

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT By adopting the socioecological fix concept, this study aims to examine the spatial dynamics of tourism leakage. An ethnographic examination of an ecotourism project on Jeju Island, South Korea was conducted for 18 months from 2011 to 2013.
Souyeon Nam
wiley   +1 more source

Experience quality dimensions and customer perceptions: A case study of guesthouses in Ghana. [PDF]

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2016
This study focused on guesthouses and aimed to examine the dimensions of experience quality, determine customers’ perceptions of experience quality and investigate various relationships: between the experience quality dimensions and experience quality ...
Dr. Felix Amoah   +2 more
doaj  

An Examination of Cultural Transformation in Türkiye After 1980 in the Context of “Neoliberal Governmentality”

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The January 24 Decisions of 1980 and the subsequent Özal era marked a profound rupture, carrying Türkiye from an import substitution economy to an outward‐oriented, “free‐market” order. Drawing on Michel Foucault's concept of neoliberal governmentality, this study conducts a qualitative, interpretivist discourse analysis of Turgut Özal's ...
Muhammed Salim Danış
wiley   +1 more source

Unwelcome Guests: The Detention of Refugees in Turkey's "Foreigners' Guesthouses"'

open access: yesRefuge, 2010
As European countries bordering the Mediterranean have introduced increasingly harsh measures to stem the flow of irregular migration across their frontiers, Turkey has become one of the main crossroads for flows of migration from Africa, Asia, and the ...
Rachel Levitan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Multilocal Practices in a Pleasure Periphery: A Typology of Time, Space and Activity

open access: yesTijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract The prerequisites, conditions and drivers of multilocality, that is, leading an everyday life in multiple places, were transformed through the accelerated adoption of remote work triggered by the COVID‐19 pandemic. We bring new perspectives to the field of multilocality research by exploring and theorising multilocal practices through a post ...
Nicolai Ekecrantz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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