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An examination of tourists’ identity in tourist weblogs
Information Technology & Tourism, 2014The present study focused on one of the new mass media technologies, weblogs, which allow more tourists to construct an expressive self by posting their writings about their travel experiences. The current research examined the meanings represented in the personal travel experiences and how self-identity is constructed in the touristic discourse ...
Yasong Wang, Duarte B. Morais
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2002
In a nomadic environment a user may access same services as she would using her desktop computer, but she could do so anywhere, at any time and even using a variety different kinds of devices. This kind of environment places new challenges on the architecture implementing the services, because a set of parameters, such as different kinds of mobile ...
Mikko Laukkanen +2 more
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In a nomadic environment a user may access same services as she would using her desktop computer, but she could do so anywhere, at any time and even using a variety different kinds of devices. This kind of environment places new challenges on the architecture implementing the services, because a set of parameters, such as different kinds of mobile ...
Mikko Laukkanen +2 more
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Modern Believing, 2001
Poverty isn't an option for the poor so why should it be one for the Church? How do we relate to the experience of being poor in the UK, to the phenomenon of globalization which increasingly shapes all our experiences, and to the task of theological interpretation of the signs of the times?
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Poverty isn't an option for the poor so why should it be one for the Church? How do we relate to the experience of being poor in the UK, to the phenomenon of globalization which increasingly shapes all our experiences, and to the task of theological interpretation of the signs of the times?
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Italian Outbound Tourists, Tourists’ Expenditure and Satisfaction
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019The paper aims at investigating the expenditure behavior of Italian tourists travelling abroad for personal purposes. In particular, we focus on the relationship between expenditure and satisfaction of Italian outbound tourists over the period 2007-2017, by using data provided by Bank of Italy.
Bernini, Cristina, Galli, Federica
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Tourism Landscapes: For the Tourist or of The Tourist?
Tourism Recreation Research, 1992Significant areas of the world can justifiably be described as tourism landscapes, parts of the Mediterranean coast, some Caribbean Islands, and certain mountain areas in the Rockies and the Alps for example. In most cases these landscapes have been significantly modified and subsequently maintained to make and keep them attractive to tourists. Despite
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2011
In this work we will be dealing with the figure of the D.I.Y. Tourist originated from the local development processes based on the “cottage tourist industry” concept. We will be doing this by using part of the results obtained through a research started more than three years ago, by which we are studying what happens in the territorial contexts where ...
ROMITA, Tullio, PERRI A.
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In this work we will be dealing with the figure of the D.I.Y. Tourist originated from the local development processes based on the “cottage tourist industry” concept. We will be doing this by using part of the results obtained through a research started more than three years ago, by which we are studying what happens in the territorial contexts where ...
ROMITA, Tullio, PERRI A.
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Tourism Analysis, 2011
This article argues that in most tourism studies the African has been stereotypically cast as a “touree” but not “tourer.” As such, mainstream theory in tourism is a product of a predominantly Western ethnocentric view of the tourist as a Westerner. In recent years, however, some authors have started to question modern-man-in-general approaches to the
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This article argues that in most tourism studies the African has been stereotypically cast as a “touree” but not “tourer.” As such, mainstream theory in tourism is a product of a predominantly Western ethnocentric view of the tourist as a Westerner. In recent years, however, some authors have started to question modern-man-in-general approaches to the
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Tourist Studies, 2001
The concept of ‘the gaze’ brings a philosophical concern for the human subject and human ‘agency’ to tourism studies. Foucault’s concept of the gaze, advocated by Urry, presupposes a narcissistic subject within which there is a deterministic fit between self and society.
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The concept of ‘the gaze’ brings a philosophical concern for the human subject and human ‘agency’ to tourism studies. Foucault’s concept of the gaze, advocated by Urry, presupposes a narcissistic subject within which there is a deterministic fit between self and society.
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Putting the Tourist into Tourist Information
2000This paper introduces TourisT, a prototype hypermedia tourism information system, which was developed at the University of Manchester. A key theme of the TourisT project was that the system must address the real needs of tourists, and this was investigated using the following approach.
J. C. Bullock, C. A. Goble
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Comments on “tourist space and touristic attraction”
Leisure Sciences, 1985(1985). Comments on “tourist space and touristic attraction”. Leisure Sciences: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 65-71.
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