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Demonstrates, through the example of older retail districts in Oregon, how tourism promotional literature can be used for the study of places. Presents survey results on the thematic orientation of tourism promotion (historic, authentic, etc.) and includes three case studies of tourism development in Oregon. (GEA)

The framework of tourism: Towards a definition of tourism, tourist, and the tourist industry. By taking CES as the point of departure, this Special Section offers novel perspectives on enduring questions for tourism geographies regarding the practices, politics, and ethics of placemaking in tourism. In a time of rapidly shifting tourism geographies in which rising rents, the COVID-19 pandemic, and rural gentrification have triggered widespread urban-to-rural migration, placemaking in peripheral areas has become an increasingly critical research agenda for tourism geographers. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the highlights of the Japanese Society for Geographical Sciences' 202 Academic Symposium, "Tourism Transformations: Resilient Islands and Revitalized Communities." Topics covered include relationship between tourism and the resilience and revitalization of island environments and communities, the COVID-19 pandemic, and vulnerability of islands due to their isolation from large continental resources and connections.

The sustainable development model has largely failed to address the social and environmental challenges of the 21st century. True sustainability will only occur when it is valued as a part of the taken-for-granted daily life of individuals and cultures across the globe. This has not yet happened because humanity has not evolved a global consciousness quickly enough to match the global advances in telecommunications and transportation technologies that have created a socially and economically ever-shrinking planet. Travel and tourism contributes to the expansion of global consciousness, although only in a haphazard and unintentional manner. The COVID-19 pandemic is a result of planetary time-space compression and is forcing an expansion in human consciousness that will make humankind better able to address global problems. There will still be considerable diversity on the planet, as now, but the pandemic will stimulate growing numbers of people, businesses and governments to adopt new ways of thinking, behaving and operating that are more closely aligned with the goals of sustainable development. This could be further enhanced if travel and tourism were to adopt the expansion and awakening of global conscious as a fundamental and transformational value in the products and experiences that it offers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tourism development in rural China today brings both opportunities and challenges for local communities. To thrive or even adapt in this new and rapidly changing environment, communities need to be resilient in order to maintain successful livelihoods. This paper examines the core issue in this dynamic coping process. After a substantial literature review, an Agency-based Livelihood Resilience Framework is developed and used to examine two communities in rural China. The role of agency in shaping community resilience is specifically emphasized in this framework. Face-to-face interviews and participatory observation methodologies were adopted in the case studies in order to identify changes caused by external investment, villagers' actions to deal with the changes, and the social structures behind these actions. We found that the two villages demonstrated different levels of resilience, and that this can be explained by differences in individual agency. However, both villages failed to transform into a system which can thrive in the new environment due to a lack of collective agency. Agency, especially collective agency, is vital for structural change in communities, but it was limited by certain context-specific factors in the two cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Optimism bias in the environmental field and its effects on environmental behaviors have not been well investigated to date. This study examines if temporal and spatial biases exist when tourists assess the environment's current and projected quality of (1) their residential places, (2) their travel destinations, and (3) a country overall. Thereafter, we examined the effects of assessment bias and consideration of future consequences on tourists' environmental behaviors (including behaviors in destinations and general behaviors). In a sample of Chinese domestic tourists, temporal optimism was dominant in their assessment of the future environmental quality for all three spatial areas, above. Spatial optimism was found when comparing residential places and destinations to the whole country, but spatial pessimism was found when comparing residential places to destinations. Assessment bias was not associated with the environmentally responsible behavior (ERB) of tourists. However, the consideration of future consequences and absolute environmental quality assessment did have a significant influence on their ERB. Furthermore, the general ERB of tourists had a significant effect on their site-specific destination ERB. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on topics related to travel and tourism. Topics mentioned include the importance of travel and tourism to society, the social experience from travel, and the promotion of tourism industry. Also mentioned are the several forms of global conciousness for travel and tourism, the importance of education and learning in tourism, and the promotion of social responsibility in travel.

Tourism and recreational second-home development has increased rapidly in peripheral and lower tier cities of China in recent years. While tourism-led real estate development has been widely accepted as an effective investment opportunity, it can increase urban segregation and stratification. This pattern is seen in the resort city of Sanya on Hainan Island, China. Sanya’s recreational second homes vary in form and can be categorized into (1) elite-vacation second homes (short stay, private homes), (2) lifestyle-migration second homes (short stay, commercial homes), and (3) retirement-migration second homes (longer term, seasonal homes). Unlike the segregated cities formed by displaced labor migrants in many of China’s cities, seasonal recreational migrants are both economically better-off and are emerging as a dominant political force. The segregated residential spaces created by Sanya’s second-home development landscape further limits interaction and social network building between indigenous local residents and part-time recreational migrants. The perceived home space and feelings of place attachment towards Sanya is under drastic change, with locals feeling increasingly displaced. The new mosaic of consumption-led amenity cities in developing economies is one where traditional models of migration-based segregation are reversed. Wealthier second-home migrants have the capacity for more political power than local residents, as well as relying more on non-localized social networks and multi-nodal home spaces. Consumption-led mobility is an important determinant in building explanations of socio-spatial segregation and stratification in global cities that are undergoing dramatic development change. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The explosive growth of tourism in China since the 1980s has generated attendant interest in tourism research in the country, among researchers both in the mainland and outside. The dialogue between the two communities (domestic and international researchers) is also growing, but is as yet still limited, with insufficient contributions from Chinese mainland tourism researchers to the international academic world. China provides a rich field for examining the cultural, social and institutional context in which tourism develops. Recent studies of village-based community tourism development in China, with an emphasis on institutional perspectives, provide some insight on the dynamic and complex changes of rural communities along with tourism development. In general, these papers show that village participation in decision making is growing, although examples of disempowerment are as rife as those of growing empowerment. Contested resources are one of the most influential factors in this struggle, along with the rapid growth of tourism that the country has experienced since the 1980s. The papers in this special collection also demonstrate the distinct character of domestic tourism research in China, which engages the rich body of literature published in Chinese, but is generally less connected to broader international debates in the predominantly Anglo-American English publishing realm. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Tourism does not exist in isolation as an economic activity and is embedded in numerous highly complex internal and external networks. As such, understanding tourism's relations to places and regions is a challenging task. The introduction to this special issue defines the editors’ goals of proposing that an evolutionary economic geography (EEG) approach can provide an insightful conceptual framework for understanding the relationship between tourism development and local and global economies. The first set of papers clearly outline and demonstrate the EEG perspective. The latter set of papers are not explicitly EEG oriented; however, the arguments and findings that the authors make have clear evolutionary theory implications. The special issue is intended to generate further research and dialog on the relations among tourism, development and place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Himalayas are among the world's youngest mountain ranges. In addition to the geologic processes of mountain building and erosion, they are also highly vulnerable to human influenced change, occurring at local, national, regional, and international scales. A photo-elicitation methodology is employed to show how residents perceive those changes from historical perspectives, as well as their current conditions and impacts on their daily lives. Nepal's Khumbu region has undergone major social and environmental transformations since the 1960s when international trekking first began to influence the area's economy. The current perceptions of Khumbu residents of these changes are assessed through photo-elicitation interviews. Their responses are placed in the historical context of: (1) institutional and political changes, most of which have been driven by national government policies; (2) social and economic changes, for which the tourism economy has been central; and (3) environmental changes, reflecting the impacts of resource management and climate change. The mostly positive perceptions of Khumbu residents toward how their region has changed reflects general improvements in the physical and cultural landscapes of the Khumbu over time, as well as its continuing geographic isolation, which has helped to slow the rate of globalization, while also keeping the region a dynamic and popular tourist destination. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A common approach to assessing visitor expenditures is to use least squares regression analysis to determine statistically significant variables on which key market segments are identified for marketing purposes. This was earlier done by Wang for survey data based on expenditures by Mainland Chinese visitors to Hong Kong. In this research note, this same data set was used to demonstrate the benefits of using quantile regression analysis to better identify tourist spending patterns and market segments. The quantile regression method measures tourist spending in different categories against a fixed range of dependent variables, which distinguishes between lower, medium, and higher spenders. The results show that quantile regression is less susceptible to influence by outlier values and is better able to target finer tourist spending market segments. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Festivals have increasingly become a significant tool for economic development through both tourism and the re-imaging and re-branding of cities and regions as modern cultural centers. To understand the issues and challenges of festival tourism events, it is important to know the historical and geographical context in which they occur. Conceptually, the historical context can be viewed through the degree to which an event has a vernacular indigenous origin or is newly created. The geographical context, on the other hand, reflects the degree to which a festival is defined by the place in which it occurs or is more global in its thematic orientation. A contextual framework for festival tourism that takes these two factors into account results in four types of festival events: Local Heritage Festivals, Local Contemporary Festivals, National Heritage Festivals, and Global Contemporary Festivals. These four festival types face issues related to their local identity, uniqueness, liminality, and authenticity. The contextual framework for festival tourism is applied to the current situation of rapid festival development in China, with recommendations that Chinese event managers need to focus more on historically and geographically meaningful themes developed in partnership with local populations if they want to ensure an event's long-term success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How do we define the ‘best tourism places’? Based on presentations in a ‘Pecha-Kucha’-style panel presentation on the ‘Best Tourism Places’ at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers (2011), it was evident that the definition of ‘best’ is grounded primarily in existential authenticity. The deepest experiences of existential authenticity came from examples that included physical challenges and sensory stimulation. Touristic communitas was also significant in defining many of the best tourism places, though sometimes having no tourists can make a place special. A review of ‘best places’ lists leads to conclusions that there are two types of best tourism places based on objective measures and experientially defined. Tourism places and researchers both need to be aware of the role that these two different understandings of place present. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Local governments in China have begun to lease scenic areas to private enterprises to fund their development as tourist attractions. The terms of the leases are for 25 to 30 years, and sometimes more. The privatization of nature-based tourism resources presents both opportunities and risks for governments and the sites being leased. Based on data collected from three case studies, and using a dynamic system modelling methodology, we identify the relationship trajectories among the major stakeholders (i.e., local government, local communities and private enterprises) in nature-based tourism resources. Four system dynamic models are proposed to explain the mechanism of natural area privatization through lease agreements and their impacts on stakeholders and nature-based tourism resources. The analysis shows that there is an ideal relationship that can sustainably support all stakeholders and the natural resource base. However, corrupt relationships will have a major negative impact on all of the stakeholders, and can threaten the nature-based resource, leading to the failure of the privatization effort. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author discusses the role of tourism in the world economy. He considers the challenges of defining and measuring tourism economy. He explains the Transportation and Travel categories released by the World Trade Organization (WTO). He mentions how to measure the economic impact of tourism in different countries.

The Long Tail concept refers to the Internet-based economy that has enabled company success through a focus on highly specialized services and products that are not in high volume demand, but maybe in high-value demand. The concept of the post-tourist, for example, is a Long Tail phenomenon. Long Tail marketing approaches are proving success due to advances in communication technology and social networking that have given more people access to a broader range of goods and services and information. The Long Tail is not without its challenges, including increased global competition, and it has not abandoned geographic considerations. Geography, in fact, can help to differentiate niche products and must still be overcome to consummate the tourist experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research note explores the current issue of using podcasting as a resource for tourism marketing. It investigates the websites of Convention and Visitors Bureaus (CVB) in US cities for the use of podcasting to promote tourism. The findings show that only five CVBs currently use the technology of podcasting and the application is varied in form, approach, and content. Many more travel and destination podcasts exist separate from CVB sponsorship. The conclusions suggest that podcasting will become an important marketing tool for tourist destinations and merits study by tourism researchers and practitioners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents news briefs concerning tourism geography. A change has been introduced to the journal "Tourism Geographies," starting with the February 2006 issue, that will result in the removal of the three sections of "Space," "Place," and "Environment." The Geography of Leisure and Tourism Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society held its annual conference on August 31-September 2, 2005, in London, England. Travel and tourism industry-related podcasts and weblogs have started to emerge in cyberspace.

This article examines the decaying effect of distance decay in outbound air travel from Hong Kong. Distance decay theory predicts that demand will peak at some distance relatively close to a source market and then decline exponentially as distance increases. The standard distance decay relationship is predicated on the assumption of a uniform distribution of tourism products over space. However, as discussed in the article, supply is not distributed evenly, with large areas representing Effective Tourism Exclusion Zones (ETEZ). The effect of these tourism exclusion zones is to distort the standard distance decay curve, accelerating decay rates between the source markets and the inner boundary of the ETEZ and producing a concentration of higher demand at points beyond its outer boundary. In addition, for the Hong Kong market, the ETEZ formed a behavioral barrier between short haul and long travel behavior patterns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Trip itinerary data present analytical problems because of the great diversity of routes that travelers follow and the varying significance of destinations along those routes. Most of the models that have been proposed to deal with this complexity have focused either on the total number of travelers from one country to another, or on the overall pattern of entire trips. An alternative and complementary approach is to examine the relative location of a destination within the larger itinerary pattern. Depending on their location within the overall trip itinerary, places can exhibit characteristics of one or more destination types: Single Destination, Gateway Destination, Egress Destination, Touring Destination, or Hub Destination. Data collected on international air travelers to Hong Kong exhibited the first four of these five patterns. Taiwan and Singapore residents primarily used Hong Kong as a Single Destination for short break shopping holidays and for business. US and Australian residents were the most likely to use Hong Kong as a trip Gateway and as a Touring Destination, especially as the Gateway for a trip to China, but Hong Kong also served as a Gateway for trips to destinations in East and Southeast Asia and, for US residents, to Australia. Residents of China were more likely to use Hong Kong as a trip Egress Destination than were others. Hong Kong has traditionally considered itself primarily as a ‘gateway to China’ and an ‘Asian travel hub’. Hong Kong, and other destinations, could benefit from being more aware of their role as an Egress Destination and of their relationships with destinations that travelers visit before and after their arrival. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Focuses on several tourism-related conferences. International Conference on Tourism Planning and Management in Developing Countries in Guangxi Province, China; Tourism and leisure research in the new millennium: Progress in the German- and English-speaking worlds, a joint symposium in Munster, Germany; Taking tourism to the limits conference at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand.

The focus of the articles in this special issue ofTourism Geographiesis global change. Global change incorporates social and economicglobalization, which is arguably the most important process to have shaped the development of modern tourism since the nineteenth century, andclimate change, which is likely to be the most significant factor influencing human behavior and livelihood in the coming decades. The organization of these articles reflects a traditional geography approach, emphasizing thephysical geographyfoundation of the human condition, especially through the issue of climate change. This is broadened by a series of insightful comparative studies of how communities relate to their changing natural and social environments through tourism. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This special issue ofTourism Geographiesis a collection of articles that were independently submitted to the journal, but which bring a cultural geography perspective to tourism studies. The articles are organized into the topics of: ‘revealing places’ about both alternative attractions and mass images in tourist marketing; ‘heritage identities’ on the role of heritage tourism in creating a sense of place; ‘local agency’ about how locals assert their responses to tourism and tourists; and ‘tourist culture’ on how tourists and the tourism industry also have their own cultural geographies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses the theme of the issue, tourism space, and a research on using big data in tourism.

An introduction is presented in which the author discusses short commentaries on the aspects of the geographic study of tourism from distinguished scholars including Deborah Che, Carolin Funck, and Dallen Timothy.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses articles in the issue on topics including tourism promotion in developing countries, marketing strategy in tourism and conceptual frameworks in tourism.

The editorial introduces the articles published in the November 2003 issue of "Tourism Geographies." These articles all discuss aspects of how places accept tourism and tourists, with a special focus on religion and tourism. Dianne Dredge and John Jenkins discuss the relationship between regional tourism policy and marketing and individual paces within a region. Dimitri Ioannides and Tage Peterssen examine how smaller tourism entrepreneurs cope with seasonality and other uncertainties of tourism in a peripheral location in Denmark. The remaining articles are also introduced.

Editorial. Introduces a series of articles concerning challenges facing the tourism industry. Use of spatial analysis in understanding market differences which can influence tourism marketing and product development; Economic geography analysis of an effort at market development in Europe; Role of photography and travel brochures in shaping the industry; Role of officialdom in manipulating tourism.

Editorial. Discusses the articles published in the February issue of 'Tourism Geographies.' Debates on travel safety concerns; Economic safety of the airline industry; Examination of the dualism of leisure and non-leisure in daily life activities.