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Tourism, health, well-being and protected areas
No full textThis book was conceived during the international conference on ‘Tourism and Protected Areas’ (officially, Tourism Naturally), held in Italy in October 2016. The conference involved more than 150 academic and industry professionals from 28 countries. Through this international and collective perspective, this book offers a novel compilation of global, transdisciplinary contributions that demonstrate both fundamen- tal – and partially unexplored – features of the relationship between tourism, health, wellbeing and protected areas. The book has been divided into two sections, each comprising of eight chapters. The first section focuses on exploring the challenges and opportunities to achieve sustainable human and natural ecosystems’ development through tourism.The second section forwards important discussions on the intrinsic and extrinsic relations between tourists, visitors and PAs and the health and wellbeing benefits that these and other nature-based restorative and recreational environments can have on individuals
A non- conference review: a note on conferences that never were, those that may be and those that will be in 2021
No full textA non-traditional conference review offering a synthetic update on the latest academic and industry conference developments in the areas of wellness and wellbeing as well as some thoughts on what future conferences may look like in the near and long term future
The articulation of cultural tourism in Sardinia: A comparative study of La Cavalcata Sarda and Tiscali
No full textDespite much tourism literature exploring the complex relationships loosely falling under the `tourism encounter'; this topic remains important. It remains important as tourism, culture and economy have become inextricably intertwined. As tourism continues to grow, sophisticated marketing and promotional strategies are devised. In a competitive environment, elements of local culture are transformed into spectacular narratives of `Otherness' to be consumed by tourists and into cultural tourism assets to achieve destinations' sustainable socio-economic development. Cultural tourism, today serves a multitude of social, political and economic agendas, designating and encompassing a multitude of products and practices.. These arguments are significant to many European Mediterranean islands, as limited socio-economic resources and cultural conservatism put them in prime position for the development of tourist-based economies that rely upon the commodification of cultural forms and practices and on marketing them as authentic relics of time past. This research enquiry evaluated these processes in Sardinia. In specific it evaluated the articulation of discourses of Sardinian culture and identity through tourism. This was done through a comparative study of a festival, La Cavalcata Sarda and a heritage site, Tiscali. Two popular cultural attractions, which were found contributing to sustain an overall romantic imagery of Sardinia-ness synthesising and conveying to a regional, national and international tourism audience, the cultural singularities and specificities of the region. Building upon a socio-constructionist paradigm and a qualitative and inductive research methodology, the enquiry explored how locals, tourists and local cultural intermediaries respond to these cultural representations and how the social relations gathered under the umbrella of tourism encounter may themselves influence the production and consumption of contemporary discourses of Sardinian culture and identity. This was done through the adoption of the two inter-related conceptual frameworks of embodied performances and the tourism encounter, which allowed making sense of how these categories performatively encounter discourses of destination authenticity and otherness within specific tourism settings such as festivals and heritage sites. The findings highlighted how the articulation of Sardinian-ness at La Cavalcata Sarda and Tiscali reflects the nature of the setting, Sardinia and thus they intersect broader national, regional and local discourses of social and economic development as well as cultural renegotiation through tourism. Whilst tourism on the island was found to play a critical role in activating these processes, enabling the transformation of cultural resources into tourism assets and popular tourist attractions. It was found to be the key in allowing the renegotiation, contestation and amendment of discourses of Sardinianness by all of the key actor categories studied within this enquiry including the local cultural intermediaries called to interpret and mediate the two attractions. Thus this study has developed an original contribution to knowledge by furthering the application of the metaphor of the tourism encounter demonstrating how all categories do not just passively accept discourses of destination cultural otherness and authenticity. Rather they are able to unpack and recombine and contest their meanings at both social and individual level and through an embodied encounter with the place and with people within that place
Game Park Tourism
No full textThe term game park tourism is used to define a range of tourism experiences specifically occurring within the designated boundaries of a game park. These experiences range from nonconsumptive activities, such as wildlife photography, observational activities, arts, and painting, to consumptive practices, such as hunting in game parks, fishing, petting lions, riding elephants, and so on
The articulation of cultural tourism in Sardinia : a comparative study of La Cavalcata Sarda and Tiscali
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Mobilising the dome
No full textMore and more public and private tourism organisations are putting an emphasis on the creation of ‘memorable tourist experiences’ (Bærenholdt and Michael Haldrup, 2004; O’Dell, 2007 and Ennen and Van Maanen, 2013). It is now commonly accepted that technology plays a vital role in communication and interpretation and altogether in achieving this outcome, supporting tourism growth and instigating innovative responses to competition for tourist attraction (Neuhofer, Buhalis and Ladkin, 2012). This paper discusses how technology can be used to mobilise and reconceptualise a contested heritage space, focusing on an ongoing research project aimed at developing audio tours at the Devonshire Dome: a Grade II* listed building and iconic tourism landmark that dominates the Buxton 44 townscape (Sheller and Urry, 2006 and Haldrup and Larsen, 2006). Aimed at first-time visitor to Buxton, the exploration of the Dome encourages visitors to use the building under the terms and conditions of the Heritage Lottery Funds received in 2000. The terms of the HLF grant were that the building be made available to visitors and the community in perpetuity. The audio tours takes the visitors on a journey through time showcasing the building from a grand stable block; to a well-respected ‘hydropathic’ hospital before being given a new lease of life as a University campus. Preliminary findings, collected through a series of qualitative research interventions with visitors to the Dome and University stakeholders highlight the potential technology has to enable three competing heritage narratives of place to coexist simultaneously thus developing and reconfiguring people’s relationship with the place and the range of stakeholders involved in the delivery of the tourism product. The research contributes to the existing body of knowledge that aims to develop a comprehensive understanding of how technology can be used at heritage sites as both a key driver of change in helping to create and develop memorable experiences, redrafting visitor’s relationship with space and maximising effectiveness
Managing tourism across boundaries through Communities
Full text linkOver more than a decade, observations of community based tourism inspired in me a series of publications that are detailed in this meta-analysis. These twenty five publications deal with the relationship between supply and demand in tourism from a socially constructed heuristic and hermeneutic perspective. Heuristic, as the work conducted was based around observations, even participation, in problem solving action with a wide range of stakeholders. Hermeneutic, as the research observations and participation undertaken identified root causes and opportunities pertinent to community development . Therefore this represents a study of tourism management designed to resolve complex, somewhat chaotic and wicked problems centred around the agendas for suppliers of tourism that challenged the existing management practices and perceived solutions. Solutions have been constructed built around an interpretation of habitus and beliefs that are predicated on a four component model. The first is the accrual of case studies with which to benchmark achievement that might be seen as best practice and worthy of emulation. The second is cohesion with fervently held beliefs and habitus adopted in parallel business cases, quite possibly in a competitive and quality-driven service sector. The third is enduring benchmarks in good practices that can be re-visited and adapted to meet the changing complex needs of communities. The fourth component is sharing the knowledge obtained, and maximising uptake of scarce resources used, across the varying sectors and destinations. These shared new experiences in learning are becoming embedded in education but now also need embedding in accessible repositories that conceivably are available at very low cost to a much wider range of interested stakeholders. “Being, thinking and doing” are the words that come to mind when I reflect on my publishing journey in academia from 2005 to the present day (Kassel, Rimanoczy, and Mitchell, 2016). “Being”, as I am a researcher with a passion for all that concerns the community and my role informing and advising the various stakeholders charged or expected to deliver for the visitor. “Thinking” as I am actively identifying practices for future consideration that incorporate identified exemplars of sustainable development that we can all learn from. "Doing”, as a measure of our achievements as communities and how we can embed both tacit and explicit knowledge in learning in the community and in Higher Education. My work embeds that knowledge in those stakeholders deemed jointly responsible for managing the tourism experience. Tourism can be a force for good in any community and typically relies on starting with beliefs, values and identity. Stakeholders should accept learning about the changing face of responsibility for development as that community evolves. This approach is both emancipatory and inclusive in the twenty first century and it is reflective of critical endogenous decision-making in academia and praxis. My studies in New Zealand and in the United Kingdom clarify that tourism as a “force for good” is collective, cross-border, interdisciplinary and cooperative. I believe that shared stories of effort, innovation and success are vital to future thinking, as destinations pride themselves on distinctiveness and reflect an evolving public/private partnership nature. This focus mirrors beliefs in dyadic partnerships that acknowledges the twin responsibilities to conservation and protection in the development of communities. Through an amalgam of soft-systems methodologies and phenomenology I have discovered the need for multi- and interdisciplinary approaches. I am committed to a constructivist, stakeholder focus for responsibility and gladly acknowledge the role that health services research and community development research cross the border with tourism management to inform the continuing agenda for learning destinations
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