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Turismestrategier på tværs af regioner:hvad gør konkurrenterne, og kan vi lære noget af dem?
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Ekstraordinære oplevelser i restaurationsbranchen: en kvalitativ undersøgelse af oplevelsesfænomenet
No full textAbstract: This thesis seeks to explain the phenomena of experiences. It is done according to extraordinary experiences in connection with Michelin restaurants and examines following research question: “How and why are extraordinary experiences created for guests at Michelin restaurants?” Thereby, it both considers the view of the supplier (the restaurant) and the consumer (the guest), though keeping main focus on the guest. Thus, two opposite theoretical approaches, a rationalist approach and a social-constructivist approach are also explained to discuss the various possible approaches to the experience phenomena and not least to illustrate the view of the supplier and the view of the consumer of experiences. The correlation between the two approaches is seen to involve the aspect of transformations. The thesis is based on a qualitative research approach which is worked out through interviews of both the consumer side and the supplier side of experiences. The interviewed guest’s personal situations and values are found to be central factors that influence how they perceive given experiences. Furthermore, what separates an experience from an extraordinary experience is the unexpected and a tendency shows that the extraordinary experience is often connected with holiday. At Michelin restaurants, the extraordinary experience is seen to depend on the individual guest’s and waiter’s ability and will to get involved in the experience. The factors which may influence the experience at Michelin restaurants are the interaction with staff, other guests, the restaurant itself and the people joining the individual guest. However, it is the personal factors of the individual guest which are seen to have the decisive influence on whether or not an experience is considered as extraordinary. It was found that a restaurant can not stage experiences and extraordinary experiences. Though, it is seen that Michelin restaurants have an influence on a number of the factors, which influences the extraordinary experience. Therefore, it is stated that Michelin restaurants partly can set the frame of the experience opportunities, which affect the guests and thus result in an experience being considered as extraordinary by the guests. Thus, the conclusion to the given research question is that extraordinary experiences are created as a correlation between the restaurant and the guest, with the guest being the decisive factor for the value of the experience. The extraordinary experience is a result that arises because there is seen to be a desire and thereby a need for having experiences that differs from everyday experiences, where the keywords are indulgence, relaxation, feeling special and out of the ordinary experiences
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Who knows what?: The perception of CSR and certification in tourism - an investigative study of the TOURcert certificate
No full textEngaging Tourists in Meaningful Co-Creational Experiences
No full textAbstractThe concept of experience economy has, during the last decade, been much debated within the academic field and likewise among companies and municipalities regarding business and city development. Additionally the concept is commonly referred to within the tourism industry, which more or less has been considered the epitome of the experience economy.Two main positions, respectively the first and the second generation, are often point of departure for the understanding of experience economy. The first generation is related to the cultural serial reproduction of culture, which according to the theory is a copy-paste approach. Hereby cities loose their uniqueness, as they end up with the same attractions as other cities. Additionally this perspective is often criticised for its company centric perspective. The second generation challenges this approach and argues that the understanding of the human being should be the focal point. Researchers argue that tourists want to co-create experiences with the companies. Thus experiences are not only presented to the tourists as finished products and staged scenes, but rather as a process which call for cooperation between the suppliers and the tourists. However the ongoing discussion has primarily been on a theoretical level and very few practical examples exist. This thesis will examine the practical dimension of meaningful co-created experiences, with point of departure in the case of Lillebaelt Waters, Middelfart; a case in which the partners currently are working on attracting more tourists to the city of Middelfart. The thesis will emphasise the partners’ perspective and their opportunities for co-creating experiences with the tourists. Moreover it will identify practical suggestions for co-creating experiences.Primary and secondary empirical data, and both qualitative and quantitative methods, are used in order to examine the characteristics of the contemporary tourist. Information regarding these characteristics are essential for the partners to co-create meaningful experiences.One of the findings in this thesis is that the contemporary tourists have become more post materialistic and emphasise social responsibility, sustainability, nature environments and time together with loved ones. This requires that the partners of Lillebaelt Waters find new and creative initiatives in order to co-create meaningful experiences. Another finding is that the contemporary tourist has a fragmented behaviour, which demands that the partners of Lillebaelt Waters emphasise individual dialogue in order to understand individual needs
Travel, treatment & trust in medical tourism: An explorative study on trust & distrust towards obtaining medical procedures abroad
No full textThe idea of traveling abroad in order to obtain a medical treatment is seen as a growing phenomenon all over the world. Aspects such as: lower costs, shorter waiting time and legal issues are seen as the prime motives for the development of medical tourism. Issues of trust and distrust play a significant role in the decision-making process of a medical traveler. Trust and distrust is seen as a personal state of mind and thus highly emotional. It is often unrecognized due to its subconscious nature that is frequently linked to intuition. Hence, this project focuses on analyzing and exploring the generators of trust and distrust in the field of medical tourism. This paper discusses general trust, previous medical experiences, communication, family & friends’ recommendation and doctors’ attitude as the main generators of trust and distrust in relation to medical tourism
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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