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The purpose of a sustainable tourism journal
No full textWhat is the purpose of a tourism journal specialising in sustainability, and how does it best serve the needs of knowledge development, academia and wider society? Now that the Journal of Sustainable Tourism (JoST) is over 30 years old, and we’ve recently had a change in the editorial team, we thought it would be timely to consult with the editorial board to refresh and renew our aims and long-term outcomes, and ensure that our activities and use of resources are aligned with delivering outputs that will head us in the right direction. Editorial board members were invited to shape the ambitions and directions of the journal. We agreed that JoST aims to be a leading knowledge vehicle, theoretically rigorous yet solution-oriented, transformational journal, that contributes to solve the sustainability needs of society, with accumulated, developed, rapid and relevant knowledge that reaches beyond academia
Volunteering as Performance: The Dynamic between Self-Interest and Selflessness within the Volunteer Industry
No full textThis thesis investigates volunteering as performance. In exploring this topic I discuss a dynamic between self-interest and selflessness in the observable performance of service through the social mechanisms of volunteerism. I argue that self-interest is a prominent motivation for volunteering, but its overt performance is kept in check by norms that emphasize selflessness. My argument centers on addressing this lack of acknowledgement toward self-interest within vernacular culture.
My research draws examples from an individual, organizational, and global volunteer perspective. Ethnographic research was conducted for this study with a student group that organizes one of the American Cancer Society���s Relay For Life fundraisers. Within this organization, I conceptualize volunteering as a performance that requires a social actor to not just ���do��� service, but also ���show do��� and/or ���explain show do��� their behavior in front of an audience. This presentation culminates in a cultural performance where participants at Relay For Life perform a narrative of selflessness.
Expanding my discussion of volunteering to a global perspective, my last chapter addresses volunteer tourism. I argue that the self-interest of both volunteers and volunteer travel companies reduces the recipients of volunteer tourism to essentialized and exociticized cultural "Others." I advocate for the overt acknowledgement of self-interest not only because self-interest is present, but also because it is a central dynamic that constructs volunteerism as performance
Effects of Personalized Travel Destination Visual Image on Travel Motivation
Full text linkThis study examines the personalization of shown travel destination visual images using professional photography upon travel motivations, feelings, and purchase intentions of consumers in the online environment. The research design was experimental and used data from a questionnaire via Qualtrics. A pilot test of the instrument was conducted. The final questionnaire contained 25 items. A total of 194 questionnaires were collected and participants were randomly assigned to one of four groups. Each group of 50 participants was exposed to a specific set of travel destination visual images.
Further, several hypotheses related to the effects of personalization, professional photography toward travel motivation, emotion, and purchase intention were tested. The results indicated that: (1) travel motivation was affected by both personalization, and professional photography of travel destination visual image; (2) personalization had an influence on positive emotion, but professional photography did not; (3) it was expected that personalization would act as a ���push��� factor on travel motivation, and professional photography would influence the ���pull��� factor on travel motivation, but these two hypotheses were not supported; (4) travel motivation and emotion positively affected purchase intention, however this was only partially supported.
Furthermore, the results of the present study implied that the ���push ��� pull��� travel motivation theory was considered not entirely separate. Practical recommendations are presented for online tourism marketers to enhance their service
Effect of Event Staging Strategies on Quality of Experience
Full text linkThis study examined the effects of two sets of event staging factors (���technical��� and ���artistic���) on the quality of experience (delight, perceived value, and intrinsically motivated fast thinking) of participants at a simulated tailgate experience. The experiment was conducted by distributing video depictions of four tailgate events to a sample of Texas A&M University students via the internet. Each video depiction represented one of the four conditions that resulted from crossing technical factors (excellent execution vs. poor execution) and artistic factors (provided vs. not provided). The set of technical factors included reliability, assurance, tangibles, empathy, and responsiveness. The set of artistic factors included use of a clear and pervasive theme, personalization, inclusion of multi-sensory elements, and absence of negative cues. Data were analyzed through linear modeling techniques. Results indicate that event participants experience higher prevalence of intrinsically motivated fast thinking, delight and perceived value when they attend an event that provides excellent technical factors as well as events that depict a presence of artistic factors. There was, however, no evidence of an interaction effect. Technical and artistic factors have separate, independent effects on intrinsically motivated fast thinking, delight or perceived value
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
"I Knew Who I was This Morning" The Hosts' Journey of Self-Discovery and Self-Reflection in the Midst of Volunteer Tourism
Full text linkIn recent years, volunteer tourism has emerged as not only a meaningful way to spend a vacation, but also as an intriguing area of empirical inquiry. This phenomenon, which began as wealthy westerners sought to give a helping hand to the less privileged, has morphed into a worldwide trend that has put destinations on the map. Little is known, however, of how intimate experiences in volunteer tourism shape the hosts��� sense of self and identity.
Looking at identity formation as a process (Burke, 1991), I conducted photo elicitation interviews with rural farmers in Guatemala's San Miguel Cooperative, outside of Antigua Guatemala. This study was an effort to understand the maintenance of identities in the presence of volunteer tourists and how the host self is impacted after the tourists have returned home. The study focuses on two main objectives. First, exploring how the intimacy of volunteer tourism and the presence of volunteer tourists helps to form and maintain host personal identity, and second, understanding how these identities are negotiated and maintained after the departure of volunteer tourists. Through this qualitative approach, I aimed to give a voice to the unheard host, telling and sharing the story of those whose voices are often overshadowed. The narrow scope of this study, however, emphasizes only one construct in a multi-dimensional, postcolonial relationship that will require constant scrutiny and progress.
Over the course of 12 interviews, using photos to guide the conversation, we are able to better understand the progression of the host self, their journey from discomfort to confidence. The hosts��� experience with volunteer tourism proved to be a journey that bred feelings of oppression, nervousness, and disconnection but was met with a concluding positivity. Despite inciting these detrimental feelings, the volunteer tourism journey offered the hosts an opportunity to reevaluate their understanding of their self and prosper in the immediate situation and beyond. We learned that, despite the neocolonialistic nature of volunteer tourism (Palacios, 2010), the hosts are able to overcome oppressive dynamics and persist with a more positive view of the self and a new understanding of societies beyond their own
Observing Task and Ego Involvement in a Club Volleyball Setting
Full text linkThis study examined how task and ego involvement affected 12-and-under girls��� motivations to play competitive club volleyball. Participants included 25 girls under the age of 12, as well as 31 parents including those of the 25 girls. Parents and players completed the Achievement Goal Scale for Youth Survey (AGSYS), and open ended questions regarding their intention to continue playing and their motivations for trying out for club volleyball. After conducting a Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test, findings suggested that the parents and the players both identified as task involved individuals, implying that their motivations lie in improving skills relative to the sport instead of becoming the best athlete relative to others on the court. The study results indicated that parents and daughters ego involvement was positively correlated demonstrating that parental motivations were reflected in player motivations confirming the impact of parental involvement in their daughter���s sport decisions.
A second segment included a discussion on the girls��� parents and their reasons for allowing their daughter to play in club volleyball as reflected in a task and ego involvement framework. Previously conducted studies have been completed in an attempt to discover parental motivations for allowing their child to try out for a competitive team. Research has examined specific youth motivations. Most prominent results from youth focused research include the opportunity to build social relations and boost self-efficacy regarding playing competitive sports (Allen, 2003). Minimal research has focused on understanding the relationship between parent and child motivations for youth participation in competitive sports. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between parent and youth motivation for trying out for club volleyball using a task and ego involvement framework. The information collected will be on display for youth development practitioners who assist in programs involving youth, parents and competitive sports. The findings assist in establishing research that provides information to competitive youth club managers so they can establish their club based on research based findings from both the parents and players perspectives
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
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