{"title":"A Conference Tourist and his Confessions: An Essay on a Life with Conference Tourism, Aeromobility and Ecological Crisis","authors":"K. Høyer","doi":"10.1080/14790530902847061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790530902847061","url":null,"abstract":"This essay focuses on conference tourism, aeromobility and ecological crisis. It is mostly based on the author's own diary notes—participatory observations—from many years of travelling to and fro and participating at international research conferences. Conference tourism is in this context mainly considered to belong to leisure time, a view elaborated on in the article. Crucial concepts are: grobalization, aeromobility, life in corridors, something-nothing continuum, all analysed and conveyed within a humour–tragedy tradition, much used in Norwegian ecophilosophy. The essay claims conference tourism to be as globalized as most other major forms of tourism; it is part of the globalization of academia, and it serves to make academics players in the processes of grobalization, which is the sociologist George Ritzer's term. Conference tourism is a global industry where competition on a global market is an important factor. Along a something–nothing continuum, it belongs to the nothing end, as the grobalization it is part of. Still, it definitely leads to something, in the ecological systems. The corridors of aeromobility are closed to the sides in every respect, also regarding the possibilities to experience effects on ecology. A claim made in the essay is that there is no other form of mobility bringing with it a similar seriousness of ecological problems, not the least regarding climate change. Few other human activities entail larger differences in ecological impacts between the highly mobile global elite and the vast relatively immobile majority of the world population.","PeriodicalId":130558,"journal":{"name":"Tourism and Hospitality Planning & Development","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128870648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/14790530902847103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790530902847103","url":null,"abstract":"KevinAnderson is Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia and University of Manchester, UK. Professor Anderson is Director of both the wider Tyndall Centre in addition to the Tyndall Centre’s Energy Programme, with responsibility for both supervising discrete research projects and integrating the group’s broad range of projects to provide a systems-orientated perspective of energy. Previously, he worked in a similar research management position in the Centre for Aviation, Transport and the Environment, and was lead researcher in the UK component of a major EU project into sustainable domestic energy futures to 2050. He has 12 years of industrial experience, principally in the petrochemical industry, the last eight years of which were spent in industry managing large energy-related construction and commissioning projects. With its specific remit for policy and stakeholder engagement, directing Tyndall’s Energy Programme has led to a considerable degree of high-level policy advice being provided to the various tiers of government in the UK and within the wider EU.","PeriodicalId":130558,"journal":{"name":"Tourism and Hospitality Planning & Development","volume":"8 8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129025205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transport and Tourism: Is there a Sustainable Future?","authors":"L. Lumsdon, P. Peeters","doi":"10.1080/14790530902846998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790530902846998","url":null,"abstract":"In response to the recent global economic downturn, tourism is being cited as one of the sectors which can drive economies out of recession. It is argued that tourism has a key role to play in any long-term economic recovery programme; the UNWTO (2008a) has referred to tourism as being a part of an emerging Green New Deal (New Economics Foundation, 2008). In the meantime, in order to ensure that the tourism sector survives the economic downturn the UNWTO has established a Tourism Resilience Committee to inform and advise countries how to stimulate markets (UNWTO, 2008a). One view is that the tourism growth of previous decades can be sustained and that countries should be equipped to adapt to the new economic and environmental conditions through adaptation processes. The vision is one of continued growth. For example, a senior official of the UNWTO has recently referred to the potential of tourism in the following terms:","PeriodicalId":130558,"journal":{"name":"Tourism and Hospitality Planning & Development","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134161174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TRAVEL & TOURISM IN THE AGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE: Robust Findings, Key Uncertainties","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/14790530902860981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790530902860981","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":130558,"journal":{"name":"Tourism and Hospitality Planning & Development","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124698148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Explaining Factors for Train Use in European Long-Distance Travel","authors":"Cees D. van Goeverden","doi":"10.1080/14790530902847038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790530902847038","url":null,"abstract":"The desire to travel more imposes an increasing pressure on sustainability. The European policy is directed to revitalizing railways. This policy demands for knowledge on long-distance travel, in particular modal choice between the train and its alternatives. This paper contributes to this knowledge by analysing factors that influence train use in long-distance travel in Europe. The focus is on tourist travel. Both background variables relating to characteristics of the traveller, household and journey, and quality variables relating to the service levels of the train and alternative modes play a role. The analysis produced a long list of significant background variables, most important are number of participants in the journey, car ownership, size of the destination city, home country and need to cross national borders. Significant quality variables are time and costs of both train and car, and number of interchanges. There is also evidence about significant influences of the obligation to reserve a seat on a particular train. Frequency has no significant influence. The analysis demonstrates that tourists do not differ significantly from all long-distance travellers, partly because they account for the major part of all long-distance travellers.","PeriodicalId":130558,"journal":{"name":"Tourism and Hospitality Planning & Development","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129103549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Channel Strategy of Food Tourism Industry","authors":"Kuan-Huei Lee, Timothy J. Lee, Chen-Ju Lin","doi":"10.1080/14790530802550377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790530802550377","url":null,"abstract":"How goods are delivered to the final customer, the distribution channel, is often considered the gatekeeper to the market. By analysing distribution channels, this study presents an analytical framework for channel design and implementation. A systematic scheme is adopted to analyse the current distribution channels of three companies in the food souvenir industry of Hualien in Taiwan. This study reveals the strategies and alliances used to build the market channels of this food tourism industry. These companies have different developmental niches, including brand equity, specific advertising strategies, exclusive recipes and formula, and food museums. The successful firms use multiple channels, such as online shopping, retail shops, consignments in convenience stores, and home delivery. Although the companies have maintained their success in the existing market, they have also indicated that their channel-building strategies may not be successful elsewhere in the food souvenir industry.","PeriodicalId":130558,"journal":{"name":"Tourism and Hospitality Planning & Development","volume":"152 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126825555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alternative Interpretations: Exceptional Circumstances and the Bluestone Development in Pembrokeshire Coast National Park","authors":"I. Elgammal, Eleri Jones","doi":"10.1080/14790530802607896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790530802607896","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the debate around the planning application to build a major holiday village in a National Park, an application complicated by the fact that the proposed site straddled the boundaries of two planning authorities driven by very different policy agendas and attitudes towards sustainability which acted as lenses for their interpretation of the term “exceptional circumstances”. The situation was further exacerbated by extensive cross-membership of the two planning authorities with elected members from the local authority forming the majority of members on the National Park authority without reciprocal membership from the National Park authority on the local authority. Thus, local authority policies bled across the boundary into the National Park authority. Planning permission was granted and, although its legality was later challenged in court, was subsequently upheld. Through convergent and semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders different discursive constructions of the term exceptional circumstances, which enabled stakeholders to rationalise their reactions to the proposal and their subsequent support (or not) for it, crystallised. The paper concludes that for cross-boundary proposals with very different policy drivers each side of the boundary, as is the case for a local authority and a National Park authority, that planning applications must be referred for external, independent scrutiny.","PeriodicalId":130558,"journal":{"name":"Tourism and Hospitality Planning & Development","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121659293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/14790530802550302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790530802550302","url":null,"abstract":"AnthonyClayton is Alcan Professor of Caribbean Sustainable Development at the Institute for Sustainable Development, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, and is visiting professor at the Centre for Environmental Strategy in the School of Engineering at the University of Surrey, and at the Institute for Studies of Science, Technology and Innovation in the School of Social and Political Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He is Adjunct Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Development, Faculty of Business Management, University of Technology, and Special Advisor to the President, University of Technology, Jamaica, an International Associate at the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research at St Andrew’s University, Scotland, and a Fellow of the Caribbean Academy of Science. His research interests include: strategies for national development; scenario planning, technology and socioeconomic foresighting; cleaner production and eco-industrial efficiency; innovation and social shaping of technology; planning and environmental regulation, and sustainable development.","PeriodicalId":130558,"journal":{"name":"Tourism and Hospitality Planning & Development","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123659872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regression Analysis of Internet Technologies Adoption Factors and Business Performance of UK Independent Hoteliers","authors":"W. Lim","doi":"10.1080/14790530802550401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790530802550401","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to examine the Internet technology adoption factors affecting hoteliers' perception of business performance. To understand the impact of web technology on the operating performance of hotels, we need first to recognise the various ways in which operating performance is selected and measured. This paper will therefore begin with an overview of hotels' business performance measures that have been used in past studies, following which the results of a regression analysis that is conducted based on a questionnaire survey will be presented. This paper reveals the importance of Internet technologies adoption factors to business performance measures of UK independent hotels.","PeriodicalId":130558,"journal":{"name":"Tourism and Hospitality Planning & Development","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130372671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sustainable Tourism in the Caribbean: Alternative Policy Considerations","authors":"A. Clayton, N. Karagiannis","doi":"10.1080/14790530802550344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790530802550344","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses the characteristics and performance of Caribbean tourism, then sets it in the context of the sustainable development of the region. Finally, the paper offers alternative policy options for improving the Caribbean tourism model.","PeriodicalId":130558,"journal":{"name":"Tourism and Hospitality Planning & Development","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126057541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}