{"title":"THPD 2007 reviewers","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/14790530801936551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790530801936551","url":null,"abstract":"The editors and publishers offer their sincere thanks to all the colleagues who reviewed papers for us. Without exception, reviewers performed their tasks diligently and within the required timeframe. A simple fact of the matter is that journals cannot exist without the social capital provided by peers. Their generous and expert help makes the work of the editors possible. Tourism and Hospitality Planning & Development Vol. 5, No. 1, 79, April 2008","PeriodicalId":130558,"journal":{"name":"Tourism and Hospitality Planning & Development","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117301859","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":"Planning for Tourism: The Case of Dubai","authors":"R. Sharpley","doi":"10.1080/14790530801936429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790530801936429","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In recent years, the Middle East region has enjoyed rapid growth as a tourist destination. At the forefront of this growth has been Dubai, a state that has successfully and dramatically diversified its economy into tourism in order to reduce its economic dependence on dwindling supplies of oil. Despite this success, however, little attention has been paid to tourism development in general, and tourism planning processes in particular, in Dubai. In addressing this gap in the literature, this paper explores tourism planning in Dubai in relation to the political economy of oil-rich “rentier” states. Reviewing tourism policy and processes in Dubai, it reveals that an apparent hybrid model of tourism planning has been adopted. However, underlying control of tourism development reflects the authoritarian political structures in the emirate, pointing to potential future challenges.","PeriodicalId":130558,"journal":{"name":"Tourism and Hospitality Planning & Development","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124605180","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":"Master of Arts in Pilgrimage and Tourism","authors":"R. Isaac","doi":"10.1080/14790530801936528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790530801936528","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Pilgrimage and hospitality have been a defining feature of the economy and society of the Holy Land and Palestine for 2000 years. The economic infrastructure of Bethlehem itself has been built on the foundations of the needs of visitors to the town. Hotels and restaurants, olive wood souvenirs makers and tourist vendors, guides, as well as cultural industries such as museums, archaeological and exhibition sites, have all provided employment for the city. This paper describes the final module of the TEMPUS programme “research papers” combined with the first tourism conference in Bethlehem University and the implications of this conference for the Palestinian tourism industry.","PeriodicalId":130558,"journal":{"name":"Tourism and Hospitality Planning & Development","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114303577","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":"Structural Change and Economic Growth in Small Island Tourism Countries","authors":"Raúl Hernández-Martín","doi":"10.1080/14790530801936411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790530801936411","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Over recent decades tourism has fostered intense economic growth in many small and/or island countries. However, the relationship between growth, tourism and economic size of these countries has never been satisfactorily explained. This paper aims firstly to analyse the determining factors of the intense tourism development observed in small countries; and secondly, to provide a framework which helps to explain why small countries specialised in tourism have recorded relatively high economic growth rates over recent decades. Structural change at a sectoral level is the mechanism used to explain the rapid growth of small tourism countries. However, the lack of available data means that the empirical results are not conclusive.","PeriodicalId":130558,"journal":{"name":"Tourism and Hospitality Planning & Development","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122297720","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":"Tourism, Political Discourse, and Post-Colonialism","authors":"P. Burns","doi":"10.1080/14790530801936502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790530801936502","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper provides an overview of some of the discourses to be found in the literature on tourism, politics and post-colonialism. It starts by setting a brief definitional context for development, then tourism, which is followed by visiting the vexed question of whether tourism is inevitably a cultural pollutant as well as a potential engine of growth. The substantive section, “Tourism in a post-colonial world” sets out a range of arguments that will be familiar to development academics but that might prove particularly interesting to those visiting this discourse for the first time. The general theme of this section is the political nature of tourism as expressed through the involvement of multinational corporations. The paper concludes by acknowledging tourism's economic power but questions its structural capacity to add value to any national search for economic independence.","PeriodicalId":130558,"journal":{"name":"Tourism and Hospitality Planning & Development","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123928375","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":"Residents' Attitudes, Perception and Support for Sustainable Tourism Development","authors":"Virut Kitnuntaviwat, John C. S. Tang","doi":"10.1080/14790530801936452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790530801936452","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study showcases a structural model that explores residents' attitudes towards tourism developments and to what extent residents interface with destination sustainability strategies. Factors influencing these attitudes were examined using a model consisting of six latent constructs and eight path hypotheses. Findings from 432 resident-respondents from Bangkok, Thailand were analysed. Utilising LISREL (linear structural equations), a confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling procedure were performed successively on the collected data. Results indicated that the residents' support is likely to be strongly affected by most constructs, except by the relationship between “sustainability attitudes” and “perceived negative tourism impacts”. Two new relationships were added in the final model to better capture residents' attitudes in urban tourist destinations. The first determines the relationship between “sustainability attitudes” and “support for destination sustainability strategies” whilst the second explores the link between “tourism development's positive impact” to “support for destination sustainability strategies”.","PeriodicalId":130558,"journal":{"name":"Tourism and Hospitality Planning & Development","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133793383","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}
José C. Casillas-Bueno, Mario Castellanos-Verdugo, Ana M. Moreno-Menéndez
{"title":"Tourism Towns and Entrepreneurial Orientation: The Identification and Exploitation of Opportunities","authors":"José C. Casillas-Bueno, Mario Castellanos-Verdugo, Ana M. Moreno-Menéndez","doi":"10.1080/14790530801936437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790530801936437","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper investigates the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and the process of identifying and exploiting business opportunities. The focus of the research is a case study of a town visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists each year and in which there appears to be no business activity linked to the tourism and leisure sector. The paper analyses 34 firms established in the town (83% of the population) using a structural equation model (partial least square). The results demonstrate, first, that the most entrepreneurial businesses are those most open to identifying new opportunity and this identification is the main determinant of the decision to exploit that opportunity. Second, results show that younger entrepreneurs with high level of education and experience are more orientated to identify new opportunities. And, third, younger and smaller firms demonstrate a more entrepreneurial behaviour.","PeriodicalId":130558,"journal":{"name":"Tourism and Hospitality Planning & Development","volume":"160 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128958078","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":"Political Instability, Transnational Tourist Companies and Destination Recovery in the Middle East after 9/11","authors":"C. Steiner","doi":"10.1080/14790530701733421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790530701733421","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The change and mobility of images is one of the main forces influencing contemporary tourism. Tourists decide whether to travel to a destination or not on the basis of changing destination images. This is especially true for tourism destinations in the Middle East and North Africa after 9/11. But how do security related destination images affect the actions of the supply side agents? While the impact of incidents of violent political unrest and the consequent changes in destination images on tourist behaviour has been subject to wide academic research, there is a lack of similar studies concerning the supply side. The interdependencies and interactions of transnational hotel companies, local agents, and tour operators as well as their specific roles in the destination recovery process have hardly been researched. Moreover, the influence of travelling and changing security related destination images on the actions of supply side agents in the tourism industry has not been studied at all. This paper aims to narrow this gap by presenting the results of more than 60 qualitative interviews with managers of the tourist industry in Tunisia, Egypt, and the UAE about the impact of violent political unrest on their actions after 9/11. The analysis of the interviews leads to a new conceptualization of crisis reactions as processes of organizational learning, which can be typologized as demand stimulating, demand generating, and organizational reactions. This study proves that organizational reactions of transnational companies (TNCs) have the potential to seriously affect further destination development. In general, there seems to be a relation between intensity and duration of violent political unrest, organizational structure, and location choice of TNCs. With increasing risk, companies would reduce the intensity of their engagement and concentrate on strategic destinations until they would eventually totally disengage from a destination. In contrast to these general findings, it is quite astonishing that TNCs have not substantially changed their organizational structure after 9/11, but contributed profoundly to the stabilization and recovery of the destinations. The preliminary results suggest that this can only be explained by the local embeddedness of the companies, which influences their actual risk perceptions, future expectations, and actual reality construction. If that is true, the perspective on the role of TNCs for destination recovery processes and on the determinants of their crisis reactions has to be changed.","PeriodicalId":130558,"journal":{"name":"Tourism and Hospitality Planning & Development","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133837750","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":"Assessment of the Urban Planning System in Historic Jerash with GIS: Achievements and Challenges for Sustainable Tourism","authors":"S. AlKheder, Bilal Khrisat","doi":"10.1080/14790530701797442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790530701797442","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Tourism based on urban heritage in Jordan represents one of the major income sources that contribute to about 12% of the national income. Cities containing such urban heritage are witnessing a rapid development process with its positive and negative aspects. This paper discusses these aspects in details to assess the current achievements for the city and local community as well as major challenges for sustainable tourism in Jerash. Urban planning issues such as infrastructure and the transportation system, modern and ancient land-use interaction and the addressing of Geocoding, that reduce the efficient use of such heritage in the tourism industry in the city are discussed. A comprehensive survey is designed and distributed in selected areas of the historic site in the city to study some of these issues, as related to tourism industry development, the current urban system and threats to a heritage city, as viewed by the local community. Detailed analysis of the survey is performed in the social and spatial domains that highlight a number of important conclusions. Quality GIS maps are produced to study different variables of interest. Results indicate that the existence of urban heritage in Jerash improved the economic level in the city. However, there are still many obstacles, as related to the urban system and infrastructure in the city, toward achieving sustainable tourism.","PeriodicalId":130558,"journal":{"name":"Tourism and Hospitality Planning & Development","volume":"NS20 11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123423018","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}