{"title":"BOOK REVIEW_HANDBOOK OF RESEARCH METHODS AND APPLICATIONS FOR MOBILITIES","authors":"","doi":"10.3727/109830421x16257465701909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3727/109830421x16257465701909","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p> </jats:p>","PeriodicalId":41836,"journal":{"name":"TOURISM CULTURE & COMMUNICATION","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74698035","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":"ROYAL TOURISM IN THAILAND: VISITORS’ EXPERIENCE AT KING BHUMIBHOL’S CREMATORIUM EXHIBITION","authors":"Thanya Lunchaprasith","doi":"10.3727/109830421x16345418234038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3727/109830421x16345418234038","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the characteristics and potential of royal tourism as a niche tourism interest in Thailand by focusing on the case study of the royal crematorium of King Bhumibhol, a temporary structure created for the funerary event of the late king in October 2017 before being transformed into an open-air exhibition in November and December 2017. Borrowing Wang’s (1999) concept of “existential authenticity,” this paper investigates visitors’ interpretation of the site visit, to elucidate how royal culture is regarded in the context of the tourism experience. In doing so, 15 visitors were approached for a semi-structured interview. The findings revealed that the crematorium exhibition was an occasional opportunity enabling the public to gaze at the royal traditions. Royal culture retained its salience despite being transformed into a tourism offering. The crematorium exhibition was an educational medium enabling visitors to discover national art and culture in a participatory manner and stimulated their interest on studying art and culture. Moreover, by visiting the exhibition, visitors could consolidate their bond with the monarch, to be seen from their appreciation of the royal stories and their expression of gratitude toward the deceased king. To conclude, royal tourism demonstrates the ability of tourism in sustaining the country’s traditions and promoting nationalism. Tourism should not be seen as the degrader but as the protector of royal traditions. Royal tourism can be an addition to the country’s existing cultural tourism offering or used as an instrument to consolidate individuals with the national heritage. Nevertheless, the operation of royal tourism should be aware of the particularity of the country’s laws and sociocultural values. The researcher proposes that presenting the negative actions and influences of royalty that might disgrace the royal dignity should be avoided.","PeriodicalId":41836,"journal":{"name":"TOURISM CULTURE & COMMUNICATION","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84687671","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":"THE REIMAGINATION OF TOURISM STUDIES: POSITIVE RENEWAL, RESTORATION, AND REVIVAL TODAY","authors":"","doi":"10.3727/194341421x16231805260340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3727/194341421x16231805260340","url":null,"abstract":"In this second of three related papers on the adoption of disruptive qualitative cum interpretive research approaches, further coverage is given to the contexts and issues that ‘soft science’ social scientists (and humanists, and posthumanists) face today. While the first paper (by Hollinshead, Suleman, and Nair here in Tourism, Culture and Communication*) made the case for the potential of disruptive qualitative research and subtle science outlooks in Tourism Studies — to help compensate for the domain’s perduring calibrative, managerialist and fast-capitalist perspectives — this follow-up manuscript (by Hollinshead, Suleman, and Vellah) is a consolidation of the advanced social justice material being covered overall. In this second of the three companion papers, the authors provide a further insight on the soft science concepts and constructions that have been aired in the important watershed book on ‘subtle science methodology’ by Brown, Carducci, and Kuby (entitled Disrupting Qualitative Inquiry). In this second of the three cousin manuscripts, the need for such research-as-resistance insights within Tourism Studies is expressed per medium of the complex ways in which tourism is imbricated with a sometimes bewildering litany of ongoing cultural, political, economic, environmental, psychic, and other matters, something that regularly renders the ontologies of tourism and travel/Tourism Studies difficult to profile and fathom on account of the fluid acumen (or plural knowability/critical multilogicality) required. At the end of this second manuscript, a further seven terms are explicated for the cumulative glossary being developed across the three companion manuscripts. These terms include ‘methodological freedom’ and ‘guided wandering’ (vis-avis the discursive cartography of tourism). The third paper (by Hollinshead, Suleman, and Lo **) completes the additive glossary by explain terms and concepts that pertain to (1) the revised cognitive practices of tourism, and (2) the rhetorics of futurity of tourism.* The Unsettlement of Tourism Studies: Positive Decolonisation, Deep Listening, and Dethinking today (Hollinshead, Suleman, and Nair, Tourism, Culture and Communication, 21 (2). ** The Evocative Power of Tourism Studies: Positive Interruption, Interdependence, and Imagining Forward Today (Hollinshead, Suleman, and Lo [In Press: TCC])","PeriodicalId":41836,"journal":{"name":"TOURISM CULTURE & COMMUNICATION","volume":"73 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88233639","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":"SENSITIVE COMMUNICATION WITH PROXIMATE MESSMATES","authors":"","doi":"10.3727/109830421x16296375579624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3727/109830421x16296375579624","url":null,"abstract":"The research at hand experiments with the communication that occurs in the encounters and entanglements between human and more-than-human agencies. It builds on the emerging debates on qualitative methodologies informed by new materialism, which help us recognise how more-than-humans can communicate and participate in producing and sharing knowledge. The main purpose of this paper is to introduce the approach of sensitive communication with human and more-than-human others in tourism settings. The article explores and tests sensitive reading as a way of conducting research on sensitive communication in proximate surroundings by presenting two empirical examples from Iceland and Sweden. The research is driven by curiosity about the different ways of communicating with and about mundane and ordinary places in the context of proximity tourism. The idea of proximity refers here to curious and caring relations toward our proximate surroundings, beings and thoughts. This approach to proximity tourism re-opens ideas of nearness and farness and offers an alternative approach to current quantitative macro-level discussions and inquiries of the Anthropocene.","PeriodicalId":41836,"journal":{"name":"TOURISM CULTURE & COMMUNICATION","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87569595","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":"THE INTERPLAY OF CONTEXT, EXPERIENCE, AND EMOTION AT WORLD HERITAGE SITES: A QUALITATIVE AND MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH","authors":"M. Ginzarly, F. Jordan Srour, Ana Pereira Roder","doi":"10.3727/109830421x16345418234065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3727/109830421x16345418234065","url":null,"abstract":"This study illustrates how user-generated content, posted in the form of heritage site reviews on social media, can serve to reveal the relationship between the co-created interpretation of World Heritage Sites (WHSs) — in terms of values, tangible and intangible attributes, as well as site visit logistics — and the emotional experience of the site. Two WHSs are taken as a case study. More than 2000 reviews were retrieved from TripAdvisor and analyzed through the application of a mixed-method that integrates qualitative digital ethnography and machine learning. Results show that TripAdvisor reviews capture tourists’ emotional reactions from personal encounters with heritage and provide insights into the range of values — including the social, historic, and aesthetical values — that visitors experience when engaging with aspects of the past to associate meanings for the present. Results also show that the relation between experiences gained at WHSs and contextual aspects is not linear, instead, it is a complex one that results from the interaction of different factors and their associated sentiments. We discuss our results by reflecting on their theoretical and practical implications.","PeriodicalId":41836,"journal":{"name":"TOURISM CULTURE & COMMUNICATION","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87845869","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":"THE DUAL JOURNEY: TRAVELING ON-SITE AND ONLINE","authors":"Michelangelo Magasic","doi":"10.3727/109830421x16296375579615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3727/109830421x16296375579615","url":null,"abstract":"Travel is increasingly imagined as a socio-technical practice wherein ICTs are integrated with experience. In this context, in addition to the movement of the traveller within and between places, and encounters with peoples, cultures, and landscapes, the activity of travel is constituted within various forms of online interactions. Emphasising this point, emerging industry and theoretical paradigms such as ‘smart tourism’ propose the use of social media and digital devices as ubiquitous and essential to the future of tourism. This paper uses the theoretical concept of mediatization—the integration and influence of media forms within social practice—to explore how the embeddedness of ICTs influences tourism, focusing on the avatar of online communication in particular. ICTs bridge distances in time and space, support the construction of personal identity and community, and channel the data flows permitting informationisation, with these characteristics likewise being reflected in the textures of contemporary tourism. Tourists’ use of ICTs is conceptualised through the model of the “dual journey”, a vision of hybridised travel in which online and physical spheres are interwoven in the construction and consumption of tourist experience. The purpose of this conceptual investigation is not only to consider the intensification of communication within tourism but also to highlight the ways in which tourists’ communicative practices are enfolded within, and become, tourism.","PeriodicalId":41836,"journal":{"name":"TOURISM CULTURE & COMMUNICATION","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85809190","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":"THE IMPACT OF TOURISM IN THE FORM OF AN ANIMATED FILM: ASTERIX: THE MANSION OF GODS","authors":"","doi":"10.3727/109830421x16191799472042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3727/109830421x16191799472042","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p> </jats:p>","PeriodicalId":41836,"journal":{"name":"TOURISM CULTURE & COMMUNICATION","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74205386","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":"INTERACTION, ATTENTIVENESS AND INTIMACY: COMMUNICATING WITH WAVES IN SURF TOURISM","authors":"","doi":"10.3727/109830421x16296375579633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3727/109830421x16296375579633","url":null,"abstract":"Surf tourism place comprise not only of surfing activities, but a myriad of actions and interactions on land and at sea of which surfing and surf tourism business are a part. However, surf tourism literature has rarely emphasized the presences of other modes of encountering and interacting with waves, such as fishing and seafaring, especially among local inhabitants. This paper puts the emphasis on a broader everyday busy-ness of living in a surf tourism place, by paying attention to the various ways local people attend to and interact with waves in which they inhabit. The everyday of surf tourism is explored through field research conducted at Ebay, an iconic surf tourism place located in Siberut, Mentawai Islands, Indonesia. Drawing on more-than-human and relational ontologies, the mundane relationalities between waves and humans are analysed as everyday practices of attentiveness and interaction, through which the entangled actors – humans and waves – further co-create the uneasy notion of intimacy. In addition to challenging the “Nirvanification” (after Ponting, 2006) of surf tourism places by narrating less touristic and more mundane, everyday situations involving waves and humans, this study also furthers our understanding of communication and culture by showcasing the possibilities of understanding local interaction between humans and nonhumans in a tourism context.","PeriodicalId":41836,"journal":{"name":"TOURISM CULTURE & COMMUNICATION","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74207207","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}