Tourist StudiesPub Date : 2024-06-19DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.01.525891
Christian Thome, Jan Maximilian Janssen, Seda Karabulut, Claudio Acuna, Elisa D'Este, Stella J Soyka, Konrad Baum, Michael Bock, Nadja Lehmann, Johannes Roos, Nikolas A Stevens, Masashi Hasegawa, Dan A Ganea, Chloé M Benoit, Jan Gründemann, Lia Min, Kalynn M Bird, Christian Schultz, Vann Bennett, Paul M Jenkins, Maren Engelhardt
{"title":"Live imaging of excitable axonal microdomains in ankyrin-G-GFP mice.","authors":"Christian Thome, Jan Maximilian Janssen, Seda Karabulut, Claudio Acuna, Elisa D'Este, Stella J Soyka, Konrad Baum, Michael Bock, Nadja Lehmann, Johannes Roos, Nikolas A Stevens, Masashi Hasegawa, Dan A Ganea, Chloé M Benoit, Jan Gründemann, Lia Min, Kalynn M Bird, Christian Schultz, Vann Bennett, Paul M Jenkins, Maren Engelhardt","doi":"10.1101/2023.02.01.525891","DOIUrl":"10.1101/2023.02.01.525891","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The axon initial segment (AIS) constitutes not only the site of action potential initiation, but also a hub for activity-dependent modulation of output generation. Recent studies shedding light on AIS function used predominantly post-hoc approaches since no robust murine <i>in vivo</i> live reporters exist. Here, we introduce a reporter line in which the AIS is intrinsically labeled by an ankyrin-G-GFP fusion protein activated by Cre recombinase, tagging the native <i>Ank3</i> gene. Using confocal, superresolution, and two-photon microscopy as well as whole-cell patch-clamp recordings <i>in vitro</i>, <i>ex vivo</i>, and <i>in vivo</i>, we confirm that the subcellular scaffold of the AIS and electrophysiological parameters of labeled cells remain unchanged. We further uncover rapid AIS remodeling following increased network activity in this model system, as well as highly reproducible <i>in vivo</i> labeling of AIS over weeks. This novel reporter line allows longitudinal studies of AIS modulation and plasticity <i>in vivo</i> in real-time and thus provides a unique approach to study subcellular plasticity in a broad range of applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":47199,"journal":{"name":"Tourist Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11212890/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88109145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tourist StudiesPub Date : 2023-12-16DOI: 10.1177/14687976231218483
Aaron Tham, Shu-Hsiang (Ava) Chen, Levi Durbidge
{"title":"A pentadic analysis of TikTok marketing in tourism: The case of Penang, Malaysia","authors":"Aaron Tham, Shu-Hsiang (Ava) Chen, Levi Durbidge","doi":"10.1177/14687976231218483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14687976231218483","url":null,"abstract":"Several destinations have jumped on the TikTok bandwagon to explore consumer reactions and motivations towards visit intentions, though these are largely limited to point-in-time surveys. Using the example of Penang, Malaysia, this research contributes to the paucity of knowledge surrounding TikTok in tourism by analysing contents generated from the destination management organisation, travel influencers, and other tourists participating in a TikTok competition for the destination. Drawing from Burke’s Pentadic analysis, the findings reveal the sociological interactions where the performativity of the short videos are staged by different users with the destination as the backdrop. Theoretical and managerial implications are highlighted to inform current and future practices of TikTok (re)presentation in tourism, and how the platform can be used distinctively to socially interact with various target markets and stakeholders.","PeriodicalId":47199,"journal":{"name":"Tourist Studies","volume":"18 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138968034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tourist StudiesPub Date : 2023-12-02DOI: 10.1177/14687976231216127
Giovanna Di Matteo, Luca Daminelli
{"title":"Migrant support volunteer tourism facing crises. Patchwork autoethnographies on Lesvos (Greece)","authors":"Giovanna Di Matteo, Luca Daminelli","doi":"10.1177/14687976231216127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14687976231216127","url":null,"abstract":"The island of Lesvos serves as a symbol of migration in the Mediterranean. From 2015 onwards, a steady stream of volunteer tourists began working on the island. Between 2019 and 2022 various ‘crises’ such as the Covid-19 pandemic, the fire at the Moria camp, and the rise of the far right in Greece significantly altered living conditions for both refugees and volunteer workers on the island. The authors employ a comparative patchwork autoethnography to rethink participant observation to fit the pandemic era. Through a situated, relational, and more-than-representational analysis of autoethnographic material and the confrontation between the authors’ experiences, the aim of this paper is to investigate how migrant support volunteer tourism interacts with various simultaneous ‘crises’ ongoing on Lesvos. This led to a reimagining of the way we understand volunteer tourism over its ‘pro vulnerable’ approach.","PeriodicalId":47199,"journal":{"name":"Tourist Studies","volume":"110 44","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138607660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tourist StudiesPub Date : 2023-11-24DOI: 10.1177/14687976231206851
R. Schiavone, Amanda Brandellero
{"title":"(M)apping film in Scotland: Film tour maps, apps and ‘real’ engagements with virtual place","authors":"R. Schiavone, Amanda Brandellero","doi":"10.1177/14687976231206851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14687976231206851","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents an analysis of film tour apps and maps, exploring the different functionalities they offer, how these functionalities contribute to shaping engagements with place in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the specific role of film in this process. We find that while they possess similar functionalities to more general tourism apps – for example, providing information and offering travel advice – film tour apps and maps also connect the real world to the ‘reel’ world through games, active engagement, and prosumerism. The specific functionalities of film media apps, we argue, have ramifications for film tourism experiences, potentially extending the touristic experience of a destination to a multi-mediated, multi-layered experience of a ‘patchwork’ place through the lens of film. Additionally, functionalities of film tour apps facilitate new types of behaviours and interactions with place.","PeriodicalId":47199,"journal":{"name":"Tourist Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139241726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tourist StudiesPub Date : 2023-10-12DOI: 10.1177/14687976231203751
Yinn Shan Cheong, Harng Luh Sin, Tou Chuang Chang
{"title":"‘If not now, then never’: Conceptualising the grad trip","authors":"Yinn Shan Cheong, Harng Luh Sin, Tou Chuang Chang","doi":"10.1177/14687976231203751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14687976231203751","url":null,"abstract":"The grad trip entails travelling overseas with one’s closest group of friends to commemorate the completion of tertiary and formal education and is bookended by the carefree freedom in one’s youth and the commencement of an adulthood defined by formal employment. This article conceptualises the grad trip as a phenomenon in youth tourism, based on empirical study of how it is experienced in Singapore. Our conceptualisation of the timing and duration that defines a grad trip demonstrates the dominance of time productivity reflective of Singapore’s work culture. Drawing on a precedence of studies based in the Western concept of the gap year, we reveal commonalities in employment society’s influence on time for youth tourism. While the gap year seeks to maximise the length of time offered by a ‘gap’, the grad trip contrarily minimises the culturally perceived wastefulness of a prolonged break.","PeriodicalId":47199,"journal":{"name":"Tourist Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136013416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tourist StudiesPub Date : 2023-10-11DOI: 10.1177/14687976231203749
Ian Michael, Paolo Mura
{"title":"‘An Gorta Mor (The Great Hunger): Passage to India’ – Exploring genealogy and roots tourism through documentary filmmaking","authors":"Ian Michael, Paolo Mura","doi":"10.1177/14687976231203749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14687976231203749","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a documentary film produced and enacted by one of the authors as a way of knowing, constructing and representing a specific form of tourist consumption, namely genealogy tourism. The documentary ( https://vimeo.com/825001015?share=copy ), entitled ‘An Gorta Mor’ (Gaelic words that translate to ‘The Great Hunger’, the Irish famine that occurred from 1845 to 1852), functions as both a vehicle to produce and present the ethnographic fieldwork conducted by one of the authors to trace back his ancestral roots and the empirical material to be analysed. The documentary unveils two emergent themes. The first is that genealogy tourism involves multiple fluid places and transnational identities that question ‘fixed’ notions of ‘motherland’, ‘home’ and ‘family’. The second refers to roots tourism as a vehicle to propel bonding and bridging social capital. Methodologically, as a form of arts-based research, this work promotes embodied alternative ways of knowing tourist realities and selves.","PeriodicalId":47199,"journal":{"name":"Tourist Studies","volume":"2014 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136210842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tourist StudiesPub Date : 2023-09-27DOI: 10.1177/14687976231200909
Lianping Ren, Cora Un In Wong, Caiwei Ma, Yanping Feng
{"title":"Changing roles of tour guides: From “agent to serve” to “agent of change”","authors":"Lianping Ren, Cora Un In Wong, Caiwei Ma, Yanping Feng","doi":"10.1177/14687976231200909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14687976231200909","url":null,"abstract":"The guided tour industry has undergone drastic changes in China along with the socio-economic, demographic, and technological developments of the past decades, leading to new demands on the tour guide profession. The COVID-19 pandemic has further accelerated the changes. Yet little is known regarding how the tour guides’ roles have evolved. This study aims to fill this gap through exploring new roles and services undertaken by tour guides, drawing on qualitative data (in-depth interviews) from both tour guides’ and tourists’ recent guided tour experience in China. The findings demonstrate a continuum of roles of the guides, ranging from “the serving roles” to being “the ones who facilitate changes.” Five main driving forces were identified, namely: the tourists’ customization needs, demographic change, rapid ICT development, increased special interests, and the pandemic and tourists’ favor in remote destinations. Instead of expecting serving roles only, the Chinese tourists now welcome roles that can foster positive changes, reflecting Chinese tourists’ motivational shift to having eudaimonic experience through traveling.","PeriodicalId":47199,"journal":{"name":"Tourist Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135539010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tourist StudiesPub Date : 2023-09-26DOI: 10.1177/14687976231200902
Axel Eriksson
{"title":"‘If they touch our cloudberries, that means war’: Rural liveability and acceptance of environmental impacts from event tourism","authors":"Axel Eriksson","doi":"10.1177/14687976231200902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14687976231200902","url":null,"abstract":"Through the lens of liveability and Buen Vivir, I explore how local actors form their acceptance of the physical impact on nature caused by a trail marathon in north-central Sweden, particularly given trail and soil erosion. With a qualitative multi-method research approach, the findings reveal that the local actors minimise the impacts by getting involved in various activities both inside and outside the event. Different knowledge and practices foster sustainability and create acceptance. While the growth of tourism creates unease and feelings of inadequate control, this event is seen as a distinct phenomenon. I show that liveability goes beyond perception and requires integration of the local environment into local practices. Current acceptance may however be eroded if more or larger events occur in the future. Policies and planning must therefore acknowledge and incorporate these local practices to create sustainability.","PeriodicalId":47199,"journal":{"name":"Tourist Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134957949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tourist StudiesPub Date : 2023-08-10DOI: 10.1177/14687976231193110
Hans Tunestad
{"title":"Serious leisure imaginaries: The construction of tourists, locals and localities in scuba diving tourism","authors":"Hans Tunestad","doi":"10.1177/14687976231193110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14687976231193110","url":null,"abstract":"Scuba diving is a global leisure activity today often undertaken as a form of tourism, counting millions of practitioners. Drawing on my experience of diving in different parts of the world, as well as on various forms of documentation, this article focuses on the structural characteristics of this form of purposeful tourism. As a sport, scuba diving follows certain routines and regulations and can thus be seen as a form of serious leisure; that is, leisure involving plans and demands. As a form of tourism, it is a particular way of imagining the world, based on a specific form of cartography and mass mediated images and stories of the vast blue and its inhabitants. My argument is that when undertaking scuba as a form of tourism, whether guiding or being guided, divers submit to the structures of both the sport and the touring. These then determine both how they dive from a technical point of view and how they come to think about diving and indeed, in a sense, the world. Divers are thus guided by ‘serious leisure imaginaries’. Altogether, scuba diving tourism here emerges as a transformative social force where tourists, locals and localities are constructed simultaneously in a dynamic interplay.","PeriodicalId":47199,"journal":{"name":"Tourist Studies","volume":"6 6","pages":"247 - 265"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41275999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}