Tourist StudiesPub Date : 2020-06-01DOI: 10.1177/1468797619878307
Hanaa Osman, Lorraine Brown, Thi Minh Trang Phung
{"title":"The travel motivations and experiences of female Vietnamese solo travellers","authors":"Hanaa Osman, Lorraine Brown, Thi Minh Trang Phung","doi":"10.1177/1468797619878307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797619878307","url":null,"abstract":"Solo travel is a growing trend, a significant proportion made up of international students who take solo trips during their study abroad. However there is limited empirical research on the Asian proportion of this growing market. This study explores the main motivations and constraints of 10 female Vietnamese students’ solo travellers through in-depth interviews. The findings indicate that travel motivations can be categorised into personal factors, such as freedom and flexibility, self-empowerment, independence and exploration, and social interaction factors including a lack of companions and meeting new people. Travel constraints relate to being female and alone and being of Asian descent. This research extends understanding of this important market segment. As a result, tourism providers and destination marketing organisation (DMOs) can capitalise by developing their products and marketing.","PeriodicalId":47199,"journal":{"name":"Tourist Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"248 - 267"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1468797619878307","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48620833","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 : 2020-06-01DOI: 10.1177/1468797619888305
Min Xu, Sangkyun Kim, S. Reijnders
{"title":"From food to feet: Analysing A Bite of China as food-based destination image","authors":"Min Xu, Sangkyun Kim, S. Reijnders","doi":"10.1177/1468797619888305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797619888305","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the reception of the highly popular documentary television series A Bite of China among potential young domestic travellers. It aims to investigate how this series, and similar food- and culture-themed TV programmes, contributes to regional food-based destination images among the aforementioned class of travellers. The analysis of 15 semi-structured interviews with viewers suggests that the documentary can influence and change viewers’ perceptions of regional cuisine as well as local culture. Viewers engage in both cinematic and touristic consumption as they interpret the documentary. Credible food images aid the process of building perceptual images that distinguish a destination from other destinations, which in some cases also inspires viewers to actually visit the related destinations or locations. More particularly, this exploratory study shows how these travellers perceive food-based destination images not as an isolated phenomenon, but as an integral part of a broader place-identity.","PeriodicalId":47199,"journal":{"name":"Tourist Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"145 - 165"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1468797619888305","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42155015","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 : 2020-05-24DOI: 10.1177/1468797620920991
Jonathan F D Liljeblad
{"title":"Tour guides and the transnational promotion of human rights: Agency, structure and norm translators in responsible travel","authors":"Jonathan F D Liljeblad","doi":"10.1177/1468797620920991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797620920991","url":null,"abstract":"Within tourism studies, the movement for ‘responsible tourism’ seeks to direct tourism in support of ideals such as sustainability and human rights. Central to the promotion of such ideals, however, is the tour guide who holds a critical position influencing the orientation of a tourism encounter. This article explores the capacities of tour guides to direct tourism encounters in support of human rights. The analysis draws upon tourism and human rights literature to frame tour guides within the theoretical concept of norm translators. The analysis applies a case study approach to a case of an individual tour guide leading a Vietnam tour package under the employ of a responsible travel company supportive of human rights, with the purpose of clarifying the role of tour guides in promoting human rights and elaborating the theory of norm translators.","PeriodicalId":47199,"journal":{"name":"Tourist Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"314 - 335"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1468797620920991","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42720026","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 : 2020-03-01DOI: 10.1177/1468797619873109
Lluís Garay, S. Morales
{"title":"Decomposing and relating user engagement in festivals’ virtual brand communities: An analysis of Sónar’s Twitter and Facebook","authors":"Lluís Garay, S. Morales","doi":"10.1177/1468797619873109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797619873109","url":null,"abstract":"Festival branding is undergoing a revolution based on the consolidation of new communicative behaviours in virtual brand communities (VBCs), above all, channelled through social media platforms. Although the literature on festivals has analysed engagement in VBCs, this study provides an in-depth observation of the profiles of festival VBCs users, how they modulate engagement attributes and behaviours and how these relate to their engagement focus, highlighting festival branding while also considering other main focuses (i.e. social capital creation and place-making). Thus, this article aims to characterize these elements in festivals’ VBCs through a multidimensional analysis of nearly 2150 entries in the Twitter and Facebook VBCs of one of the most prominent music festivals in Europe, Sónar (Barcelona). Moreover, it does so through a longitudinal observation covering a whole year, showing the relevance of ongoing communication to festival success. The results show the benefits (for organizers as well as other users) of understanding these elements and their mutual relationships.","PeriodicalId":47199,"journal":{"name":"Tourist Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"119 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1468797619873109","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41553564","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 : 2020-03-01DOI: 10.1177/1468797619873107
Xuerui Liu, F. Mehraliyev, Chun Liu, M. Schuckert
{"title":"The roles of social media in tourists’ choices of travel components","authors":"Xuerui Liu, F. Mehraliyev, Chun Liu, M. Schuckert","doi":"10.1177/1468797619873107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797619873107","url":null,"abstract":"Social media are acknowledged as an important information source that influences tourists’ travel choices. However, qualitative studies that take an inductive approach to identify the roles of social media by investigating how social media affect travel choices are limited. By interviewing 21 tourists who had recently taken trips, this article aimed to identify the roles that social media played in the tourists’ choices of six travel components (destination, transportation, accommodation, food and dining activities, attractions, as well as shopping and leisure activities). Four roles have been identified: Need Generator, Supporter, Guider and Approver. Theoretical and practical implications along with future research suggestions are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47199,"journal":{"name":"Tourist Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"27 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1468797619873107","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45094283","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 : 2020-03-01DOI: 10.1177/1468797619873058
Antoni Vives Riera, P. Obrador
{"title":"Festive traditions and tourism in Mallorca: Ludic transgressions and the disruption of otherness","authors":"Antoni Vives Riera, P. Obrador","doi":"10.1177/1468797619873058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797619873058","url":null,"abstract":"Invented traditions are worldmaking devices that mobilise places for tourism consumption. They are regularly used to project a tourist sense of otherness. However, they can also be sites of resistance and transgression in tourism. This article explores the transgressive potential of invented traditions as a locus of cultural change that challenges processes of othering in tourism. It reflects on the disruption of alterity with a case study of La Mucada, an invented rural tradition in Mallorca, which problematises the romantic categories through which the island is consumed by tourists. Invented traditions are reconsidered in relational terms as progressive spaces that can generate more partial, fluid or unfixed identifications. A performative understanding of transgression is proposed, emphasising the banal tourist ways in which epistemologies of difference are disrupted. Ludic transgressions also target other dichotomies, including stable notions of sexuality and gender.","PeriodicalId":47199,"journal":{"name":"Tourist Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"120 - 141"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1468797619873058","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42801955","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 : 2020-03-01DOI: 10.1177/1468797619885955
Cédric Calvignac, Jan Smolinski
{"title":"How can the use of a mobile application change the course of a sightseeing tour? A question of pace, gaze and information processing","authors":"Cédric Calvignac, Jan Smolinski","doi":"10.1177/1468797619885955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797619885955","url":null,"abstract":"When we use a smartphone as we move about, we see our surroundings in a different way, adopting new practices to combine physical exploration of place with digital navigation on the Web. This article seeks to identify how consulting digital information as we go along modifies our behaviour. Specifically, we will focus on the use of a mobile application dedicated to the presentation of a tourist site. Our exploratory study is based on a comparison of two groups of visitors: the first group was provided with a printed tourist guide, and the second had the same guide plus a smartphone with a tourist guide application. For the purposes of comparison, the visitors were followed step by step (their movements were tracked by GPS) and click by click (the application recorded the user’s browsing history). At the end of the tour, participants were also invited to comment on their experience, in semi-structured interviews. The results of the study suggest that the use of a smartphone while sightseeing modifies significantly our walking pace, the number of halts and slowdowns we make, and also the type of circuit we follow. Using the smartphone leads visitors to follow more carefully the itinerary proposed and, as a result, to explore the world with greater application","PeriodicalId":47199,"journal":{"name":"Tourist Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"49 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1468797619885955","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42156984","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 : 2020-03-01DOI: 10.1177/1468797619899343
Michelangelo Magasic, U. Gretzel
{"title":"Travel connectivity","authors":"Michelangelo Magasic, U. Gretzel","doi":"10.1177/1468797619899343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797619899343","url":null,"abstract":"The use of information and communication technology (ICT) devices has been recognised as a significant component of travel experiences. However, the portrayal of internet connectivity as a binary entity within literature has overlooked the significant experiential breadth that exists within the state of being connected. Drawing on the contexts of roaming and the digital divide, this article demonstrates the variable and dynamic nature of connectivity on a worldwide basis, thus highlighting the variety of states of connectivity which may be encountered by tourists. Research was conducted using an autoethnographic methodology employed during a 3-month period of multi-country fieldwork. As its research findings, the article first defines travel connectivity and presents a travel connectivity typology featuring four principal modes based on network quality and range. Second, impacts of each mode of connectivity upon the travel experience are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47199,"journal":{"name":"Tourist Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"26 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1468797619899343","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45959620","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 : 2020-02-19DOI: 10.1177/1468797620905786
M. Gross
{"title":"Speed tourism: The German Autobahn as a tourist destination and location of “unruly rules”","authors":"M. Gross","doi":"10.1177/1468797620905786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797620905786","url":null,"abstract":"The German Autobahn has inspired many people’s imagination with its lack of a general speed limit, the quality of its road surface as well as its allegedly well-behaved drivers. One of the consequences of this positive reputation has been the emergence of a phenomenon I would like to call “speed tourism.” In this article, I treat speed tourism as a special form of tourism that involves viewing the driving experience as an opportunity for either testing the capacity of one’s own car or driving it at high speed as a way of experiencing the native culture at firsthand. I explore speed tourism as an alternative way of getting to know the real Germany as a tourist. Based on an analysis of several of its peculiarities, I argue that the Autobahn can be understood as a location where tourists can mix with “locals” while keeping a distance from them, since the interaction is restricted to learning and obeying the country’s rules of the road. The Autobahn then becomes a time-bound “dream location” created by the ideal of limitless driving freedom on the one hand and the paradoxical requirement of unruliness in relation to strict rules on the other; together, these are believed to offer an “authentic” driving experience according to local cultural customs.","PeriodicalId":47199,"journal":{"name":"Tourist Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"298 - 313"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1468797620905786","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47198904","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 : 2020-01-21DOI: 10.1177/1468797619899347
Flemming Sørensen, Lars Fuglsang, Jon Sundbo, J. F. Jensen
{"title":"Tourism practices and experience value creation: The case of a themed attraction restaurant","authors":"Flemming Sørensen, Lars Fuglsang, Jon Sundbo, J. F. Jensen","doi":"10.1177/1468797619899347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797619899347","url":null,"abstract":"This article uses practice theory to analyse experience value creation in an innovative tourism setting characterised by high interdependence between tourism actors. The theory is applied in a case- and action-oriented study of a themed restaurant in a medieval re-enactment centre. It exemplifies how integration of a restaurant into a specific attraction theme provides opportunities for experience value co-creation through tourism practices. It also illustrates how integration can cause co-destruction of experience value. The action-oriented part of the study included a workshop, interviews and other communication with relevant actors. It aimed to sustain a change of practices, providing solutions to issues of value-co-destruction found in the case study. The article theorises and illustrates the complexity of experience value creation in complex tourist settings and suggests how a practice theory approach to innovation may lead to value creation in tourism and be a powerful tool for tourism managers.","PeriodicalId":47199,"journal":{"name":"Tourist Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"271 - 297"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1468797619899347","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43552103","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}