Tourist StudiesPub Date : 2020-09-02DOI: 10.1177/1468797620955248
Kalyan Bhandari
{"title":"Social sanctions of leisure and tourism constraints in Nepal","authors":"Kalyan Bhandari","doi":"10.1177/1468797620955248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797620955248","url":null,"abstract":"This study deals with the role of social sanctions in exploring the leisure-tourism engagement in Nepal. It then examines how people respond to societal norms and partake in leisure tourism vacations. The study applies the qualitative method and data is collected through in-depth interviews of purposely selected samples of 18 individuals in Kathmandu. The findings identify that the Nepali conception of leisure is subject to a degree of negative social sanctions, which people negotiate through their religious values and obligations. The paper establishes the centrality of social sanctions on leisure in understanding the incentives for tourism in a non-western society.","PeriodicalId":47199,"journal":{"name":"Tourist Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"300 - 316"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1468797620955248","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49298789","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 : 2020-08-24DOI: 10.1177/1468797620946808
R. Putcha
{"title":"After Eat, Pray, Love: Tourism, Orientalism, and cartographies of salvation","authors":"R. Putcha","doi":"10.1177/1468797620946808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797620946808","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines certain kinds of travel and tourism as extensions of colonial and examples of neocolonial forms of Orientalist engagement between the global North and global South. Focusing on areas that border the Indian Ocean, and the South Asian context in particular, I interrogate the gendered, racial, and geopolitical attachments that have historically drawn and continue to draw travelers to the region for tourism. I refer to these attachments as cartographies of salvation. In connecting the history and representations of travel to the area to the forms of leisure and spiritual tourism popularized by the 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, I argue that the Indian Ocean region remains for many a paternalistic endeavor or an exotic playground, where one can project a sense of purpose or indulge in an escapist fantasy. This article combines critical tourism studies, feminist ethnography and theory, and critical race studies.","PeriodicalId":47199,"journal":{"name":"Tourist Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"450 - 466"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1468797620946808","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43984935","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 : 2020-07-16DOI: 10.1177/1468797620937905
André Jansson
{"title":"The transmedia tourist: A theory of how digitalization reinforces the de-differentiation of tourism and social life","authors":"André Jansson","doi":"10.1177/1468797620937905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797620937905","url":null,"abstract":"This article elaborates the post-tourist de-differentiation thesis in the light of digitalization and the coming of transmedia as the dominant mode of cultural circulation. It is argued that transmedia extends and provides new facets to the de-differentiation of tourism and social life. Based on an overview of previous research, three versions of the ‘transmedia tourist’ are theorized – the ubiquitous transmedia tourist, the decapsulated transmedia tourist and the streamable transmedia tourist – representing different trajectories of de-differentiation. The typology provides an argument for the continued relevance of the de-differentiation thesis and a research agenda for future research on tourism and digitalization.","PeriodicalId":47199,"journal":{"name":"Tourist Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"391 - 408"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1468797620937905","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44515317","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 : 2020-07-16DOI: 10.1177/1468797620937912
J. Lovell, S. Hitchmough
{"title":"Simulated authenticity: Storytelling and mythic space on the hyper-frontier in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Westworld","authors":"J. Lovell, S. Hitchmough","doi":"10.1177/1468797620937912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797620937912","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores how the mythic, nineteenth-century American frontier is authenticated by postmodern forms of storytelling. The study examines accounts of William Cody’s extensive 1902–1903 Buffalo Bill’s Wild West tours in the United Kingdom and the futuristic television series, HBO’s Westworld (2016–), which is set in an android-hosted theme park. Comparing the semiotics of the two examples indicates how over a century apart, the authentication of the myth involves repeating motifs of setting, action and character central to tourist fantasies. The research illustrates how some elements of the myth seem to remain fixed but are negotiable. It is suggested that both examples are versions of a ‘hyper-frontier’, a nostalgic yet progressive, intertextual retelling of the American West and its archetypal characters, characterised by advanced technology. The implications for tourism are that simulating the authenticity of the frontier myth creates doubts in its veracity paradoxically due to its lifelikeness.","PeriodicalId":47199,"journal":{"name":"Tourist Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"409 - 428"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1468797620937912","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46846363","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 : 2020-07-07DOI: 10.1177/1468797620939413
Elyse M. Zavar, Brendan L. Lavy, R. Hagelman
{"title":"Chain tourism in post-disaster recovery","authors":"Elyse M. Zavar, Brendan L. Lavy, R. Hagelman","doi":"10.1177/1468797620939413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797620939413","url":null,"abstract":"Post-disaster research relating to tourism tends to focus on broad economic measures that can miss local-scale actors and contemporaneous impressions by tourists and tourism-based business owners in places undergoing recovery from a disaster. Hurricane Harvey, a Category 4 storm, swept across coastal Texas in August 2017. Many of the communities affected by Harvey have economies largely based on family recreation. Interviews in Rockport–Fulton, Texas, with tourism-oriented business owners, staff, and tourists during the Independence holiday provide qualitatively robust accounts of the community’s first major summer event following Harvey and highlight the importance of social networks and place attachment to bringing tourists to the recovering area. Furthermore, we discuss the chain tourist’s role in the recovery of affected locations and consider strategies to draw on these social networks to increase the number of tourists visiting the recovering communities.","PeriodicalId":47199,"journal":{"name":"Tourist Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"429 - 449"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1468797620939413","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44710438","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 : 2020-06-12DOI: 10.1177/1468797620931280
Hongxia Qi, Fangxuan (Sam) Li, Xiyan Ka
{"title":"Beyond traveling and working: Place attachment of the Chinese local working tourists","authors":"Hongxia Qi, Fangxuan (Sam) Li, Xiyan Ka","doi":"10.1177/1468797620931280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797620931280","url":null,"abstract":"Given the scarcity of research on working tourists, this exploratory study examines lv xing yi gong’s (i.e. the local independent Chinese working tourists) place attachment to the destination based on Scannell and Gifford’s tripartite model of place attachment. Data were drawn from a netnographic study of 98 blogs following 23 in-depth interviews. Findings demonstrate Chinese local working tourists’ place attachment in three dimensions: person, process, and place. This study not only confirms the applicability of Scannell and Gifford’s model in the context of Chinese local working tourists, but also identifies some contextual differences. More importantly, this article also provides valuable insights into the under-theorized sense of place among working tourists and identifies practical implications for tourism destination authorities to better serve and manage Chinese working tourists.","PeriodicalId":47199,"journal":{"name":"Tourist Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"371 - 388"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1468797620931280","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48359555","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 : 2020-06-10DOI: 10.1177/1468797620930036
Lorraine Brown, Delysia de Coteau, N. Lavrushkina
{"title":"Taking a walk: The female tourist experience","authors":"Lorraine Brown, Delysia de Coteau, N. Lavrushkina","doi":"10.1177/1468797620930036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797620930036","url":null,"abstract":"This feminist, qualitative study explores the experiences of female tourists who like to walk during their holiday. The findings highlight that women’s full access to the benefits of walking while on holiday are constrained by their feelings of vulnerability and their perceptions of possible risk if walking alone, particularly at night and in isolated spaces. In order to cope with perceived risk, participants employed a number of safeguarding and self-surveillance strategies. This study, therefore, supports other research on female tourists that highlight the differences among male and female tourist experiences, and that point to the measures women take to keep themselves safe.","PeriodicalId":47199,"journal":{"name":"Tourist Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"354 - 370"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1468797620930036","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43303329","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 : 2020-06-07DOI: 10.1177/1468797620927308
B. Iaquinto
{"title":"Understanding the place-making practices of backpackers","authors":"B. Iaquinto","doi":"10.1177/1468797620927308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797620927308","url":null,"abstract":"The place-making practices of tourists have long captured the attention of tourism researchers. This article examines how the everyday practices of backpackers contribute to place-making in the enclave and the hostel – two places common to backpacker destinations. Using participant observation supplemented by interviews, the research revealed these places to be characterised by a range of extraordinary and mundane backpacker practices and mobility rhythms. Places inhabited by backpackers were in constant flux and ‘co-created’ via practices in conjunction with an array of other phenomena. As backpackers interacted with one another, other people and the various materials, temporalities and environments that were present, they inadvertently contributed to place-making processes. The research shows how mobile people make place and extends understandings of how backpacker lives are lived. It demonstrates the centrality of practices to both place and mobility, highlighting the importance of tourist actions – rather than industry directives – to place-making in tourism.","PeriodicalId":47199,"journal":{"name":"Tourist Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"336 - 353"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1468797620927308","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47667547","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: 10.1177/1468797619873108
Ricardo Campos, Á. Sequeira
{"title":"Urban Art touristification: The case of Lisbon","authors":"Ricardo Campos, Á. Sequeira","doi":"10.1177/1468797619873108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797619873108","url":null,"abstract":"Urban Art is gradually assuming an increasingly significant role in the development of a city’s character, something which is often promoted by public institutions. This has been strongly instigated by the rhetoric of creative cities, present in the strategies for the urban development of many cities in recent years. The rising appreciation of this artistic movement and the recognition of the cultural and symbolic role it currently plays are accompanied by a growing offer of tourism services in this field, namely, through dozens of tours operated by multiple entities. The literature has, in fact, been paying some attention to this phenomenon of touristification of Urban Art. In this article, we draw on qualitative empirical material from an ongoing research project on Urban Art in the city of Lisbon. We consider the touristification of Urban Art in Lisbon to be a recent and still ongoing process involving several social actors with specific perspectives, strategies, actions and representations. We have concluded that there is currently a combination of social and economic factors favourable to the development of this process of touristification. This could not have happened without (a) a number of institutional initiatives, (b) local entrepreneurship ventures and (c) the development of a narrative shared by the different agents.","PeriodicalId":47199,"journal":{"name":"Tourist Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"182 - 202"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1468797619873108","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47659550","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: 10.1177/1468797619894462
Alfio Leotta
{"title":"‘This isn’t a movie . . . it’s a tourism ad for Australia’: The Dundee campaign and the semiotics of audiovisual tourism promotion","authors":"Alfio Leotta","doi":"10.1177/1468797619894462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797619894462","url":null,"abstract":"This article proposes a theorization of audiovisual media promotion as a distinct media field. Despite their omnipresence, very few scholars have examined the aesthetic, thematic and institutional characteristics of tourism films, commercials and promotional videos. The field of tourism audiovisual promotion poses a significant conceptual challenge as it consists of a vast array of diverse media texts and aesthetic forms. Such vast aesthetic differences, along with the different promotional potential associated with each of these forms, complicate any straightforward definition of this media field. This article will use the analysis of a recent case study – the Dundee campaign launched by Tourism Australia in 2018 – to develop a theorization of audiovisual tourism promotion. In particular, it will argue that the meaning and function of tourism audiovisual promotional texts are determined by a ‘discursive framework’ which, in turn, is informed by converging textual and contextual factors.","PeriodicalId":47199,"journal":{"name":"Tourist Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"203 - 221"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1468797619894462","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44615829","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}