Future Destination Research Articles

Travel before you actually travel with augmented reality – role of augmented reality in future destination

ABSTRACT The current study of Augmented Reality technology aims to understand consumers’ behavioural aspects toward tourism destination intentions in the current situation of a pandemic. Augmented Reality’s role has significantly influenced consumers’ intentions to travel in the future, yielding fruitful results for academics and managers. The technology readiness index, technology acceptance model, quality, Augmented Reality psychological engagement, attitude, and enjoyment were used to assess consumer behaviour. The final data analysis included 484 respondents, who provided insights into the use of Augmented Reality technology. The findings suggest that Augmented Reality aspects influence tourists who want to travel, tour, and realize their desired destination intention in the future. The conceptual framework’s overarching theories with Augmented Reality aspects provide relevant findings across the fulcrum of tourism research.

Hierarchical Multi-Supervision Multi-Interaction Graph Attention Network for Multi-Camera Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction

Pedestrian trajectory prediction has become an essential underpinning in various human-centric applications including but not limited to autonomous vehicles, intelligent surveillance system and social robotics. Previous research endeavors mainly focus on single camera trajectory prediction (SCTP), while the problem of multi-camera trajectory prediction (MCTP) is often overly simplified into predicting presence in the next camera. This paper addresses MCTP from a more realistic yet challenging perspective, by redefining the task as a joint estimation of both future destination and possible trajectory. As such, two major efforts are devoted to facilitating related research and advancing modeling techniques. Firstly, we establish a comprehensive multi-camera Scenes Pedestrian Trajectory Dataset (mcScenes), which is collected from a real-world multi-camera space combined with thorough human interaction annotations and carefully designed evaluation metrics. Secondly, we propose a novel joint prediction framework, namely HM3GAT, for the MCTP task by building a tailored network architecture. The core idea behind HM3GAT is a fusion of topological and trajectory information that are mutually beneficial to the prediction of each task, achieved by deeply customized networks. The proposed framework is comprehensively evaluated on the mcScenes dataset with multiple ablation experiments. Status-of-the-art SCTP models are adopted as baselines to further validate the advantages of our method in terms of both information fusion and technical improvement. The mcScenes dataset, the HM3GAT, and alternative models are made publicly available for interested readers.

Category Management or Category Captainship in the Consumer Value Chain?

The purpose of this study is to identify the advantages and disadvantages of the Category Management and Category Captainship, to conduct comparative analyses of them and determine the princeple differences. Within the research purpose were solved the following tasks: to reveal the essence of Category Management and Category Captainship; to describe the main stages of Category Management development; to identify and substantiate the advantages and disadvantages of investigated approaches; to conduct the comparative analyses of Category Management and Category Captainship. Based on the received results we summarize, describe the main obstacles and formulate the recommendations for retailers by the decision making about the approach choosing. Finally, we define the future research destination in this area. The article discusses the essence of Category Management and the stages of its development considering current trends in the market and in the customer behavior. Based on the existing literature analyses we identify the main factors that influence the Category Management transformation from CatMan 1.0 to CatMan 3.0 this work identifies existing advantages and disadvantages of Category Management for all participants in the customer value chain. Further we reveal the essence and main features of Category Captainship, its advantages and disadvantages. Finally we conduct comparative analyses of the investigated approaches, define the main defferences of them and formulate their limitations and obstracles. This study let to formulate the recomendations for retailers that they could use by the decision making about the approach choosing. Finally were defined the future destinations of the researches in this area.

Future destinations and social inclusionscoping review: how people cured of hepatitis C (HCV) using direct- acting antiviral drugs progress in a new HCV-free world.

BackgroundThere has been a paradigm shift in the treatment of Hepatitis C (HCV) from the interferon-era to direct-acting antiviral (DAA) drugs. Cure of HCV for the key risk group, those with a history of injecting drug use, may provide a range of benefits to an individual’s quality of life that can be additional to that of a clinical cure. The interferon-era provided evidence that cure of HCV can be a turning point for those who use drugs, supporting a recovery journey. There remains a question if DAAs can provide the same opportunity.MethodsWe employed a scoping review methodology to consider the additional non-clinical benefits that HCV cure may provide. We used the theoretical construct of recovery capital to consider how these benefits may support a recovery journey in the DAA-era.ResultsOur search provided 2095 articles, from which 35 were included in the analysis. We developed a thematic synthesis of the non-clinical outcomes identified based on the four over-arching themes of recovery capital: physical, cultural, social and human capital. Our review suggests that identity change is a constituent part of each of the recovery capital domains in relation to HCV treatment.ConclusionWe identified Social Identity Model Of Recovery (SIMOR) as a mechanism through which DAAs may provide non-clinical outcomes to increase recovery capital domains. Further research is required to develop an understanding of the impact a cure of HCV with DAAs may have on identity, overall health and wellbeing and social inclusion to support recovery journeys.Supplementary InformationThe online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13011-022-00475-1.

Rethinking destination success: An island perspective

The global tourism industry has shifted due to COVID-19, with tourismdependent islands facing a dire need to realign and reconstruct their tourism offerings to remain competitive. The traditional mass tourism model that has dominated island development has to be re-examined in this new tourism environment with new mindsets regarding the current conditions for destination success. This paper aims to promote an understanding of destination success in an island context and to identify which determinants are critical during this period to achieve optimal destination success. The findings from this study suggest that island destinations are at a critical turning point, and key strategic shifts are necessary to enable future destination success as defined by the Destination Management Organisations. There is a need to shift from management to stewardship, from product to experience, from quantity to quality, and from stakeholder presence to engagement. Core to these strategic shifts is an incorporation of locals as central to the quality of the overall experience, with less reliance on the natural resources (sun, sea, and sand) to which these island destinations have been beholden to for decades.

Novel 3D Contextual Interactive Games on a Gamified Virtual Environment Support Cultural Learning Through Collaboration Among Intercultural Students

This study aims to help international students learn the language and cultural knowledge of their future study destination by collaborating with local students through coplaying games in online virtual rooms. Therefore, this study explores whether the 3D interactive game with specific contexts on a virtual platform can support intercultural collaboration and improve the students’ language and cultural learning. This study created novel 3D contextual interactive games (3DCIGs) in a gamified virtual environment (GVE), established on a unique virtual platform named Terf®. Terf® enables the observing and recording of data related to the conversations and behaviors of users. To investigate the effects of 3DCIGs on students, a focus group consisting of newly arrived Chinese students and Irish students from an Irish university participated in this study. The study adopted mixed methods of qualitative and quantitative analysis to examine whether 3DCIGs effectively motivate the collaborative learning of intercultural students compared with text-based assignments set in the Game Play Rooms. The findings reveal that the novel 3DCIGs developed in this study have a positive potential to motivate intercultural students to engage in team collaboration and help their cultural and language knowledge exchange.

Evaluating predictability in outdoor mobility: A potential pathway to personalized assistance for people with dementia

AbstractBackgroundPeople with dementia (PwD) often become lost, which is commonly attributed to spatial disorientation, one of the earliest symptoms of dementia, particularly of the Alzheimer’s disease type. Spatial disorientation can limit a person's ability to navigate in an outdoor environment. As a result, PwD experience outdoor mobility decline, which, in turn, can have a negative impact on their cognitive functions. Thus, enabling safe outdoor mobility is important for dementia research. Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods in conjunction with Global Positioning System (GPS) data show great potential for supporting the outdoor mobility needs of PwD. The objective of this work is to evaluate the extent to which we can predict future destinations of PwD by learning from their past mobility habits.MethodEight cognitively‐intact older adults (CTL) and seven older adults with dementia completed four weeks of GPS recording. Each participant’s stops and trips were extracted from their trajectories. We determined the predictability of each participant’s mobility patterns using three approaches. First, we assumed each stop is visited with equal probability, thus, disregarding temporal aspects of travel. Next, we built on the previous approach by including stop visitation probability, thus, capturing the heterogeneity of visitations. Finally, to capture the full spatiotemporal characteristics of mobility, we added in‐depth temporal characteristics including the visitation frequency, the order in which the stops were visited, and the time spent at each stop.ResultRelying solely on the spatial dimension of mobility yielded no predictive power across the two groups. Adding the heterogeneity of visitation patterns, we observed an increase in the predictability power; PwD displayed a trend toward higher predictability compared to the CTLs, but the student’s t‐test did not reach statistical significance (0.833±0.085vs.0.768±0.029, t(13)=‐2.06, p=0.06; d=‐1.07). Finally, relying on full spatiotemporal characteristics, a 4‐week record of mobility patterns displayed 95% (SD=2%) and 92% (SD=1%) predictability among PwD and CTLs, respectively. This value was significantly higher among PwD, t(13) = ‐3.39, p<.01; d=‐1.75.ConclusionOur findings offer new perspectives on the predictive mobility models based on GPS data and AI that can be used to provide personalized assistance for outdoor navigation of people with dementia.

Archaeological heritage ‘on-the-rise’: detecting emerging tourist attractions in Peru using machine learning and geotagged photographs

ABSTRACT Unlike large cities and urban heritage attractions, archaeological heritage sites in peripheral locations cannot readily absorb the impact of over-tourism. Peru’s rapid growth as a tourist destination since the late 1990s has been bolstered by the popularity of its archaeological heritage sites and past civilizations, particularly in the Cuzco region. As mass tourism and issues of overcrowding have confronted visitors and heritage managers in the Cuzco region, tourists have sought alternative archaeological attractions beyond Cuzco’s ticketed sites – many of which are open-access and unmonitored. By integrating large-scale internet photo datasets from Flickr and the power of computer vision and machine learning algorithms, this study identifies ‘on-the-rise’ (i.e. emerging) archaeological heritage attractions accessible from five Peruvian cities. The major contributions of this paper are (1) to provide a novel method capable of being scaled globally to identify emerging archaeological tourist attractions that are unmonitored by ticket sales, (2) to identify ‘on-the-rise’ archaeological attractions in Peru, and (3) to mitigate future risk (e.g. over-tourism, pollution, destruction and damage) at identified sites as tourist itineraries continue to expand. The identification of emerging archaeological heritage attractions is significant for targeted and sustainable heritage planning, archaeological conservation, future destination marketing and tourism development.

The orbitofrontal cortex maps future navigational goals

Accurate navigation to a desired goal requires consecutive estimates of spatial relationships between the current position and future destination throughout the journey. Although neurons in the hippocampal formation can represent the position of an animal as well as its nearby trajectories1–7, their role in determining the destination of the animal has been questioned8,9. It is, thus, unclear whether the brain can possess a precise estimate of target location during active environmental exploration. Here we describe neurons in the rat orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) that form spatial representations persistently pointing to the subsequent goal destination of an animal throughout navigation. This destination coding emerges before the onset of navigation, without direct sensory access to a distal goal, and even predicts the incorrect destination of an animal at the beginning of an error trial. Goal representations in the OFC are maintained by destination-specific neural ensemble dynamics, and their brief perturbation at the onset of a journey led to a navigational error. These findings suggest that the OFC is part of the internal goal map of the brain, enabling animals to navigate precisely to a chosen destination that is beyond the range of sensory perception.

The importance of an inclusive alumni network for ensuring effective transitions into employment and future destinations for people with learning disabilities

Accessible summary Sometimes people go back to their school to talk to students about the experiences that they have had to help the current learners think about what they would like to do in the future. People with learning disabilities do not often get to talk about their future careers and aspirations, and we think this is unfair. We wanted to find out how older students with learning disabilities could help current students with learning disabilities think about their future. We believe that people with learning disabilities are often left out of careers events, and we think this needs to be changed. We talked to school and college staff about how they thought people with learning disabilities could be better included. AbstractBackgroundResearch has previously been undertaken around the subject of alumni networks, yet it remains to touch upon the inclusivity of these networks, particularly relating to people with learning disabilities. Referring to Law's “Community Interaction Theory”, this study sets out to explore how education providers understand and implement alumni networks and how these networks can be adapted to enhance career and life course aspirations for people with learning disabilities.MethodsThe data collection process was part of a larger, innovative project that set out to address the issue of inclusion in the labour market for people with learning disabilities. Six education providers participated in focus groups. In one special educational needs college two students with learning disabilities also participated.Participants were asked about what alumni means to them, their experiences of engaging alumni and what impact an inclusive alumni network could have on their educational setting.FindingsThe findings show that participants are aware of the importance of creating an inclusive alumni network and recognised the benefits it could bring to their institute and their learners with learning disabilities, but any signs of an alumni network were yet to be implemented.ConclusionThis research contributes to data and debate on the relationship between social inclusion and education for people with learning disabilities. The research demonstrates the impact that an inclusive alumni network could have for young people with learning disabilities and how it could promote confidence and aspirations not only in the young people themselves but the whole community with whom they interact. It initiates a discussion about the importance of an inclusive alumni network in education to further support people with learning disabilities to take part in society and be reciprocally active in its spaces.

‘Knowing that’, ‘knowing why’ and ‘knowing how’

AbstractOur contribution maps the journey towards setting up a transdisciplinary, interprofessional collaboration between coaching practitioners and coaching researchers from the fields of Applied Linguistics and Applied Psychology. The goal of such a project is to build a community of interest around a common cause, i.e., a practically relevant, language-based coaching problem (in our case, questioning practices in executive coaching), and to collaboratively solve the problem on the basis of assembling and integrating the various epistemes. The purpose of our contribution in the form of a travel report is twofold: firstly, to theoretically and conceptually discuss the challenges and affordances of aligning perspectives and assembling epistemes for such a transdisciplinary research project; Secondly, to present the available epistemic bases and offer first empirical results from our applied linguistic research and our cooperation with Applied Psychology that served as the basis for conceptualising the projectQuestioning Sequences in Coaching(Graf, Spranz-Fogasy, & Künzli, 2020). We end this travel report by critically assessing the transdisciplinary character of the current project and by envisioning another kind of cooperation between coaching practice and coaching research as the future destination of our research journey.

An Introductory Study of Manuscripts of Khwāja Obāidullah Multani

Research in manuscripts is an essential and inevitable part of Islamic Sciences. Scholastic and historical essence of beliefs and commandments including social values lie in manuscripts. Manuscripts not only introduce new generation with predecessors but also provide principles leading towards future destination. Manuscripts enable one to recognize human being and it becomes possible to look through embrasure of the past. These reflect one's familiarity with evolutionary phases as well as dogmatic thoughts. When printing press was not invented and access of scholastic community to this printing press was beyond their limits, people formulated manuscripts to save their memories. Here is presented a brief introduction of repository of manuscripts on Islamic jurisprudence compiled by a well known personality of 13th century hijrī, Mufti Khwāja Ubāidullah Multani.
 This Paper provides a brief introduction o the fourteen manuscripts of Khwāja Ubāidullah Multani on Islamic jurisprudence .Methodology of these manuscripts is analyzed and explained by quotations. The writer had surely considered the time and space factor in analyzing jurisprudential issues. In all his Persian, Arabic and Urdu manuscripts Islamic laws and their details has been discussed in ordinary terms for the better understanding of general public.

The ‘core’ leaders of the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1923–1928: their past, present and future

ABSTRACT Building on a previous study of the executive committee (EC) of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) in the 1920s, the 19 activists who formed the ‘core’ of the party leadership – a category defined by service on four or more of the five committees elected between 1923 and 1928 – were analysed. Biographical material and statistical data were utilized to explore their origins, age, occupation, education, earlier allegiances, party experience and future destinations. The entire cohort, the 19 ‘core’ leaders, together with the 20 Communists who served less frequently on the EC, 1923–1928, were then compared on the above variables with the group which had sat on the committee during the CPGB’s foundation period, 1920–1923. Those born in England decreased from 69% in the first period to 50% in the second; the proportion of Scots increased from 22% to 36% while the Welsh remained below 10%. Both cohorts were overwhelmingly white, male and working-class. Aggregating the two groups across the 9 years from 1920 to 1928, skilled workers made up more than 40% of the CPGB leadership – 26.4% were metal workers. Less than 16% of the leadership were miners, considerably less than among the membership generally, while 11% had attended university. Only 5.4% were female although women constituted 16% of CPGB members. Only two men of colour featured on the EC while more leaders than members came from middle-class backgrounds. At least 27% had not only left the EC but the CPGB itself by 1930; at the other end of the spectrum, 35% of the 1920’s leadership appeared on the committee beyond this period while four, the ‘core of the core’ served into the post-war years. There was diversity but ultimately political uniformity. CPGB leaders either accepted the authority of the Comintern or alternatively left the party as individuals. Constrained by the context, a dysfunctional model of organization and Soviet policy, they fell short of the Bolshevik model of the revolutionary leader.

IMIDŽ DESTINACIJE: IMPLIKACIJE KATEGORIZACIJE 156 PUBLIKACIJA U RAZDOBLJU OD 2008. OD 2019. ZA BUDUĆA ISTRAŽIVANJA

Destination image has been one of the most researched constructs in the tourism literature since the first studies were published in the early 1970s. Despite this enduring popularity, there is not yet a consensus on how destination image should be measured, leading to a multiplicity of viewpoints and methods. Therefore, to provide a consolidated methodological categorisation for future researchers, this paper sets out to identify the key characteristics of a sample of 156 destination image articles published between 2008 and 2019. The categorisation follows the structure of Pike’s (2002, 2007) reviews of 262 destination image articles published between 1973 and 2007. Combined with the present study, future destination image researchers will have references to, and the characteristics of, a sample of 418 destination image publications from 1973 to 2019. In addition, we highlight several key limitations in destination image research to date, which present opportunities for future studies in this important field.

Stakeholder views on sustainability in an urban destination context: an inclusive path to destination competitiveness

Purpose Mass tourism in urban settings has proven to be economically significant in many parts of the world. To date, however, the academic debate on sustainable tourism has focused primarily on the ecological and socio-cultural sustainability of tourism in rural and coastal, rather than urban, settings. This paper aims to review the emerging debate on sustainable urban tourism, its complexities and challenges, and questions how urban destinations that are striving to become sustainable cities, can leverage benefit from the implementation of sustainable policies and practices to achieve tourism ‘destination’ competitiveness. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses a qualitative, exploratory research approach using in-depth interviews to seek responses from key stakeholders on their views and experiences of sustainability in the context of an urban destination. Thematic analysis is used to analyze and present the findings. Findings This study concludes that destinations need to be viewed in their broader regional context. Rather than be viewed solely as destinations that are ‘kind to the environment,’ sustainable urban destinations need to demonstrate a deeper commitment to all stakeholder groups, and especially local residents, to provide a fair and desirable ecosystem for achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Originality/value This paper reflects on the potential relationship between ‘urban sustainability’ and the ‘destination competitiveness’ of an urban tourism destination. This then will provide the platform for sustainability to truly contribute to future destination competitiveness.

Destination restaurants, place attachment, and future destination patronization

Consumers sometimes travel to a destination for the main purpose of enjoying the food and services a restaurant can offer. These restaurants are termed destination Restaurants. This study explores what constitutes such an experience at destination restaurants and how such experience influences visitors’ sense of place development for the destination they travel to and their revisit intention for the place. Data was gathered using a self-administered questionnaire distributed to tourists dining in destination restaurants in Hwayang-Dong in Chungbuk province, South Korea. Based on a convenience sample of 244 participants, the results suggest that a destination restaurant experience compromises seven components including ‘Food quality’, ‘Locale image’, ‘Restaurant atmosphere’, ‘Price Fairness’, ‘Ingroup socialization’, ‘Ease of conversation’, and ‘Immersion’. The research showed that locale image, atmosphere, ease of conversation, and immersion significantly affect overall restaurant experience satisfaction. The findings also demonstrated that the destination restaurant experience positively affects tourist place attachment and destination revisit intention.

The leadership of British Communism, 1923–1928: pages from a prosopographical project

ABSTRACT The importance of leadership in awakening and guiding the working class was emphasised at all levels within the parties which saw themselves as indispensable to socialist revolution. It was fundamental to the philosophy of the Bolsheviks, the Comintern and the early British Communist Party (CPGB). The executive committee (EC) which directed the work of members was broadly representative of the CPGB leadership. The 39 activists who served on the EC between 1923 and 1928 are examined in relation to their origin, age, ethnicity, gender, education, occupation, political antecedents and future destination. Attention is paid to their partners, who were also relevant actors, if frequently marginal to the historiography. The leadership cohort was overwhelmingly British-born, half were English, a third Scottish, male and white. It was predominantly proletarian, 75% of the group were manual workers, although 20% came from middle-class backgrounds and 12.8% were classified as intellectuals compared with 5% of party members. Over 46% of party leaders worked in skilled trades and more than 35% had a background in metalworking. This contrasted with the CPGB as a whole where colliery workers predominated; only a little over 10% of leaders were miners. The mean age was 36.4 years and most had received only an elementary education. Almost 90% joined the CPGB in 1920–1921 with former members of the Socialist Labour Party disproportionately represented in the leadership. Turnover was significant: over 40% served on only one or two committees. Conversely almost 50% sat on four or five. Their partners were more ethnically diverse and like other family members benefitted from Soviet and party patronage in employment. This pioneering prosopography concludes with biographical profiles of the 20 leaders who were not part of the ‘core’ of representatives who registered four or five appearances on the executive from 1923 to 1928. More than half of this ‘peripheral’ group subsequently departed not only the EC but the CPGB itself.

Last Chance Tourism in South Africa

Last Chance Tourism (LCT) is defined by tourists’ urgent visits to landscapes and seascapes, natural environments and places of social and cultural importance/heritage before they disappear. The obliteration of these environments is attributed to the rapid and destructive effects of global environmental change and globalization. These influences are leading to the demise of natural systems and biodiversity, including in polar regions and coral reef systems. Furthermore, cultures and traditions are also being lost. Scholarly investigations to date have reflected on the contention between the experiential gain in visiting destinations before they disappear on the one hand, and the losses to, and demise of, those very destinations through such visits. Despite above-global-average rise in temperature, increasingly frequent droughts and flooding, as well as rapid globalization, the South African experience on LCT destinations remains under-investigated. This paper uses secondary sources to explore current and future destinations where cultural groups are threatened, fauna and flora are on the brink of extinction, and landscapes are changing for the worse. Future research opportunities are identified and conceptual concerns are discussed.

Skills on the move: Highly skilled migrants in Switzerland and beyond

AbstractThis article explores how highly skilled migrants make sense of and subjectively validate their skills when in search of employment in a new country. With the use of a transnational perspective, we suggest that in the context of migration, skills can only be properly understood if we consider the multiple locations and events in people's life trajectories. In addition to foregrounding the spatial context, we also explore skills through a temporal perspective. The country of origin, previous countries of migration, receiving context and future destinations, and past experiences and future plans can all play a role in the way individuals make sense of and subjectively validate what migrants themselves consider to be their skills. Drawing upon qualitative research among highly skilled migrants in Switzerland, we examine how personal and professional skills intertwine with each other when people engage with a given yet evolving socio‐economic environment.

Outdoor life in dementia: How predictable are people with dementia in their mobility?

IntroductionPeople with dementia (PWD) often become disoriented, which increases their risk of getting lost. This article explores the extent to which we can predict future whereabouts of PWD by learning from their past mobility patterns using Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking devices.MethodsSeven older adults with dementia and eight healthy older adults completed 8 weeks of GPS data collection. We computed the probability that an appropriate algorithm can correctly predict the participant's future destinations using spatial and temporal patterns in each participant's GPS trajectories.ResultsRelying on both spatial and temporal patterns, our results suggest that a 4‐week record of mobility patterns displays 95% potential predictability across the dementia group, which is significantly higher than 92% potential predictability among the controls, t(13) = –3.39, P < .01, d = –1.75. That is, we can hope to be able to predict destinations of PWD about 95% of the time and destinations of controls about 92% of the time.DiscussionsOur findings on predictability of mobility patterns among PWD offer new perspectives on predictive mobility models that can be used to locate missing persons with dementia.