Tourism Geography Research Articles

SISTEM INFORMASI GEOGRAFIS BERBASIS ANDROID SEBAGAI MEDIA INFORMASI PARIWISATA DI KABUPATEN BANYUMAS

Android was a smartphone which become an important part in human’s life that functioned as a means of communication. Nowadays, it was not only used as a means of comminication but also used to see the location or tourism geography. Tourism spots in Banyumas regency had diversity and uniqueness which were supported by facilities and transportation provided in the tourism spots. They could make the tourists visit those tourism spots easily. The local government had used mass media and also pamflet to inform and introduce tourism spots in Bayumas regency. However, those methods didn’t work for they could not inform the tourim spots widely to the tourists. By facing those problem, the writer made a geography information system which could give information about the tourism spots to the tourist s which used android that could be access easily. This system was integrated with database and could function well by implementing model ISO 9126. ISO 9126. This model gave validation from functionality, reliability, usability and efficiency so that it could maximize geography information system based on android which was made and developed. Keyword: Geographic Information System, ISO 9126, Functionality, Reliability, Usability, Efficiency Tourism, Android.

Tourism destination zoning in mountain regions: a consumer-based approach

This paper puts into question the conventional way of delineating tourism destination borders in terms of taken-for-granted administrative boundaries. Despite the fact that the literature on destination boundaries advocates for conceptual frameworks where customers’ consumption patterns play a more fundamental role, instances of actual attempts of structuring tourism geographies into ‘new tourism areas’ are scant, and instances of zoning on the basis of visitors’ consumption patterns are absent. A method for identifying alternative and more effective consumption-based tourism zones that combines geographical information system and hierarchical cluster analysis techniques, and that relies on time distances between attractions, is thus proposed, and implemented in the case of the Pyrenees mountain region. As a result the region is restructured into nine new tourism zones, which, compared to the original destinations, are more uniform in size and have a higher correlation index between attractiveness and accommodation intensity; they also have different levels of cross-border intensity and are very similar to historical regions; and the more they differ from the original destinations the higher their attractiveness, which supports the effectiveness of the new zoning technique. Four types of tourism zones ranging from higher to lower tourism intensity are also identified.

Alternative tourism geographies: Leveraging the ironic case of Pennsylvania's Route 666 for economic development

Our paper reconciles dark tourism with phantasmal destination tourism in order to promote the potential for successfully marketing roadways numbered “666” as an economic development strategy appropriate to distressed localities in the USA. We focus our attention on the David Zeisberger Highway in rural Pennsylvania as a case study. We propose a routes 666 phantasmal tourism promotion that socially constructs a “magical reality” with niche tourism potential by tapping into what we identify as the already latent power of “The Beast” widespread in the public imagination as inspired by the Book of Revelation 13:18 (“Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.”). We combine the premises and conceptualizations set forth in dark tourism, phantasmal destination, applied tourism and rural geography, and rural tourism research with scientific insights provided by “the fallacy of selective thinking” to argue that 666 roadways can offer a marketable “looking for the Beast” experience. Our case study of Pennsylvania Route 666 envisions the potential of this roadway as a prototype “Route 666 looking for The Beast experience”. We find a synergy and new economic potential in the combination of dark tourism and phantasmal destination tourism concepts that inspire explorations of new frontiers in tourism for economic development. Our study is innovative in its conception and proposes a rational and specific plan for rural economic development involving niche tourism promotion.

The timeshare industry of Africa: a study in tourism geography

Abstract Within the broad spectrum of tourism accommodation the timeshare industry is a distinctive segment which has attracted only limited research work. This paper represents a contribution to tourism geography as it investigates the location of timeshare resorts in Africa and comparative position of African destinations in the global timeshare economy. The analysis shows the timeshare resort industry in South Africa is the most significant on the continent and is distinctive in its reliance upon domestic rather than international tourists. In terms of the distribution of resorts the key locational consideration in Africa parallels that found in other parts of the world, namely the positioning of resorts in areas of high natural amenity. In the African context this has meant clustering resorts in coastal beach areas and attractive mountain locations, as well as in the areas which afford opportunities for timeshare consumers to experience the African bush. Finally, of note in South Africa is the growth of large timeshare property developments at casino resorts, a development which parallels the experience of certain timeshare developments in the USA.

Free capital mobility and sustainable community development: A theoretical framework

Although most economists defend the role of foreign investment in global development as positive, a number of tourism geography studies present divergent views on the impact of foreign investment on host communities. To examine this issue, this study develops a simple model to show that liberal economic doctrines tend to shape policies in host communities, thus generating a higher degree of openness to foreign factors of production than is optimal. It treats the openness of a host community to foreign investment as a practical dimension, examining how foreign investors and host communities can negotiate and share the benefits of capital flows from projects with foreign investment. Foreign investors have the first-mover advantage in bargaining with host communities for full openness. However, the impatience of foreign investors can cause them to act against their own interests when faced with the reluctance of host communities to open further because of weak physical, economic, and institutional infrastructures those areas.

The City of Varadero (Cuba) and the Urban Construction of a Tourist Enclave

The urban and territorial changes caused by tourism are well-studied topics in contemporary scientific literature. This article uses an integrative approach that lies between the scientific traditions in urban geography and the geography of tourism to present a case study of a socialist city. Tourism is a strategic economic activity in Cuba, and the country’s most popular sun and sand tourist destination is Varadero. At first consideration, its tourism model is not very different from those of other areas in the region (Dominican Republic, Riviera Maya, etc.), but the uniqueness of the Cuban government and emphasis on planning introduce several distinguishing features. The combined analysis of the development of tourism in the city and the recent history of territorial planning leads to conclusions regarding the role of tourism in urban development, which has resulted in the creation of a dual-city model, and the role land planning is playing.

Lomonosov Moscow State University: the major centre for Russian research and education into tourism and recreation

The author discusses the tourism geography research which has been undertaken at Lomonosov State University in Moscow over many years. This academic institution is one of the most famous research centres dealing with spatial recreation systems. At first (from the 1960’s), research was mainly on geographical and technical issues, but the research area was gradually enlarged for example to include social and humanistic elements. The best known research has been done on ‘spatial recreation systems’, ‘polarized landscapes’, the ‘recreational economy spatial complex’, and the ‘environmental model of a spatial system’.

A Perspective of Tourism Geography for Earth Heritage from Ogasawra Islands' Studies

A Perspective of Tourism Geography for Earth Heritage from Ogasawra Islands' Studies

The Bali Bombings Monument: Ceremonial Cosmopolis

In 2003 a monument was erected at the site of the 2002 Islamist militant attacks in Kuta, Bali. Government and other official discourses, including the design brief, represent the monument as an integrated and culturally harmonious public testimony to the victims. However, the monument is also a discordant association of ideas, meanings, and political claims. While originally designed to subdue insecurity, the Bali bombings monument, in fact, constitutes a site of powerful “language wars” around its rendering of memory and its presence in Bali's integration into the globalizing economy of pleasure. This paper examines the ways in which the monument is being articulated and “consumed” as a social and cultural marker for the island's tourism geography. The paper pays particular attention to the increasing diversity of Bali's visitors and the ways in which a precarious “cosmopolization” of the Kuta-Legian area is being experienced and expressed at the monument site.

The Economic Geography of South Africa’s Hotel Industry 1990–2010

Hotels are a neglected facet in economic and tourism geography as the majority of scholarship on hotels is produced from the perspective of hospitality management. This article examines the changing geography of hotels in South Africa during the period 1990–2010 as part of the country’s expanding tourism economy. The analysis confirms the importance of several locational influences, which have been isolated in existing literature, in particular the significance of spatial patterns of market demand related to international leisure travel, domestic business tourism, and of the hosting of mega-events. Since 1990, the South African hotel industry necessarily has adjusted to new market demands related to the vibrancy of international tourism growth as well as an expansion of domestic tourism including of a new black leisure and business tourism market. By 2010, the hotel industry and its spatial distribution reflects the enormous changes, which have take out place in the South African tourism sector since democratic change. The transformed geography of the hotel industry is a response to changing demands associated with South Africa’s rise as an emerging international leisure and business tourism destination, including for regional visitors from sub-Saharan Africa, the expansion of domestic business tourism, and the shifting domestic leisure tourism market, which incorporates an increasing share of black South African tourists

International Cooperative Learning and Its Applicability to Teaching Tourism Geography: A Comparative Study of Chinese and American Undergraduates

Although international cooperative learning (ICL) possesses great potential as an effective solution for higher education's internationalization challenge, theoretical and practical issues of ICL remain understudied. To further understand ICL and explore how it should be employed in reality, researchers from two universities designed a cross-cultural ICL project and incorporated it into two tourism geography courses. The study revealed that the conceptual model of ICL proposed is generally workable in capturing the salient features of the conducted project and ICL can help enhance the learning effects of tourism geography. Also presented are recommendations for ICL's future practices.

The pursuit of difference as a reason for travelling decisions

The pursuit of difference is regarded as an important stimulus for travelling decisions within the German-speaking tourism geography (Hopfinger 2007; Reeh 2011). In order to lay the ground for adopting this concept in future empirical studies, this article suggests a few thoughts on both perspectives for a theoretical foundation and an operational model to use the concept of the pursuit of difference in tourism research.Within the broader framework of needs’ theories, the pursuit of differenc...

A turizmus térszerkezeti hatása a határrégiókban

The role and importance of cross-border regions is in the focus of scientific research for a long ago. The theory' of spatial interactions of different actors is an issue of different scientific fields. From the practical side, the regional policy of the European Union has a wide set of instruments for these special - often periferic, underdeveloped, or even in capability for being pioneer of development - areas. With long peace years and expansion of touristic flows, tourist regions models appeared in the tourism geography literature. However, only a few models of cross-border tourist regions are known, and surprisingly most of them are based on North American evidence. We summarize these results with special attention to F.uropean experiences and offer new interdisciplinary research area.

Eтнофестивальний туризм у Львівській обл.: тематична структура та просторово-часові особливості організації

The ethnofestivals in the Lviv Region have been systematized on the thematic approach. The spatial-temporal characteristics of the ethnofestival tourism in the region have been descibed. The specific recommendations for future development and promoting of festival tourism in Lviv Region have been proposed. Key words: ethnic tourism, ethnofestival, ethnofestival tourism, festivals classification, geography of ethnofestival tourism.

Guides pour une géographie du tourisme

Guidebooks are a part of a branch that is driven by market decisions as well as more unpredictable mental and cultural constructs. One of them is a geography of tourism, to which the guidebooks contribute by affecting both choices of routes and destinations, but also by mediating many types of spatial configurations with relevance for this imagined geography and the decisions it leads to. To describe and understand better how guidebooks work regarding these processes is, as this article could give the impression of, not solely a historical task, since these kinds of books in rather traditional formats and types still fill up substantial parts of the shelves in the bookstores of today.

Impact of tourists’ perceived value on behavioral intention for mega events: Analysis of inbound and domestic tourists at Shanghai World Expo

Based on the survey data for 2120 inbound and domestic tourists at the Shanghai World Expo, a structural equation model was constructed for the relationship among tourists’ perceived value dimensions, behavioral intention and revisit intention. Additionally, the influence of tourists’ perceived value dimensions on the behavioral intention and revisit intention was explored. The results show that the utilitarian value and enjoyment value significantly affect the inbound and domestic tourists’ behavioral intention, while the convenience value and aesthetic value have no significant influence. The service value only significantly affects the domestic tourists’ behavioral intention, and the aesthetic value only significantly affects the inbound tourists’ behavioral intention. The utilitarian value, service value and enjoyment value significantly affect the inbound and domestic tourists’ revisit intention, while the convenience value only significantly affects the domestic tourists’ revisit intention. The utilitarian value is the primary factor affecting the inbound tourists’ behavioral intention and revisit intention, and the perceived price has no significant effect on either inbound or domestic tourists’ behavioral intention or revisit intention. The study explores the relationships between tourists’ perceived value, behavioral intention and revisit intention, analyzes the divergence and causation, theoretically enriches the research field of tourism geography and behavioral geography, and has great practical significance to the sustainable development of mega events in China, including the further development of the Shanghai World Expo.

Identity and sustainable development in rural tourism

There are many studies talking about the anonymity in which our country is sinking, in terms of international tourist identity, of the symbols that define us. We have never known how to promote ourselves using the unique elements that we have and not because we do not have these unique features, but because it is possible that we do not know or we have forgotten what really represents us. There were several initiatives, some of them recent and costly to create and promote a country brand, starting from tourism, but these did not have the expected impact. Why did not have the expected impact? Have we got an element/several elements that may render a sustainable image, not a temporary one, for us and for the Romanian rural tourism? Are the village, the traditions, and the gastronomy authentic elements of tourist identity for the Romanian village as an element within the tourist offer? What symbols, values, ideas, feelings, places, emotions, personalities, food, artistic expressions are by excellence truly Romanian? How many of us recognize them? These are only a couple of the many questions we try to answer, not desperately, but with the interest of the person who is not only in love with tourism, its values, with its message over time. The article tries to underline the role of identity in the promotion of a tourist product, the Romanian village, a valuable treasure up to the present based on an adequate methodology of the tourism geography research (questionnaires, diagnosis, analytical prospecting, etc.).

O Turismo e a Produção do Espaço: Perfil Geográfico de uma Prática Sócioespacial

Tourism as a field of study and research is multidisciplinary and, therefore, can not deny the sciences that will support the right to build methods and theories that explain it. The interest in studying the geography of tourism reflects the relevance of social, political, cultural and economic activity that has gained in recent times. Besides being a major element that can enable economic development of regions, which is relevant to geographical studies, it is understood as a social necessity imposed by current patterns of sociability, reflecting their political and cultural character, making it an important object of study to geography.

Some thoughts on the future research on leisure and tourism geography

Geography of leisure and tourism has made quite considerable progress since its beginnings in the 1930s. Looking back on the last decades of research, the thematic areas have broadened with regard to contents and topics. Approaches and methods have become more sophisticated, results more differentiated. However, there are still desiderata as well as shortcomings to be stated.

Travelling down the road to postdisciplinarity? Reflections of a tourism geographer

Like many other forms of scholarship in geography, tourism geography has evolved as a distinct subfield of inquiry within the discipline, although the contributions of tourism geographers are perhaps more readily acknowledged in the multidisciplinary realm of tourism studies. I trace the evolving relationship of tourism geography to both the discipline of geography and to the field of tourism studies. In doing so, I reflect on such influences as the role of institutions, paradigm shifts, technology, and other factors that affect the creation and management of geographic knowledge in the twenty‐first century. The intent of this article is two‐fold: first, to appeal to geographers for greater recognition of the importance of tourism as a quintessential component of geographic study that in today's world warrants integration into core aspects of geographic enquiry; second, to use current debates within both tourism studies and geography to reflect on issues of disciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, and even postdisciplinarity.