National Tour Research Articles

Exploring the Prospects for Tourism Development in China and Arab Countries under the Belt and Road Initiative: Taking Algeria as an Example

With the in-depth development of the “Belt and Road” strategy, the tourism development of countries along the route is in full swing. This new strategic concept of travel culture not only covers hundreds of tourist routes in many regions of the country, but also has huge connections with the vast number of Arab countries. Nowadays, the “Belt and Road” national tour will be the development trend of the tourism industry. It is of great practical significance to study the development prospects of tourism in Arab countries under the Belt and Road Initiative.

A Conversation with Nadina Hassan

Abstract: In a video interview with Journal of Singing Associate Editor Melissa Treinkman on May 19, 2023, musical theatre performer Nadina Hassan discussed her career and her experience playing Regina George in the first national tour of Mean Girls . She described what it felt like to be a role model for young performers of color, revealed the challenges of life on tour, and expressed her appreciation for her singing teachers. A QR code is included at the end of the article which contains the link to the recorded interview with Nadina Hassan, posted on the NATS YouTube channel.

Exploring the career challenges of female tour guides in the Sri Lankan travel and tourism industry: Social Role Theory perspective

This paper aims to understand what barriers have resulted in the poor representation of female tour guides in the Sri Lankan travel and tourism industry. The study's design employed a qualitative approach to gain in-depth insights into the experiences of female tour guides, utilising thematic analysis as the analytical strategy. Three main themes emerged from the qualitative research findings of the interviewed female national tour guides: the feminine gender identity of female tour guides, the gender role of women, and gender stereotypes. Firstly, the feminine gender identity of female tour guides presents how femininity contradicts the tour guide's occupational role in the Sri Lankan context. Secondly, gender stereotypes prevalent in familial, work, and broader societal spheres hinder the success of female tour guides in their careers. Finally, socially constructed gender roles impose additional obstacles for women pursuing careers as tour guides. Consequently, these constraints impede women's fulfilment of their social role, creating a challenging atmosphere to be a female tour guide in Sri Lanka. This research suggested that it is the responsibility of government bodies to ensure equal opportunities for females to take up the tour guide occupation.

“Meeting Martha”: An Affrilachian Performance Aesthetics In Martha Redbones’ Bone Hill

Abstract: Musician Martha Redbone is an Appalachian-born Black Indigenous woman with wide visibility, whose artistry highlights how race, place, indigeneity, and class inform what it means to be American. This essay on Martha Redbone, highlights the artists’ activism on stage across cultures, Black, Indigenous, and Appalachian, showcasing the nuances of Black belonging in the region. Redbone’s Bone Hill: The Concert is a musical that tells the stories of her female ancestors growing up in Appalachia. Artistically, Redbone embeds an awareness of region and race within her musical compositions, a strategy I am naming as explicitly Affrilachian. Martha Redbone’s aesthetic interventions as a Black Indigenous artist creating national touring productions about her roots in the region highlights the ongoing influence of Black artistry in America as well as offers historical perspectives on Black and Indigenous experiences in the Appalachian region.

Enhancing Tour Guide Training for Delivering Nature-Based Tourism Experiences in a Developing Country

ABSTRACT Tour guides provide frontline services to the nature-based tourism industry, but research is limited on how to enhance their training, especially in developing countries. The present study investigates tour guide training requirements, preferred modes and content for training delivery, and the challenges of offering nature-based tourism experiences in Sri Lanka. Informed by stakeholder theory, we used a mixed-method approach to gain the views of key stakeholders, using a questionnaire-based survey and interviews to sample both national tour guides and key informants in Sri Lanka. Two-thirds of the survey respondents expressed interest in tour guide training, particularly online or workshop-based training on subject-specific knowledge such as wildlife and plant life, local cultural history, marine life, and tropical ecology. Also, quarter of the tour guides did not perceive training needs and note the practicalities of participating in training opportunities. Both tour guides and key informants recognize the challenges of the nature-based tourism industry in Sri Lanka, lack of adequate visitor facilities provided at the entrance and inside of parks, along with overcrowding and visitor safety issues. We recommend increasing awareness of the varied functions of tour guides and the importance of training to ensure a high quality of service delivery.

We Are Commoners: A Craftspace National Touring Exhibition, Curated by Emma Daker and Deirdre Figueiredo

Review of: We Are Commoners: A Craftspace National Touring Exhibition, Curated by Emma Daker and Deirdre Figueiredo The Civic, Barnsley, 5 February–23 April 2022

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Nocoastjazz

Sons of Kemet, Gorilla, Manchester, United Kingdom—February 19, 2022

Sons of Kemet, Gorilla, Manchester, United Kingdom—February 19, 2022

The tour guide role in the United Arab Emirates: Emiratisation, satisfaction and retention

This paper examines the job satisfaction levels of national tour guides in the United Arab Emirates. In-depth interviews (n = 34) and a questionnaire (n = 63), incorporating Job Satisfaction Survey dimensions alongside context-specific ones, were used to assess continuance intentions in relation to career development opportunities and societal sentiment on the ‘appropriateness’ of this vocational role. While the nature of the job and promotional opportunities strengthened continuance intentions, stigma towards nationals working in the tourism sector reduced such intentions. A recommendation that fits with the UAE’s goal of better utilising indigenous human capital is to augment the hands-on aspect of the job with academically orientated tasks including archiving, curation and research and thus, raise this role’s status.

A case study in building HVAC systems noise control for the air-conditioning retrofit of a historic theatre

The art deco Egyptian Theatre in DeKalb, Illinois, is one of only 5 remaining 'Egyptian' theatres in the United States. This 1400-seat theatre opened in 1929 with a program that was part motion picture house and part vaudeville theatre. In the present day, the theatre is owned and operated by a non-profit organization and hosts a full schedule of community events, national touring acts, and films. Until the recent renovation and installation of air-conditioning, these events were halted during the hot summer months. The constraints imposed by the existing constructions complicated the heating ventilation and air-conditioning system design and presented challenges for the acoustical analysis. This paper describes the noise mitigation that was designed into the theatre's new heating ventilation and air-conditioning system. It presents the challenges of retrofitting the historic building and the noise control analysis that was performed. It concludes with a presentation of the noise levels that were achieved.

The Dance Company Film

The Dance Company Film

Performance Indicators for Energi Management of Tourism in The Pangururan District Kabupaten Samosir

. The Lake Toba area is a national tourist area visited by various tourists both from within and outside the country, and is included in the 88 national tours which are the parent of tourism development in Indonesia. One of the infrastructures that must be considered is the availability of electrical energy sources in the tourist area of ​​Lake Toba. Pangururan District as one of the tourism and administrative areas in the Lake Toba area must have sufficient electrical energy needs and become sustainable tourism. The purpose of this study was to examine the Performance of Tourism Energy Management in Pangururan District, Samosir Regency with an approach to analyzing the level of energy use and conservation, energy management programs, and utilization of renewable energy sources. The research method used is direct field observation and literature study, both theory and supporting documents in the research, which is then analyzed by interpreting the data obtained based on the theory and applicable policies. The results of this study are to identify that the need for electrical energy in the tourist area in the Pangururan sub-district is quite evenly distributed and the need for electrical energy is also met, but in the tourist area in the Pangururan sub-district conservation activities and the use of sustainable energy sources carried out by the government and the tourism business unit are still very low. a little. In addition, this research is expected to be a source of knowledge about Energy Management in the Tourism Sector.

In Case You Haven't Heard…

The Biden administration announced March 2 a nationwide tour to address mental health challenges exacerbated by the pandemic, another sign the United States may have reached what the president said in his State of the Union address is “a new moment in the fight against COVID‐19,” USA Today reported. The National Tour to Strengthen Mental Health, led by Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra, aims to hear directly from Americans about the behavioral health challenges they're facing and engage with local leaders to strengthen services. “From small towns to big cities, I'll be traveling nationwide with members of my leadership team to meet with people who have been hit particularly hard, and partnering with local leaders to find ways to save lives in our communities,” Becerra said. Over the next few months, the administration also will announce new initiatives to increase the number of behavioral health professionals and support workers in underserved communities, expand pediatric mental health care access through telehealth services and transition to 988, the new suicide and crisis hotline. Throughout the tour, Becerra also will listen and gather ideas about what more HHS can do to address issues like substance abuse, youth mental health and suicide.

Elit ve Elit Olmayan Korfbol Sporcularının Beden Kitle İndeksi ve Vücut Kompozisyonlarının Cinsiyete Göre Değerlendirilmesi: Tanımlayıcı-Karşılaştırmalı Çalışma

Objective: The aim of the study was to compare the body mass index (BMI) and body compositions of elite and non- elite play- ers by gender in korfball, a mixed-gender team sport. Material and Methods: Thirty-nine athletes aged 17-30, 20 national athletes play- ing in international tournaments, and 19 playing only in national tour- naments voluntarily participated in the study. Body compositions of the participants were evaluated by using a Bluetooth-based device, BiodyXpert Bioimpedance. Fat%, fat weight, lean body weight (LBW), bone mineral content, total water, and basal metabolic rate were evaluated. Results: The BMI, %fat, LBW of the elite female and male players respectively is (21.00±2.73kg/m2, 22.17±4.93, 47±4.31); (22.88±3.23 kg/m2, %14.88±5.51, 64.13±6.2kg). The BMI, %fat, LBW of the non-elite female and male players respectively is (20.33±2.90 kg/m2, %21.58±5.00, 44.5±4.1kg); (21±3.00 kg/m2, %13.86±5.55, 62.71±1.16 kg). Height, weight, %fat, muscle mass and LBW values of elite athletes were found to be significantly higher than those of non- elite athletes (p<0.05). There was no significant difference in BMI and height values between the two groups (p<0.05). Conclusion: BMI and fat% of elite and non-elite female and male korfball players are within normal limits. LBW is higher in elite athletes than in non-elite athletes. As in other sports, fat % and fat weight are higher in female athletes than men, and LBW is higher in men. This difference is thought to be due to the physiological difference between men and women.

Group creativity in adolescence: Relational, material and institutional dimensions of creative collaboration

Background Studies of group creativity have focused on adults acting in professional settings, with less attention paid to how adolescents collaborate in groups in creative activities. Building on sociocultural perspectives on imagination as a complex capacity in adolescence, this study examines students’ creative-imagining processes and the role of peer influence in group collaboration. Methods The setting of the study is a two-day museum-led workshop on the topic of architecture, which was produced for a national touring program for middle schools. Video data of students’ collaborative interactions comprise the primary data for the analysis. Findings The study identifies material, institutional and relational aspects of group creativity in adolescence. A key finding is how creative influence is socially negotiated when merit-based knowledge and authority in an art domain are not valued. The study also finds that students’ interactions in creative activity may be viewed as evidence of learning processes even without consensus in the group. Contributions This research contributes new understandings of adolescents’ creative-imagining processes and creative influence in arts-based learning activities in middle school. Principles for arts-based learning designs are presented:the appropriateness of materials; designing for knowledge dependency in open-ended tasks; and facilitating productive forms of creative influence.

Dental training roadshow goes on national tour

Dental training roadshow goes on national tour

Pulsing bodies and embodying pulse: musical effervescence in a South African HIV/AIDS community outreach program

Early in South Africa’s HIV/AIDS crisis, entertainment education emerged as a powerful vehicle for communicating health and social messaging to combat the epidemic. Applied theatre now accounts for the majority of arts-based HIV interventions in sub-Saharan Africa, and continues a history of theatre for social change in South Africa in particular. While much has been written about the dramaturgical and communication theories that support such interventions, the role of music, a formidable tool in the applied theatre intervention arsenal, has received considerably less attention within applied arts intervention scholarship. This paper draws from Durkheim’s collective effervescence to propose a theoretical approach to music within the creation and maintenance of effervescent assemblies that is being employed by HIV/AIDS interventions to encourage participation in HIV testing. The theoretical model of musical effervescence is situated within ethnographic fieldwork conducted while accompanying an applied HIV/AIDS theatre company on a national tour of South Africa.

The Revolutionary Intertextuality of Molora by Yäel Farber

This article focuses on the challenging intertextual phenomenology characterising the play Molora by South African playwright and director of international acclaim Yäel Farber. Premiered in Grahamstown in 2003, and published in 2008 after award-winning national and international tours, Molora is a radical adaptation of Aeschylus’ Oresteia. It dramatises the challenges faced by South Africa in the highly-charged post-Apartheid aftermath, through dramatic confrontations between Klytemnestra, Elektra, and Orestes echoing the testimonies delivered by perpetrators and victims on the TRC’s ‘stage’, and through a chorus made up of seven Xhosa matriarchs belonging to the Ngquoko split-tone singers, who witness, comment on and significantly participate in the play’s action. Molora’s complex intertextual construction and dynamic are shown to call for a hermeneutical approach careful to avoid simplifying presentifications, as well as any possible fracture with extratextuality. Intertextuality, in fact, is here given the task to creatively and syncretically combine the ancient Greek text with the indigenous Xhosa text through a process of transcultural imbrication that, from beginning to end, exudes the tragedies of all-too-present history while instantiating a revolutionary use of memory.

Is, träd och andra feministiska figurationer. Klimatforskning och den scenkonstnärliga sinnlighetens betydelse

This article investigates the ways in which research on climate change and performing arts converge, intersect, and fertilize each other. Through conversation, the researchers examine the questions: What can researchers learn from art-based work methods regarding knowledge and management of climate change? What can be embodied in a scientific text, or conveyed through performing arts? The article is inspired by approaches to epistemology and ontology in stage arts. The text takes the form of a dialogue between two researchers: one with a background in the field of feminist and intersectional climate research, one with a background in feminist and intersectional cultural studies and studies of performing arts. Taking conceptual departure in what is labelled by, amongst others, Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti as feminist figurations, the authors investigate the intersections and differences between climate research and performing arts. Empirically, the article is based on two performances: The National Park (Nationalparken) and The Polar Travellers (Polarfararna), both produced within the Swedish national touring theatre Riksteatern’s thematic initiative Human and Nature. The theoretical framework of the article is dialogic and rests on the work of amongst others Viktor Shklovsky, Peggy Phelan, Mark Carey, Jamie Lorimer, Bruno Latour, and Judith Butler.

The history of Scotland's ACEs movement: grounded in a focus on relationships

As 2021 commences, Scotland finds itself in the midst of a dynamic movement driven by awareness of the science of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). That drive comes from unparalleled grassroots interest as well as moves towards reform in public services. This article traces the history of Scotland's ACEs journey, published, to our knowledge, for the first time in an academic journal. The start of the movement is dated to 2005, when the newly founded Violence Reduction Unit adopted a developmentally informed, public health approach to reducing Scotland's high rate of violence. In 2017, a national tour of the documentary film Resilience sparked widespread public engagement. It demonstrates that, from the outset, the Scottish movement has been grounded in a focus on relationships. This aligns it with an attachment perspective, posing an interesting contrast with the epidemiological origins of the ACE Study itself and the associated movement that has since emerged in the USA. The significance of this distinction has received insufficient consideration, perhaps because the trajectory of the Scottish ACEs movement has not been apparent. This article provides that narrative and reflects on its theoretical and practical implications.