Travel Adventures Research Articles

Influence of information credibility of Instagram posts on tourist decision-making behaviour

This research tries to identify the influence of Instagram posts on the decision-making behaviour of tourists. Social media plays a pivotal role in today’s travel and tourism environment. It also determines how people perceive and choose a destination. Social media acts as a platform for people to discuss and share about travel adventures, providing detailed information that can widely influence the decision-making process among visitors. Response to social media sharing and information credibility are the independent variables. Prior knowledge and tourist decision-making are the dependent variables. The research also studies the moderating role of the authenticity of social media posts in shaping tourists' responses and choices. An online survey was conducted to collect primary data from 511 Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) respondents. The sampling design adopted was stratified random sampling. Analysis of moment structures (AMOS) was used to analyse the quantitative data collected. A structural equation modelling approach was used to analyse the data. The study reveals that Instagram and other platforms transform intangible aspects of destinations into tangible experiences, enriching tourists' knowledge. Influencers and user-generated content play a crucial role in decision-making. The authenticity of the post plays a crucial role in shaping the tourist’s decision-making process.

Generazioni di attori. Il carteggio di Adelaide con Maddalena Ristori e gli affanni della capocomica

This essay aims to submit a first survey of the substantial correspondence between Antonio and Maddalena Ristori, both actors, with their daughter Adelaide. The letters, preserved in the Museo Biblioteca dell’Attore in Genoa, allow us to reconstruct the private narrative of the great artist who tells about her travel adventures, her artistic and economic successes and her troubles as a woman, an actress and a capocomica. Her parents’ craft knowledge and ‘art’ relationships allow the actress to have information on actors and actresses to be hired in the company and updates on the performances’ trends staged in Florence where they live. The sequential consultation of the manuscripts finds out the Great Actress at the centre of a generational transmission of the craft and highlights the transformations that she introduced into the tradition. The correspondence, currently in the course of complete transcription, will be the subject of a forthcoming publication.

The greatest lie(s) ever told: Rush Limbaugh and the white supremacist blueprint in middle grades historical fiction

ABSTRACT U.S. libraries and classrooms are under siege by private and governmental entities working to simultaneously ban/remove justice-focused literature and inundate these spaces with reactionary/ultra-conservative materials. It is within this educational crisis that we conducted a critical content analysis of the award-winning, best-selling historical fiction series, Rush Revere: Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans by Rush Limbaugh. The analysis worked to answer two central research questions: How does the Rush Revere series promote white lies about U.S. history? and What curricular violence is enacted through the Rush Revere series? Findings illuminate how each book individually centralizes an aspect of white supremacy—exceptionalism, capitalism, militarism, patriotism, paternalism—that collectively then creates the infrastructure to indoctrinate young readers into white supremacist ideology.

No Time Like the Present: Tracing 19th-century Ideologies in 21st-century Time Travel Adventures

No Time Like the Present: Tracing 19th-century Ideologies in 21st-century Time Travel Adventures

Peculiarities of Satirical Reproduction of Travel Adventures in Regional Periodics

The purpose of scientific research is to explore the leading genres of satire and humor, which reproduce travel adventures and which were distributed in the Rivne press in the 1950–80s of the twentieth century. It is determined that the satirical reproduction of travel adventures in the pages of regional periodicals took place. The diversity of topics of travel adventures was revealed on the example of the content of the Rivne region press, the dynamics of the appearance of these texts on the pages of the Rivne newspapers «Chervonyi prapor» and «Zmina» was traced. The most important components of travel in the regional information space, in particular, performed by the traveler-narrator are outlined. It was found that a significant influence on the content of the travel adventure is exerted by the researcher-promoter, clearly expressing his own position.

A modern rendőrtisztképzés kínai megoldása

A múlt század egyik legjelesebb magyar geográfusa, Cholnoky Jenő (1870–1950) kínai utazásának eredményeit bemutató A sárkányok országából című könyvének előszavát a következőképpen kezdi: „Az intelligens magyar Közönség számára, nem a tudósoknak írtam ezt a könyvet. Kötelességemnek tartom utazásom élményeit, tapasztalataimat és felfedezéseimet olyan alakban közzétenni, hogy azt mindenki megértse.” E tanulmány írói természetesen nem hasonlíthatják magukat a neves tudóshoz, és nem is könyvet, csupán egy tudományos igényű útibeszámolót készítettek, viszont a szerzők ugyanúgy kötelességüknek tartják azt, hogy tanulmányútjuk tapasztalatait közzétegyék, hogy abból minél szélesebb körben szerezhessenek hasznos ismereteket a téma iránt érdeklődők, elsősorban a rendészeti felsőoktatásban dolgozók.

Emotional and Cognitive Drivers of Customer Satisfaction in Adventure Travel

Customer satisfaction has become the critical outcome variable in tourism where traveler experiences become electronic word of mouth (eWOM) for future visitors, yet the drivers of customer satisfaction in adventure travel are not well established in academic literature. This study relies on both qualitative and quantitative measures to examine visitor perceptions at a wild animal reserve to determine drivers of customer satisfaction in adventure travel. The theoretical framework extends Oliver's expectation disconfirmation theory to this new and growing sector that differs in that consumers are seeking out unexpected experiences in their travel adventures. This research addresses the role of expectations in a context where customers are seeking the unexpected. This work also incorporates Russell's circumplex theory of affect to illustrate the importance of achieving a positive, high activation state on the path to customer satisfaction. Findings indicate that perceptions of novelty, value, conservation focus, authentic cultural experience, and freedom of exploration are drivers of customer satisfaction, but perceptions of tranquility and the presence of animals are not. Results imply that the desire to seek animals or tranquil settings motivate the desire to book an adventure travel experience, but satisfaction with the experience itself will require the delivery of experiences that are undiscovered, unexpected, and go beyond consumers' preconceived notions. These novel experiences produce the high activation and positive disconfirmation that drive customer satisfaction in this unique travel context.

Ethnography and armchair visual artistry: Charles Nicolas Cochin’s illustrations of the Histoire générale des voyages

ABSTRACTFrom 1746 to 1759, the abbé Prévost produced the Histoire générale des voyages, a collection of voyages and travels, partially translated from the English collection A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels. Mostly known as the author of the novel Manon Lescaut (1731), Prévost was also recognised for his penmanship, his taste for travel adventures and for his scholarly translations of historical books. This article focuses on the involvement of French artist Charles-Nicolas Cochin in undertaking several images for the French collection. Cochin recycled the existing images from the English edition but also drew new illustrations for previously unillustrated portions of the text, renewing the text–image relationships at work. The comparison of both texts reveals cultural differences pertaining to the visual aesthetics of travel illustrations which, in turn, formed the basis for different representations of the faraway.

LIFE BEYOND THE BIG TOP: AFRICAN AMERICAN AND FEMALE CIRCUSFOLK, 1860–1920

At the turn of the twentieth century, most Americans celebrated the arrival of a circus. Circus Day had become a local holiday that brought together ethnicities, races, and classes (of both genders) that did not usually assemble at the same place and time. Within the circus itself, however, race and gender provided boundaries and fostered acrimony. The racism and segregation of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries could be found aboard any circus train and throughout every show lot. African Americans were relegated to certain jobs, segregated within those jobs, and usually paid less than their white counterparts. The show's scheduled route often took them into areas in which they experienced the racial volatility typical of the era. Although the public perception of circus employment often produced thoughts of travel and fun adventures, African American circusfolk endured harsh treatment, low pay, and vile racism.For African Americans, the work environment at a circus reflected the national social atmosphere, but female circus employees encountered conditions that most other women were not afforded. Indeed, female employees were confined to one or two train cars and lived under specific rules about when (or even if) they could entertain guests. Yet circus employment provided women with the ability to leave the restraints of the home during the height of Victorian domesticity, as well as the even rarer opportunity to outearn their male counterparts. Moreover, employment under the big top gave circuswomen a public platform to advocate for suffrage.

Turning Down the Sound: Travel Escapes in Washington's Small Towns by Foster Church

 Reviews the Royal College of Science and Technology in Glasgow, led to the present volume. After recounting that saga, the book dives into a deeply informed,profusely illustrated account of Scouler’s life before, during, and long after his epic Northwest voyage. Author E. Charles Nelson develops the context of Scouler’s work at Glasgow’s Andersonian Museum and includes a bibliography of his many publications . Pacific Northwest readers will revel in a complete transcription of Scouler’s manuscript journal, as well as a list of plants and animals that taxonomists named after him. The illustrations , which are well reproduced and range from period documents and scientific art to color photos of pertinent flora, complement the text all the way through. Although those same readers might not be quite as interested in the arcane pursuits or political misfortunes that occupied Scouler’s later years, this book does provide a larger view of an important early figure in Northwest natural science and ethnography. It does not shy away from the prickly aspects of Scouler’s character, or controversial actions such as his skull robbing from Mount Coffin shortly before the William and Ann departed from the Columbia River in the fall of 1826. Nelson also clarifies a somewhat mysterious voyage Scouler made to India between 1826 and 1829, about which little was previously known beyond a few specimens found in the Glasgow cabinets. In all, the man in question emerges not only as a polymath who could write papers on intestinal worms, fossil mammals, Celtic mythology, and Charles Darwin’s hypothesis concerning the “transmutation of species” but also as a contrarian, who, after a dispute with the captain, spent much of his visit to the Indian subcontinent confined to his cabin aboard ship.From every possible angle,Nelson presents a fuller picture of John Scouler than has ever been available before. Jack Nisbet Spokane, Washington TURNING DOWN THE SOUND: TRAVEL ESCAPES IN WASHINGTON’S SMALL TOWNS by Foster Church Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 2014. Illustrations, index. 190 pages. $17.95 paper. “The towns I describe in this book haven’t been gussied up to attract tourists, and at first glance, they may seem grim and worn,” says Foster Church in his introduction to Turning Down the Sound. “You may want to leave. But stick around. In the course of the day, the beauty of the town’s surroundings, the romance of its history, and the spirit of the people will become apparent. It will never seem the same again” (p. 10). Church’s earlier collection of travel essays, Discovering Main Street: Travel Adventures in Small Towns of the Northwest, featured places in Oregon, supplemented by a few southern Washington towns. This new compendium rounds out his survey of the Northwest with brief encapsulations of more than forty Washington communities — all outside the pull and the pall of Pugetopolis, the conurbation that dominates our regional perspective. Turning Down the Sound, like Church’s earlier guide, is not a history book: it is about the geography of place,the visible traces of human activity, nature’s handiwork, and humankind’s place in it. Church’s eye, however, is attuned to history and context. I took this book in hand when I planned a short trip that was motivated by the opportunity to see Palouse Falls in full flood and the spring-green garb of thePalouseHills.Church’s bookledmetothetownsof ColfaxandPalouse, born of the railroads that came in the 1880s and made large-scale wheat farming possible. Both are grim and worn,but you cannot escape acknowledging the aspirations that are evident inthebrickhousesof commerceonMainStreet and the shaded QueenAnne hillside residences. The book also led me to Naches, off Highway 12 northwest of Yakima. Naches is a classic  OHQ vol. 115, no. 4 by-passed town whose name (correctly but misleadingly) suggests a Southland connection. Naches is architecturally modest and wholly vernacular. The ubiquitous irrigation ditches reinforce its roots in orchard operations, and the tower of a repurposed Art Deco gas station at the town entrance marks the town’s former on-the-main-highway importance. The Natchez Hotel is makeshift and homey, and it has its own recent backstory; the bar across the street...

Discovering Main Street: Travel Adventures in Small Towns of the Northwest by Foster Church

 Reviews Discovering Main Street: Travel Adventures in Small Towns of the Northwest by Foster Church Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 2010. Maps, index. 192 pages. $18.95 paper. As a staff writer for the Portland Oregonian, Foster Church produced many an article on the sights and delights of small towns. This slim volume gathers four dozen of those pieces into a guide for off-the-freeway exploration in Oregon. Despite the title, Oregon is the focus: of the forty-seven entries, five deal with Washington towns, and all of those are but a stone’s throw from the Oregon boundary. The essays in Discovering Main Street are quite brief. Each locality is allocated three pages, sometimes a bit more. Each entry begins with a recent population figure and a note on highways and byways, and ends with a sentence about local lodgings and eateries. The paragraphs in between pay close attention to local history, providing a context for why the town came to be and which of its distinctive characteristics can be experienced today. Church directs visitors to proactively visit local chambers of commerce and talk with residents at the local bar or high school sports event,noting that we are usually “passive tourists” as we pass through small towns on our way to some other destination. “Visiting small towns as a tourist calls for a different mindset,” he notes (p. 8). Some investigation is required, and the effort is repaid. Church is an engaging writer and an adroit explorer. In erstwhile timber towns such as Oakridge and Powers, for example, he points out the recent evidence of entrepreneurial efforts to replace logging with such enterprises as brew pubs and bicycle tourism. (Somehow he overlooked the unusual and engaging annual cycle trek known as the Tour de Fronds, which wends through the rugged cutover forestlands between Powers and Glendale. But that only points up the fact that even in Powers, population 730, there is more of interest than meets even the discerning eye.) When they were first published in the Oregonian, Church’s photographs, or other contemporary images, were part of the package .Alas,neither those images nor any historical illustrations were admitted to the pages of the book, and that is unfortunate. A town like Spray,population 160,merits deservedly enticing words from Church. But if only the book had included the two stunning photographs that appear in his online version in the Oregonian ; then, you want to get in the car and head right on out there. Discovering Main Street is not a history book, but it displays a historical point of view. Local guidebooks often lack that perspective ; the “best places” genre looks for creature comforts, exquisite food and art, and shopping meccas. It would be unusual to find one noting, as Church does, the miniature beehive tabernacle of a splinter congregation of the Latter-Day Saints that graces Myrtle Point, a building that now houses a museum of logging history. The building is architecturally noteworthy, bespeaks an uncommon cultural and social history for the town, and connects the place to an industry that has now vanished from its townscape: logging. Church encourages us to consider other values when traveling — historical, social, scenic, and cultural — and alerts us to the fact that we can expect to find them on many an OregonbywayandMainStreet.Therearemany stories off the freeway,and Church’s handbook is an excellent enticement to find and learn from them. Richard H. Engeman Oregon Rediviva, LLC You can now receive your Oreogn Historical Quarterly subscription online. Call 503.306.5220 or send an e-mail to nic.mccarthy@ohs.org to find out more. ...

Memories: Failures and Dreams by Alain de Weck a Book Review

Professor Alain de Weck, born 1928, has written his memoirs, reason enough to recommend the book for members of the World Allergy Organization: Alain de Weck was a member of the Board of Directors for almost 30 years, organized an unforgettable World Congress 1988 in Montreux, and was President of the organization from 1991 to 1994. These memoirs are different from typical autobiographical notes where famous people tend to promote themselves and stress their importance. Alain de Weck does quite differently. On the basis of his personal experience, he reflects on many things in life--much more than the history of allergy! The basic steps toward the molecular of allergic responses were taken not only in protein biochemistry but also in the discovery of Immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies. At the same time, the model of penicillin allergy contributed greatly to the understanding of anaphylaxis. It was Alain de Weck's work, when he started in the laboratory of Herman Eisen in St. Louis, that finally led to the concept of hapten inhibition as a preventive modality in allergy. In those days it became clear that monovalent binding does not induce allergic reactions, but bridging of antibodies on the surface of the mast cell has to occur. Later on, Alain de Weck built up his Institute for Allergology and Clinical Immunology at the University of Bern, where he was engaged in various projects such as developing better diagnostic techniques with in vitro cellular assays and sulfidoleukotriene release from basophils after priming with Interleukin 3, T cell regulation, and IgE and anti-IgE antibodies. He describes how tuberculosis was treated in the 1930s before streptomycin and how doctors were living in Switzerland in the mountains. He also writes about the development of allergy and immunology in the second half of the 20th century, of all the pitfalls and great steps of progress. He vividly reflects on the culture in science, university life, and academic research. The reader receives in-depth information on the life of academic societies, not only the World Allergy Organization (WAO), formerly the International Association of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, but also the International Union of Immunologic Societies (IAACI), both of which Alain de Weck served as president--a rather rare coincidence in personal union! Other societies like the Collegium Internationale Allergologicum (CIA), the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (EAACI), the Swiss Society, and the German Society are mentioned. Furthermore, the reader learns much about Switzerland and life in Switzerland in the 20th century. Alain de Weck is a critical personality and this book has surely not been censured. He dares to mention names and illustrate facts even when they do not seem so favorable. He gives his very subjective, but well-observed, impressions of many countries in the world where he has traveled or worked; he quite openly comments on both the good and the less attractive characteristics of the different nationalities. He gives a classification of different typologies of researchers including the recognition seeker, the hair splitter, and the traveling salesman. Of course, readers accompany this great man through 80 years and learn a great deal, not just from his travel adventures in China, Mongolia, and Africa. At the end, he dares to give inner court reflections on important matters like men and women, thoughts which are often missing in official autobiographies. Taken together, this autobiographical book will bestow great pleasure to its readers--and not just to allergists and immunologists; but for them it should be a must read. Johannes Ring, MD, PhD Munich, Germany

Alternative Literature and Tourist Experience: Travel and Tourist Weblogs

The paper explores and initiates the examination and discussion of the cultural and promotional power of weblogs and blogging. Travel blogging is a form of digital story-telling. In the past tourism was considered a luxury of a few select people. Travel narratives were published and publicised in the form of brochures, monologues, newspaper accounts, novellas, novels, sketches and paintings. As the world evolved and travel became available to greater groups in society, these written staples captivated and inspired generations. The later part of the 20th century has ear marked the coming of age of Internet technology and traditional forms of tourist communication are being transformed into a more modern electronic version. The Internet has fostered a recent resurgence in journaling of travel adventures and self publication. Blogs are a visual and written descriptive of the day to day excursion of a tourist society. The purpose of this paper is to examine this form of narrative in a modern age and initiate arguments of the discussion within three initial paradigms: (1) tourism as a language, (2) tourism as a place of experiences in space and time and (3) the authenticity of tourism.

Narrating the news: new journalism and literary genre in late nineteenth-century American newspapers and fiction

Due to a burgeoning print marketplace during the late nineteenth century, urban newspapers felt pressure to create entertaining prose that appealed to readers, drawing on popular literary genres such as travel adventures, detective tales, and historical romances as a way of framing the news for readers. Using current events for their source documents, reporters fashioned their own dramas based on those that readers recognized from a broadly drawn literary culture. The desire to spin attractive, popular tales sometimes came at the expense of factual information. This novel, commercialized, and sensationalistic style of reporting, called was closely tied to American fiction. In Narrating the News Karen Roggenkamp examines five major stories featured in three respected New York newspapers during the 1890s - the story of two antebellum hoaxes, Nellie Bly's around-the-world journey, Lizzie Borden's sensational trial, Evangelina Cisneros's rescue from her Spanish captors, and the Janet Cooke Jimmy's World scandal - to illustrate how new journalism manipulated specific segments of the literary marketplace. These case studies are complemented by broader cultural analyses that touch on vital topics in literary and cultural studies - gender, expansionism, realism, and professionalization. Unlike previously published studies of literature and journalism, which focus only on a few canonical figures, Roggenkamp looks at part of the history of mass print communications more generally exposing the competitive and reinforcing interplay between specific literary genres and their journalistic revisions. Narrating the News provides an original, significant contribution to the fields of literature, journalism history, and cultural studies.

Reaching Beyond the United States: Adventures in International Adult Education and Human Resource Development

Travel adventures originated way back in my life when I was a young grade school boy in Southwestern Michigan. My father and mother talked about our family making an automobile trip to California; this was immediately after World War II. The closest we came to California was traveling to Kansas City for the purpose of bringing my oldest sister home for the summer from college. However, on the way home, the boxes of her belongings fell off the top of the car in the middle of the night. We stopped to pick them up and went on home--quite an adventure it was! Developing an International Interest In high school, my two sisters and I traveled as a musical evangelistic team to various churches in six Southeastern United States. I also traveled to Chicago many limes to visit my sisters during their time in college. During my college days in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, I went on a wonderful month-long choir tour in 14 Western states and Mexico--my first international venture. Through my theological seminary male chorus and quartet, I toured in six Midwestern states. I also heard about my seminary professors' international study visits to the Holy land. My honeymoon travels took my wife and me to 13 Eastern states in the United States and to Canada. Our pastoral ministry also found us in other new places. My preparation for becoming an adult educator moved us from central Illinois to Boston University, and my curiosity was piqued as I heard adult educators and human resource developers describe their international work. All these adventures stirred my penchant for travel and interest in international adult education, but my inclination incubated for a number of years. Highlights of My International Work After many years in the field, I was afforded my first and second international opportunities in adult education (AE) and human resource development (HRD). The year was 1985, and the countries were Brazil, through the Partners of the Americas; and Germany, through the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) and The German Adult Education Association. In the ensuing 22 years, exponential growth of my international AE and HRD work has taken me on 30 different journeys to 14 countries, where I primarily focused on andragogy--the art and science of helping adults learn (Knowles, 1980). I have also had numerous foreign students in my adult education courses at the University of Missouri. Thus, I have worked with adult learners from 76 countries. My international AE and HRD work in multiple formats includes presenting papers at international AE and HRD conferences and presenting papers about my participation in international AE and HRD at conferences in the United States. I have facilitated numerous AE and HRD courses, workshops, seminars, conferences, concurrent sessions, and keynote addresses in various international countries, as well as conducted adult learning courses, workshops, seminars, and conferences for various foreign delegations coming to the United States. Furthermore, in 2004 and 2005, I chaired the Commission on International Adult Education (CIAE) Pre-Conference of AAACE. I am a member of the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame (IACEHOF) and serve on its Strategic Planning Committee. Countries and Learner Organizations With Whom I Have Worked I have been fortunate to work in numerous countries, including Brazil, Germany, Peoples' Republic of China, South Africa, Canada, Slovenia, Egypt, Jordan, Cyprus, United Kingdom, Thailand, Hong Kong, Australia, and Italy. Groups I have worked with in various countries include university and college faculty, corporate AE, HRD, and health care professionals, correctional educators, municipal judges, community, church, and other religious leaders, public and private school teachers, and business and industry executives, just to name a few. …

Ordered Porous Materials for Emerging Applications

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Ordered porous materials for emerging applications.

"Space--the final frontier." This preamble to a well-known television series captures the challenge encountered not only in space travel adventures, but also in the field of porous materials, which aims to control the size, shape and uniformity of the porous space and the atoms and molecules that define it. The past decade has seen significant advances in the ability to fabricate new porous solids with ordered structures from a wide range of different materials. This has resulted in materials with unusual properties and broadened their application range beyond the traditional use as catalysts and adsorbents. In fact, porous materials now seem set to contribute to developments in areas ranging from microelectronics to medical diagnosis.