Travel Books Research Articles

Aen de zuydtzijde van nova zembla… Dutch travel books of the 17th and 18th centuries in the library of Wrocław university (Poland)

Aen de zuydtzijde van nova zembla… Dutch travel books of the 17th and 18th centuries in the library of Wrocław university (Poland)

KESAYETA EDEBÎ YA İHSAN SUREYYA SIRMA

İhsan Sureyya Sırma, di sala 1944an da li Xesxêra Sêrtê hatîye dinyayê. Ew îlahîyatnas û seyyah e. Wi di jîyana xwe da gelek berhem nivîsandine. Mijara berhemên wî bi piranî li ser dîroka Îslamê ne û çend berhemên wî jî wek berhemên edebî têne qebûlkirin. Ew piştî ku li Parîsê doxtora xwe diqedîne vedigere welatê xwe di demeke kurt da li Tirkîyeyê û li dinyayê tê naskirin Gelek kes di bin tesîra kesayeta wî û berhemên wî da mane. Ew ne kesek edebîyatnas e lê wî du pirtûkên helbestan û sê pirtûkên wek edebî têne qebûlkirin nivîsandine. Her çiqas ew bi eslê xwe Kurd e û zimanê dayîka wî jî kurdî ye wî, berhemên xwe bi Tirkî nivîsandin e. Tenê berhema xwe ya bi nav ê “Sen Geldîn” xwe bi xwe wergerandîye zimanê dayîka xwe. Zimanê wî zimanek hêsan û herikbar e. Ew ne tenê zimanê Kurdî û Tirkî dizane, di gel van zimanan wek Erebî û Fransizî û gelek zimanên din jî dizane. Taybetîya wî ya herî muhîm ew e ku ew, him rojhilatanavîn nasdike him jî Avrûpayê. Di vê gotarê da jîyan û berhemên İhsan Sureyya Sırma yên edebî hatine nasandin û kesayeta wî ya edebî hatîye nirxandin.

Technical Setbacks Encountered in Internet Based Travel Booking Applications

This study aims at identifying the factors which influence the customers to use cab apps. Due to the continuous growth and usage of internet and smart phones the service industry has widened their services through online mobile apps. Some major factors are identified through this study and anova and chi-square are used for data analysis. It is found from the study that consumers are mostly influenced by advanced booking technology and view on multiple devices. (Key words: convenience, advanced booking, cab apps, view on multiple devices)..

İkbalden Zevale: Sultan II. Abdülhamid’in Mâbeyn-i Hümâyûnundan Kazanlı Ahmed Nermi Bey

Ahmed Nermi Bey was an immigrant from Kazan who migrated to Istanbul. After immigrating to Istanbul, he entered the Civil Service (Mulkiye) and graduated with a diploma in political sciences after a five-year education period. Due to Sultan II. Abdulhamid's interest in the graduates of the Civil Service (Mulkiye), he was appointed as a Russian teacher to the Military School (Mekteb-i Harbiye) on after his graduation, and he was included among the Mâbeyn (the palace secretariat) translators after a short time. Ahmed Nermi Bey was an important figure who translated hundreds of books and travel books for the Sultan and made special efforts to inform the Sultan about the news from Russia and Russian Muslims. However, when Sultan II. Abdulhamid fell from power, Ahmed Nermi Bey has also lost his job, and after many tough years, he finally ended his life by committing suicide from hunger. Ahmed Nermi Bey's name has only been mentioned with his translations since he could not reach a higher position in the bureaucracy, and other details of his life have not been touched upon until now. In this study, evaluations will be made about the life of Ahmed Nermi Bey, which started in Kazan and ended with suicide in an unknown place in Anatolia.

One-man Canoe: Meandering a Turkish River with Jeremy Seal

As a contemporary travel writer and journalist, Jeremy Seal has been travelling and writing for over twenty years with a special enthusiasm for Turkey. His first publication on Turkey was appeared in 1995 with the title of A Fez of the Heart: Travels Around Turkey in Search of a Hat (1995), which is a deeply instructive piece of present-day history as well as an entertaining insight into the soul of contemporary Turkey. Later publications of Seal cover The Sneakebite Survivors’ Club: Travels among Serpents (1999), The Wreck at Sharpnose Point: A Victorian Mystery (2002), Santa: A Life (2005) and his recent travel book Meander: East to West Along a Turkish River (2012). This paper scrutinizes his last non-fiction Meander arguing that Seal nourishes his masterpiece both with the elements of travel literature and guidebooks of the touristic fashion. Therefore, he creates a unique form of literature encapsulating the new form of contemporary travel guidebooks. Foremost aim of this paper is to demonstrate Seal’s Meander as both in the tradition of travel literature and touristic guidebook.

ENSAYO Y PERIODISMO ITALIANO SEGÚN LAS VERSIONES DE CARMEN DE BURGOS, COLOMBINE

Carmen de Burgos destaca en la literatura novecentista por suprolífica obra como narradora y periodista, aunque también fueautora de textos académicos, libros de viajes, ensayos y poesía.Una de las facetas de su producción más interesantes ydesconocidas es la de editora y traductora, tarea que desempeñóen distintas editoriales progresistas, desde la valenciana Sempereo Maucci de Barcelona a Serra y Rivadeneyra en Madrid. Conrespecto a la cultura italiana, a partir de la edición crítica de laobra de Leopardi publicada en 1911, Colombine mantuvo unconstante interés por la literatura y la prensa del joven país. Eneste artículo se analizan las versiones de los ensayos de PaoloMantegazza, Roberto Bracco y otros periodistas que descubrió ensu primer viaje a Italia y sucesivamente editó en España a fin depromover la reflexión sobre la condición de la mujer moderna.

THE BOOKSHELF OF THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY IN PULA IS (NO LONGER) THE LAST STATION OF THE TRAVEL

When arriving by train from the North to Istria, the last stop is the railway station in Pula, so the Library is the last station for travel books. We searched our fund for the travelogues exhibition and found that we have very little travelogues about Istria, and disproportionately more travelogues about distant parts of the world. The catalogs of other libraries in Europe and the world show many travel books about Istria, which are digitalised and now can be read on the internet.

Technology Acceptance Model to Judge Performance of Travel Booking Apps in India using Grounded Theory

The objective of research is to develop a technology acceptance model in order to judge performance of travel booking apps using grounded theory approach. The variables of the model are then tested using quantitative data. Initially qualitative data was collected through structured interviews and it was subjected to three levels of coding, i.e. open coding, axial coding and selective coding which is called the grounded theory approach. The concepts generated from coding were then integrated into a model. The research is useful for travel aggregators in order to enhance consumer experience in using travel apps. The important contribution to the body of knowledge is development of the model using grounded theory approach which has not been done in any previous research.

A formal approach to the engineering of domain-specific distributed systems

We review some results regarding specification, programming and verification of different classes of distributed systems which stemmed from the research of the Concurrency and Mobility Group at University of Firenze. More specifically, we examine the distinguishing features of network-aware programming, service-oriented computing, autonomic computing, and collective adaptive systems programming. We then present an overview of four different languages, namely Klaim, Cows, Sceland AbC. For each language, we discuss design choices, present syntax and semantics, show how the different formalisms can be used to model and program a travel booking scenario, and describe programming environments and verification techniques.

Impact of cashback usage restriction exemption on travel booking: a goal-directed approach

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of cashback usage restriction exemption (CURE) on travelers’ intention to prefer a brand’s mobile application (m-app). Using a mixed-method approach, we have established that the CURE enhances the intention to use a brand’s m-app. It was observed that the subjective norms, perceived behavioural control, anticipated positive emotions, and frequency of past behaviour affected the travelers’ desire to use a particular brand’s m-app for travel bookings if CURE is provided. Moreover, if CURE is added as an additional construct to the model, then the extended Model of Goal-Directed Behaviour (MGB) predicts the intention better than the extended Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB).

The Drama of Ekphrastic Affect: Sculpture in Evliyâ Çelebi’s The Book of Travels

Abstract Ekphrasis or rendering a visual object in writing, a form of ancient Greek and Roman rhetoric, has been recognized as a literary device since the description of Achilles’s shield in Homer’s Iliad. This article will examine Evliyâ Çelebi’s ekphrastic rendering of certain works of sculpture in Seyahatnâme (The Book of Travels) and demonstrate the working of culture, creed, and aesthetic taste in the ekphrastic narrativity of foreign works of art. As ekphrasis is affect par excellence, the argument of this paper rests on the possibility of normative and cultural control of affect, contrary to the concept of affect that exclusively refers to the neurosciences of subliminal response and emotion or to the idea that affect is simply the sum total of corporeal responses to physical stimuli. As I try to demonstrate through a close reading of Çelebi’s ekphrastic passages on sculpture in his Seyahatnâme, ekphrastic writing can rest on both aspects of affect: its subliminal as well as intentional states.

Using Ethnography and Narrative Analysis to Uncover Customer Agency: Intrepid Travel's Online Booking Project

This paper draws on a discovery research project focused on the customer experience of Intrepid Travel's automated booking system. The Data Analytics team initially investigated customer behaviour when booking and found problems with high exit rates on the first and second steps of the 3‐step booking process. A paradox was also found between the numeric NPS and CES scores for booking, and comments which revealed high volumes of customers requiring assistance from customer service to complete their online booking. The Product Manager for this project prioritised an extended discovery research phase to provide a more holistic understanding of the customer experience of online booking and answer some questions that arose from customer behaviours highlighted by the Data Analytics team. The UX Researcher's task was to design a research project that would analyse why customers were struggling to complete Intrepid Travel's automated booking process and provide recommendations to improve this system for a better customer experience.The UX Researcher designed a qualitative research project with an ethnographic approach, which aimed to provide a detailed understanding of customer experience of Intrepid Travel's automated booking system. The project involved real customers completing actual online bookings, with participants from Australia, North America and Europe having their face, screen and voice being recorded in discussion with a moderator. These usability sessions highlighted customer's experience of decision‐making, especially how the design of the booking system impacted a customer's sense of confidence, clarity and control. Ultimately, the results from this study demonstrated that Intrepid Travel's automated booking system negatively impacted customer's sense of agency in relation to their booking. The design and functionality of the choices presented to customers removed their ability to make decisions independently and instead caused confusion and a feeling of loss of control for customers. Using real customers who were engaged emotionally and psychologically with the booking process was crucial in uncovering agency as a causal factor in a negative customer experience with Intrepid Travel's booking system.These details of the customer experience were highlighted in collaborative workshops with stakeholders and the product team facilitated by the UX Researcher. Two synthesis and analysis workshops were conducted with the aim of bringing stakeholders closer to the customer experience and engaging them directly with customer research. The Narrative Analysis workshop especially was impactful in drawing out customer's tacit needs, highlighting customer agency as integral to positive engagement with an automated system. Both collaborative workshops were successful in engaging stakeholders in how online systems can fundamentally impact customers emotionally and psychologically and pushing the customer journey beyond highlighting ‘pain points’ to solve with design.This case study demonstrates the value of digital ethnography in uncovering how an automated system impacted Intrepid customer's ability to maintain agency in decision‐making when booking a trip online. This research uncovered significant design problems and the findings created a platform for UX design principles that ensure that redevelopment of Travel's online booking system centres on customer agency.

20. Yüzyılın İlk Yarısında Lübnan’da Arap Milliyetçiliğinin Edebiyatçı ve Çevirmen Önderlerinden Birisi: Flîks Fâris

Arap çeviri tarihinde bireysel bir bilimsel etkinlik olarak görülen çevirinin devlet politikası kabul edildiği, devlet tarafından teşvik edilerek desteklendiği, bunun da ötesinde çevirmenlerin siyasi otorite tarafından yönlendirildiği iki dönem vardır. Bunlardan birincisi Abbasi halifelerinden 2. Mansur döneminde başlatılan ve Me’mun döneminde zirveye ulaşarak kurumsallaşan dönemdir. Bu dönemin çevirileri genellikle tıp, kozmografya, mühendislik ve mantık ile ilgili olup, daha çok Farsça ve Sanskritçe gibi ara dil üzerinden Arapçaya yapılmıştır. Bu nedenle dönemi felsefi-tıbbî çeviri dönemi olarak isimlendirebiliriz. İkinci dönem 1773 yılında Katolik Hıristiyan grupların Fransa’dan Lübnan’a göç ederek, burada birçok okul kurmalarıyla başlayıp Kavalalı Mehmet Ali Paşa’nın Mısır valiliği döneminde (1805-1848) zirveye ulaşan dönemdir. Avrupa üniversitelerinin ders kitaplarının ve mühendislik bilimlerinin Arapçaya çevirisine ağırlık verildiği bu dönemi de bilimsel çeviri dönemi olarak isimlendirebiliriz. 1850’lı yıllarda Batıda dil ve çeviri eğiti alarak ülkelerine dönen burslu öğrencilerin Avrupa ülkelerinde tanıdıkları öykü, hikâye, roman, masal, tiyatro, anı, seyahatname gibi edebi türleri Arapçaya çevirmeleriyle başlayan dönemi de edebi çeviri dönemi olarak isimlendirebiliriz. Bu dönemde çevrilen eserler öncelikli olarak özgürlük, eşitlik ve kardeşlik temalarını ele alarak Fransız ihtilalini Arap ülkelerine yaymayı hedeflediğinden bu dönemi ideolojik çeviri dönemi olarak adlandırmak da mümkündür. 1882 Lübnan doğumlu Flîks Fâris edebi/ideolojik çeviri döneminin önde gelen temsilcilerinden birisidir. Şair, hatip, yazar, çevirmen ve hukukçu birisidir. Arap olmasına karşın İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyetinin Lübnan sorumlusudur. Osmanlı devletinin Lübnan’ı idaresine şiddetle karşı çıkmış, bu uğurda başta gazete ve dergiler olmak üzere edebiyat mahfilleri, gizli cemiyetler ve masonik yapılanmalarla omuz omuza mücadele ederek, Suriye ve Lübnan’da Osmanlı karşıtı bir Arap milliyetçilik akımının başlaması ve Arap ulus devlet anlayışın gelişmesi için elinden gelini yapmıştır.

Situation Analytics and Model-based User Interface Development: A Synergetic Approach for Building Runtime-Adaptive Business Applications

Situation analytics can be used to recognize the changing behavior, emotional state, cognitive load and environmental context of a user during complex task processing. This article discusses the SitAdapt 2.0 architecture that combines a situation analytics platform with pattern- and model-based user interface construction tools in order to build runtime-adaptive interactive business applications with enhanced user experience and task-accomplishment characteristics. The article focuses on the software components and tools for observing and tracking the user, data types for modeling situations, recognizing situations, and modeling structural changes and actions for generating the dynamic adaptations. The situation recognition capabilities and adaptive functionality of the system are demonstrated for web-applications for long-distance travel booking and a beauty products web-portal.

Ángel Mateo Charris y Gonzalo Sicre tras las huellas de Hopper y Spilliaert


 
 
 Mientras se sigue discutiendo el modo académico de investigar en el campo de las prácticas artísticas, propongo ampliar este debate desde la crítica de arte. Para ello revisaré los proyec- tos Cape Cod/Cabo de Palos. Tras las huellas de Hopper (1997) e Insomnio: tras las huellas de Spilliaert (2011) de los pintores españoles Ángel Mateo Charris y Gonzalo Sicre. Mi objetivo es estudiar la relación que dichos artistas establecieron entre imagen y texto, así como el análisis crítico proponen, y su cris- talización en unos catálogos diseñados como libros de viajes.
 
 

Ideological Manifestations: An Analysis of Alexander William Kinglake’s Journey to Ottoman Syria

This paper will look into A. W. Kinglake’s travel book Eothen (First published in 1844) focusing on the episodes of his journey concerning Greater Syria in particular in an attempt to critique it as a work of pure ideology whereby the region is portrayed as a lawless jungle dominated by oppression and violence taking into consideration the socio-political environment of the country at the time. It is a contextual reading of the text as an endeavour to point out to the author’s failure in capturing the entirety of Syria’s reality and in giving it justice by focusing on transient situations and magnifying them while ignoring all that is positive. Constructed upon the extremity of a utopic/dystopic society, that is of West and East, Eothen does not manifest any form of positive cross-cultural encounter. On the contrary, it affirms the separation between a European progressive civilized self and a degenerate other.

Measuring usability and purchase intention for online travel booking: A case study

User experience is vital in usability evaluation to understand all aspects of user interactions with a product or system. The usability includes user satisfaction, efficiency, and effectiveness to achieve certain goals. On the other hand, to support the sustainability of the business, it is necessary to know the factors that significantly affect purchase intention through online travel booking application. The main aim of this paper is to investigate the usability of online travel booking system and consumer-level factors of purchase intention in online travel booking application. The research attempt to find whether product diagnosticity influences perceived quality and product trust and generally impacts purchase intention. In this study, we select an existing online travel booking application named Traveloka. The system usability scales (SUS) were used to evaluate the usability for web applications. A total of 1,225 respondents participate in online questionnaire using Google form. Most of the respondents recruited are based in Jakarta, Indonesia. The overall SUS score is only 56.13 from 100. The results show that intention for purchase is influenced by product trust and perceived quality. Moreover, the product diagnosticity (PD) supported perceived quality (PQ) and product trust (PT), and variable of product trust (PT) also supported perceived quality (PQ).

Early illustrations of Aepyornis eggs (1851-1887): from popular science to Marco Polo's roc bird

The huge eggs of the giant extinct bird Aepyornis, from Madagascar, attracted much attention when they were first described by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1851). However, before 1900, only one illustration of such an egg was published in a scientific paper, by Rowley (1878). By contrast, illustrations of Aepyornis eggs appeared in various other types of publications, notably popular magazines, where they illustrated short items about the giant bird. The first one was published in 1851 in Le Magasin pittoresque (Anonymous 1851a), only a few months after Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire's original description. Similarly, in 1887 the popular science magazine Scientific American published a drawing of an Aepyornis egg (Anonymous 1887). An engraving of an Aepyornis egg was published by Ward (1866) in a catalogue advertising the casts of fossils he was selling. Yule (1871) used a lithograph of an Aepyornis egg as a frontispiece for his translation of Marco Polo's book of travels, in the belief that the eggs of this giant bird had been the source of the legend of the roc bird mentioned by Polo. In 1885, in a popular book on eggs in plants and animals, Guillaume Capus published an engraving of an Aepyornis egg to illustrate the size range of bird eggs (Capus 1885). These early illustrations are reproduced here. They testify to the appeal these huge eggs had for the general public, while scientists working on Aepyornis apparently did not find them sufficiently informative to warrant illustrations.

Predictive Analytics for Dynamic Pricing in Travel Bookings Using Machine Learning Pipelines

Predictive Analytics for Dynamic Pricing in Travel Bookings Using Machine Learning Pipelines

Orhan Pamuk and the Good of World Literature, by Gloria Fisk

Orhan Pamuk and the Good of World Literature, by Gloria Fisk