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Understanding Chinese tourist experience of the Māori villages in New Zealand
Māori cultural tourism in New Zealand has been traditionally developed to cater to the interests of Western tourists, who had been the major patrons of the New Zealand tourism business long before the emergence of Chinese ... -
Indigenous knowledge and practices for marine ecotourism development in Misool, Raja Ampat, Indonesia.
This doctoral study examines the complexities of integrating Indigenous knowledge and practices into sustainable marine ecotourism development, with a focus on the case study of Misool, Raja Ampat, in West Papua Province, ... -
Understanding and Responding to Climate Change: An Analysis of the Sundarbans World Heritage Area
Examining the understandings of and responses to anthropogenic climate change is important to help climatically vulnerable communities enhance their resilience. Lack of climate change understanding is an obstacle to ... -
Entrepreneurial Responses to Disruptive Transformations: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Hospitality Industry of Post-Quake Christchurch, New Zealand
Disaster-induced crises in business operations have become an increasingly complex phenomenon and continue to become more frequent and destabilising. Far-reaching socio-political and economic consequences of globalisation, ... -
Tourism, Livelihood Diversification and Food Security in Ethiopia
The tourism-food security relationship is an essential research consideration that lies at the heart of the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Despite the claim that food insecurity situations can be alleviated through ... -
Consumers' hotel choice: revising the role of online user-generated ratings
With the advent of Web 2.0 and rapid growth of Tourism 2.0 applications, today travellers have access to an enormous volume of online user-generated content in the form of user reviews and ratings for nearly every single ... -
Advocacy and community leadership in destination management
Destination management is undergoing substantial change. Recent literature suggests that current destination management practices, in the context of the global expansion of tourism and volume oriented approaches, are not ... -
Tourism boycott calls by Twitter users due to concerns for the welfare of animals
There has been an increase in tourism boycotts from 2008, especially with the introduction of the Internet and social media. Despite this increase, there is a dearth of knowledge about tourism boycotts. Behaviours that ... -
A critical analysis of the trade union movement in the Nepalese tourism industry
This research examines factors that influence trade union movements in the Nepalese tourism industry. In contrast to global trends, the last twenty-five years have seen a remarkable growth in the power and influence of ... -
The Science Communication of Whale Watching: A People-Focused Science Communication Approach
In 2014, UN Member States proposed a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) including SDG #14 with its focus to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development (Le Blanc, ... -
In the inspection house
Since Dean MacCannell’s (1976) The Tourist the research field has held a hope that going beyond the tourist as the “modern man in general” is the Other whose differences and authenticity could help to break the tightening ... -
The Resilience of Wildlife Tourism Operations to Environmental Change
Nature-based tourism operations are sensitive to environmental changes including climate change, yet little is known about their ability to adapt to these uncertain environmental conditions (Scott, Hall and Gössling, 2012). ... -
Chinese working holiday makers in New Zealand: expectations, experiences and outcomes
Young people from Mainland China do not have many opportunities to embark on a working holiday journey compared to most Western countries, or even some other Asian regions, like Hong Kong or Taiwan. Nowadays, these ... -
What Screams Are Made Of: Exploring how imagery and language in fright tourism promotional materials invokes affective responses in visitors
Besides creating awareness of the operational elements of tourism attractions (e.g. location and opening hours), tourism promotional materials often communicate to potential visitors what the overall guest experience would ... -
Resilience and sustainability: a complementary relationship? Towards a practical conceptual model for the sustainability–resilience nexus in tourism
“Sustainability” has endured as an important concept for tourism scholars, and volumes have been written about how to achieve this holy grail of the tourism industry. Sustainable tourism destinations are often promoted as ... -
Death as the Ideal Playground? Dark Tourism, Tour Guide and Tourist Performances and Empathic Concerns at the Buried Village of Te Wairoa, Rotorua, New Zealand.
This thesis explores tour guide and tourist performances and interactions at a ‘Dark Tourism’ site. The work is important because ‘Dark Tourism’ presents with more questions than answers; the trope of the ‘dark’ is itself ... -
Local Perspectives: Revitalization of Cultural Heritage through Tourism Development in Benin, Nigeria.
This study, which was undertaken in Benin, Nigeria, explored local perspectives regarding the revitalization of cultural heritage through tourism development. It also critically assessed influencing factors on the local ... -
Sustainable Water Management in the Hotel Sector: A Policy Network Analysis of Singapore
Tourism has become one of the most profound economic, social and environmental phenomena since World War II. Over-exploitation of resources in the tourism context, however, can lead to breakdown or collapse of the resource ... -
Exploring the Prospects for Adaptive Co-management of Wildlife Tourism: The case of Shark Cage Diving on Stewart Island, New Zealand
Wildlife tourism consists of people viewing and/or encountering wildlife (Newsome et al., 2005). These often close encounters with wildlife tourism can produce direct and significant negative impacts on wildlife, their ... -
Cultivating Climate Consciousness: Agritourism Providers’ Perspectives of Farms, Food and Place
The aim of this PhD research is to explore climate change perspectives of agritourism providers in New Jersey (NJ) located in the United States (US). Research objectives include the assessment of agritourism providers’ ...