Psychological factors affecting memorable tourism experiences

This study tries to explore psychological components of memorable tourist experience (MTE) that are most likely to recall tourists’ memories. Urban residents from three representative cities in China were selected as research samples, and totally 301 usable questionnaires were used for data analysis. The results showed that the recollection of MTE was positively affected by novelty, involvement and social interaction. It was also suggested that hedonism and novelty had positive effects on the vividness of MTEs significantly. Additionally, in the context of Chinese culture, two new psychological factors, social interaction and perceived serendipity, resulted in different effects on the MTE.     

The differential futures of ski tourism in Ontario (Canada) under climate change: the limits of snowmaking adaptation

The international ski tourism industry is highly vulnerable to inter-annual climate variability and climate change. Accordingly, there is a strong need to advance our understanding of climate risk for this multi-billion tourism market that is so important to mountain regions around the world. This study addressed major limitations in the ski tourism literature, while concurrently supporting priority information needs of ski tourism stakeholders. An improved version of SkiSim 2.0 is applied to all 34 alpine ski areas in southern Ontario (Canada) to examine potential changes in the capacity of this regional marketplace. Model improvements include differential snowmaking capacities of individual ski areas, updated snowmaking decision rules, as well as a new indicator, termed ‘terrain-days’, to estimate changes in system capacity. The results project two fundamentally different futures for this ski tourism marketplace under climate change. If the international community succeeds in achieving the?+?2°C Paris Agreement policy goal, then losses in system capacity can be limited to less than 10% in the mid- and late-century. In contrast, a high-end emission scenario (RCP 8.5) would severely disrupt this ski tourism market by mid-century, with system capacity losses between 28% and 73%.     

Educational tourism and its implications on economic growth in Malaysia

The effect of educational tourism on Malaysia’s economic growth is examined in this study by extending the Solow growth model. This study uses the sample from 2002:Q1 to 2014:Q4. The newly developed Bayer–Hanck combined tests for cointegration and the Granger causality test were employed to examine the long-run and causal relationships among the variables. The empirical findings suggest that economic growth, educational tourism, and other determinants are cointegrated. Educational tourism has a bi-directional causal relationship with economic growth in the short-run but there is a uni-directional Granger causality runs from educational tourism to economic growth. This study provides an essential insight for Malaysia to create policies that promote educational tourism, thereby encouraging economic growth in the long-run.     

Geographical aspects of state travel marketing in the USA

Almost all of the formal Federal and state government involvement in domestic travel marketing in the United States has been undertaken by state travel offices. Of particular interest to the geographer are state-to-state variations in the size and activities of these travel offices. In this discussion, differences in the total budgets of state travel offices are presented and compared to differences in state population and domestic travel expenditures by state. A three-fold classification of state travel marketing strategies with a geographical basis is then introduced. While the overall discussion provides some explanation for the differences observed, the conclusion is reached that political and other considerations regarding state travel offices are too subtle to be explained by just a few variables.     

新疆旅游业人力资源开发与管理研究

新疆旅游业人力资源开发与管理应做好以下工作：充分发挥地方政府和旅游主管部门的指导作用；加强旅：薛从业人员的队伍建设；完善旅游教育培训体系；培育旅游人力资源市场体系；转变人力资源管理观念，完善管理职能，实行有效激励。     

节事活动旅游形象感知研究：对旅游动机与熟悉度作用的检验——以2010年世博会为例

旅游形象在旅游决策过程中已经得到国内外学者的肯定，但缺乏把旅游形象运用到节事活动的研究中．更缺乏对节事活动旅游形象感知行为的研究。世博会作为超大型节事活动，运用结果方程模型，选取重庆市民对世博会旅游形象的感知来研究节事活动旅游者的旅游决策过程，特别是探讨旅游动机与熟悉度对节事活动旅游决策过程的作用。研究结果显示，旅游动机与节事活动情感形象以及旅游动机与旅游意向之间并无显著的关系，而节事活动认知形象与情感形象对旅游意向具有直接的影响效果，其中节事活动认知形象和对节事活动的熟悉度在模型中是具有主导性的关键因素。     

西方旅游研究范式的转变：从交叉学科、多学科到后学科

西方旅游研究经历了20世纪70年代的交叉学科研究、80年代的多学科研究和90年代的系统研究方法的范式转变过程。进入21世纪,后学科旅游研究方法开始浮现并受到旅游研究者越来越多的支持和赞同。对西方旅游研究范式转变的原因和社会背景进行了梳理和探讨,并指出,后学科研究范式因其生成新知识的强大潜力,特别有助于推进旅游学成为一门更具严谨性和学术性的学科,我国旅游研究者也应当加以关注和建设性地回应。     

邵阳竹文化旅游开发初探

介绍了中国内涵丰富多彩的竹文化;邵阳是中国竹文化的策源地之一,竹文化源远流长;以邵阳为例,论述了竹文化与旅游的辨证关系,并就如何开发邵阳竹文化提出了几点想法。     

旅游业区域溢出的可计算模型及案例

一个开放的经济系统中,旅游业区域溢出广泛存在,而溢出大小除了与两个旅游区之间的规模等级差异和空间距离呈负相关外,还与它们之间的类型差异和接受溢出方的学习能力呈正相关。本文即是对上述溢出影响因子进行综合,借鉴经典知识溢出公式而构建了一个测度旅游业区域溢出的机理模型S(ji)=δje-1δ(jl)Gi(jl)2+δ(jk)G(ijk)-βrij,并在进一步的变量定义和参数估计后,实现了模型的可计算化。此外,本文还利用该模型对长江三角洲"15+n"旅游城市之间的溢出情况进行计算,在验证模型可信度的同时也分析了区域旅游合作及相应旅游圈组织的有效性问题,取得了一些有益的认识。