Temporal manifestations of nostalgia: Le Tour de France

Nostalgia in sport tourism is increasingly understood as multifaceted. Early conceptualizations of nostalgia may be inadequate in explaining contemporary sport tourism. Utilising an organized tour of the 2011 Tour de France, a hybrid experience combining active cycling with passive spectating, interviews were conducted with 13 tour participants and two tour guides. A grounded theory model reflecting multiple dimensions of nostalgia across three trip phases is proposed. Pre-trip, nostalgia inspired participation. During the trip participants viewed and acted upon desires to engage with preconceived nostalgic images by cycling iconic mountains. Mementos and experiences were collected to facilitate future memories and aid nostalgic recollections post-trip. The study demonstrates how sport tourists adopt multiple, reflexive roles to enrich nostalgic value throughout a trip.     

Tourism and climate change: a review of threats and adaptation strategies for Africa

The intersection of tourism and climate change has seen significant research over the past two decades, focusing particularly on issues of mitigation and adaptation in the global North. Research output has predominantly been centred on the Mediterranean and Nordic countries and number of localities in North America. The global South has seen significantly less investigation, despite having significantly lower adaptive capacity to the impacts of climate change, and numerous countries with rapidly growing tourism sectors. The African continent specifically has seen appreciably less research than other countries in the global South, despite arguably having the lowest adaptive capacity and projections of severe impacts of climate change to the tourism sector from temperature increases, changes in precipitation volume and sea level rise. This paper therefore presents a review of the existing literature on adaptation strategies of tourism sectors and participants in African countries. The crucial argument of this paper is in highlighting the need for an increase in research into the threats of climate change to tourism in African countries, identifying future research trajectories. The development of such knowledge would assist in the development of adaptation and mitigation strategies for these most vulnerable tourism economies.     

我国当前通货膨胀的成因及应对策略

在回顾了改革开放以来几次通胀的基础上,重点分析了本轮通胀的成因。从深化金融体制改革、转换政府职能、推进收入分配制度改革、转变经济发展方式、加强统计的科学性等几个侧面,探讨了治理通胀的对策建议。     

基于旅游博客和论坛提高旅游产品质量的模型研究

分析了旅游博客和论坛对旅游产业的影响,以及通过软件自动方式使用旅游博客和论坛分析的优势,并给出了实现的步骤,分析了其中的核心问题,给出解决方法,从而为旅游管理者改善旅游产品提供方向。     

浅述我国城市化进程对旅游业发展的正反效应

城市化进程是最近两个世纪以来人类走向富裕的基本发展步伐,也是现代经济社会最根本的发展形式。本文通过正反两方面的分析,阐明了城市化对旅游业发展具有正反两方面的影响。     

发展城市旅游以提升旅游民生

旅游的民生性越来越得到重视,城市旅游的发展是旅游民生推进的重要体现,两者的交融决定了采取可行性的开发策略将起着重要的积极作用。文章分析了当今城市旅游的现状,结合当今实际,提出了要通过发展城市旅游以提升旅游民生,最后提出了相关政策建议。     

Preventing drowning through design – the contribution of human factors

A number of routes can be followed towards the prevention of drowning, such as educating on water safety, installing barriers between non-intended users and water, mitigating the consequences of submersion incidents, and design. The human factor approach to safety is that design should always be the primary route. Human factors can be applied to the design of personal protective equipment such as buoyancy aids, barriers such as pool fencing, ancillary equipment such as swimming pool covers through to information and organisational factors such as safety signs and swimming campaigns. Design should consider all potential drowning scenarios and accommodate the characteristics of those at risk. A framework is presented with examples on how human factor principles can be applied to the design of potential drowning sites and products, with suggestions for methods and techniques that can be used in the key stages of predicting potential hazards and assessing risk.     

价值工程在清代文化元素产品开发与服务决策中的应用

清代文化元素文化产品设计与开发的设计师和工艺师都希望设计的艺术产品能在市场竞争中获得成功。这就需要运用价值分析方法改进现有产品,降低材料费用。清代元素文化旅游产品开发的目的就是为社会提供更多的令人满意的产品,增加产品的销售量、多盈利,最有效的方法是改进设计、改进结构、提高产品质量,从而降低成本,而VE方法正是降低成本、增加利润的最有效方法之一。     

What to do with mushroom pickers in my forest? Policy tools from the landowners’ perspective

Wild mushroom picking is a growing recreational and commercial activity. In Spain, wild mushrooms legally belong to the landowner, who seldom benefits from trade in mushrooms or from their recreational value. Cultural aspects (tradition, picker-related harms) and economic aspects (costly forestry works, income opportunities) constitute elements of the debate on how to deal with mushroom picking. Through a survey of private forest owners in Catalonia (north-eastern Spain), this paper examines their experiences with mushroom pickers, the factors shaping their related policy preferences and their willingness to engage in mushroom reserves.The results show broad support for introducing mushroom picking norms. A regulation would allow outsider pickers to enter private land, but only under certain conditions, i.e. to comply with socio-ecological rules of the area. Among respondents who support the regulation, active land owners who report instances of picker-related harm (both tangible and intangible) tend to support the establishment of a fee system which could be reinvested into forest management. That is also the position of the respondents who perceive mushrooms as a private right, i.e. they believe to have a legitimate right to exclude outsider pickers and, eventually, to raise revenues from that asset. On the contrary, forest owners who conceive mushroom picking as a free-access activity prefer neither to regulate it nor to charge fees. The option to establish a mushroom picking reserve depends on the landholder being a fee-supporter and perceiving instances of harm. Harm, instead, is mainly determined by the perception of congestion of pickers, which in turn is determined by the mushroom productivity of their forest, their level of privacy protection and their involvement to the primary sector. These findings help policymakers to better understand the logic and sensitivities of forest owners in view of designing mushroom picking policies that can effectively solve picker-landowner conflicts.