论新形势下职业学校导游专业培养策略调整——以厦门市为例

本文从厦门旅游形势的变化开篇,分析了新形势对导游行业的新要求,进而提出现今职业学校导游专业培养所存在不适应新形势发展的问题,最后总结出职业学校导游专业培养的策略调整建议,认为重点在于职业学校、政府旅游行政管理部门及旅行社三方的通力合作,才能使厦门旅游业进入良性发展。     

Swimming in Cultural Flows: Conceptualising Tour Guides as Intercultural Mediators and Cosmopolitans

Tour guides have traditionally played a key role in linking tour operators, incoming agencies and tourists. More than most other people employed in the travel business, they are constantly involved in reconciling native and foreign cultures. Ideally they function as intercultural mediators; that is, as pathfinders and mentors who reveal unfamiliar destinations to their guests in a culturally sensitive manner. Caught up in a cultural flow in both their professional and personal lives, they move back and forth between divergent cultures and develop a distinctly cosmopolitan lifestyle. This article examines various aspects of the profession and cites several tour operators and tourists regarding the role of tour guides as intercultural mediators.     

Disabled travel: not easy,but doable

Research on disabled tourists is still in its infancy and, at its present stage, the issue of accessibility in particular sets the research agenda. However, as with all tourists, disabled tourists' enactment of barriers as well as benefits pertaining to holidays depends on the individual's former experiences, travel career and engagement in other leisure activities. Accordingly, this paper accounts for the findings of a series of qualitative interviews with mobility-disabled tourists, the purpose of which was to engage disabled tourists in conversations based on their reflective enactment of their own touristic endeavour. The study revealed (1) that various associations for disabled people play crucial roles in determining both whether and how an individual takes on the role of tourist; (2) that disabled tourists especially go on vacation in order to be freed from the role of ‘objects of care’; (3) that tourism relates to the ends of overcoming self-doubt, redefining oneself and building self-confidence; and (4) that vacation decision-making is far more complex for the disabled tourist than for other tourists; albeit complexity is reduced as the disabled tourist becomes more experienced.     

Tour guides' interpretation of the Historic Center of Macao as a World Cultural Heritage site

Literature review suggests that little attention is paid to the interpretation of a World Cultural Heritage (WCH) ensemble such as the Historic Center of Macao (HCM). The present study aims to investigate tour guides' interpretation of the HCM and how their interpretation affects tourists' appreciation and understanding of a visited heritage site within the HCM, as well as tourists' interest in other under-used HCM sites. Methodologies include in-depth interviews with tour guides, on-site observations of tour guides and surveys of package group tourists. The findings indicate that tour guides tended to interpret an HCM heritage site as an independent WCH site. In turn, this results in tourists' misunderstanding of Macao's WCH and a lower level of authentic experience at the visited heritage site. It is advocated that the interpretation of any one heritage site of the HCM should connect to the HCM ensemble and other heritage sites within the HCM. The inter-cultural relationship among the heritage sites should be further explored and highlighted in narratives.     

Recording of home and leisure accidents: differences between population surveys and A&E department surveillance systems

Abstract

It is important to make the right choices concerning the method of collecting basic information about injuries. In this article we therefore go into the differences between two of the most common methods used, namely population surveys and Accident and Emergency Department surveillance systems. Items that are mentioned are response, the reference period, the number of reported injuries, costs, specificity and flexibility of the information, the coverage, and the linkage with other information. A study of the literature illustrates the most important differences. By means of this information, the reader should be able to choose the method that best suits his or her objectives for a collection system. The conclusion is that the two methods are so different that they are not alternatives to each other, but can best be used in conjunction.     

基于可持续发展的乡村休闲旅游模式探析

本文通过对我国乡村休闲旅游的模式进行分析,得出了当前乡村休闲旅游模式中普遍存在的主要问题,进而提出结论,乡村休闲旅游必须走充满文化内涵、具多维化的发展方向,才能真正实现可持续发展之路.     

Leisure styles: A hidden core

Abstract

Factor analysis has been employed in a number of North American and European studies to categorize leisure activities according to participation patterns. The resulting factors have been the basis of proposed labels for leisure styles. Since the results of the factor analyses have been found to vary with the relative heterogeneity of samples and activities studied, comparison of previous findings with a more varied sample and activity list is indicated. With an NORC national sample and participation measured in a diverse list of leisure activities, factor analysis was completed and stepwise multiple regression used to measure the relationship of the resulting factors to age, sex, and social position indices. The factors do not support a neat or clearly differentiated set of activity groupings. Further, a set of activities with high participation rates did not appear in any factors or vary systematically by age, sex, or social position. Support is given to a model that suggests that adult leisure chores begin with a common core of accessible and informal activities.     

Pacific Area Tourism: A Guide to Key Sources of Tourism Statistics

Abstract

During the period 1988 to 1995 Korean outbound travel increased by 526% to 3,818,740 in 1995. The rapidity of this increase has caught many destinations unprepared. One such example is Australia which has only recently recognised the potential of Korean tourism. Australia's tourism industry has yet to recognise that Korean tourists have expectations that differ from those of other Asian visitors and as a result has failed to provide a product that lives up to the promotional images of Australia contained in tourism marketing campaigns. Issues such as cuisine, language difficulties and poor itineraries are identified as major problems. This article will examine the problems Australia faces in developing a range of services and products suitable for Korean tourists.     

新交通制度下自驾游旅游者旅游行为特征研究——基于新疆旅游者的调查

本研究以对自驾游旅游者的问卷调查为基础,利用SPSS17.0软件,通过因子分析、方差分析、独立样本T检验的分析方法,探究新交通制度下,旅游者的出游意愿、旅游偏好、旅游消费方式会发生怎样的变化,并提出相应的对策。     

城市休闲系统研究

随着物质文明的飞速发展，人类社会对于精神层面的追求与日俱增。从现实来看，休闲已俨然成为人类生活的重要组成部分。人口集聚的城市已经不再仅是满足人们居住、交通和生产的主要场所。对城市来说，休闲功能的打造和提升已经成为城市发展和转型的一个趋势。从系统论角度出发，分析城市休闲系统的构成要素及其特征，并对如何优化城市休闲系统，提出了三方面对策。