Determinants of demand for international tourist flows to Turkey

This article describes the development and findings of a set of models used to identify the most important of the following selected variables influencing international tourist flows to Turkey: per capita income; relative prices; relative exchange rate; promotional expenditure (the Turkish Government has invested a substantial amount in promoting foreign tourism) and ‘special events’, eg political unrest. The demand for travel was measured both by the number of tourists, and by the total tourist expenditure. Data were obtained from secondary sources, and analysis was by least squares multiple regression. Income, price and exchange rate were found to be important factors but the impact of promotional expenditure was minimal     

The grand tour: Sources and a methodology for an historical study of tourism

Research into the history of tourism is at an early stage of development. This article examines the range of source material which relates to the Grand Tour and considers the problems involved in its interpretation. It then outlines a methodology designed to investigate this area of tourism research.     

Never on Sunday? Mexican tourists at the beach

This paper examines contemporary middle class Mexican recreational tourism through a micro-ethnographic study of tourist behavior at a small beach resort in the state of Chiapas. Majority behavior represents the inversion of aspects of normal behavior, particularly in the deregulation of meal-times, night and day activities, and the rules for play. It is hypothesized that the particular, and comparatively excessive, behaviors described may stem from both the historically antecendant Spanish and Indian cultures, with their baroque tendencies, and from the recent liberation of the new middle classes from the “Victorian-like” rules of daily behavior. Behavior at the beach resorts resembles earlier types of vacation in the U.S.A. and this suggests there may be an evolution of tourist behaviors characteristic of the historical situation of the national home cultures of the tourists.     

Towards a cohesive curriculum tourism: The case for a distinct discipline

This paper addresses a controversial topic in tourism scholarship which is simultaneously a problem and an opportunity in tourism education: the philosophical issue of academic disciplines and specifically, the question of a distinct discipline in tourism studies. It is argued that the orthodox approach to tourism education, multi-disciplinary studies, has become an impediment. It is suggested that a new discipline can be created by organizing the existing body of knowledge and that such a discipline can become the core of an inter-disciplinary approach. Certain characteristics of an embryonic discipline are outlined and innovations in this area at Sydney Technical College are discussed.     

日本名门企业改革及其背景分析——日本版“企业支配”的确立

自90年代后半期起,日本的名门企业为摆脱平成萧条的困境,适应新时代的要求,陆续开始了以确立日本版“企业支配”为主的大改革。它们引进外部董事,展开OB、技术出身经营者经营,实行经营与执行分离,构建能力人事制度,推行IT融合战略,关注股东利益最大化,提价企业伦理。这次改革被称为“宣告传统型制造业大国的终结,向软件化水平先进的新制造业过渡的号炮”,背景复杂,值得研究与借鉴。     

生态旅游的多重辨析

20世纪80年代以来,如何全面理解并理性看待生态旅游,一直是旅游业和保护界的中心话题。在对国内外生态旅游研究进行简要评述后,提出了一个理解生态旅游的框架(5W1H),并围绕“是与不是”、“能与不能”、“需要和不需要”答问题,对生态旅游进行了深度分析。     

旅游规划需要新理念--旅游规划三议

为了适应我国旅游业的发展,为了我国旅游规划工作能够沿着科学化、法制化、规范化的轨道前进,旅游规划的编制迫切需要理念的创新,从“新理念是发展的需要”。“进步带来的挑战”、“旅游概念是旅游规划的核心”三个层面,以层层推进的方式,着重阐述了应对挑战寻求突破的学术基础,并进而阐释了有关“概念性旅游规划”的创新性理论。     

The silence of the Kogi in front of tourists

This article sets out to explain the silent behavior of the indigenous Kogi people of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta when in front of tourists. It was found that silence corresponds to indigenous cosmology, to Kogi behavioral protocol when faced with outsiders, and to a defense strategy in front of tourists. Understanding the interactions between tourists and indigenous peoples has practical implications for designing cultural policies in these territories. The work is original in its use of ethnography in place of quantitative methods for studying the factors that determine the behavior of the residents in front of tourists. Equally it constitutes a contribution to the few studies that exist on silence as a rhetorical strategy in power relations.     

长阳县发展旅游业与农民增收的关系研究

农民增收是新农村建设的一项重要任务,要从根本上解决农民增收问题,关键在于把农村剩余劳动力转移出来。在对湖北宜昌长阳土家族自治县的调研中发现,旅游业可以有效地实现劳动力的转移,走＂进厂不进城、离土不离乡＂的发展道路,使旅游业的发展与农民增收相得益彰。     

Measuring persistence in Croatian tourism: evidence from the Adriatic region

This study examines the degree of persistence in foreign tourist arrivals and overnight stays for seven Croatian coastal counties over the period January 1998 to December 2013 using fractional integration techniques. Our findings reveal that the respective regional tourism indicators exhibit seasonal unit roots which require seasonal first differences to render the respective time series stationary. With respect to the long-run evolution of the respective time series, both the parametric and semi-parametric fractional integration approaches show the degree of persistence is greater than zero, but significantly less than one for the majority of the coastal counties. Impulse response analysis reveals indeed shocks to the deseasonalized time series, either foreign tourist arrivals or foreign tourist overnight stays, appear short-lived with the exception of Istria and Primorje-Gorski kotar counties. Policy implications of the results are also discussed.