The Influence of Tourist Satisfaction on Tourism Expenditure in Emerging Urban Cultural Destinations

Satisfaction is an excellent predictor of tourist behavior, often used in marketing and destination management. This paper analyzes the extent to which tourist satisfaction influences tourism expenditure at the destination using a gamma regression model, based on the information obtained from 2967 surveys conducted in 14 emerging urban cultural destinations in Andalusia, Spain. The results obtained show that there is indeed a correlation between tourist satisfaction and tourism expenditure at the destination, and guide the implementation of specific policies by stakeholders in these destinations, in order to increase the economic impact generated by this activity.     

Packaging a Resort: An Analysis of Japanese Ski Holiday Package Tour Brochures

Summary

This paper examines the characteristics of contemporary Japanese package tourism, through an analysis of tour brochures. The brochures are analyzed in terms of functional components of the tours, as well as the visual images that are represented. Drawing on a sample of 15 brochures that contain winter ski package holidays for Japanese travelers in Whistler, British Columbia (Canada), this study identifies several key elements in the promotion of Japanese package tourism. These elements include the lean and flexible nature of the functional components of package tours, and the use of both concrete, and abstract images of tourists and tour experiences in the brochures.     

Recent Tourism and Hospitality Research in China

ABSTRACT

Although China's tourism has become a vital part in the world tourism market, little is known internationally about tourism and hospitality research in China. This study reviewed 500 articles published from 2000 to 2005 in China's leading tourism research journal, Tourism Tribune, and provided an overview of China's recent tourism and hospitality research. Content analysis results showed that tourism research themes in China primarily focused on tourism attraction/resources development and management, tourism planning, and tourism industry development issues. Most research under review used a qualitative approach, while 15% of the articles employed some quantitative methods. Articles using advanced statistical techniques were scarce.     

Relevance and Quality in Australian Tourism Higher Education

Abstract

Partnerships between educators and industry professionals can facilitate students' tourism career opportunities. Considering this, a mail-out questionnaire was undertaken to assess the attitudes and perceptions of tourism educators (n = 56) and tourism professionals (n = 100) on tourism education issues. Results indicated that one-quarter of professionals believe university tourism majors provide graduates with a competitive advantage and both groups consider tourism/hospitality, marketing and management as important business majors. Competencies in logical thinking, social interaction, tourism knowledge and concepts, and generic skills are also considered important by both groups with specific workplace competencies and professional experience considered relatively less important by educators (p < .05). In conclusion, communication networks jointly facilitatedby academicsand industry are recommended.     

森林公园的旅游开发与资源保护

我国森林公园资源丰富,具有其它类型旅游不可比拟的独特作用。森林公园旅游开发与森林资源保护的关系密切,旅游开发是为了保护,保护同样促进旅游开发。开发森林资源需要遵循一定的开发的原则,在提高经济效益的同时,要平稳森林环境容量,合理开发森林资源,同时还要细化相关法律法规,加快人才培养。     

经济发达地区旅游发展驱动机制调整——以江苏省为例

我国经济发达地区旅游业先发优势明显、产业体系较完整。传统旅游动力机制强调经济效益和规模扩张,已不能满足该地区旅游业的发展。在大旅游理论框架下,结合江苏省调整旅游发展驱动机制,提出创新动力、优质动力、融合动力、国际化动力能够重新塑造、优化旅游业核心产业链,提升旅游业层次,并能够超越旅游业自身的发展,突出旅游业对区域社会—经济—生态系统的协调带动作用,促进经济发达地区旅游业从大走向强,取得新的辉煌。     

我国都市文化旅游特色街区发展的问题与对策——以上海市甜爱路为例

都市文化旅游特色街区是以都市文化特色为依托,集都市观光、休闲、购物、文化体验为一体的都市综合性活动场所,是城市自然环境与文化内涵的有效融合,对储存、流传、创新都市文化,提升都市经济、休闲与产业功能,创造良好的都市旅游品牌具有重要的意义。伴随着我国都市旅游功能的不断转型,都市文化旅游特色街区的发展日益受到重视。本文以上海市甜爱路为例,通过实地调研后对我国都市文化旅游特色街区发展面临的主要问题及提升路径进行了探讨,以期为我国同类街区发展提供借鉴与参考。     

农业旅游学的基本内涵

农业旅游学是一门交叉于农业与旅游之间的交叉学科,指的是研究农业旅游运动规律的学科。它以农业旅游为研究对象,研究如何将其开发、建设成审美对象、旅游对象并加以开发、利用;它运用农学和旅游学这两大学科来研究农业旅游问题;农业旅游运动规律具有季节性、地区性、市民性和参与性等四个特征。     

Fieldwork Without Remorse: Travel Desires in a Tourist World

This article reviews the answers posed to the question of travel motivation in recent research. Much of this research, whether in tourism studies or related disciplines such as anthropology, critical theory, and cultural studies, begins by assuming a clear-cut and specific distinction between "travelers" and "tourists" and a more generalized but just as clear distinction between "travelers", "tourists" and "fieldworkers". These distinctions are based on an over-reliance on defining specific tourist types that downplay the role that gender, ethnicity, nationality and socioeconomic privileges have in the question of who goes where. Given this, theories that seek to explain why people go to particular places are neither right nor wrong, but are simultaneously valid in a partial sense. This is because each describes not just a different type of traveler but more importantly also individuals at different stages along their journeys.     

The Management of Discovery

Academicinstitutions are realigning with major envi- ronmental partners, notably the federal and state governments, and business institutions. This article examines the role of universities in the "technology transfer" process, involving delivery of services influential in new product development.