Showing papers in "Annals of Tourism Research in 1985"

TL;DR: In this paper, the transition from the original tourist guide to the professional tourist guide is represented as a transition of emphasis from the instrumental to the communicative component, and two new role types have differentiated: the Animator and the Tour-leader, emphasizing, respectively, the social and the interactionary components.

TL;DR: In this article, a survey of 400 respondents in the Adams and Hull area was conducted in order to assess the perceived impacts of a hotel-casino in each of these locations, and the findings show little consensus as to the positive impacts, but much greater agreement over the negative impacts that a hotel casino might have in the respondents' towns.

TL;DR: This paper argued that the road culture of contemporary youth travelers would simply represent one form of this democratized elite tradition and that contemporary road culture is better seen as an upwardly rather than downwardly mobile cultural form.

TL;DR: In this paper, an ethnographic analysis of tour performances at the Lindheimer Home was conducted to investigate the role of the printed brochure as an analogue to tour performances, and the authors found that tour guide sacralization can ritually transform an unimposing cottage into a valued cultural sight through five stages: naming, framing and elevation, enshrinement, mechanical reproduction, and social reproduction.

TL;DR: This article examined international travel demand between the United States and Western Europe and found that travelers viewed Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, and Portugal as "luxury destinations" that might expect to receive an increasing share of the traveler's budget.

TL;DR: The resort evolution of Grand Isle, the most popular resort on the Louisiana Gulf Coast, has experienced an increase in shoreline erosion and a decrease in attractiveness in recent decades as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The role of the teacher-guide is socially defined as an agent of education and culture rather than of leisure and entertainment as mentioned in this paper, and most of his role performances are carried out during walks with various groups of casual participants, during these walks he is both the navigator and interpreter of the scenes and their meanings.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of guides in the Moremi Wildlife Reserve of Botswana and the frictions that arise between them and visitors to the reserve are discussed. But the focus is on the tourists' desire for first-hand "communion" with nature, which is treated as similar to a "vision quest".

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw attention to the significance of large cities as tourist destinations and to the importance of accomodation establishments as a component of the urban fabric, using a point pattern analysis.

TL;DR: In this article, the evolution of the tourist industry of the Scottish highlands is discussed from the early eighteenth century until the beginning of the nineteenth century, and five stages of development are identified, which reflect the social, economic and technological changes occuring in Britain during those periods.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the total disaggregated economic impact that cruise industry tourism has on Dade County using a regional input-output model developed by the Regional Science Research Institute.

TL;DR: This paper reviewed the tourism development experience of seven South Asian countries (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, the Maldive Republic) on five policy options: public versus private tourism development; domestic versus international tourism; class versus mass tourism; centralization versus decentralization; and integrated versus enclave tourism.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the economic impact of tourism on the Okanagan Region, (B.C., Canada), by evaluating the multiplier effects of tourist expenditure on the generation of income, sales and employment.

TL;DR: The popularity of Los Angeles with Japanese tourists prompts the anthropologist to ask what they are seeking there as mentioned in this paper, and an ethnography of that tourism discloses a number of “must see” sights for first time tourists.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined local patterns of five categories of restaurants in eight Canadian cities in Ontario to identify spatial regularities, including tendencies to agglomerate or deglomate with respect to restaurants of the same category as well as of different categories, spatial correlations with other land uses, apparent effects of varying traffic levels on restaurant location, and variations in restaurant patterns in cities of different population sizes.

TL;DR: This paper examined the spa experience at Radium Hot Springs from the earliest days to the present in an attempt to indicate similarities and differences between Canadian spas and those in the United States and Western Europe.

TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of the tourism industry using portfolio analysis has been presented, where both national level and individual company applications are described and illustrated in 3 × 3 matrix form.

TL;DR: This paper evaluated the impact of recent peso devaluations by adjusting 1970-1982 US tourism expenditures by an index that combines the Consumer Price Index in dollars, the CPI in pesos, and the exchange rate.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the problems encountered and procedures developed to conduct a secondary analysis of the 1977 National Travel Survey using the travel regions developed by the Travel Industry Association of America.

TL;DR: In this paper, a case history of the origin and early development of what later became a major UK seaside resort is presented, and the reaction of the existing local community to development potential is also considered, and more general conclusions are reached on the nature of resort development in the nineteenth century.

TL;DR: In the second decade of the 20th century, a mass followed class began to lose interest in the automobile as something exclusive to them, and turned their attention to the possibilities for touring of aviation as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined social changes induced by tourism development from the standpoint of modernization and capitalist development in Vent and Obergurgl, two small Alpine communities in Western Austria, and found that tourism is acceptable to traditional precapitalist structures as well as to modern capitalist structures and values.

TL;DR: The AAG meeting is a valuable forum for the exchange of information pertaining to tourism as discussed by the authors, and the formal interchange of ideas in paper sessions, the informal trading through personal contacts, and the serendipitous transactions created by the events of the trip itself are part and parcel of such a meeting.

TL;DR: The comparison of the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks with the European Alps by tourists and tourism agencies, from 1885-1914, is discussed in this article, and the evidence from historical descriptions, government reports, guidebooks, photographs, fieldwork, and interviews indicates that the Canadian mountains were frequently compared with the Alps, both favorably and unfavorably.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the social, economic, and technological changes that have been adopted by the industry and society during three eras of travel evolution and conclude with eight observations on the present and future status of leisure travel in the United States.