Showing papers in "Annals of Tourism Research in 1991"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored motivation and satisfaction dimensions of sightseeing tourists and found that knowledge seeking, social interaction, and escape emerged as important motivations and satisfaction factors, with a high overall satisfaction with the tour.

TL;DR: The authors found that the tourist self is changed very little by the tour, while the consequences of tourism for the native self are profound, and that tourist discourse promises the tourist a total transformation of self, but the native is described as untouched by civilization and as frozen in time.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate 15 guided tours from Israel to Europe and the United States and highlight the vulnerability of the tour company in the tripartite company-guide-consumer relationship.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors survey applications of economic analysis to tourism using consumer and production theory, market structure, deductive modeling, cost-benefit analysis, econometric analysis, and multiplier analysis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the methodological issues in tourism input-output studies and the solutions proposed thus far and provide a systematic classification and discussion of the old and new issues grouped into four categories: substantive issues, aggregation, structural change and prediction, and intangible impacts.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace the development of sociological theory and the emergence of a variety of approaches to the sociology of tourism and conclude that there can be no single "sociology of tourism" since there is no universally accepted sociological perspective.

TL;DR: The use intensity, highly related to impact, is a primary factor in management of use intensity as discussed by the authors, and the locations where impacts are most obvious include alpine areas, coastlines, islands, lakes, and habitat areas.

TL;DR: The concept of tourist-carrying capacity of an urban cultural destination is discussed and a model for determining its optimal level is presented and made operational within a “fuzzy” linear programming approach that is tested in the case of the historical center of Venice.

TL;DR: In this article, the authorship of tourism research published in the journals of Tourism Research, Journal of Travel Research, and Tourism Research during the decade of the 1980s was analyzed, including the academic and nonacademic contributions, ranks and positions of the authors, and the proportion of authors from various geographic regions of the world.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the management and information analysis tasks of these organizations within a marketing context, and an overview of the fit with management literature philosophies is provided at the macro-level, while at the micro-level the paper pursues marketing science and marketing research contexts for tourism research.

TL;DR: In this paper, a time-budget study of the intradestination travel patterns of 795 tourists visiting Paradise Island (Bahamas), the travel behavior of tourists was found to be heterogeneous, the spatial equivalent of the allocentric tourist seemed more likely to venture beyond the Paradise Island resort area during their stay.

TL;DR: An analysis of tourist accommodations, market, and economy on the island of Dominica reveals a tourism industry that represents an appropriate and viable alternative to the conventional varieties of mass tourism dominant in the Caribbean.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined interorganizational relations between the US Forest Service, chambers of commerce, and tourism associations adjacent to an Arkansas National Forest and found that lack of cooperative relations among tourism organizations across all organizations was one of the main reasons for the lack of cooperation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the static and dynamic aspects of the tourism industry, evaluate the findings, and synthesize this information into descriptive, predictive, and normative models to understand the movement of tourists from originating markets to leisure destinations of their choice.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the appropriateness of examining political dimensions of tourism behavior from the perspective of the political scientist and call for greater integration of the study of tourism politics with the other skills required in the training of tourism practitioners.

TL;DR: The diversity of psychology studies of tourism is presented by following divisions or levels of analysis within the discipline of psychology as mentioned in this paper, and a particular emphasis on the value of multivariate models of tourist behavior is made.

TL;DR: This article conducted interviews with tourists at museums of Native American culture and pueblo ceremonials in New Mexico and found that tourists' attitudes toward their Native American hosts reveal more about their own worldviews and cultural stereotypes than what they supposedly learn from their travels.

TL;DR: In this paper, the establishment of Tortuguero National Park and its impact on a neighboring population is discussed, where small-scale, community-based, and nature-oriented tourism development in similar Third World countries is presented as a model for TortuguERO.

TL;DR: Recreation and leisure studies in North America offer a number of intriguing parallels with tourism as mentioned in this paper, and the history of the field is briefly traced, with particular attention given to its dual origins and their convergence.

TL;DR: The authors reviewed the main features of tourism development in Kenya, with particular reference to the problems of development, and drew from the analysis several policy-oriented conclusions for which new planning directions are required.

TL;DR: In this article, a linear expenditure model for demand analysis of domestic US tourism is presented, which starts with the assumption of consumer utility maximization under budget constraints and uses five commodity groups: transportation, lodging, food service, entertainment/ recreation, and other goods and services.

TL;DR: This paper examined the contribution of history to the understanding of tourism and concluded that much European research has been concerned with resorts, whereas North American researchers have devoted more attention to tourism in park and wilderness settings.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of repetition of a given tourist experience on economic spending was determined using data from a large-scale survey of tourism at university level football games at The Pennsylvania State University.

TL;DR: In an earlier article as discussed by the authors, Urn and Crompton presented a two-stage approach to travel destination choice based on the construct of evoked set and empirically verified that destination choice at both stages was dependent upon attitude toward each destination alternative.

TL;DR: The model predicts retirement will emerge as a major factor in resorts as tourism goes into decline, but an examination of trends in Parksville and Qualicum Beach, British Columbia, Canada, revealed retirement has been a feature of those resorts since their early days and has grown alongside tourism.

TL;DR: A loosely knit network that arose in the first few days following the demonstrations continued to function for more than 2 years, recruiting new volunteers to take the place of those who left.