Showing papers in "Annals of Tourism Research in 1996"

TL;DR: The Third World tourism industry has grown rapidly, but has also encountered many problems common to other outward-oriented development strategies, including: excessive foreign dependency, the creation of separate enclaves, the reinforcement of socioeconomic and spatial inequalities, environmental destruction, and rising cultural alienation as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impacts of tourism, as perceived by the residents of Pythagorion, a well-established tourism destination on the Greek island of Samos, were investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that successful interpretation is critical both for the effective management and conservation of built heritage sites and for sustainable tourism, and they introduce the concept of mindfulness and outlines its use in developing a model for designing effective interpretation at heritage sites.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of heritage in postmodern tourism is examined, particularly built heritage, which is at the heart of cultural tourism, and four challenging issues in linking heritage and tourism are discussed.

TL;DR: A transnational study of European cultural tourism demand and supply indicates a rapid increase in both the production and consumption of heritage attractions as discussed by the authors, driven by rising income and education levels, there has also been a significant supply-induced element of demand.

TL;DR: This article examined the similarities and differences in the place images for tourism marketing used by five old industrial English cities: Birmingham, Bradford, Manchester, Sheffield, and Stoke-on-Trent.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the literature on relationships between food production, particularly agriculture and tourism, and examined the efforts of a resort on the island of Lombok, Indonesia, to increase the amount of local food products used in its restaurants through the establishment of two projects involving local food producers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the results of a detailed study to analyze the impact made by 1991 tourism expenditure on incomes, employment, public sector revenue and the balance of payments in the Seychelles.

TL;DR: In this article, a literature review reveals a multitude of different ideas as to what constitutes rural tourism, and a model is suggested that places farm, rural, and non-urban tourism into context.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the tourism market and policy of seven art cities: Aix-en-Provence, Amsterdam, Bruges, Florence, Oxford, Salzburg and Venice.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated registered ecotourism lodges using observation and interviews with visitors, employees, and local people, and found that lodges contribute little to conservation education, resource protection, or the involvement and empowerment of local people.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of museums in developing urban tourism is investigated with special attention to the motivation constructs of visitors and the possible added value of a "museumpark" in order to identify their motivation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the extent to which tourism at case study sites in Belize achieves three ecotourism objectives: generation of financial support for protected area management, generation of local economic benefits and generating of local support for conservation.

TL;DR: Mather, E.C. Williams and G.W. Shaw as mentioned in this paper reviewed the Landscape in the Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes and found that the landscape in the interpretation of ordinary landscapes can be seen as a metaphor for tourism and economic development.

TL;DR: In this article, the tourism potential of industrial sites in general and more specifically of mining areas is explored, and the importance and perception of mines and quarries as foci for industrial heritage tourism and its expansion during the last decades.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used interviews with residents of Isabela, Puerto Rico, to examine their attitudes towards a proposed “instant” enclave resort in their community and found that respondents are aware of both some of the positive and negative impacts of tourism, and are quite ambivalent about the planned tourist site.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess Native American, Oceanic, Caribbean, and African studies of dance performance, primarily those collected during fieldwork in Haiti and Cuba, and conclude that dance performance in tourism settings remains "authentic" and "creative".

TL;DR: The authors investigated the interpretive and communicative work needed to make sense of built heritage and argued that heritage is a much more self-reflexive activity than commonly portrayed, instead of focusing on artefacts as images of the past.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue for an integrative approach to understand the processes and outcomes associated with urban heritage tourism development and show that while similar macro-scale processes have pushed both cities to adopt heritage tourism as an urban redevelopment strategy, the final outcomes reflect important local influences.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the relevance of Thailand's heritage attractions to both international and domestic tourism and analyzes the state tourism agency's promotion of heritage and the ideological implications of heritage sightseeing in relation to the official historical narrative.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the need to better understand tourist pressure in selected regions of the Shetland Islands, United Kingdom, using measures of space, time, perception, region, and core-periphery.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provided estimates of demand function for international inbound tourist expenditures in South Korea using selected variables such as relative prices and real exchange rates, and explored alternative schemes to deal with the problems of serial correlation and multicollinearity, which are frequently encountered in econometric models using time series data.

TL;DR: The authors used a modified Dillman total design method survey to collect the data and found that highly involved nature-oriented travelers tend to be more receptive to information concerning the travel product or destination and spread that information willingly.

TL;DR: In this article, tourists were asked to recount their most positive and most negative tourism experiences using the critical incident technique, and these qualitative data were reduced using the attribution theory, which showed an attribution bias where tourists are more likely to use internal (dispositional) attributions for positive tourism outcomes compared to more external (situation) attribution for negative experiences.

TL;DR: A review of the existing literature on tourist accidents and the situation in New Zealand using a number of unique data sources generated by the Accident Compensation Corporation and the Land Transport Safety Authority is presented in this article.

TL;DR: This paper examined attitudes towards tourism among indigenous residents of eight villages in Bali, Indonesia and found that tourists are generally viewed positively: there is a desire to receive more tourists, and a lack of appreciation of negative side effects of tourism development.

TL;DR: The authors examines the viability of the concept of domestic tourism and finds that some Kenyans have begun to take advantage of promotional incentives; however, this appears to be at an incipient stage.