Showing papers in "Annals of Tourism Research in 2005"

TL;DR: The authors investigated residents' perceptions of tourism's impact on communities and found that those who feel tourism is important for economic development, benefit from it, and are knowledgeable about the greater positive impacts, but do not differ from others with respect to perceptions of tourists negative consequences.

TL;DR: The authors identified four noteworthy conceptual developments in the study of the tourist experience: a turn from differentiation to de-differentiation of everyday life and touristic experiences; a shift from generalizing to pluralizing conceptualizations; a transformed focus from the toured objects to the tourist subjective negotiation of meanings; and a movement from contradictory and decisive statements to relative and complementary interpretations.

TL;DR: In this paper, a collaborative approach to the relationship between heritage management and tourism development in Luang Prabang, Laos is examined, where the authors examine stakeholder collaboration and management roles, heritage tourism development, as well as the interdependence of the heritage conservation and tourism relationship.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of various dimensions of destination image on onsite experiences, of these on overall evaluation and behavioral intentions, and of the latter on behavioral intentions were investigated, showing that the four dimensions of image have differential effects on these experiences, which in turn influence subsequent behavior.

TL;DR: In this paper, the efficiency of individual hotels belonging to the Portuguese state-owned chain, Pousadas de Portugal, which is managed by the enterprise, ENATUR, was analyzed by means of data envelopment analysis.

TL;DR: This article applied the concept of social capital to generate an understanding of the processes of social change leading to, and resulting from, the development of a community-based ecotourism venture in the Gambia.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship among climate, weather, and tourism from the perspective of the geography of tourism and climatology, stressing the need to improve upon the simplistic descriptions traditionally reported in planning projects.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply a stakeholder theory analysis to the empirical study of chief executive officers of tourism destination management organizations, which reveals a great diversity of varyingly important stakeholders and they are specifically analyzed within a typology according to their potential to threaten and cooperate with the organizations.

TL;DR: Theories of social movements were used to explore possible changes in networks and consciousness-raising among participants in volunteer tourism as discussed by the authors, which had a positive effect on both intended post-trip social movement activities and support for activism.

TL;DR: In this paper, a generic model of family business development provides the framework for examining the nature of such businesses in tourism, and its implications for both family business and tourism theory are discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored how residents in the Balearic Islands of Spain regard tourism as affecting their community, thereby providing a framework for research into attitudes toward this industry in a mature Mediterranean destination.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the dynamics of the complex, nested relationships among host communities, their local heritage sites, and tourism management structures and offer some reflections on how tourism planning and management might encourage small-scale local tourism enterprises for the benefit of both the host and guest populations.

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive model adopts a holistic and global approach to attractions and interpretation that fosters environmental enhancement, deep understanding, and transformation of behavior, which can best promote global sustainability by accommodating selected hard and soft characteristics, thereby taking advantage of the economies of scale offered by the latter.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate a collaboration adopted by a British district council in the formulation of a local strategy for promoting the adoption of sustainable practices by tourism businesses, emphasizing the role of the public sector in promoting "bottom-up" forms of governance, the temporal dynamics of the process, and the reality of innovation in policymaking.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address theoretical and conceptual frameworks dealing with the formation and change of attitudes, cognitive dissonance, positive and negative prejudice, the concept of spread, overt and covert attitudes and their formation, and the nexus between attitudes and behavior toward disability.

TL;DR: This article identified and examined the attitudes of residents in Bath, United Kingdom towards tourism development, and found that impact research conducted on hosts' perceptions is predominantly descriptive and lacking in a consistent approach to measurement.

TL;DR: The authors used the Gettysburg storyscape to illustrate the way in which a text is coconstructed by both marketers and consumers through negotiation and embodied performance, and how a landscape is being symbolically transformed and used by service providers and tourists alike to negotiate, define, and strengthen social values of patriotism and national unity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that a sixth ethics platform is needed to interrogate the morality of the positions taken in policy, planning, development, and management in tourism, against a background of environmental ethics and global political economy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of media representations such as movies, guidebooks, and magazines on destination image in Lhasa, Tibet, and found that the influence of media representation on image falls between a strong and negotiated influence.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the value of sport as a reimaging theme for the contemporary city destination based on evidence regarding the effects of initiatives adopted by three English cities: Birmingham, Manchester, and Sheffield.

TL;DR: This paper examined the mechanisms enabling people to experience Englishness at three heritage sites: Battle Abbey, Hever Castle, and Chartwell, and found that felt kinship ties bind individuals to the wider nation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a framework of issues to consider when evaluating the decentralization of tourism governance, including its potential benefits and shortcomings, and used it to assess tourism governance in the Turkish coastal resort of Belek, notably the involvement of central and local government, a privatized company, and a nongovernmental organization.

TL;DR: The overall implication of the study is that national culture, the level of economic development of a country, the availability of financial resources, and the ability and knowledge of its government officials and managers of private firms have a direct impact on how such an event is responded to and managed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the extent to which current trends within the cruiseship sector exemplify the five core principles that underpin the McDonaldization thesis and demonstrate that this thesis does not adequately speak to the nature of production and consumption on board "supersized" cruiseships.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how well one's plans for doing, buying, and consuming discretionary tourism services relate to what is actually done using group level data, and they find that realized consumption behaviors are greater in number than planned and the level of matching between planned and realized actions varies as a function of contingency factors of composition of the tourist group, product experience, and motivations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the differences between ways that India is represented in American tourism media and how it is represented by the Indian government itself and find that these two representations are different in ways that reflect the colonial nature of international tourism and the postcolonial stage of India's nationalism.

TL;DR: In this article, an ethnography of an Indonesian group of tour guides presented here illus- trates how the global and the local are intimately intertwined through what has been described as the process of ''glocalization''.