Showing papers in "Annals of Tourism Research in 2006"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze how these limits are approached and evaluated in discussions on a local scale and recognize that behind the different understandings of them lie distinct traditions that are different in their focuses.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored antecedents of revisit intention based on literature reviews and examined their significance based on the results of 2000-2003 surveys of pleasure tourists in Hong Kong, revealing that perceived attractiveness, rather than overall satisfaction, is the most important indicator.

TL;DR: A survey of the literature on authenticity in tourism can be found in this article, concluding that scholars should abandon the concept and the term because there is no common ground as to their existence, meaning, or importance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the concept of existential authenticity, a state of being that can be produced or pursued through tourism activities and highlight how the industry creates opportunities to encounter one's authentic self.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed models depicting the spatial movement patterns of tourists within a destination using an inductive approach based on urban transportation modeling and tourist behavior, to identify explanatory factors that could influence movements.

TL;DR: This article developed and tested a structural model to assess key factors on residents' perceptions of the impacts of the 2002 Winter Olympics as a mega tourism event and how these perceptions affect their support.

TL;DR: Findings indicate that tourists’ planning can be deconstructed into a series of episodes and chapters reflecting the specific problem being addressed and that the languages they use differ substantially from those found on websites employed for their vacation planning.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a model for tourism to adopt knowledge management in a "hostile" knowledge adoption environment, which would close the gap and also provide both insights and potential applications for tourism.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the extent to which there is congruence between the theorized world of tourism and its phenomenal world and demonstrate how these forces contribute to a double-selectivity in knowledge creation.

TL;DR: This paper argued that tourists too can become the "mad" behind bars, closely watched by the locals, and that tourists' behaviour is reflected in the tourists' behavior, but it also influences the local gaze, a situation which in turn affects the behaviour of both the host and guest populations.

TL;DR: The authors examined socioeconomic and cultural incitements to travel and found that long-haul, long-term independent travel has become increasingly common over the last few decades, and how transformations in the perception of backpacking have taken place.

TL;DR: In this article, a content analysis of the comprehensive subject index of the Annals of Tourism Research (1973-2003) is presented, identifying 27 major subject areas and a series of patterns describing the growth of tourism research as published in one single journal.

TL;DR: In this paper, the significance of tourists' perceptions of a heritage site, as it relates to their own heritage, and as an important factor for understanding their behavior and the management of historic settings was explored.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the phenomenon of repeat visits to a holiday destination from an economic perspective based on reputation, market with limited information, and consumer behavior, and found that repeat visitation, knowledge, and quality of a place serve as a motivation for tourist expenditure.

TL;DR: In this article, the applicability of cluster theory in supporting the movement from comparative advantage to competitive advantage for four regional towns located on the Murray River in Australia is investigated, and the potential of cluster analysis as an analytical tool in service-based tourism is reported.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate the usefulness of the policy network approach to describe, analyze, and explain the dynamics of the tourism policy domain with its vast variety of actors and complex web of interactions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the ways in which productivity in tourism businesses can be increased by studying the roles of changes in physical capital, human capital, innovation, and the competitive environment.

TL;DR: The results establish a model of usefulness of brochures in order to propose recommendations for their design and content and implications pertain to the development of theoretical understandings about the influence of the information sources on destination image, destination choice, and satisfying tourist needs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore Business Club Australia, an initiative launched by the Australian federal government to create leverage from Sydney's hosting of the 2000 Olympic Games by providing opportunities for business networking and international trade facilitation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how the positioning of new hotels is affected by the distribution of similar incumbent competitors, and find that agglomeration occurs only among differentiated establishments.

TL;DR: Based on a study in the Jiuzhaigou Biosphere Reserve of China, it is demonstrated that despite weak participation in decisionmaking processes, the local community can benefit sufficiently from tourism as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify factors influencing the intentions of Vietnamese hotel businesses to adopt environmentally friendly practices and evaluate the potential advantages and barriers to the adoption of selected sustainable tourism practices and to make an adoption/rejection decision based on their judgment.

TL;DR: The authors evaluated interventions in a public debate about government policies to limit tourism growth in Malta from an actor perspective on political economy and found that government-related organizations led one intervention advocating sustainable development, but actually it was much affected by business considerations and technical rationality.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider strategies that backpackers traveling Southeast Asia have assumed to "look local" in an attempt to facilitate deeper cultural immersions with native peoples, and argue how, when confronted with challenges, these tourists do, however, sometimes abandon their desire to "be like a local".

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined international tourists' multicity trip patterns within the United States and found that tourists with different origins and varying levels of familiarity with the destination exhibited different multicity tourism behavior.

TL;DR: This paper examined college students' health-risk behaviors on spring break via pre-and post-surveys and found that personal normative beliefs and situational expectations emerged as strong predictors of intentions to binge and pacts of actual bingeing, whereas engagement in casual sex was predicted by intentions for and prior experience with it.

TL;DR: In this article, a postcolonial approach to decenter the Western orientation and to reclaim epistemological space for the Asian backpacker who has been largely ignored is presented, where a case study of Khao San, the backpacker mecca of Southeast Asia is used to convey the racialized and gendered nature of backpacking.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the issue of drug-use during vacation in terms of tourists' voluntary risk-taking and found that they are concerned with legal, social, and medical aspects of risk; they take precautions to reduce it as associated with their behavior; and they perceive drug use as less perilous in the context of tourism than in the routine of everyday life.

TL;DR: In this paper, a framework for employing the concept of tourism yield in a multidimensional manner, in particular applied to various quality of life aspects promoted by sustainable development, is developed.