Showing papers in "Annals of Tourism Research in 2008"

TL;DR: In this article, a model explaining the interrelationships between psychological variables of the tourist is developed and the results show that preconceived image of the destination influences expectations and tourist loyalty, and there is support for the impact of expectations and emotions on satisfaction, which has a significant influence on behavioral intentions.

TL;DR: In this article, a model of dark tourism consumption within a thanatological framework is proposed as a basis for further theoretical and empirical analysis of the dark touristic experiences in modern societies.

TL;DR: In this article, a study of three Amazon ecotourism projects was conducted, where local leaders discussed changes from eco-tourism in their communities, including new restrictions on time, decreased reciprocity, and social conflict.

TL;DR: The authors enriches the theoretical debate on the concept of authenticity by examining its relevance to the experiences of pilgrims, and integrates previous approaches to authenticity through a conceptual framework referred to as theoplacity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide greater substance to destination image research by contextualizing and expanding the scope of relevant constructs through the use of knowledge gained in product-country research, and this platform enables the application of them in an examination of effects on touristic intentions.

TL;DR: In this article, the short-run impacts of the September 11 attacks in New York on tourist preferences for competing destinations in the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands were investigated, and it was found that while some destinations experienced a strongly negative impact on their image and attractiveness, others were upgraded as a consequence of terror events.

TL;DR: In this article, a model of integrated rural tourism, which took account of the various resources (cultural, social, environmental, economic), their use, and the role of pertinent stakeholders, was developed to explore effective methods of promoting tourism as part of a rural development strategy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the issue of how tourism affects poverty in the context of its effects on an economy as a whole and on particular sectors within it and developed a framework for analyzing the channels through which tourism influences different households, and a computable general equilibrium model of the Brazilian economy is used to examine the economic impact and distributional impacts of tourism in the country.

TL;DR: In this paper, the structural properties of interorganizational networks within destinations are examined and four Australian case studies demonstrate the utility of network analysis by illustrating features such as product clusters, structural divides, and central organizations.

TL;DR: The authors reviewed the literature on urban tourism and outlined the process that was undertaken to identify areas for urban tourism research, and presented a conceptual framework that can be used to focus future Urban Tourism research.

TL;DR: This article investigated the extent to which people's involve- ment with a celebrity affects their perceptions of tourism destinations (familiarity, image, and visitation intentions) and found that celebrity involvement positively affected familiarity and visitation intention.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that there is a general re-orientation in landscape perception from "spectacularization" towards "multi-sensing" and argue that while actors hold different positions and attitudes, all of them unite in their concerns about landscape change and in their desire to preserve food traditions and local produce.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce the notion of integrated rural tourism, theorized in relation to the concepts of embeddedness, dis-embeddedness, endogeneity, and empowerment, and report on qualitative research which explored the existence of such characteristics in rural networks operating among small businesses and resource controllers in the English-Welsh borders.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the merits of volunteer-employed photography as a technique for investigating perceptions of residents and tourists of a destination, and found that both groups tend to adopt similar ways of reading the destination.

TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship between government and tourism in Xishuangbanna, China and concluded that more nuanced government policies could mitigate many of the issues, such as contradictions in regulations, ethnic rights, and relationships with entrepreneurs.

TL;DR: The authors explored tourism policy making from the perspectives of policy makers using grounded theory and found that policy making is essentially a social process, involving communication and negotiation between people in the context of wider change, and further research to investigate the communications involved in producing policy rather than the current research focus on the tangible outputs of the process such as a plan or a physical development.

TL;DR: The authors analyzes photographs taken by participants in a study abroad program to determine whether they reveal the completion of a hermeneutic circle embedded with colonialist discourse, whose other component consists of representations of racial and cultural Others in Western tourism-related media.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that socially oriented activities carried out by tourism firms bring about benefits for society both directly (inherent to the purpose of such activities) and indirectly (via their commercial performance).

TL;DR: In this article, a structural model of pre-vacation decision-making for a touring vacation is presented, which incorporates characteristics of the vacation and the tourist that influence the amounts and types of each of these activities undertaken.

TL;DR: In this article, a study was conducted with a sample of curators based in the heritage museums of the state of Iowa, United States, and a complex cross-section of ideologies behind the museum curtains was unveiled.

TL;DR: The Australian text on Protected Area Management as discussed by the authors is an internationalized version of the Australian text by Worboys, Lockwood and deLacy (2005), but it contains so much more material that it can only be considered as an entirely separate text.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the role of authenticity in the seaside destination choice and introduce the weight attributed to authenticity as a psychographic segmentation variable, based on the use of conjoint analysis.

TL;DR: The authors examined central themes in traveling retirees' perceptions of tourism and travel and identified five themes, associating post-retirement tourism not only with the new life phase, but also with lifelong interests, leisure activities, retirees' social networks and perceived constraints.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the present state of tourism in Bhutan and considered the prospects for the development of ecotourism, and found that tourists interested in the natural beauty of the Himalayan kingdom stay longer than those who come to experience its culture.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed tourism issues faced by archipelagos by comparing two successful "sun and beach" mass destinations, the Hawai'ian (USA) and Balearic (Spain) archipelago.

TL;DR: This paper investigates accessibility schemes as communication sources and their potential to fulfill the informational needs of tourists with disabilities and shows that, despite complying with the reliability function at the regional and national level, the existing schemes studied partly comply with informational requirements.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the way India's heritage is represented by the Indian government, by the domestic tourism trade media and by the popular tourism media and reveal that India is consistently represented as an ethnically diverse nation in which Hinduism preceded and prevailed over all other ethnicities/religions; a portrayal that consolidates the state's secular nationalist narrative.

TL;DR: The authors examined memories of childhood holidays of Australian women and girls and found that shared, fun, physical activities are common positive memories of the childhood holidays across the generations, while women's recollection of the imperative to behave responsibly and appropriately constrained their freedom.

TL;DR: The authors examines the contradictions in the uneasy marriage between tourism and nation-building, and suggests that developing countries wishing to combine economic growth with social equity risk falling victim to the Janus-faced character of tourism.