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Entrepreneurs in Romance. Tourism in Indonesia
Heidi Dahles,Karin Bras +1 more
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In this paper, the authors address the extent to which the opportunity to enter into a sexual relationship with Western female tourists poses a challenge to the vast number of self-employed young men in Indonesian tourism destinations.About:
This article is published in Annals of Tourism Research.The article was published on 1999-04-01. It has received 125 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Tourism geography & Tourism.read more
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The Family Business in Tourism and Hospitality
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a comprehensive assessment of ownership, management and family-related concerns across the entire business and family life cycle, and use case studies of real family businesses to illustrate key points.
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The politics of tour guiding: image management in Indonesia
TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of state propaganda on the narratives of tourist guides in Indonesia is discussed, and two related questions are raised: what strategies does the government apply to professionalize and to control tourist guides, and to what extent does government intervention constitute restrictions to and opportunities for the guides' activities?
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Strengthening backward economic linkages: Local food purchasing by three Indonesian hotels
David J. Telfer,Geoffrey Wall +1 more
TL;DR: The authors compared food purchasing practices, policies and behaviours of three different hotels (five star, four star and non-star) in two locations in Indonesia between 1994 and 1995, illustrating the possibility of using local products.
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A contextualisation of entrepreneurship
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore and critically analyse entrepreneurship theories and concepts within the context of the small family tourism business, and the extent to which owner-managers and their enterprises can be classified as entrepreneurial.
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Tourism and Glocalization: ‘Local’ Tour Guiding
TL;DR: It is concluded that tourism offers excellent opportunities to study glocalization, but that more grounded research is needed.
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The concept of a tourist area cycle of evolution: implications for management of resources.
TL;DR: The concept of a recognizable cycle in the evolution of tourist areas is presented in this paper, using a basic s curve to illustrate their waving and waning popularity, and specific stages in the evolutionary sequence are described, along with a range of possible future trends.
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The tourist guide: the origins, structure and dynamics of a role.
TL;DR: In this paper, the transition from the original tourist guide to the professional tourist guide is represented as a transition of emphasis from the instrumental to the communicative component, and two new role types have differentiated: the Animator and the Tour-leader, emphasizing, respectively, the social and the interactionary components.
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Representations of International Tourism in the Social Sciences: Sun, Sex, Sights, Savings, and Servility
TL;DR: In The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain asserts that "travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and nar- rowmindedness... " and yet goes on, page after page, about the daily torture and anxiety involved in foreign travel as discussed by the authors.
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Critical Issues in Tourism: A Geographical Perspective
Gareth Shaw,Allan M. Williams +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an approach to tourism and the challenges of sustainable tourism in rural and urban areas of the UK. But they focus on the tourism and not the tourism environment.