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The tourist guide: the origins, structure and dynamics of a role.
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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.About:
This article is published in Annals of Tourism Research.The article was published on 1985-01-01. It has received 658 citations till now.read more
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The Role of Smartphones in Mediating the Touristic Experience
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the mediation mechanisms of smartphones by examining stories provided by travelers related to their use of smartphones (and associated applications) for traveling purposes, revealing that smartphones can change tourists' behavior and emotional states by addressing a wide variety of information needs; in particular, the instant information support of smartphones enables tourists to more effectively solve problems, share experiences, and "store" memories.
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Transformation of self in tourism
TL;DR: The authors found that the tourist self is changed very little by the tour, while the consequences of tourism for the native self are profound, and that tourist discourse promises the tourist a total transformation of self, but the native is described as untouched by civilization and as frozen in time.
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Application of importance-performance model in tour guides’ performance: evidence from mainland Chinese outbound visitors in Hong Kong
Hanquin Q. Zhang,Ivy. Chow +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the importance-performance analysis (IPA) model to assess the performance of Hong Kong's tour guides as perceived by mainland Chinese outbound visitors, and identified 20 pertinent tour guide service quality attributes.
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POWER AND TOURISM A Foucauldian Observation
So-Min Cheong,Marc L. Miller +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the Foucauldian framework reveals that the tourist is frequently vulnerable to the composite gaze of others, and that productive power generates touristic knowledge, which recommends increased analytical attention to the role of brokers prominent in tourism development.
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Case study on tour guiding : professionalism, issues and problems
John Ap,Kevin K. F. Wong +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a study examines the nature of tour guiding in Hong Kong, assessing the existing level of professional service standards, and identifying issues and challenges facing the profession in the 21st century.
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
TL;DR: For instance, in the case of an individual in the presence of others, it can be seen as a form of involuntary expressive behavior as discussed by the authors, where the individual will have to act so that he intentionally or unintentionally expresses himself, and the others will in turn have to be impressed in some way by him.
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The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class
TL;DR: LuLu Lippard as mentioned in this paper reviewed the 1989 edition of The Tourist in 2013 Introduction to the 1989 Edition Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Modernity and the Production of Touristic Experiences 2. Sightseeing and Social Structure 3. The Paris Case: Origins of Alienated Leisure 4. The Other Attractions 5. Staged Authenticity 6. A Semiotic of Attraction 7. The Ethnomethodology of Sightseers 8. Structure, Genuine and Spurious 9.
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Staged Authenticity: arrangements of social space in tourist settings
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined accounts of travelers in terms of Erving Goffman's front versus back distinction and found that tourists try to enter back regions of the places they visit because these regions are associated with intimacy of relations and authenticity of experiences.