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Tourism: Transnational Corporations and Cultural Identities
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The article was published on 1985-07-01 and is currently open access. It has received 50 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Tourism geography & Tourism.read more
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Destination Image, Self-Congruity, and Travel Behavior: Toward an Integrative Model
M. Joseph Sirgy,Chenting Su +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, an integrative model of destination image, self-congruity, and travel behavior is described, in particular, the model postulates relationships between destination environment, destination visitor image, tourists' self-concept, selfcongruity, functional congruity (the match between the utilitarian attributes of the destination and tourists' ideal expectations related to those attributes), and travel behaviour.
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More than an “industry”: The forgotten power of tourism as a social force
TL;DR: This paper argued that tourism is a powerful social force that can achieve many important ends when its capacities are unfettered from the market fundamentalism of neoliberalism and instead are harnessed to meet human development imperatives and the wider public good.
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Challenges of sustainable tourism development in the developing world: the case of Turkey
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an analysis of the challenges to sustainable tourism development in developing countries with special references to Turkey as a part of the developing world and conclude that any operation of principles of sustainability tourism development necessitates hard political and economic choices, and decisions based upon complex socioeconomic and environmental trade-offs.
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Tourism models: the sociocultural aspects
TL;DR: In this article, the tourist, the subject of the tourism phenomenon, is placed in the centre in order to construct a tourist model composed of six integrated components, intended not only to facilitate an understanding of the tourist himself, but also to lead to the development of an expanded model of tourism as a phenomenon.
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Residents' attitudes towards an instant resort enclave.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used interviews with residents of Isabela, Puerto Rico, to examine their attitudes towards a proposed “instant” enclave resort in their community and found that respondents are aware of both some of the positive and negative impacts of tourism, and are quite ambivalent about the planned tourist site.