Search results for "Tourism"

Tracking oneself for others: communal and self-motivational value of sharing exercise data online

2021

Self-tracking is increasingly popular in recreational sport. Leisure sports practitioners use wearable devices that are connected to online platforms to record, analyse, and share their exercise data. While doing that they interact with a digital system, with themselves, and with peers. This paper examines social-communicative aspects of self-tracking, and the support that these aspects and their associated practices may provide for physical activity behaviour. Data for the study was collected using an online survey and in-depth interviews with Finnish trail runners. The results indicate that sharing exercise data with others on a regular basis can support physical activity behaviour becaus…

Dziedzictwo (po)górnicze - dylematy i perspektywy

2017

This paper discusses the process of transformation of the (coal) mining heritage from the 1990s up to the present day. It draws attention to the development of new trends related to the conservation and documentation of that heritage. In the last decades, numerous open air museums, tradition parks, monument trails have been created, which, through various forms of activities, encourage people to take interest in the history and traditions associated with mining. Today, the mining heritage has a significant potential, especially in terms of popular forms of tourism (industrial, urban, thematic). Due to institutional and financial support, also on the part of local environments, and a well-de…

“I felt a bit nervous” : Virtual Exchange as an emotional journey

2021

Virtual Exchange is a collective term for a set of collaborative online learning practices that cut across institutional, cultural, and international borders. Moving outside their learning environments, the participants engage in project work with foreign peers. The teams have to work across time zones, use foreign languages, manage cultural differences and apply digital tools for communication and collaboration. The virtual projects enhance the development of transversal work/life skills, which are an asset in today’s global labour market. The aim of the present study is to explore the emotional trajectory of Virtual Exchange based on the students’ e-portfolios. By analysing the self-evalu…

Chatbot Adoption in Tourism Services: A Conceptual Exploration

2019

Originality/value: This study is one of the earliest studies that advances firm-level adoption of chatbots by integrating two key organizational theories.

A spatial origin‐destination approach for the analysis of local tourism demand in Italy

2023

The article assesses the competitiveness of tourist destinations, while accounting for spatial features of tourism and information on both the origin and the destination of tourists. Using a dynamic spatial panel data model with common factors within the origin-destination framework, it explores unilateral inbound tourism flows in 110 Italian regions from 23 European origin countries over the period 2004-2017. The estimation and test results confirm the need to consider this advanced spatial econometric model. In an empirical application measuring tourism resilience of regions based on this model, the results demonstrate the importance of promoting coordinated actions between neighbouring d…

Tourist Behaviour Predictors: a Focus on Organised Vs. Independent Tourism.

2013

El impacto de la política de visados sobre los flujos internacionales de turistas: Un análisis con datos de panel

2016

Using newly panel data on visa restrictions for the years 2000 and 2010 in a theory-grounded gravity model, we find a robust, causal negative impact of visa restrictions on international tourist flows. By destination, the detrimental impact of this type of barrier is observed for tourists going to developing countries (with the exception of East and South Asia), but not for those to developed ones. By country of origin of tourists, the impact of visa restrictions appears to be the same for tourists coming from developed and developing countries. These findings have important consequences in policy terms for tourism management at a regional level.

Measuring the perceived value of rural tourism: a field survey in the western Sicilian agritourism sector

2016

Rural tourism constitutes a valuable tool for the sustainable development of many rural areas. This paper examines the concept of perceived value in rural tourism. A quantitative field survey was carried out in some main Western Sicilian holiday farms (agritourisms) during the Spring 2014. A theoretical model of the tourists’ perceived value in this specific context was developed and validated, using a 22-item scale. Using Partial Least Squares Path Modelling a theoretical structural model of the multidimensional structure of the RTPV was tested, assessing intensity and direction of the causal relationships among RTPV and its dimensions. Five dimensions were identified as forming the constr…

UN JOYAU ENTRE LA VILLE ET LE TERRITOIRE

2016

A partir de la notion de patrimoine culturel comme une carte d'identité communautaire, l'article traite le thème de la Vallée des Temples en relation avec la ville et le territoire. Une incohérence émerge de la magnificence de la Vallée des Temples, patrimoine UNESCO depuis 1997, connue pour ses ruines archéologiques, mais aussi pour son paysage agricole dans lequel celles-ci sont insérées :Agrigente et son territoire ne parviennent pas à bénéficier pleinement de la présence de son joyau, le grand “vide encore appréciable aujourd’hui, malgré les épisodes de constructions illégales. Le léger réveil culturel auquel nous avons assisté au cours de ces dernières années, est certainement le fruit…

SICILY: THE OVERWHELMING FLUXES OF MASS TOURISM, IMMIGRATION AND STREET MARKETS

2016

Tre progetti sono sviluppati nello stupendo, sebbene in parte distrutto, centro storico di Palermo, il quarto si trova invece ad Agrigento sulla costa sud ovest della Sicilia, un sito archeologico di rinomanza mondiale. Lo scenario di questi progetti è la Sicilia dei prossimi anni nella quale enormi masse di persone arriveranno. - Da un lato il turismo di massa con il suo straripante sviluppo porterà gente al Nord - principalmente Palermo – e loro molto spesso si dirigeranno a Sud a vedere le rovine greche. - similmente una latrettanto enorme massa di gente disperata sbarcherà avventurosamente sulla costa sud e farà lo stesso percorso ma in verso opposto verso Palermo, tappa intermedia vers…