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The Use Of Historical Heritage As A Factor In Sustainable Tourism Development: The Case Study Of Akbarieh Garden, A Unesco World Heritage Site In Birjand, Mahdieh Jahangir Bolourchian, Mahdi Hajikhani, Eghbal Chehri Dr.

TTRA Canada 2023 Conference

The research explores the role of historical heritage in bolstering sustainable tourism, with a keen focus on Akbarieh Garden, a renowned UNESCO world heritage site situated in Birjand, Iran. Historical heritage sites often present a unique intersection between the preservation of cultural legacy and the promotion of local economies through tourism. Sustainable tourism emphasizes the balance between environmental, economic, and socio-cultural aspects, ensuring that these attractions remain preserved for future generations while still benefiting present-day communities.

Immigration And Workforce Diversity In The Canadian Hospitality And Tourism Sector: An Opportunity Not To Be Missed, Frederic Dimanche, Maggie Perzyna

TTRA Canada 2023 Conference

Immigration, as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are essential aspects of Canada, a multicultural country that relies on immigration. The paper describes the state of diversity management in Canadian tourism and makes recommendations to help foster a competitive tourism sector with improved worker management practices.

Becoming A Second Home: The Role Of A Host Destination In The Ism Experience. Case Study: Girona., Karla Romina Quintero, Konstantina Zerva

TTRA Canada 2021 Conference

International student mobility is considered among young travelers an opportunity to acquire a one-of-a-kind experience, making the host destination the perfect scenario where such experiences can take place. Since travelling is strongly associated with students’ mobility, and it is well documented that this concept is related to shaping travelers’ perceptions of self through experiences with other people and places, this case study explores the role of a host destination in the international students’ mobility experience. Thirty-three in-depth semi-structured interviews were performed to international students from different nationalities who have finished a tourism master’s degree program at the University of Girona, …

Future Proofing: Changing Tourism Education To Change Business Practices, Maria Della Lucia Ph.D., Frederic Dimanche Ph.D.

TTRA Canada 2021 Conference

Introduction: This paper addresses the TTRA Canada conference sub-theme “Future-Proofing: Learning from Today to Build Back Tomorrow.” The pandemic has accelerated discussion about the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of tourism, social equity, workers’ dignity, as well as the long-term climate crisis. Tourism and the pandemic have led to a series of discussions about whether tourism can indeed be sustainable (e.g., Benjamin et al., 2020). The fact that the tourism industry has been the economic activity that was the most affected by the pandemic feeds this discussion (Della Lucia, Giudici, & Dimanche, 2021) . The sector has shown that it …

One Step Back, Two Steps Forward, One Destination’S Path To Tourism Recovery., Eleanor Anderson

TTRA Canada 2021 Conference

One step back, two steps forward, one destination’s path to tourism recovery.

2021 TTRA Canada Virtual Conference. October 13-15, 2021

Submitted July 21, 2021 Virtual Presentation Length 15 minutes

Keywords: Tourism, Covid-19, Recovery, Destination, Sustainability, Cape Breton

Introduction

Cape Breton Island, on Canada's east coast, has long been lauded by travel media as a tourist destination of choice, including being recently named as the #1 Island in North America by Conde Nast Traveler and the #1 Island in Canada during the 2020 and 2021Travel & Leisure World’s Best Awards.

Cape Breton’s economy is heavily dependent on the employment and revenue …

Collaborative Tourism Development, Megan Fortune, Georgia Brennan

TTRA Canada 2019 Conference

No abstract provided.

Profiling The Emotional Peaks And Valleys In Stories Of Cross-Border Shopping, Michael S. Mulvey, Charles E. Gengler

TTRA Canada 2019 Conference

The stories that travellers tell provide valuable insight to tourism managers responsible for shaping travel experiences. Access to consumer stories has never been greater due to the rise of online forums, reviews, and blogs (Gretzel, Fesenmaier, Lee, & Tussyadiah, 2010). Yet, researchers’ ability to make sense of these stories is limited by current theoretical and methodological approaches. We contend that there is an opportunity to develop new approaches to measure customer experience using advanced text analysis and sentiment indices. Specifically, we use narrative theory to explain the importance of emotional peaks and valleys in stories and propose a natural language …

#Tourism: The Influence Of Social Media On Visitor Experiences In Churchill, Manitoba, Katherine Ann Fowler

TTRA Canada 2016 Conference

No abstract provided.

International Collaboration In Destination Marketing: A Case Study Of The Vanilla Islands, Émilie Bourdages, Marc-Antoine Vachon

TTRA Canada 2016 Conference

No abstract provided.

The Influence Of Time Of Day On Traveler Website Conversions, Maryse Côté-Hamel

TTRA Canada 2016 Conference

Through the analysis of the Quebec City Tourism website, the effect of the time of day of the visits on visitor conversions, which represent the attainment of specific objectives, will be investigated.

Spatio-Temporal Data In Tourism Research, Dmitry Shkolnik

TTRA Canada 2016 Conference

The work presented here highlights the efforts at Destination Canada to use user-generated online content to learn about tourist movement patterns, activity, and relationships among groups of connected destinations. Using a massive open-data source of photographic metadata from the Flickr photograph sharing platform, we extract time-stamps and geographic coordinates from photo metadata to analyze activity and movement patterns of international visitors to Canada.

This analysis allows us to protect privacy while identifying rich and interesting patterns of tourist activity at both national and urban scales. The data further allows us to generate constructed tourist itineraries using extracted spatio-temporal data for …

Public Perceptions Of The Favelas Of Rio De Janeiro, Claudia G. Green Phd, Adnan Dhiyan Mba

TTRA Canada 2016 Conference

No abstract provided.