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

TTRA Canada 2016 Conference

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Borat Revisited: Film, Image Building And Emerging Tourism In Kazakhstan, Lucyann S. Kerry Dr

TTRA APac Chapter 2016 Annual Conference

This paper examines the relationship of film representations with an emerging tourism in Kazakhstan and Central Asia. It argues that films depicting Kazakhstan will support the future development of tourism’s potential in the Central Asian country. This paper further argues that the film industry’s globalization processes of production, distribution and exhibition are interconnected with this tourism development and serve as an effective promotional strategy.

Although the film Borat in 2006 had made fun of an imaginary Kazakhstan, the country had responded to these misrepresentations with an image building multi-million dollar ‘Heart of Eurasia’ campaign and the production of feature films …

Efficacy Of Gain Index In Predicting The Economic Impacts Of Climate Change To Tourism Receipts In The Mediterranean Basin, Tarik Dogru, Umit Bulut, Ercan (Sirakaya) Turk

Travel and Tourism Research Association: Advancing Tourism Research Globally

This study tests the efficacy of Global Adaptation Institute (GAIN) Index, which summarizes a country's vulnerability to climate change and its readiness to improve resilience, in estimating the economic impacts of climate change to tourism. We employ panel cointegration and panel DOLS methods for sixteen countries (Albania, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Slovenia, Spain, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia and Turkey) that have a coastline on the Mediterranean Sea. The results indicate that there is a cointegration relation in the model, and tourist arrivals depend negatively on vulnerability and economic readiness and depend positively on governances …

Spatial Analysis Of Poverty, Tourism, And Opportunity In North Carolina, Yuchen Mao, Duarte B. Morais, Gene Brothers, Gene Nichol, Heather Ann Hunt

Travel and Tourism Research Association: Advancing Tourism Research Globally

This study collected online secondary data in terms of tourism economic impact, human development, natural amenities, and self-employment income at the county level in the State of North Carolina and used GIS to conduct a spatial analysis of the distribution of and the interaction between tourism, poverty, and micro-entrepreneurship. It is aimed at identifying the areas where tourism( can( be( utilized( to( cope( with( poverty( by( creating( employment( and( tax( revenues(and(where(tourism(micro8entrepreneurship(might(have(an(important(role(in(enabling( individuals( to( earn( their( way( to( equitable( and( sustainable( prosperity.( ( The results show variations across the counties and the four geographic regions in North Carolina. Tourism business startup …

Hotelier Attitudes Toward Sustainability In Virginia Beach, Rachel Burrows, Dr. Samantha Rozier Rich

Travel and Tourism Research Association: Advancing Tourism Research Globally

This study examined Virginia Beach hoteliers’ knowledge surrounding sustainable tourism, awareness of sustainable programs offered both on the local and national levels, and evaluation of the current sustainable programs available in Virginia Beach. The Virginia Beach Convention & Visitors Bureau distributed a sustainability-focused survey to the General Managers of all hotels in Virginia Beach city limits. With the various programs available and limited success to this point, it is imperative to get hoteliers involved in order to continue to work toward Virginia Beach’s vision of being a sustainable destination. In order for Virginia Beach to continue to position itself as …

Capacity Building And Institutional Development Partnership: University Of Florida And Tshwane University Of Technology, South Africa, Brijesh Thapa, Lori Pennington-Gray, Sandra Russo, Eric Friedheim, Sue Geldenhuys, Willie Coetzee

Travel and Tourism Research Association: Advancing Tourism Research Globally

Capacity building and institutional development through training is a key component for the vitality and sustainability of the tourism industry in South Africa. The overall advancement of qualified, trained and skilled labor force is crucial, given the rate of growth and future trends. In order to address this major need, the University of Florida and Tshwane University of Technology have formulated a three-year partnership (2009-2012) to strengthen curriculum, research, and faculty enhancement initiatives in tourism management in South Africa. This presentation will outline and expand the partnership objectives and accomplishments. This example can be a model for international academic partnerships.

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

TTRA Canada 2016 Conference

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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 …

The Financing Activities Of Canadian Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises In Tourism Industries, Andrea K. Pierce

Travel and Tourism Research Association: Advancing Tourism Research Globally

Though there has been substantial research on small and medium sized enterprises in tourism, information on access to financing for these businesses is limited. Given the importance of financing to the success and growth of a business, this report investigates the financing activities of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in tourism industries and assesses whether this group of SMEs faces unique financing obstacles. Using data from Statistics Canada’s, Survey on Financing of Small and Medium Enterprises, this report finds that Canadian SMEs in tourism industries, although less likely to request external financing, were significantly less likely to be approved for …

Tourism Carrying Capacity Assessment For Historical Sites - Isfahan Emam Mosque, Naser Aminian, Shahrzad Khodayar

Travel and Tourism Research Association: Advancing Tourism Research Globally

Isfahan as cultural capital of Islamic world is the most important tourism destination in Middle East and a profitable economic sector in Iran. Naghsh-E Jahan Square (Emam Square) was certified as a World Heritage Site in 1979. Among the tourist sites in Naghsh-E Jahan Square, Emam mosque is a place which attracts the largest number of visitors. The unplanned tourism activities, daily prayer and religious events in this site have been creating various physical and social concerns. If appropriate planning measurements are not derived from the consideration of the carrying capacities of this site, tourism center will be overloaded, tourism …

Examining An Opportunity For Collaboration Among Stakeholders To Promote Conservation In Sea Turtle Tourism In Gili Trawangan, Lombok, Indonesia, Allison Mccabe

Travel and Tourism Research Association: Advancing Tourism Research Globally

This study focuses on sustainable sea turtle tourism development in small islands, focusing on a case study on Gili Trawangan, Indonesia. All species of sea turtles are globally endangered, largely due to impacts of unsustainable tourism development. Gili Trawangan is an island dependent upon a flourishing marine tourism industry. It is crucial to determine stakeholder perspectives to reveal barriers and influences in tourism development to help promote sea turtle conservation and protect the livelihoods of local communities. The study was conducted in 2010 to examine an opportunity for stakeholder collaboration to promote conservation in sea turtle tourism. The study applied …

Paradox, Metaphor, And Practice: Serious Complaints And The Tourism Industry, Adam Weaver

Travel and Tourism Research Association: Advancing Tourism Research Globally

This paper addresses both paradoxes and metaphors within the context of a study that examines serious complaints within the tourism industry. A series of paradoxes were identified when a collection of published complaints from the magazine Condé Nast Traveler were analyzed. It is proposed that metaphors derived from the domain(s) of tourism and mobility may offer some insight into the way in which these paradoxes can be managed. The field(s) of tourism and mobility studies may therefore be a potential source of ideas – and offer some guidance – for those seeking to approach the quandaries created by paradoxes in …

The Influence Of Mindfulness On Tourists’ Emotions, Satisfaction And Destination Loyalty In Fiji, Simon D. Rubin, Woojin Lee, Cody Morris Paris, Victor Teye

Travel and Tourism Research Association: Advancing Tourism Research Globally

Positive tourist experiences are crucial for the continued success of tourist destinations around the world. In the literature, mindfulness theory has emerged as a vehicle for studying the factors that influence tourist experiences (e.g. Moscardo, 1996). The purpose of this study is to test an adapted mindfulness model using data from a survey of tourists in Fiji. Hypothesized relationships were examined between: (1) the antecedent concepts to mindfulness (novelty seeking motivation and mindful oriented services) and mindfulness, (2) mindfulness and tourists’ emotions, and (3) the influence of tourists’ emotions on tourists’ satisfaction and destination loyalty. The results indicate a good …

International Visitors’ Personal Involvement Levels A Factor-Cluster Segmentation Analysis, Girish Prayag, Frederic Dimanche

Travel and Tourism Research Association: Advancing Tourism Research Globally

Involvement, a widespread concept in marketing, leisure and recreation, has played a more limited role in tourism studies. The purpose of this research was to evaluate the influence of visitors’ personal and trip characteristics on the involvement dimensions in a tourism context, thereby offering a segmentation perspective of visitors’ involvement levels. The Involvement Profile scale was administered to 1000 international visitors in Mauritius at various beach resorts. The importance and pleasure dimensions merged to form the attraction dimension while risk probability items loaded as per the original scale. The results confirm the existence of different visitor groups based on involvement, …

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

TTRA Canada 2016 Conference

No abstract provided.