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Generation Y: Perspectives Of Quality In Youth Adventure Travel Experiences In An Australian Backpacker Context, Gayle Jennings, Carl Cater, Young-Sook Lee, Claudia Ollenburg, Amanda Ayling Nov 2009

Generation Y: Perspectives Of Quality In Youth Adventure Travel Experiences In An Australian Backpacker Context, Gayle Jennings, Carl Cater, Young-Sook Lee, Claudia Ollenburg, Amanda Ayling

Claudia Ollenburg

No abstract provided.


Quality Tourism Experiences: Reviews, Reflections And Research Agendas, Gayle Jennings, Young-Sook Lee, Amanda Ayling, Brooke Lunny, Carl Cater, Claudia Ollenburg Dec 2008

Quality Tourism Experiences: Reviews, Reflections And Research Agendas, Gayle Jennings, Young-Sook Lee, Amanda Ayling, Brooke Lunny, Carl Cater, Claudia Ollenburg

Claudia Ollenburg

“Quality tourism experiences,” including its singular form, is a well used phrase in tourism industry literature and traveller dialogues. Yet definitions of a quality tourism experience remain elusive. Tourism studies, recreation and marketing literature similarly resonate with numerous applications of the phrase as well as its contributing terms. A social constructivist approach was applied to a literature review, in order to reflect on the status of “quality tourism experiences,” its meanings, as well as research approaches used and research agendas proffered. From the review emerged multiple interpretations and constructions as well as an emphasis on complexity. Research approaches were predicated …


Cultural Landscape In Mongolian Tourism, R Buckley, Claudia Ollenburg, L Zhong Dec 2007

Cultural Landscape In Mongolian Tourism, R Buckley, Claudia Ollenburg, L Zhong

Claudia Ollenburg

The Mongolian steppes and their nomads, horses, herds and gers form a cultural landscape which is the region’s icon attraction, the central image in Mongolian marketing, the key feature of its flagship tourism products, and the most heavily commoditized component of its industry. In other Mongolian landscapes, and also in the steppes of neighboring regions and the grasslands of Africa, Australia, and North America, natural and cultural heritage are treated as separate attractions. The concept of cultural landscape is heavily used in a World Heritage context, has a significant role to play in the global tourism industry, and deserves further …


Regional Signatures And Trends In The Farm Tourism Sector, Claudia Ollenburg Dec 2007

Regional Signatures And Trends In The Farm Tourism Sector, Claudia Ollenburg

Claudia Ollenburg

Farm tourism is an old phenomenon with new economic and social significance for farming, tourism and rural communities. Many features of the farm tourism sector are similar worldwide, but there are distinct regional differences. The portfolios of farm tourism products offered, in particular, differ significantly both between and within continents, producing regional signatures analogous to those in other sectors of the tourism industry. Farm tourism in Europe is recognizably different from farm tourism in North America. Within Europe, there are differences between the livestock landscapes and farmstays of the colder North and Alps, and the vineyard and olive landscapes of …


Stated Economic And Social Motivations Of Australian Farm Tourism Operators, Claudia Ollenburg, Ralf Buckley Apr 2007

Stated Economic And Social Motivations Of Australian Farm Tourism Operators, Claudia Ollenburg, Ralf Buckley

Claudia Ollenburg

Farm tourism enterprises combine the commercial constraints of regional tourism, the nonfinancial features of family businesses, and the inheritance issues of family farms. They have theoretical significance in regional tourism geography and economics, family tourism business dynamics, and rural diversification. We examined motivations of farm tourism operators throughout Australia using both qualitative and quantitative methods. In contrast to Europe and the United States, social motivations are marginally more important overall than economic motivations. For most operators, however, both are important; and different motivations are dominant for different types of farm landholders and at different stages in farm, family, and business …


Adventure Destinations, R Buckley, J Johnson, C Ollenburg Dec 2005

Adventure Destinations, R Buckley, J Johnson, C Ollenburg

Claudia Ollenburg

No abstract provided.


Green Change: Inland Amenity Migration In Australia, R Buckley, N Sander, C Ollenburg, J Warnken Dec 2005

Green Change: Inland Amenity Migration In Australia, R Buckley, N Sander, C Ollenburg, J Warnken

Claudia Ollenburg

No abstract provided.


Horse Riding, Claudia Ollenburg Dec 2005

Horse Riding, Claudia Ollenburg

Claudia Ollenburg

No abstract provided.


Worldwide Structure Of The Equestrian Tourism Sector, Claudia Ollenburg Dec 2004

Worldwide Structure Of The Equestrian Tourism Sector, Claudia Ollenburg

Claudia Ollenburg

The aims of this contribution are as follows: (1) to introduce the commercial equestrian tourism sector; (2) to outline its relations with private recreational horse riding; (3) to propose a broad classification of equestrian tourism products; (4) to review the structure and principal management concerns of the core equestrian ecotourism subsector, namely multi-day horse treks in remote areas worldwide; and (5) to identify, and perhaps help to catalyse potential avenues for future research in equestrian tourism.