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Gold Coast Tourism Market Analysis, Bill Faulkner, Carmen Tideswell
Gold Coast Tourism Market Analysis, Bill Faulkner, Carmen Tideswell
Carmen Cox
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Quality Tourism Experiences: Reviews, Reflections And Research Agendas, Gayle Jennings, Young-Sook Lee, Amanda Ayling, Brooke Lunny, Carl Cater, Claudia Ollenburg
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 …
Regional Signatures And Trends In The Farm Tourism Sector, Claudia Ollenburg
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 …