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Events, Social Connections, Place Identities And Extended Families, Bernadette Quinn, Theresa Ryan
Events, Social Connections, Place Identities And Extended Families, Bernadette Quinn, Theresa Ryan
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The study reported here investigates the role that planned social gatherings play in shaping social connections, forging group identity and re-affirming connections with significant ‘home’ places within families where relationships extend across space. Empirically, it draws on a study of the Gathering, a 2013 national tourism initiative that encouraged people in Ireland to organise ‘gatherings’ to attract ‘home’ family members scattered across the globe. It reports data generated using mixed methods administered in two Irish counties. The findings demonstrate the profound meanings that the gatherings had for participating family members. The events served to strengthen existing family ties and to …
Webs Of Power: Multiple Ownership In Tourism Destinations, Ziene Mottiar, Hazel Tucker
Webs Of Power: Multiple Ownership In Tourism Destinations, Ziene Mottiar, Hazel Tucker
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It has been widely noted in the tourism small business literature that collaboration between groups of businesses operating within clusters contributes both to business development and the success of destinations and regions. This paper aims to contribute to the research on tourism destination networks by focusing on multiple ownership, or portfolio entrepreneurship, when more than one small or micro business within a specific destination are owned by the same entrepreneur. Courtown, in Ireland and Göreme in Turkey are presented as two case studies in which the existence of multiple owners was identified. The implications of multiple ownership on tourism operation …