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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Pathways to Understanding -- 2. The Digital Tourist -- 3. The Tourist in Trouble -- 4. The Tourists' Footprints -- 5. Dimensions of Personal Change -- 6. Tourists Connecting to Others -- 7. Additional Perspectives -- References -- Index

This volume presents a thorough tour of the social psychological processes which underpin contemporary travel. The fascinating phenomenon of tourist behaviour deals with topics such as motivation, destination choice, travellers' on site experiences, satisfaction and learning.

• The present report sources internationally and nationally published ideas and concepts from the tourism academic literature concerning the future of tourism. The report employs these ideas for consideration in building tourism in Australia's tropics • Tropical Australia, defined as the area north of the Tropic of Capricorn, has multiple tourism resources including three World Heritage areas, four national landscapes, three significant touring routes and multi-faceted cultural capacities, including a strong Indigenous presence • Many tourism reports including the Jackson Report (Commonwealth of Australia, 2009) and the draft CSIRO document The Future of Tourism in Queensland (Hajkowicz, Cook, & Boughen, 2013) describe national pathways for the future of tourism. Other key studies including the document The Coalition's 2030 Vision for developing Northern Australia (Liberal National Party, 2013) and Stocktake of Regional Research: 50 pieces of influential regional research (Regional Australia Institute, 2012) clearly envisage an expanding future for northern Australia and offer targets for tourism (two million international tourists annually by 2030). These studies, and many others, do not specifically focus on the regional initiatives for delivering this desired future. • Additionally, even when new directions have been offered, the direct contribution of the national and northern academic voices to these conversations has been limited • The report is structured around a five part model to help develop new initiatives. It considers the roles of intelligence, information computer technology, investment, and industry know-how in contributing to future oriented action • Adopting a critical and applied appraisal of the international and national base of fundamental academic research, the report identifies 10 desirable initiatives and highlights action and policy directions for these themes 1. Developing tourism for community well-being Proposes a new wider set of measures for evaluating tourism's contribution to community well-being Offers examples of topics to be measured 2. Improving cross-industry opportunities Suggests that tourism and other important northern sectors - agriculture, mining, education and the military - could benefit from creating more tourism linked opportunities Recommends discussions to facilitate generic and business tourism linking these sectors 3. Reinforcing the well managed natural brand Argues for the further emphasis in marketing on the natural brand for tropical Australia but recommends an audit and visible demonstration of sustainable practices at sites to reinforce the brand An integrative and wide ranging review of tourists' safety and well-being in tropical environments is also suggested 4. Incorporating the slow tourism approach The value of linking to international market directions in slow tourism is noted as an underused but additional marketing emphasis 5. Boosting Indigenous opportunities Recommends scholarship support for advanced education for Indigenous Australians for professional futures and empowerment in tourism 6. Supporting the domestic backbone Argues for systematic soft and hard infrastructure development to support drive tourism Recommends a uniform approach to tourism discounts for local regional visitors Supports the importance of national and international sporting events being located in the region to boost local and out of region tourists 7. Consolidating the international strategies Recommends a focus on the young Chinese independent market Proposes using local voices and endogenous marketing to assure the authenticity of the experience appeal 8. Integrating quality markers Proposes exploring the integration and alignment between Australia's accreditation and recommendation systems with international approaches 9. Attending to research investment Notes the funding drought for fundamental and applied research in tourism at the northern/tropical scale while supporting the efforts of Tourism Research Australia for its particular role Proposes explicit restatement in Australian Research Council grant schemes and T-QUAL grant scheme for research in tourism as a nationally significant priority for funding Proposes greater interchange between government, industry and academic personnel in terms of visitor schemes and options similar to international practices in terms of senior business and government visitors and professors for a week 10. Refreshing educational, career and extension structures Introduces a potential tourism employment classification scheme which boosts transferability between tourism, events and leisure roles. Recommends the development of tourism extension officers, analogous to roles in other major sectors such as agriculture, to support the delivery of research and advisory information • A community based competition for innovative public tropical infrastructure is proposed in the context of recent global initiatives for tourism.

Academic and professional studies of tourists and tourism both need a sound emic or experiential definition of the tourist role. In this study, a comparison of a number of travel-related roles was conducted using a 100-person student sample, and the data were analyzed with fuzzy set theory and multidimensional scaling analysis. The findings indicated that there were clear and highly interpretible differences among 15 travel-related roles. It was also demonstrated that such an approach to defining the tourist role was useful for understanding previous perspectives in the social science literature on tourism.

Chapter 7 Tourism Development in IndonesiaIntroduction; Sustainable Tourism Development Goals; Sustainable Tourism Development Program; Sustainable Tourism Destination; Sustainable Tourism Observatory; Sustainable Tourism Certification; Conclusion; Chapter 8 Promoting Cultural Tourism in Australia; Introduction; Modern Approach to Cultural Tourism; Study Methodology; Study Results; Applications of Findings; Conclusion; Part II: Consumer Benefits and Experiences; Chapter 9 Understanding Guests' Dissatisfaction; Introduction; Data Visualization Tools; Study Methods; Results by Voyant Cirrus

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1. Better to Laugh Than Cry -- 2. It Will Be a Laugh -- 3. Joking Our Way Through the Day -- 4. That's a Funny Story -- 5. Not Funny -- 6. In it for a Laugh -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index

An attempt is made to collate and develop psychological research into visitor evaluation. The current state of visitor evaluation research is considered by outlining the literature on four topics; specifically, museums, natural environments, tourist sites, and tourist facilities. An assessment of the problems of much visitor evaluation work is included in this material. In a subsequent section the role of psychology-social psychology in particular—in contributing to improved studies in this area is outlined. A discussion is included of the psychologist's role in stimulating better data collection, more varied analysis, and a tighter hypothesis testing approach to visitor surveys. In particular, it is argued that this area of inquiry holds far more promise for interesting psychological research than might be supposed by an inspection of current market survey practices in the field.

The movement of Asian citizens across continents now occurs on an unprecedented scale. What are the interests of Asian tourists and what are the impacts on host communities? This book addresses questions about Asian tourist contact with unfamiliar countries and cultures and the implications for the marketing, planning and policy of tourist markets

The movement of Asian citizens across continents now occurs on an unprecedented scale, with a surge in Asian tourists now visiting Europe, North America, Africa and Oceania. Tourists from China, Taiwan, India, Thailand, Malaysia, and to a lesser extent Korea and Japan are meeting the citizens of cultures they had previously only been able to read about or view from afar. This book seeks to understand the experiences of, and reactions to, Asian tourists travelling out of Asia.Questions about Asian tourist contact with unfamiliar countries and cultures will be addressed. What are the interests of Asian tourists and what drives these interests? What impacts are they having on host communities, both in terms of the provision and co-creation of desired experiences and in the human dimensions of social contact? The volume addresses fresh implications for marketing, planning and policy which these tourist markets pose for good governance. This book confronts the limitations of our understanding of how to manage the tourist experience when that understanding has been built almost entirely on the behaviours and travels of western tourists.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Contributors -- 1 Embarking on the Paradigm Journey -- 2 Logical Positivism in Consumer Behaviour Research -- 3 The Design Science Research Paradigm: An Instantiation of Website Benchmarking -- 4 An Application of Quasi-Experiments to Study Humour in Tourism Settings Guided by Post-Positivism -- 5 Knowledge Co-Production in Tourism and the Process of Knowledge Develop ment: Participatory Action Research -- 6 The Constructivist Paradigm and Phenomenological Qualitative Research Design -- 7 Applying the Interpretive Social Science Paradigm to Research on Tourism Education and Training -- 8 An Autoethnographic Chronicle on the Ethnographic Exploration of the Nature of Hotel Work and Hospitality in Far North Queensland -- 9 Neo-Tribalism through an Ethnographic Lens: A Critical Theory Approach -- 10 Navigating the Complex Variety of Feminisms -- 11 The Pragmatic Paradigm in Destination Competitive ness Studies: The Case of the SCUBA Diving Tourism Niche -- 12 Pragmatism in the Context of Urban Design and Tourism: A Multidisciplinary Study -- 13 In Search of an Intermediate Paradigmatic Ground: Critical Realism-Post-Positivism in Understanding Tourists' Motivation and Experiences in Asian Spas -- 14 Paradigms: A Supervisor's Perspective and Advice -- 15 Into the Future: Moving Forward with Refl ective Practice on Paradigms -- Index