Essays about: "cultural destination"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 83 essays containing the words cultural destination.
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11. Residents' Perception of Nature-Based Tourism for Rural Development
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för geografiAbstract : Rural areas face issues that leads to economic downturns. Nature based tourism is practiced to overcome these issues and improve economic development. The residents in the tourism destinations experience the outcomes of nature-based tourism and rural development. Their perception towards nature-based tourism depends on the outcomes they experience. READ MORE
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12. Between modernization and heritage: Sustainable rural tourism as a viable alternative for Transylvania's countryside.
University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUSAbstract : Transylvania’s countryside, characterized by a mostly agrarian society with a rich multicultural heritage is being threatened by Romania’s tendencies of chaotic modernization and rapid urbanization. This research aims to find a viable solution for sustaining the cultural, natural, and social environment in rural Transylvania, by analysing the potential of tourism development. READ MORE
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13. Lost (and found) in translation : A study of the translation of metaphors and metonymies in a Scottish travel guide
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : During the last few decades, the translation of metaphors has been a popular focus for examination. Seemingly, the challenges that metaphors and metonymies pose have urged several scholars to compile sets of translation strategies in order to meet them or at least attempt to describe how they tend to be met. READ MORE
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14. Empowering the host : A qualitative case study of Workaway and WWOOF hosts’ experiences and motivations for becoming hosts in Gotland, Sweden
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknikAbstract : One important aspect of sustainable tourism is that local communities are involved in the management of tourism, as this can potentially help avoid negative social, environmental and economic impacts on the destination and local residents. Workaway and WWOOF (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms) are work- and cultural exchange programs in which hosts receive help with their work in exchange for free food and accommodation for guests. READ MORE
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15. Salvaging Death Worlds : Drivers and Barriers to the Adoption of Biogas and Biofertilizer Production Systems on Gotland
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknikAbstract : Utilizing an interdisciplinary, multi-level perspective analysis this thesis reviews niche- regime-landscape interactions (analogous to the clusters of actors working at the local level of Gotland representing niche; the regime being national governance goals; and the landscape incorporating global level affairs and institutions such as the European Union (EU)) and their (mis)alignments within the biogas/biofertilizer production system of Gotland, Sweden, a small-island case study for energy-food-transportation transition and sustainable destination development. The study analyzes the heterarchical and polycentric development of biogas on Gotland—a socio-technical niche, nested within a larger energy regime and global landscape for transition—developing an understanding of (mis)alignments of pressures interacting on, at, and between the niche-regime- landscape as they combine with the peculiar competencies, as Loorbach describes, “creative minds, strategists, and visionaries” of a cluster of actors working in the food- energy-transport nexus on the island (2010, p. READ MORE
