Essays about: "thesis web tourism"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the words thesis web tourism.
-
1. Travel behavior of mountain bikers: : A case study on sustainable transportation choices
University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för ekonomi, geografi, juridik och turismAbstract : Bearing in mind that the car as a mode of transportation is responsible for more than one third of all tourism-related emissions worldwide and that a growing number of destinations offer mountain biking as nature-based tourism product, it becomes relevant to investigate mountain bikers with regarding their travel behavior. Therefore, the aim of this master thesis is to understand the transportation mode choice behavior of mountain bike (MTB) tourists when engaging in mountain bike specific vacation. READ MORE
-
2. Mining geosocial data from Flickr to explore tourism patterns: The case study of Athens
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskapAbstract : Kanari Domna Mining geosocial data from Flickr to explore tourism patterns: The case study of Athens Social media are providing a new type of geo-tagged data that by processing them, new types of knowledge can be generated and used by decision-makers in different areas including tourism. It includes e.g. READ MORE
-
3. Becoming with Rocks : Arriving in the Riddling Middle of (tourist) Places: touch, proximity, indeterminacy
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknikAbstract : The tourism industry is both large and growing, with private and public actors investing heavily in the commodification of places to travel to, supporting individuals with the wealth to do so, to be in different places for short time periods. Correspondingly, popular discourses and research within tourism studies have arisen, looking at attitudes and social and environmental impacts drawn along delineations of the tourist and the host and spatially enclosed tourist places or ‘destinations’. READ MORE
-
4. Cross-cultural design in wine destination websites : Cultural sensitivity and motivations in UI through investigation of web interface design elements
University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Akademin för bibliotek, information, pedagogik och ITAbstract : This thesis sets out to investigate hedonic and cultural web interface design elements present on wine tourism destination websites. The thesis focuses on explaining several cultural frameworks and especially the notion of localization, globalization, culturability, and cultural markers, the high/low context theory as well as tenets of hedonics in user interface design. READ MORE
-
5. Representation of the Sámi Culture in Tourism in Sweden: : A Thematic Analysis of Marketing Websites from Swedish Lapland
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/TurismvetenskapAbstract : The following thesis examines the representation of Sámi that reside in the Swedish part of Lapland. Tourism has been a complement to the traditional occupations for many Sámi. However, representations of Sámi in web-marketing may be misleading the tourists in their understanding of the Indigenous people. READ MORE