Essays about: "tourist web"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words tourist web.

1. 1. Becoming with Rocks : Arriving in the Riddling Middle of (tourist) Places: touch, proximity, indeterminacy

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik

   Author : Matt Tuggey; [2021]
   Keywords : place-assemblage; becoming with; embodiment; touch; relationality; ecofeminist materiality; tourism; sustainabili;

   Abstract : 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

3. 2. Fukushima Daiichi as a heterotopia : Dark tourism in dystopian places

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Author : Klas Bergman; [2018]
   Keywords : Fukushima; Heterotopia; Tourism; Dark tourism; Digital and visual methods; Japan; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis deals with tourism to Fukushima. Specifically, it examines how traditional tourism and dark tourism shape the identity of Fukushima. READ MORE

4. 3. Tourism in Football: Exploring Motivational Factors and Typologies of Groundhoppers : An example of a German Groundhopper Online Community

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Turismvetenskap

   Author : Christian Bauer; [2018]
   Keywords : Groundhopping; Serious Leisure; Sport Tourism; Tourist Motivation; Football.;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to examine the motivational factors and to explore possible typologies of groundhoppers. Groundhopping as a special form of sports tourism which has grown rapidly over the last couple of decades. READ MORE

5. 4. Using the Wizard-of-Oz technique in requirements engineering processes : A trial in a tourism context

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Handelshögskolan

   Author : Malin Wik; [2015]
   Keywords : Wizard of Oz; requirements engineering; interactive systems; multimedia; prototyping; exploration techniques; exploratory interaction;

   Abstract : The purpose of the study is to explore the possibility to use the experimental prototyping technique called Wizard of Oz as a requirements engineering technique in multimedia development with a focus on how to capture (and test) requirements for system responses in on-going GUI dialogues between user and system. The Wizard-of-Oz technique makes it possible to try interactive prototypes with users or in the development team without needing any programming to be conducted first. READ MORE

6. 5. Online communication within host volunteer tourism

   University essay from IT-universitetet i Göteborg/Tillämpad informationsteknologi

   Author : Karin Hanberger; [2012-11-22]
   Keywords : Online Communication; Non-profit tourism organizations; Electronic word-of mouth; Tourism destination image; Representation; Cultural Tourism; Host Volunteer tourism; Online Social Networking; Global Greeter Network; Greeter Programs; Destination marketing;

   Abstract : What is the Global Greeter Network and what do they do? Global Greeter Network (GGN) is a voluntary association of independent Greeter programs. Greeter programs aspire to provide a personal and diverse image of the destination by matching visitors with local volunteers (called Greeters) for informal rendezvous “off the beaten tourist path”, for free. READ MORE