Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijta.2023.130850
Aleksandar Antić, Adrienne Mayor
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Several thousand years old 12 holy radiant pillars (or Jyotirlings) circuit, comprising 12 temples, represents the most sacred Hindu pilgrimage with immense religious and mythological values in the Indian sub-continent. This paper designs and projects a temple service quality (TSQ) model based on user-generated content (UGC) from TripAdvisor for all these 12 sacred sites with a special emphasis on the Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi. This Kashi Vishwanath temple registers maximum negative reviews all over a decade. The TSQ model is exhibited through these extensive reviews of research literature, official temple websites, and user-generated content (UGC) in TripAdvisor. The accuracy, precision, and sensitivity of the model have been tested through a confusion matrix retrieved from UGC in TripAdvisor.
{"title":"Temple service quality model for future pilgrimages in Indian sub-continent through user-generated contents (UGC) in TripAdvisor","authors":"Debasish Batabyal, Yashwant Singh Rawal, Pratim Chatterjee, Shatrajit Goswami","doi":"10.1504/ijta.2023.130849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijta.2023.130849","url":null,"abstract":"Several thousand years old 12 holy radiant pillars (or Jyotirlings) circuit, comprising 12 temples, represents the most sacred Hindu pilgrimage with immense religious and mythological values in the Indian sub-continent. This paper designs and projects a temple service quality (TSQ) model based on user-generated content (UGC) from TripAdvisor for all these 12 sacred sites with a special emphasis on the Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi. This Kashi Vishwanath temple registers maximum negative reviews all over a decade. The TSQ model is exhibited through these extensive reviews of research literature, official temple websites, and user-generated content (UGC) in TripAdvisor. The accuracy, precision, and sensitivity of the model have been tested through a confusion matrix retrieved from UGC in TripAdvisor.","PeriodicalId":37749,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Tourism Anthropology","volume":"222 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136297672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijta.2023.10060290
Martha M. Mendoza Ontiveros, Carlos Monterrubio, Javier Pérez
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Pub Date : 2021-06-27DOI: 10.1504/ijta.2021.10039117
M. Gamboa
This paper analyses the advent of a type of spiritual tourism that is taking place on livestock farms in northern Uruguay. The spread of stories about sightings of anomalous lights and unidentified...
本文分析了乌拉圭北部牲畜农场出现的一种精神旅游。关于目击异常光线和不明身份的故事的传播…
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Pub Date : 2021-06-27DOI: 10.1504/ijta.2021.10039115
J. Norrild, M. Korstanje
The tourism industry evinces a high turnover of staff which needs further hard training and organisation. Broadly speaking, the service quality seems to be directly proportional to excessive working hours, which are accompanied by less-paid wages and hard working conditions. This paper interrogates furtherly on the (real) motivations of maid and housekeepers who are professionally educated to serve high purchasing power tourists. The research focuses on the needs, socio-economic background of maid and housekeepers as well as the pro and cons of their daily tasks. Based on the life story and story-telling and as the main method of study, we conduct exploratory research -sampled by 8 in-depth interviews-. The research takes place -following the snowball technique- in luxury hotels geographically situated in Buenos Aires city in the second semester of 2019. The current investigation aims at discussing the interconnection of individual contexts with the labour relations in the industry of tourism and hospitality.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-27DOI: 10.1504/ijta.2021.116092
Vahit Oğuz Kiper, Şevki Ulema
Females take place in advertisements for different reasons and using them as sexual appeal content is one of them. Like all other industries, advertisers use females in advertisements and this caus...
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Pub Date : 2021-06-27DOI: 10.1504/ijta.2021.10039118
Raoni Borges Barbosa, Jean Henrique Costa, Bintang Handayani, M. Korstanje
In the present essay review, we bring some sociological reflections about the durable effects of the lockdown not only in tourism behaviour but also in society. In so doing, we pose some central questions oriented to understand the sense of new normality, where the social distancing marks human relations. We coin the term trivialisation of death to discuss the ideological dispositions revolving around the domestication of death. In parallel, a new debate around the idea of the tourist-gaze is amounted in the section to follow. In the pre-pandemic world, tourists were valorised as ambassadors of the civilised order, but now they appear to be demonised as potential carriers of a lethal decease, if not potential terrorists who lurk to attack anytime. To some extent, COVID19 -far from being a foundational event- reaffirms a logic that starts with 9/11 and the so-called War on Terror.
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This paper presents a comparative study of the living conditions, practices and meanings of tourist travel for young millennial women in Mexico City's metropolitan area within the framework of youth tourism in order to identify how travel contributes to the social construction of their identity. Through comparative, mixed and gendered research, a methodological convergence strategy was applied in which quantitative research was carried out through surveys and qualitative research through interviews, aimed at two groups of young female students in different educational institutions, with different economic situations, and located in a central area vs. the outskirts of Mexico City. The results reveal similarities in both groups' travel practices, but there are differences with respect to the meanings they grant them and, therefore, the role that travel has in constructing their identities.
{"title":"Tourism travel patterns and Mexican millennial women: a comparative study of their conditions and meanings","authors":"Rosa Adriana Vázquez Gómez, Maribel Osorio García, Denice Anel Ordaz Mejía","doi":"10.1504/ijta.2021.116090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijta.2021.116090","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a comparative study of the living conditions, practices and meanings of tourist travel for young millennial women in Mexico City's metropolitan area within the framework of youth tourism in order to identify how travel contributes to the social construction of their identity. Through comparative, mixed and gendered research, a methodological convergence strategy was applied in which quantitative research was carried out through surveys and qualitative research through interviews, aimed at two groups of young female students in different educational institutions, with different economic situations, and located in a central area vs. the outskirts of Mexico City. The results reveal similarities in both groups' travel practices, but there are differences with respect to the meanings they grant them and, therefore, the role that travel has in constructing their identities.","PeriodicalId":37749,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Tourism Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46737851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-07-25DOI: 10.1504/IJTA.2019.101244
Desideria Cempaka Wijaya Murti
The purposes of this study are to investigate: 1) how the local people in a cultural heritage village imagine the nation through the space of heritage in their community; 2) how the heritage village community preserves cultural identity and performs the idyllic concepts of village for the nation. An ethnographic approach was employed. Interviews with 24 local leaders and participant observations were conducted in the cultural heritage village of Penglipuran in Bali, one of the top models for village preservation in Indonesia. Penglipuran works as a state of remembrance for local people to imagine their own local identity, to interpret the nation's spirit, and to perform their local heritage. Three practices are used to imagine the nation: designing a landscape for the construction of social membership, performing the loyalty of imagined community practice, and implementing the Indonesian nation brand in the village. This study contributes to the exploration of the interpretation of landscape, local story, and cultural materials as the remembrances of the nation's symbols in the village and how those materials help to maintain the obedience of locals to the nation by fulfilling the idyllic construction of village.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-25DOI: 10.1504/IJTA.2019.101238
L. Yang
The tourism industry has emerged as a new dynamic impetus for urbanisation in China. Many small towns in the peripheral regions of China are experiencing urbanisation, especially in places where distinctive tourist attractions are located. However, little has been done to explore the role of tourism real estate development in Chinese urbanisation and its consequences. This paper addresses this gap through examining the process of tourism-driven urbanisation as a development strategy of small towns in China. The role of tourism real estate and its socio-economic consequences are also explored. The findings from a case study of Yiren Town, Yunnan Province, Southwest China, which is a newly-built destination, reveal that tourism real estate development has transformed Yiren from a sleepy small town into a place with diverse real estate landscapes. The construction of replica old towns alongside leisure properties constitutes a new pattern of urbanisation, suggesting that tourism developers and policy-makers should reconsider the large-scale development of tourism real estate and its impacts on the environment and adjacent communities.
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