Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1080/02508281.2023.2212353
Y. Xu, Fiona X. Yang, Man Kan Leong
{"title":"In-destination online shopping: A new tourist shopping mode and innovation for cross-border tourists","authors":"Y. Xu, Fiona X. Yang, Man Kan Leong","doi":"10.1080/02508281.2023.2212353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2023.2212353","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47549,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Recreation Research","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72637932","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 : 2023-05-24DOI: 10.1080/02508281.2023.2214030
Bailey Koerner, Wiwik Sushartami, Daniel M. Spencer
{"title":"An assessment of tourism policies and planning in Indonesia","authors":"Bailey Koerner, Wiwik Sushartami, Daniel M. Spencer","doi":"10.1080/02508281.2023.2214030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2023.2214030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47549,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Recreation Research","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75318171","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 : 2023-05-21DOI: 10.1080/02508281.2023.2212352
N. Yamada, Makiko Matsuda
{"title":"Not the Same as Real Experience! – a qualitative inquiry into how participants make sense of their online tours","authors":"N. Yamada, Makiko Matsuda","doi":"10.1080/02508281.2023.2212352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2023.2212352","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47549,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Recreation Research","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81453893","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 : 2023-05-17DOI: 10.1080/02508281.2023.2210010
S. Hosseini, Abolfazl Siyamiyan Gorji, Tan Vo‐Thanh, M. Zaman
{"title":"Behind the hashtags: exploring tourists’ motivations in a social media-centred boycott campaign","authors":"S. Hosseini, Abolfazl Siyamiyan Gorji, Tan Vo‐Thanh, M. Zaman","doi":"10.1080/02508281.2023.2210010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2023.2210010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47549,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Recreation Research","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86491667","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 : 2023-05-17DOI: 10.1080/02508281.2023.2207155
G. Willson, A. McIntosh, C. Cockburn-Wootten
ABSTRACT This paper identifies a new discourse about tourism, that of final wish making. The website communications of charitable foundations whose dedicated purpose is to grant final wishes for adults with a terminal illness and their families were examined using critical discourse analysis. Specifically, the aim of this study was to understand how these charitable organisations construct, communicate and mediate meanings around terminal illness and travel for these individuals. Our study found that, promoted as a final wish in one’s life, tourism is framed as a transformational concept that is beneficial in the imminent time before death, as a legacy for life, and after death. Our analysis indicated implications around the memory-making potential of tourism and the differential power relations between final wish organisers and vulnerable individuals with a terminal illness. The paper calls for further research exploring the marginalisation of the terminally ill through tourism, but equally the potential of tourism to include the most vulnerable tourists in their final days.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-16DOI: 10.1080/02508281.2023.2207154
Tomas Pernecky
ABSTRACT The field of tourism studies has entered an epoch of manifold vulnerabilities, a period in which the academic community will have to respond to the environmental and planetary crises and consider the wellbeing of not just humans but also nonhumans and multispecies. In these momentous times, it is imperative not to overlook tourism studies’ ontological, epistemological, and axiological vulnerabilities and to survey the potential viabilities. Although the blossoming criticalities in the field have greatly fuelled the urgency to correct, rectify, and recalibrate existing relational arrangements and replace these by more sustainable, just, and inclusive visions for/versions of tourism, there is still a pressing need for more conceptually, theoretically, and philosophically malleable architecture. Inspired by Donna Haraway’s scholarship on broader planetary matters, this contribution offers ‘kinmaking’ as a critico-creative, disruptive space and fitting thoughtscape for transitioning into more-than-tourism (studies). Among the key ideas covered in this paper are the dangers of epistemocentricism, the necessity for sympoietic approaches, the rise of postdisciplinary and posthuman acumen, and the overall ripeness of tourism studies to become a domain of critical relationalities.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-16DOI: 10.1080/02508281.2023.2207156
B. King, Greg Richards, A. Chu
{"title":"Developing a tourism region through tourism and culture: bordering, branding, placemaking and governance processes","authors":"B. King, Greg Richards, A. Chu","doi":"10.1080/02508281.2023.2207156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2023.2207156","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47549,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Recreation Research","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80066742","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 : 2023-05-15DOI: 10.1080/02508281.2023.2207153
Eva Maria Jernsand, Helena Kraff, S. Törngren, Caroline Adolfsson, Emma Björner, L. Omondi, Thomas Pederson, Sofia Ulver
ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to explore how people’s differentiated privileged and marginalised positions in society create instances of inclusion and exclusion in tourism. Eight authors utilised their diverse disciplinary and theoretical bases to engage in individual autoethnography and collaborative reflections of their personal experiences of being tourists and hosts. Through our Western and non-Western, White and non-White experiences, we reveal experiences from a multitude of perspectives, and problematise the dominant White racial frame. The methodology illustrates unquestioned privileges and feelings of discomfort when personally faced with exclusionary practices and creates an understanding of how individuals have different experiences of enchantment and the tourist gaze. The experience of marginalisation is serial and dialectical, which illustrates the complexity of tourism. The paper contributes to an enhanced and multifaceted understanding of tourism experiences and proposes measures to reveal issues of exclusion. Also, the use of autoethnography and collaborative reflection as methodological tools provide opportunities for researchers and practitioners to engage in reflexive conversation on discriminatory practices, and how they hinder certain individuals and groups from enjoying tourism products and services.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-13DOI: 10.1080/02508281.2023.2207409
Vikas Gupta, Karishma Sharma
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Pub Date : 2023-05-09DOI: 10.1080/02508281.2023.2208464
Stephen Schweinsberg
The idea that theistic and mono-theistic beliefs are misguided is long standing and based on the ‘reasoned’ arguments of scientific luminaries such as Charles Darwin, Stephen Hawking, and Bertrand Russell, etc. (Dixon & Shapiro, 2022). Scientific knowledge, they argued is premised on the basis of observations and incremental reasoning of the natural world (Gower, 1997). The sense of what it means to be human – freedom, ethics, personal and societal values and an effort to understand our place in the universe – not only do not require the presence of a God or Gods, but in arguing that we can devolve responsibility for our rationale thinking to religious belief, we are trusting in a ‘religious method [that] is refuted by its failure’ (Stenger in INCH, 2014). Science and the scientific method have long been recognised as one of the foundational disciplines of tourism knowledge (Tribe & Liburd, 2016; Urano et al., 2022). Schweinsberg (2023) has built on this disciplinary framework in this special issue, arguing that religious faith can serve as a values-based meta narrative governing an academic’s sense of self as they seek to engage with different disciplinary perspectives. What he did not consider, however, was how academics who have a religious faith might engage constructively with tourism practices, which conflict with their own faithbased perspective. Could I as a person of faith argue that abortion tourism should be developed in a particular destination, so long as it adheres to a particular political regulatory framework? Similarly, could I recommend the establishment/ expansion of a redlight district in a township if I could prove its economic value for the region? Hollinshead (2010) once asked the Academy to look beyond its traditional colonialist and economic framings and embrace a truly post-disciplinary interpretation of knowledge. This paper asks a follow-on question; how can new knowledge producers reconcile their idea of ‘truth’ to the rationalist socio-political and economic imperatives upon which the tourism industry still ultimately relies? Tourism scholars are frequently asked to critically investigate forms of tourism, which can be seen by many in society to be ethically suspect including sex tourism, child sex tourism, suicide tourism, fertility/ reproductive tourism, abortion tourism, and slum tourism. The economic importance of such industries is well documented in particular destination localities (e.g. Brooks & Heaslip, 2019; Guiney & Mostafanezhad, 2015). However, underpinning all of the afore mentioned tourism sectors are also wider societal issues regarding: the sanctity of life; cultural stigmatisation; the marginalisation of the ‘other’, respect or disrespect of privacy, and unequal power relations; all of which religious institutions have strong, often negative opinions on (e.g. Huschke & Schubotz, 2016; Masci, 2016). Carr (2016) suggests with respect to sex tourism that academics should find ways to engage with conten
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