Festival motivation and loyalty factors by Miranda Kitterlin, Michelle Yoo

“…It is imperative that festival organizers understand tourist motivations for attending festivals in order to conduct effective festival planning and achieve a more productive festival marketing position and marketing strategy. …”
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Évolution des modèles d’implantation de la villégiature sur le littoral tunisois by Sondès Zaier, Hichem Rejeb, Pierre Donadieu

“…These new settlements, built according to a step-by-step process, have generated several urban models transforming an abandoned area to an authentic touristic and resort destination for the upper middle classes as well as a popular place for summer leisure.…”
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Fine-grained analysis of aspects, sentiments and types of attitudes in restaurant reviews by Marcirio Silveira Chaves, André Laurel, Nélia Sacramento, Cristiane Drebes Pedron

“…We selected reviews (N=1100) from restaurants of two Portuguese touristic regions and focus, through content analysis, on the recognition of the main aspects, sentiments and types of attitude mentioned in such reviews. …”
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Tourism Implementation, an Issue of Territoriality: National Approach and Local Action Methods and Resources by Amanda Andrade Benítez

“…This involves examining how this government body intervenes in sub-national authorities, based on the decentralisation and planning policy for tourist activity. At a local level, we address the specific dynamics in both municipalities and the progress they have made in implementing the national tourism policy. …”
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Creative industry and cultural tourism destination Lake Constance – a media discourse analysis by Lara Leuschen, Florian J. Eitzenberger, Tatjana Thimm

“…This result is relevant for the regional tourism development, because the cooperation between “creative industries” and “cultural tourism” creates opportunities such as the expansion of the tourism offer and an extension of the tourist season. To activate unused opportunities at the different destinations of the region, a supra-regional visibility of the sector “creative industries” should be developed and the cooperation of the sector with local stakeholders of cultural tourism should be promoted. …”
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Tourism, Imaginaries and Identities: reversing the point of view by Bernard Debarbieux

“…It explains that a decisive condition of such an instrumentralization lies in the capacity of a social group or local stakeholders (the Chamoniards, Italo-américains of Little Italy, gay activists in Manchester) to promote the imaginary of a very specific place, to present themselves as being highly dependant of this place, in order to build a spatial equivalence between a tourist place and the place of their cultural and political demonstration.…”
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Identity, imaginary and tourism in the tuareg region, in Niger by Emmanuel Grégoire, Marko Scholze

“…Finally, the authors consider the decline of tourism, as a result of the 2007-2009 rebellion, and the presence in the neighboring Northern Mali of the Salafist brigade Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), which prohibits access to the region to foreigners for security reasons.The brutal halt in the tourist activity came with the decline of the Tuareg subculture that had been forged through their entrepreneurial dedication to tourism.…”
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A Personalized Travel Route Recommendation Model Using Deep Learning in Scenic Spots Intelligent Service Robots by Qili Tang

“…This paper proposes a personalized tourist interest demand recommendation model based on deep neural network. …”
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Anticipating how digitalisation will affect tourism employment in the Brussels-Capital Region by Isabelle Cloquet, Cécile van de Leemput, Catherine Hellemans, Pierre Flandrin, Olivier Patris, Roxane Toumia

“…This paper adopts a systemic approach in order to explore how digitalisation is likely to affect tourism employment in the tourist area of Brussels by 2030. Based on desk research and semi-structured interviews with 63 tourism stakeholders, it highlights the social and economic embeddedness of rationalising and restructuring work in tourism organisations. …”
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Anticiper les effets de la digitalisation sur l’emploi dans le secteur du tourisme dans la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale by Isabelle Cloquet, Cécile van de Leemput, Catherine Hellemans, Pierre Flandrin, Olivier Patris, Roxane Toumia

“…This paper adopts a systemic approach in order to explore how digitalisation is likely to affect tourism employment in the tourist area of Brussels by 2030. Based on desk research and semi-structured interviews with 63 tourism stakeholders, it highlights the social and economic embeddedness of rationalising and restructuring work in tourism organisations. …”
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Socio-spatial visualisations of cultural routes by Catherine Emma (Kate) Jones, Marta Severo, Daniele Guido

“…Cultural routes, defined as routes of historical importance that geographically represent the shared and living cultural heritage of different countries, have recently gained attention both as tourist destinations and as social repositories of collective local memories. …”
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Health Tourism Competitiveness – A Complex Approach by András Bozóti

“…The former is a central region from the perspective of tourist flows and the latter is a peripheral region - which entails more opportunities for analysis. …”
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En forêt domaniale du Flamand by Yogan Muller

“…Thanks to this geohistorical and photographic exploration, we show to what extent the simplistic beauty of the touristic image, by conferring on the land a “varnish”, eludes the complex technical resources needed to maintain a correspondence between the environment and its representation.…”
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Cultural Routes and religious heritage: The multiple dynamics of a crossed category in a tourism context by Isabelle Brianso

“…These routes were once frequented by European travellers and pilgrims, but now attract a variety of walkers with diverse profiles (local inhabitants, pilgrim-walkers, tourist-ramblers) forming multiple communities with social, religious and heritage values. …”
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Development of Sustainable Rural Tourism by Sandra Kantar, Kristina Svržnjak

“…Research subjects were the owners of tourist farms, decision makers, experts and other stakeholders in the tourism development. …”
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Does Sense of Place Still Exist? by Helena Ruotsala

“…‘Place’, in my examples the sieidi of Taatsi, Lake Seidjavr, the Pallas fells or the tourist centre Levi, can have a unique reality for each inhabitant and visitor. …”
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Evaluation Method of Ecological Tourism Carrying Capacity of Popular Scenic Spots Based on Set Pair Analysis Method by Xiangrong Yan

“…By making adaptive adjustments to the tourism activities and tourism structure carried out in the tourist area, the natural resources of the scenic area can be protected while pursuing economies of scale. …”
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Tourisme événementiel, politiques publiques et développement socioculturel à Dublin by Bernadette Quinn, Ana Maria Vieira Fernandes, Theresa Ryan

“…Dans un monde hyper globalisé et concurrentiel, les stratégies urbaines mettent souvent en avant les festivals et les événements en tant qu’activités susceptibles d’attirer des touristes et des investisseurs, étendre la saison touristique et développer l’économie. …”
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Conceptual framework for assessing the ecotourism carrying capacity of mangrove areas at ujung piring beach, Mlonggo by Elida Farikah, Anggoro Sutrisna, Putro Sapto P., NR Wardhani Windi

“…The study employs land suitability evaluation and tourism capacity analysis to assess the condition of mangrove forests as natural tourist destinations. The assessment results indicate that the mangrove forests in the region have high biodiversity and facilities that support various ecotourism activities, such as trekking, nature photography, and wildlife observation. …”
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Les dépossessions du paysage. Injustices paysagères, clivages locaux et mécanismes d’exclusion dans le géoparc de Sitia (Crète) by Patrick Moquay, Kalliope Pediaditi

“…The divide between the supporters and opponents of the massive development projects implemented in the area (renewable energy installations and a tourist complex) is coupled with another fault line, which includes a feeling of being dispossessed of the landscape and concerns these development projects as well as heritage protection measures.…”
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