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Siri, Raktida. "Indian tourists' motivation, perception, and satisfaction of Bangkok,Thailand." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9827/.
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The purposes of the study were to: 1) identify Indian tourists' demographics and travel patterns; 2) examine Indian tourists' motivation to take the Bangkok area trip; 3) examine the level of importance of information sources; 4) identify the level of satisfaction of Indian tourists on their travel experience on the Bangkok area attributes; and 5) examine the intention to return and willingness to recommend the Bangkok area and Thailand. The findings showed that Indian tourists were motivated to visit the Bangkok area by both push and pull factors. Family and/or friends and the Internet were considered as important sources in trip decision making. Indian tourists were generally satisfied with the Bangkok area's attributes. They also showed the desire to revisit and recommend Bangkok and Thailand as travel destinations.
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Henley, Alison Mary. "Tourism and environmental change : a study of water and waste in the coastal resort of Kovalam, Kerala, examined within the context of pan-Indian environmental issues." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.627634.
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May, Stephanie Anna. "Performances of identity : Alabama-Coushatta tourism, powwows, and everyday life /." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3038187.
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Tuscherer, Sheldon Ray 1967. "Preferences of Tourists and Locals Toward Ecotourism Development on the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2006. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/29871.
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Studies have shown that ecotourism is one of the fastest-growing sectors in the tourism market. To date, there has been very little systematic research focused on the general topic of ecotourism development on Indian reservations. This study researches possible ecotourism alternatives on the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation (SRSIR) in North Dakota. Choice experiments were employed to analyze the preferences of reservation residents and those of cultural tourists. Reservation tourism personnel and local investors will benefit from the information this study provides. Data for this research were collected through a series of field surveying campaigns. Surveying was conducted on the SRSIR as well as off reservation sites in the surrounding area. All respondents were adults and included a random sample of reservation residents and tourists who demonstrated an interest in cultural and/or nature-based tourism
experiences. Results of this study demonstrate an overwhelmingly positive attitude by all populations toward ecotourism development. Local residents and powwow tourists proved to be insensitive to price, contradicting economic theory. Non-powwow tourists proved to be sensitive to price.
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Pandurangadu, Geddam A. "Muncie downtown revitalization through cultural tourism." Virtual Press, 1996. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1014789.
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The objective of the study is to propose a strategy to revitalize Muncie's downtown through cultural tourism. This is seen as a critical catalyst to help preserve the historical fabric of the downtown.Muncie's downtown, with its historical and cultural assets, has an opportunity to attract the tourism, convention, and conference business which in turn can support hotels, restaurants, specialty shops, and entertainment establishments.In view of above, this creative project attempts to revitalize downtown through linking and promoting cultural tourism facilities like museums, theaters and festivals, convention and conference centers, and specialty shops.A transport loop connecting the tourist anchors like Ball State University, Minnitrista Cultural Center, and downtown of has been proposed. The tourist routes in Muncie and to East Central Indiana have been identified to enable the visitors to visit tourist destinations easily. Signage, and banners have been proposed along major routes to give proper orientation to visitors and also to enhance the image of Muncie.A strategy has been outlined for the preservation historical buildings through adaptive reuse. All these proposals have been incorporated as an urban design strategy.Department of Architecture
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Welton, R. "Coastal tourism : the response of Indian Ocean island tourism destinations to climate change." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2012. http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/266/.
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This research examines tourism within developing island states in the Indian Ocean that will be at extreme risk from the impacts of climate change. Many have a high economic reliance upon tourism and yet will be adversely affected by both higher sea levels and raised water temperatures. However, many developing islands utilise tourism as a vector for economic growth and ironically they too tend to be some of the first destinations to observe possible impacts of climate change like the disappearance of beaches and the greater intensity of storms. Destinations in the developing world are extremely concerned that tourists from developed countries will reduce the number of long haul flights they take to ameliorate their carbon footprint. Three tourism island destinations in the Indian Ocean are used as case studies, namely Sri Lanka, the Maldives and the Seychelles. The research seeks to establish the knowledge levels and actions of public and private sector stakeholders within the tourism industry in response to the impacts of climate change within these island destinations. A multi-method approach is used to gather data: semi-structured interviews, participant observations and documentary evidence. This is useful for the purpose of triangulation and to increase the construct validity of the research. The findings build a detailed picture of the cases and enable an understanding into the respondents’ knowledge of climate change; climate change adaptation and mitigation measures taken or planned within the destination; current and future impacts of climate change and how the tourism industry has responded. This provides an insight as to whether sustainable tourism policies are being encouraged, adaptation and mitigation measures taken or planned and also an assessment of the effectiveness of transfer from policy to practice. The results illustrate that all the destinations are currently experiencing changes which they associate with climate change; these impacts vary within each of the destinations. Contextual factors identified as being significant in understanding the responsiveness of tourism island destinations to climate change within the Indian Ocean were the unique political, economic, social, geographic and technological aspects of each island. These contextual factors influenced the stakeholders’ knowledge, attitude and behaviour regarding climate change. This provides an indication of the tourism islands’ preparedness for the consequences of climate change and an indication of the future of tourism on the islands. Based on the analysis of the findings a model is proposed that seeks to explain the relationship between these factors that will provide an indication of the future shape of tourism on these Indian Ocean island tourism destinations.
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Siri, Raktida Kennon Lisa R. "Indian tourists' motivation, perception, and satisfaction of Bangkok, Thailand." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-9827.
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Mayrhofer, Maria Mayrhofer Maria. "How "they" perceive "tourism" : another side of the touristic coin : an empirical case study in Goa, India /." Wien : Institut für Geographie der Universität, 1997. http://aleph.unisg.ch/hsgscan/hm00069356.pdf.
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Zugl.: Dipl.-Arbeit Universität Wien, 1992.Wurde 1992 als Diplomarbeit u.d.T.: "Sozio-kulturelle Aspekte des Tourismus in der Dritten Welt : eine empirische Fallstudie in Goa, Indien" verfasst. Literaturverz.
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Botha, Christoffel Rudolph. "Tourist guiding in the global South : how “Incredible” is India?" Diss., University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/75565.
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Tourist guides are located at the coalface of the tourism industry and occupy an
extraordinary position within the contemporary demand and supply chain, seeing that
they have the ability to enhance, manage and orchestrate the tourists sought after
“unique” experience through their interpretation and commentary on tour. Within this
context, most regard the tourist guide as an “ambassador” and “custodian” of a
specific country‟s destination image – with India being no exception. This dissertation
explores the complexity and multifaceted-nature of the tourist guiding phenomenon
in a global South context, by considering the tourist guide of India as an international
tourist guiding best practice example. The investigation will also evaluate key
components and practical areas of India‟s tourist guiding domain. That consists of
the country‟s national tourism and tourist guiding environments, legislative and
regulatory frameworks, educational and training components, quality assurance
mechanisms, as well as all other integral functional areas associated with the sector.
These various research areas, along with the genesis of guiding, the various roles
and responsibilities of a tourist guide, and the contextualisation of “international
tourist guiding best practice”, all form the main components of the dissertation.Dissertation (MSocSci)--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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Reddy, Sumanth Gopala. "Medical tourism in India: an exploratory study." Diss., Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/16193.
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Doctor of PhilosophyDepartment of Geography
Bimal K. Paul
Medical tourism comprises a phenomenon where over five million patients a year are traveling across international borders to obtain various forms of health care. Most of these patients travel from developed countries to developing countries, seeking highly invasive medical treatments to less invasive and recreational medical procedures. By the year 2012, the medical tourism industry generated over $100 billion with over 50 countries making it a priority in trade for their country. With active government promotions, India has become one of the leading destinations for medical tourism. The objective of this research was to answer the questions: 1) how do the attitudes and behaviors of patients towards the concept of medical tourism influence their decision to become a medical tourist; 2) why do medical tourists seek treatment in India; and 3) what are the issues and challenges they face before coming to India as well as while in India. Interviews of thirty-four foreign patients were conducted in six sites spread across the South-Indian cities of Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Chennai which revealed useful information in addressing the research objectives. The three most important reasons that these medical tourists chose India for their treatments were: 1) the high quality of the doctors and medical facilities in India, 2) the affordable cost of treatments, and 3) the availability of specific treatments that might not have been available in their home countries. Patients also researched the topic thoroughly before they came to India. Knowledge was gained primarily from the Internet, print media, television shows and friends. Overall, the patients had very positive attitudes towards medical tourism. Most of them felt that they could get treatment because of their positive opinion on medical tourism, their ability to get treatment if they desired, and support from their families and loved ones.
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Ash, Terri. "The role of bed and breakfasts in heritage tourism." Virtual Press, 1996. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1014806.
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The purpose of this thesis is to assess the role of bed and breakfasts (B & Bs) in heritage tourism and in the broader historic preservation movement. The thesis evaluates the relationship between B & Bs and heritage tourism, the factors that tend to make B & Bs successful, the role of historic buildings in the B & B industry, and B & Bs as an adaptive reuse strategy. It also identifies barriers that prevent B & Bs from playing a larger role in heritage tourism and historic preservation. The background of both the bed and breakfast and heritage tourism industries are presented. The primary sources for the research were actual bed and breakfast owners. Five B & B owners and their businesses, located throughout the state of Indiana, were selected as case studies. These case studies include: The Carole Lombard House in Fort Wayne, The Lantz House Inn in Centerville, Old Northside B & B in Indianapolis, the Victorian Guest House in Nappanee, and Maple Hill B & B in Middletown. A profile of each case study is presented which addresses some basic questions: why the owner opened the B & B, what type of rehabilitation work, if any, was necessary for the business, whether or not heritage tourism or historic preservation have played an important role in the success of the business, and how the owner believes the B & B has affected the surrounding area. Other sources consulted for thisresearch include professional associations and heritage tourism specialists, as well as a wide variety of publications. All sources are combined to draw conclusions regarding the relationship between B & Bs and heritage tourism. The value and success of B & Bs as a heritage tourism and preservation strategy is discussed, as is the importance of a building's historic character as a factor in a B & B's success as a business.Department of Architecture
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Nathani, Inayatali. "Representation of India : an empirical study of Western tourist material." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avd för juridik, ekonomi, statistik och politik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-9582.
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This thesis aims to describe how Western tourist websites represents India. Although there has been much research on tourism and Western representation of India, no literature is available on how Western tourist websites represents India. This thesis uses three theories, social constructivism, post-colonial theory, and representation theory. Social constructivism is the base for this thesis. Post-colonial theory is used to find out whether the representation of India includes colonial stereotypes or no. Moreover, the representation theory is the center and the main tool to know and explain how Western tourist websites represents India. The design used is a 'case study' as case study design is compatible to explore the representations of India. The method used is a 'qualitative discourse analysis' which helps to provide a critical analysis of the description of India. Main results of this thesis are that Western tourist websites describe Indian economy as a backward economy. It is unclear whether Indian politics is described as undemocratic or democratic. Indian people are described as a mix of traditional, modern, unfree as well as free people. Indian culture is described as ancient and collective.
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Ayouba, Saffaride. "Tourisme et patrimoines. Valorisation et développement de territoires insulaires dans l'océan indien : Mayotte." Thesis, Normandie, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018NORMR138/document.
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Mayotte, 101e département français, région ultrapériphérique de l’Union européenne, point stratégique de l’océan Indien occidental, avec un des plus vastes lagons du monde, souffre du sous-développement de ses infrastructures, de la pauvreté, de l’afflux migratoire des frères-voisins comoriens dont elle s’est désolidarisée par le choix de rester française (référendums de 1974 et 1976). Ce choix qui aboutit à la départementalisation en 2011, inclut un alignement sur les principes de la République et de ses modalités d’action publique. En visant le développement territorial, la valorisation des ressources d’une île tropicale après l’abandon de l’économie de plantation fait du tourisme une possibilité de mise en valeur. Outre les structures d’accueil, il manque encore à Mayotte, une image qui s’approche de l’attente « exotique ». L’invention et la valorisation d’un patrimoine qui ne se limite pas au lagon, nécessitent des inventaires préalables, dispersés, puis unifiés par une politique de patrimonialisation progressivement conduite autour d’une nouvelle institution, le Musée de Mayotte (MuMa), un musée de l’homme dans ses environnements naturels et culturels. Cette série de choix qui débute par l’image à construire de l’île, comme produit d’appel, choix du tourisme pour valoriser cette image puis du patrimoine comme ressource tangible, engage de nombreux débats pouvant aller jusqu’aux conflits d’usage et de sens. C’est vrai des ressources naturelles et des ressources culturelles. Pour qui ? Pour quoi ? Pour quoi faire ? Au centre, l’identité mahoraise est tiraillée entre le parti de la singularité irréductible, par la religion notamment, et l’héritage colonial, et celui de la départementalisation dans une République « une et indivisible ». La thèse parcourt cette succession de pas vers le développement économique, social, politique, avec le patrimoine comme guide et la culture au centre des enjeuxMayotte, the 101st French department, one of the outermost regions (ORs) of the European Union, is a strategic place in the Western Indian Ocean, with one of the largest enclosed lagoons in the World. The island of Mayotte suffers from underdevelopment of infrastructures facilities from poverty and mass immigration from the other Comoros islands, after having rejected independance from France in the 1974 and 1976 referendums. This choice for Mayotte People, which leads to departmentalization in 2011, means an integration to French Republic principles and politics. By targeting territorial development, and hancing the value of a tropical island ressources after the abandonment of the plantation economy makes tourism an opportunity for development. In addition to the lack of accomodation facilities, an image close to the "exotic" expectation is yet missing. Invention and enhancement of Heritage, if not limited to the lagoon, require prior inventories, nowadays dispersed, and then unified by a Heritage making policy. This policy is gradually conducted around a new institution, the Museum of Mayotte (MuMa), a local Museum of Mankind taking in account both natural and cultural environments. These various choices, with first of all the construction of a brand image of Mayotte, then tourism development to enhance this image and making Heritage a tangible resource, engages many debates that can reach conflicts of use and meaning. This is true of both natural and cultural resources. For Why? For What? What to do? The Mahoran identity is torn between the party of irreducible singularity, through religion in particular, colonial Heritage, and that of departmentalization in a "one and indivisible" Republic. The thesis explores this succession of steps towards economic, social and political development, with Heritage as a guide and Culture as core issues
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Perrain, David. "Le tourisme dans les petites économies insulaires : analyse des fondamentaux de la spécialisation touristique comme source soutenable de croissance." Thesis, La Réunion, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LARE0015/document.
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Phénomène social, culturel mais aussi économique, le tourisme s'est imposé au fil des décennies comme une source de revenus et de devises étrangères pour les pays hôtes au cours du 20e siècle. Cependant, l'impact du tourisme sur une économie à long terme et notamment une petite économie insulaire (PEI) reste encore ambigu.Cette thèse cherche à poser clairement la question de l’analyse des fondamentaux de la spécialisation touristique comme source soutenable de croissance pour une petite économie insulaire. Cette entreprise, réalisée en deux parties, nous conduit, d'une part, à redéfinir les principaux composants du tourisme en tant qu'activité sociale et économique, et à préciser comment le tourisme contribue à la croissance économique d’une PEI. D'autre part, la thèse lève le voile sur l'ambigüité de la relation entre tourisme et croissance. Elle fournit de nouveaux éléments d'explication d'un modèle de croissance par le tourisme plus vertueux et adapté au marché du tourisme mondial. Les résultats de l'introduction du tourisme dans un modèle théorique de croissance endogène à la Romer et d'une formalisation économétrique à seuil appliquée à un échantillon de PEI à l'aide de l'indice de pénétration touristique remettent en cause l'hypothèse de linéarité entre spécialisation touristique et croissance économique. Ils démontrent la fin d'un modèle de développement touristique intensif. Toutefois, cette situation n'est pas une fatalité. Notre analyse aboutit à la conclusion que le tourisme constitue une source soutenable de croissance pour une économie d'une PEI, lorsque l'intelligence et l'agilité forment les leitmotivs d'une stratégie touristique durable et multipartiteTourism has become a social, cultural and economic phenomenon. However, the impact of tourism on a long-term economy growth remains ambiguous, especially for small island economies (SIE).This thesis seeks to identify the fundamentals of tourism specialization as a sustainable source of growth for a SIE. On the one hand, it has led us to redefine the main components of tourism as a social and economic activity and to clarify how tourism contributes to the economic growth. On the other hand, this thesis reveals the ambiguity of the relationship between tourism and growth. It provides new explanations for a more virtuous tourism growth model and more adapted to the global tourism market.The results of the introduction of tourism into a Romer's model of endogenous growth and those of a threshold regression model applied to a sample of SEI call into question the hypothesis of linearity between tourist specialization and economic growth. The thesis demonstrates the end of a model of intensive tourist development. It concludes that tourism is a sustainable source of growth for an SIE, when intelligence and agility constitute the leitmotif of a sustainable, multi-stakeholder tourism strategy
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Mehta, Harsh. "The impact of terror incidents on US and EU tourist arrivals in India the need for a variable that captures terror Incidents in tourism forecasting models /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1457.
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Kokkranikal, Jithendran Jayendran. "Human resource development for sustainability : an exploratory study with reference to Indian tourism." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2009. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21978.
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Human resource development has a very crucial role in the development of a service industry such as tourism. However, the significant role of human resources in its sustainability-oriented development seems to remain unrecognised and underrated. Tourism in India, though a major component in the nation's development, is marked by lacklustre performance and an inability to realize its real potential. With increasing incidences of negative impacts in many of her established tourism destinations, sustainability is an important issue in the country. Human resource development for tourism in India has had a relatively recent origin and suffers from infrastructural and pedagogical limitations. There is also a supply-demand disparity both in qualitative and quantitative terms. The principal aim of this study was to consider the role of human resource development in facilitating sustainability-oriented development of tourism. The study started with the assumption that by employing comprehensive human resource development policies and practices aimed at providing appropriate skills and competencies and instilling values of sustainability, tourism can be developed in a sustainable manner. Besides the relevant literature, a panel of experts on Indian tourism was interrogated on key issues the study investigated. Several conclusions on human resource development for tourism, sustainability-oriented development of Indian tourism were drawn from the study. The important role human resource development has in ensuring sustainability-oriented development of tourism has been underlined by the study. It highlights the disorganized condition of human resource development in Indian tourism, result of a chaotic bureaucratic system and a tourism industry reluctant to recognise and support tourism education and training. A human resource development model for sustainable tourism is proposed. The outcomes of this research have implications for tourism policy makers in India and elsewhere, guiding them in developing an effective system of human resource development that can assist in the pursuit of sustainable tourism.
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Saunooke, Annette Bird. "Cherokee Royalties: The Impact of Indian Tourism on the Eastern Band Cherokee Identity." W&M ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626434.
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Cecil, Amanda K. "The role of small tourism businesses in urban tourism development : a case study of Indianapolis (Indiana) /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://www.oregonpdf.org.
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Schutz, Michael. "A Community Based Assessment: An Analysis of Community Based Tourism Cooperatives in Kalache and Hulgol India." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc984179/.
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This study incorporated a community based assessment with a focus on community based tourism in Kalache and Hulgol, India. Kalache and Hulgol are two agrarian based communities located in the environmentally significant region of the Western Ghats. Each of these communities has considered community based tourism as a means to reduce urban youth outmigration, to diversify economic resources, and to encourage the empowerment of women. The primary goals of this study were to understand the community issues and objectives, to determine the level of support for tourism development, to determine participant attitudes toward tourism, and to determine the obstacles to tourism development. The findings of this project address the complexity of operating in the tourism industry, the impacts of tourism, and the use of community based tourism models in support of sustainable tourism.
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Marchaza, Lauren M. "Selling authenticity the role of Zuni Knifewings and Rainbow gods in tourism of the American Southwest /." Ohio : Ohio University, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1180626964.
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Hazra, Samrat. "An evaluation of tourism stakeholder relationships : a case study of Agra, India." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2011. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/18392/.
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This is an inductive research project which critically evaluates the application of stakeholder theory to the analysis of tourism destination networks. It explores the dynamics of the relationships between the tourism organisations involved using the case of Agra, India. Cities and towns become tourist destinations because of the activities of a large number of organisations to provide attractions, accommodation, and accessibility. Understanding the relationships between these organisations can explain how tourism developed and is currently managed, which will in turn help not only existing and potential tourism businesses but also destination management organisations to act more effectively. This research examines the relationships of power and dependency that exist between individual and group organisations and the way in which they motivate their behaviour towards each other in a tourism industry. The review of the literature identifies the key attributes of stakeholder power in these relationships to be resource and network bases of power. However, tourism stakeholders join social networks and power can be limited by ethical constraints, either embodied in laws and regulations, or in mutually accepted codes of behaviour. These sources of influence are termed legitimacy. This research also demonstrates that urgency is an important attribute and this is examined because it is instrumental in making these relationships dynamic. Qualitative interviews were conducted with tourism stakeholders (both commercial and non-commercial) in Agra, India to identify and analyse the perceptions, attitudes and experiences of their relationships with others within their network. Consequently, these relational-attributes were further sub-classified to aid a better understanding. An analytical framework is developed to facilitate understanding and evaluate the implications of stakeholder relationships within a tourism destination scenario. Consequently, it was found that urgency is the most important attribute of all with respect to making a decision or carrying out an act.
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Allison, Kerensa Louise. "Manioc mothers subsistence stability and the influence of tourism among the Napo Kichwas in the Ecuadorian Amazon /." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2010. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Spring2010/k_allison_050410.pdf.
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Knöck, Raymond Bennett. "The emergence of a sunspot tourist destination : a case study of St. Kitts." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=64024.
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Kiobel, Barinem Nubari. "Comparative analysis of tourism planning and development in Nigeria and India." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339075.
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McMinn, Miranda. "Tourism, coastal livelihoods, vulnerability and governance in South India : tourism, actors and artisanal marine fishers in Varkala, Kerala." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2006. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/tourism-coastal-livelihoods-vulnerability-and-governance-in-south-india--tourism-actors-and-artisanal-marine-fishers-in-varkala-kerala(abd7d183-864b-4d7a-8321-218057749837).html.
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Haubenstricker, Daniel L. "Images of Madison, Indiana : a method for tourism planning in historic places." Virtual Press, 1986. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/450105.
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The goal of the thesis is to plan for tourism in a historic community in a manner that would enrich the experiences of its visitors and residents. In order to avoid tourism's undesirable impacts, a method is presented to document residents' and visitors' problems and the improvements they desire, and to describe and compare their images of Madison.Data collection begins with structured interviews followed by a questionnaire distributed to random samples of residents and visitors. The results of the questionnaire analysis establish the residents' and visitors' images. The two images are compared using statistical tests to identify the places with greatest, moderate, and least image differences. Out of the twenty-six places tested, eleven show significant image differences.The image findings are incorporated into the site analysis for tourism. Objectives for tourism are expressed in a concept diagram, and then refined in a conceptual plan. The accompanying recommendations outline policies for proposed facilities, visitor-resident relations, and environmental education.Department of Landscape Architecture
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Rutherford, Ann Sommer. "India health impact of medical tourism facilities on state health and economy /." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2009.
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Sandhu, Mandi K. "Tourism and sustainability, the commercial trekking industry in the Kullu Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0008/MQ32241.pdf.
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Govender, Lynette Kumarivani. "Ethnic Identity and Culture as Drivers of Travel Behaviour : The Case of South African Indians as Domestic Tourists." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/75753.
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Ethnicity and culture are increasingly considered in the study of travel behaviour given the global movement of people. Historically during apartheid in South Africa, there was not much leisure travel amongst the Black, Coloured and Indian population groups. This discrepancy became a focus of the National Department of Tourism’s (NDT) domestic policy after 1994 to encourage all South Africans to travel, explore and experience all facets of our beautiful rainbow country in real time. This study focuses on South African Indians (SAI) as there is limited knowledge of the drivers of travel behaviour amongst such minority populations. Pragmatic mixed methods are used to collect qualitative (focus groups) and quantitative (survey) data amongst SAI living in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces. Findings suggest that there is already established domestic travel amongst the population. SAI have strong ethnic and cultural (Indian) identities that form a significant part of their decision-making; though not specifically having bearing on inter-provincial travel decisions. Of note is strong familial bonds extending beyond the nuclear family to their extended family members, influencing their travel behaviour. Other aspects include value for money, cuisine, safety and service. The study provides layered information presenting opportunities for future research. It also presents a profile of the market’s travel behaviour that can be useful for destination marketing authorities and travel trade in efforts to attract the SAI market.Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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Lévesque, Manon. "Entre privilège et marginalisation : politiques de la culture et développement du tourisme ethnique chez les Mayas Lacandóns de Nahá, Chiapas, Mexique." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=83120.
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In this thesis, I examine how, during the twentieth century, the Lacandons, an ethnic subgroup of the Mayas came to be considered the " purest " of the indigenous groups living in Chiapas, the southeasternmost state of Mexico. As the development of ethnic tourism continues to intensify, a conception of culture that emphasizes timeless traditions and continuity with the past is concurrently increasing. I intend to demonstrate that this essentialization of the lacandon culture imposes constraints within which individuals must operate. However, while the ways in which they define and represent themselves for tourists, anthropologists, and other visiting foreigners reveals the pervasiveness of this essentialization, it is also argued that through these encounters, the Lacandons negotiate a space in which they articulate their subjectivities as they meet visitors' expectations.
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Leopold, Teresa Ingeborg, and n/a. "The construction of a disaster destination : rebuilding Koh Phi Phi, Thailand." University of Otago. Department of Tourism, 2008. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20080430.100246.
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The popular tourist destination island of Koh Phi Phi Don, Thailand was heavily affected by the Indian Ocean Tsunami in December 2004, which resulted in a destroyed tourism infrastructure and complete downturn of tourism. Extensive recovery and rebuilding work by emerging community groups, returned locals, international volunteers and Thai government units provided an efficient but hasty reconstruction of the destination. Ethnographic research conducted in the community provided insights into the complex stakeholder interactions and their roles and influences on the reconstruction of the community.
The community�s level of vulnerability on Koh Phi Phi Don was influenced by social processes and interactions during the destination�s recovery process as the various stakeholders (e.g. government vs. locals) had differing perceptions of the island�s economic, environmental and social vulnerability. These disputes are grounded in different social time processes, particularly illustrated through land law disputes among locals, landowners and the government. Other factors which influenced the reconstruction of Koh Phi Phi as a tourist destination were pre-tsunami conditions (past overdevelopment), the empowerment of the community, the reconstructed place identity, various anniversary celebrations and the early warning system.
A model is suggested to illustrate and discuss Koh Phi Phi Don as a disaster destination, which provides insights into the dynamics which govern a destination�s post-disaster recovery period. Thus, it illustrates how stakeholder interaction is influenced by distinct understandings of the multiple notions of vulnerability. Furthermore, this study establishes essential links between disaster and tourism theories and suggests an extended tourism disaster management framework, which calls for an inclusion of post-recovery processes.
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Bernardová, Jana. "Analýza cestovního ruchu Indie ve vztahu k České republice." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-75053.
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The goal of this work is to give an overview about the conditions surrounding travel industry in India. The first chapter defines the academical framework, the second chapter introduces India as a travel destination and also introduces basic information about the country. The analysis of the conditions itself begins in the third chapter and is followed in the fourth by insight into the current status quo. The fifth chapter consists of the analysis of travel possibilities to India and the last chapter concludes the work with a study conducted among Czech respondents, which was focused on their views of India as a travel destination.
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Liroy, Axel. "Le tourisme des Antilles françaises saisi par le droit économique." Thesis, Université Côte d'Azur, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020COAZ0015.
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Objet à multiples dimensions juridiques – le commerce, la concurrence, la fiscalité, l’environnement, le salariat, l’urbanisme, les droits et libertés fondamentaux, la valorisation du folklore et des traditions, la formation, la police, la construction notamment –, le tourisme est le terrain de synergie d’acteurs et d’activités publics et privés en lien direct ou indirect avec l’économique. Un lien de subordination ordonnée caractérisé par la privation, relativement motivée, de l’acteur économique d’un accès libre et direct au marché. C’est l’office du pouvoir économique public. Aux Antilles françaises, il est l’artisan d’un protectionnisme juridique, irradiant, variablement éloigné des nécessités économiques par opposition franche à une Caraïbe plus libérale et lacunaire, aux méthodes distorsives de concurrence, éminemment connectée aux nécessités économiques. Propulsées dans la modernité du droit par leur nationalité politique et ses corollaires – il est une identité de droits entre les Antilles françaises, la France continentale et, résolument, l’Union européenne –, les Antilles françaises sont, au niveau de leur région d’extraction, marginales. La conjuration, au moins partielle, de leur marginalité et, par ricochet, de celle de leur tourisme passerait par un changement de paradigme obtenu notamment d’un mouvement de décentration (« sortir de soi »). Ce dernier tire sa subsistance d’une société devenue mondialisée et interdépendante exhortant les petites économies au regroupement pertinent. Un mouvement qui, matériellement confronté à l’ombre menaçante de l’assimilation juridique dans le cas des Antilles françaises, requiert une fine précision. L’intégration régionale, dont la formule contractuelle – méthode alternative d’organisation de l’économie –, en ses force, intensité, diversité, flexibilité et massivité, est la figure de proue, sans prétendre à la panacée, emporte un effet décentriste. Il naît du contrat économique, plus justement de sa force normative. Porté par l’acteur économique public – l’Etat et/ou ses démembrements territoriaux –, le traité ou l’accord international vise notamment la conduite de politiques communes telle qu’en matière environnementale, les optimisation et fluidité circulatoires – des personnes, des biens, des services –, la réduction des écarts de développement, la protection de la concurrence. Porté par l’acteur économique privé – l’exemple des parties à un contrat de franchise –, sous couvert de la poursuite de la satisfaction d’intérêts particuliers, il organise des rapports d’économie confinant au transfert de technologie, au partage de marque, au renforcement de l’offre et de la demande, à la diminution du coût de la vie par la réalisation d’économie d’échelle, de gamme notamment. Maîtrisé, l’effet décentriste de l’intégration régionale pourrait, dans une certaine mesure, constituer un outil efficace pour une économie durable du tourisme des Antilles françaises en marge ou, quand cela est possible, en alternative aux procédés traditionnelsSubject to a legal multidimensionality – including commerce, competition, taxation, environment, wage system, urban planning, fundamental rights and freedoms, police, folklore and customs valorisation, education, construction –, tourism synergizes public and private activities that are more or less closely related to economics. An ordered subordinate relationship creating barriers, although relatively justified in principle, to direct and free access to trade, frustating the economic player. It is the role of the economic public power. In the French West Indies, it produces a legal protectionism, radiant, variably distant from an economic basis versus a Caribbean more liberal and incomplete, that uses irrevocably distorting effect methods at a regional level, notably connected to economic needs. Propelled in current law practices in regard to their political nationality and inferences – there is a legal filiation between the French West Indies, France and, definetely, the European Union –, across the Caribbean, the French West Indies are marginal. A paradigm shift taken from a decentring movement (“to go out of oneself”) – earns its livelihood from the now globalized and interdependent society urging vulnerable economies to a useful regrouping – which requires surgical-like precision facing the threatening shadow of the French West Indies’ legal identity. This would lead to averting, at least in part, their marginality and, by ricochet, the marginality of their tourism approach. Regional integration, whose contractual formula – an alternative organisational method of the economy – is the figurehead by its force, intensity, diversity, flexibility, and bulkiness, while nowhere near to the panacea, has a decentring effect. It originates from the economic agreement, more accurately from its normative force. Contracted by the economic public entity – the State and/or its territorial dismemberments –, the treaty or international agreement notably refers to the conduct of common policies (e.g. environmental matters), circulatory fluidity and optimization (persons, goods, services), to reducing disparities in development, to protecting competition. Contracted by the private economic player – e.g. the parties to a franchise agreement –, under the guise of pursuing satisfaction of individual interests, it organises economic relations verging on knowledge transfer, co-branding, stimulating supply and demand, decreasing the cost of living through having economies of scale, of scope among other things. If mastered the decentring effect of the regional integration could represent an effective tool for a sustainable economy of the French West Indies’ tourism to a certain extent in the margin of (or, when possible, alternatively to) traditional processes
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Gladwell, Caecilia Jean. "An enquiry into the potential of a co-operative approach to sustainable rural tourism development in India : a stakeholder perspective." Thesis, Queen Margaret University, 2015. https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/7317.
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Sustainable tourism and rural development are much examined research areas. Within these, the importance of community-centric approaches is becoming more and more recognised; however, specific research upon which community-centric development strategies could be built seems to be lacking. This thesis addresses this research gap with the aim to explore the nature of co-operative tourism and its potential towards sustainable rural tourism development in India from a stakeholder perspective. A literature review demonstrated the benefits of co-operatives as a sustainable business model, particularly for poor communities of developing countries; however, a clear gap emerged with regard to investigating tourism and co-operatives in the same context. This research contributes to filling this gap in knowledge and outlines the clear theoretical benefits of adopting a co-operative business model as a community-centric approach to tourism in the context of rural India, while also pointing out considerable challenges in its practical implementation, such as possible limitations to the ability for self-help. Fifty qualitative semi-structured interviews were carried out with stakeholders of a co-operative tourism project in two states of India: Uttarakhand and West Bengal. Twenty-six of these were conducted with farmers who are members of the tourism co-operatives presented in this study, ten with members of the wider community in which the project took place and fourteen with tourism professional and academics local to the areas. Focus was put on in-depth exploration of participants’ experiences, implying qualitative methods and a phenomenological research approach. The findings revealed a clear theoretical advantage of a co-operative approach to tourism development, which has potential to address and alleviate many of the challenges associated with tourism and host communities, and which is intensified in poor peripheral areas. However, there are significant practical challenges, which need to be addressed in order for this comparative advantage to translate into practice. These challenges are manifested in a sense of dormancy in the participants, a lack of skills and significant language difficulties. A limit to the principle of self-help, which is inherent to co-operative activities, was identified as creating effective marketing links and hence, requiring ongoing external support. This research study makes an interdisciplinary contribution to the literature on sustainable tourism, rural development and co-operative studies. In addition, it provides a starting point for further empirical research on the co-operative business model as an approach, which has not yet been sufficiently conceptualised for tourism. Furthermore, it contributes to the wider debate on sustainable rural development through tourism. Future research could usefully investigate how the challenges identified in this study, such as limitations to the principle of self-help, lack of initiative in participants and creating marketing linkages could be addressed.
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Cyranski, Christoph [Verfasser], and William [Akademischer Betreuer] Sax. "Purifying Purges and Rejuvenating Massages: Ayurvedic Health Tourism in South India / Christoph Cyranski ; Betreuer: William Sax." Heidelberg : Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1180738144/34.
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IYER, SHARANYA. "HYBRID SPACE FOR ENGAGING WITH THE LIVING PAST: COMMUNITY CENTER FOR TOURISTS AND LOCALS AT HYDERABAD INDIA." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1193884424.
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Karuvelil, John V. "Justice issues in basic health care and the challenge of genetic medicines: A Catholic perspective for the Indian context." Thesis, Boston College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104407.
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Thesis advisor: James F. KeenanReviewing the current health care system in India which is grossly inadequate and inefficient, inaccessible and inequitable, this dissertation discusses the relevance of the principles of social justice such as equity, the common good and distributive justice, and the imperatives of social justice such as the option for the poor, subsidiarity, participation and solidarity and argues that a health care system informed and guided by these principles will be more effective, equitable and accessible to people. In addition to examining the numerous challenges faced by the primary health care system in the country, I also examine the many ethical challenges raised by the development of gene therapies in the country and suggest that the same principles of social justice offer guidelines to frame policies regarding the practice of them. This dissertation faces of the very complex health care situation in India. About 40% of people in the country have little or no access to basic health care because of poverty, abysmally low spending on health care by the government, neglect of basic health care facilities, and lack of social security measures like health insurance. However, the government in its effort to boost the country's GDP is making an all-out effort to promote health tourism in the country by investing in super specialty hospitals and in high-end medicines like gene therapy. The government also has been promoting and encouraging private investments in the sector, especially in setting up super-specialty hospitals and in the use of high-end medicines such as gene therapy. In an effort to boost health tourism and to earn greater foreign exchange, the government has drafted its industrial policies for the last three decades, encouraging private, for-profit health care sector. Substantial tax deductions and subsidies are provided to the private sector to allure private investment in the sector. However, in the process, the government has neglected primary health care centers that have been the primary source of health care for the poor and the underprivileged sections of people. In spite of announcing new policies in health care with high promises of programs and initiatives for the poor, women and children, the resource allocation to the sector betrays all promises. The administrative, structural, political and social anomalies, especially corruption at all levels, absenteeism among health care personnel, medical malpractices, a lack of political will, vision and transparency, poor allocation of funds, lack of monitoring and evaluation systems, etc., have crippled the health care system. It is in this context that I argue that the principles of social justice and its imperatives should inform and direct the government in its effort to provide health care in the country. These principles and imperatives should inform and direct not only provisions for basic health care but also the production and use of genetic medicines. A health care system that is based on equity, the common good, distributive justice, subsidiarity, solidarity and participation, that promotes health and meets the health care needs of all in an equitable way, irrespective of the socio-economic disparities that prevails, is the need of the hour in India
Thesis (STD) — Boston College, 2010
Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry
Discipline: Sacred Theology
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Magnan, Alexandre. "Tourisme, développement et dynamique territoriale dans l'archipel des Maldives et à l'île Maurice (océan Indien)." Montpellier 3, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005MON30038.
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Le tourisme est un puissant facteur de développement dans les petits États insulaires qui font face à de lourdes contraintes spatiales (exiguïté, isolement, morcellement, pauvreté des ressources. . . ) et anthropiques (sociétés traditionnelles confrontées à la modernité, forte dépendance extérieure, faible diversification économique. . . ). L'archipel des Maldives et l'île Maurice, les deux principales destinations touristiques de l'océan Indien occidental, offrent en ce sens deux cas d'étude intéressants pour la lecture des effets du tourisme sur les processus d'organisation territoriale. À travers une approche géographique à vocation globale et systémique, ce travail s'applique à montrer que les influences du tourisme sur les territoires et sur les sociétés sont de nature complexe et qu'elles varient suivant les échelles spatiales et temporelles considérées. Il montre également que même si le tourisme est un moteur économique majeur et un transformateur de lieux, d'autres phénomènes, plus généraux ceux-là, sont à considérer qui sont la polarisation de l'espace ("effet capitale") et la recherche d'un équilibre territorialTourism is one of the main supports of economic development in small island states which have to face both strong physical constraints (remoteness, limited land, scarcity of natural resources. . . ) and major anthropogenic changes (high external dependence and low economic diversification, effects of modernity on society and culture. . . ). The two major tourism destinations of the western Indian ocean, Maldives and Mauritius, are interesting case studies so as to determine the effects of tourism on the organization of territories. Based upon a systemic and global geographical approach, this study shows that the effects of tourism on territory and society are both complex and highly variable according to the spatial and temporal scales which are considered. Whereas tourism appears as a strong factor in the organization of island states, it is demonstrated that processes such as space polarization due to the "capital effect" and the efforts of the government to achieve territorial equilibrium also play a major role
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Shinde, Kiran. "The environment of pilgrimage in the sacred site of Vrindavan, India." Monash University. Faculty of Arts. School of Geography and Environmental Science, 2008. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/73827.
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There is growing interest in attributing sacred value to the environment for its protection and management. Claiming the environment as sacred, however, is different from the environment in sacred sites. Sacred sites, places of heightened religious and spiritual significance, are found in all societies and visited by thousands of visitors. Visitor flows affect the environment in sacred sites in direct and indirect ways. Two distinct approaches can be identified in the discussion of impact on sacred sites: one focuses on the assessment of the physical environment and the other emphasises the effects on the cultural and sacred space. The first approach reports environmental problems such as deforestation, river pollution, and real estate development without supporting infrastructure of roads and environmental services including sewerage, water supply, and accumulation of waste, but fails to explain why these problems do not deter visitors whose numbers continue to increase. The second approach, by negating the physicality of the environment and relying on subjectivity of environmental discourses, avoids questions about environmental responsibility and management. Both these approaches do not consider how the environment in a sacred site is created. This thesis attempts to explain how the environment in the sacred site of Vrindavan is shaped by socio-economic, religious and political processes that take place within, and outside the site. By adopting a historical-spatial analysis, it shows how the trajectory of environmental change in Vrindavan is shaped by broader patterns of changes in political economy, religious patronage, pilgrimage travel and institutional developments. It examines the changes in the iv pilgrimage landscape of Vrindavan through three phases since its establishment as a pilgrimage site in the 15th century: pre-colonial (15th-19th century), colonial (19th-mid 20th century) and post-colonial (post-1947). It details the ways in which social, economic, political and institutional developments from the precolonial and colonial past are linked to some of the contemporary problems and how these are translated into fragmented institutional responses. The thesis examines the contemporary environment in Vrindavan in relation to the shifts in pilgrimage economy and interactions of various actors and institutions that control and manage it. It shows that the contemporary environment in Vrindavan is a poorly regulated market of religious entrepreneurs, tourism operators and real estate developers driven by the opportunities of religious tourism. The lack of institutions to regulate these activities and the inability to cater to the increased demand for environmental services contribute to the continued degradation of the religious urban space of Vrindavan. This institutional vacuum leads different actors to use contesting attitudes in absolving themselves from their responsibility towards environmental management and articulate discourses that reinforce the idea of environmental degradation in Vrindavan. The study illustrates that claiming the sacred and making the sacred/religious environment are two different things. It argues that understanding and addressing environmental degradation in a sacred environment requires an understanding of how sacred space is produced. It shows that the environment of pilgrimage is a dynamic process shaped by the activities, forms of control, perceptions, and representations of the actors involved in the production of sacred sites. The thesis calls for a comprehensive v spatial approach to address environmental change and sustainability issues in sacred sites by integrating concerns for maintaining the religious significance of the place with the physical transformations in sacred sites.
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Cohen, Scott Allen, and n/a. "The search for 'self' for lifestyle travellers." University of Otago. Department of Tourism, 2009. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20090819.151427.
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This thesis examines the search for self in the context of lifestyle travellers. It has been suggested that maintaining a coherent sense of self has become problematic in late modernity as the socially constructed notion of a 'true self' has come to be regarded as concrete, whilst choice has increasingly replaced obligation or tradition as a basis in defining selves. Issues of self have been noted as especially important in the context of adopted lifestyles, as lifestyle can be a means through which individuals seek coherence in their lives. Furthermore, travelling to 'find one's self' has a lengthy tradition in popular literature that has also been reflected in tourism studies where research has been conducted into backpacker and traveller identities.
Lifestyle travel is a post-traditional way of life wherein individuals are voluntarily exposed to an array of cultural praxes. Thus, the literatures on self, lifestyle and tourism point to lifestyle travel as a context where issues of self may be particularly relevant. Whilst there is a significant and growing body of research within tourism studies on backpackers, there is a dearth of information on individuals that travel as a lifestyle. Therefore, this thesis contributes to academic knowledge not only through its investigation into the search for self, but also by its conceptualisation of and empirical research into lifestyle travellers.
With criteria for defining lifestyle travellers based on of a fluid combination of self-definition of travel as one's lifestyle and multiple trips of approximately six months or more, twenty-five semi-structured in-depth interviews were carried out by the researcher with lifestyle travellers in northern Indian and southern Thailand from July through September 2007. In keeping with the paradigmatic ideals of interpretivism, emergent themes were identified from within the qualitative material including meanings that the lifestyle travellers attached to the search for self, surrounding issues of avoidance and seeking that influenced why they travelled as a lifestyle and their future travel intentions.
Although there were multiple perspectives on how the search for self was conceived and approached, searching for self was voiced as a critical motivating factor for the majority of the lifestyle travellers. With a common view among most of the respondents of self as an internal object to be developed, many lifestyle travellers had been or were still on a Romantic modern quest of searching for their true self. Escapism, freedom and learning through challenge were identified as important themes surrounding the search for self, as lifestyle travellers described varying degrees of success in escaping their home societies and finding increased free space and time to learn about and challenge their ideas of self. Paradoxically, most of the lifestyle travellers sought to experience an inner self that dominant sociological views posit does not exist. The tension of searching for a unified sense of self in a world of relational selves is highlighted as not only problematic for the interviewees, but also for previous tourism studies that have premised their contributions on the existence of an inner self.
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Schiffer, Sharon Nambudripad. "How ending gender violence in India improves the nation's international reputation and tourism industry| A case for nationalism." Thesis, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1550780.
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As nations have become far more interconnected by means of globalization in the 21st century, the issues that affect one nation often have affects upon others. As India is a nation with a population of more than 1.2 billion, the issues that affect the nation also affect others. As an assault in Delhi, India made international news on December 16, 2012, the international community has become more aware of the incidents of gender-based violence that exist within the country. The ramifications of the international community's knowledge of the assault included a drastic decrease in both its international reputation and its tourism industry. As tourism provided 6.6% of its total GDP in 2012, it is an industry that is integral to the development of the nation. In order for India to increase its reputation and its tourism industry, gender-based violence in the form of assault and trafficking must be eradicated. This thesis will discuss the roots of gender-based violence specifically in India, and a case study of India's fight against colonialism will be used as an example of how a sense of nationalism was essential in meeting the goal of the nation at that time. As colonialism and gender-based violence are both 'enemies' to a nation's autonomy and reputation, this thesis will analyze the fact that the nation's ability to form a cohesive national identity, as it did during British rule, is essential for it to achieve its 2013 goals.
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Gola, Swati. "The impact of international trade in healthcare services under GATS on the right to health : a study of medical tourism in India." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-impact-of-international-trade-in-healthcare-services-under-gats-on-the-right-to-health-a-study-of-medical-tourism-in-india(e5e87fe8-b008-4cc2-8a42-2ad95bdde591).html.
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Healthcare services, traditionally provided by the government in a welfare state, have become a tradable commodity in the era of globalisation. Indeed, globalisation has led to the creation of a new international healthcare market with increased participation of the private sector, assisted with enhanced mobility of health professionals, service providers and patients across borders. Soon after its inception, the 1995 General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) has come under fire from critics, especially for its broad scope and inclusion of basic services like healthcare, water or education that fulfil social objectives. In establishing a multilateral legal framework, GATS mandates progressive liberalisation of trade in services among the WTO members through successive rounds of negotiations. Since GATS applies to the measures by WTO Members affecting trade in services (whether taken at central, regional or local government level), inclusion of health services therein has raised concern regarding a government's ability to regulate health-related services. Availability and accessibility of healthcare services is crucial from the right to health perspective. The International Convention on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) obligates its Member States to respect, protect and realise progressively and to the maximum of its available resources 'the right to the highest attainable standard of health.' When a WTO Member is also a signatory to the ICESCR, the question arises whether the legislative framework regulating healthcare services under GATS conflicts with the said Member's obligation to respect, protect and fulfil the right to health. The present thesis attempts to answer this question through an analysis of GATS and the right to health norms within the framework of conflict of norms in international law. Although norm conflicts are generally assessed in terms of a legal relationship between a given State with another State, the present thesis focuses on a single State bound by both sets of rules where compliance with both obligations may/does lead to a legal, social or factual conflict.
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B, Martin Valérie. "Reassessing history : Native American narratives in Kentucky tourism." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/33139.
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Dans toutes les sociétés, les rapports de pouvoir qui existent ont une grande influence sur les dynamiques de mémoire. Le colonialisme anglais et américain, et plus précisément les politiques de relocalisation comme l’Indian Removal Act (1830) ont eu un fort impact sur la présence autochtone dans le paysage culturel du Sud-est des États-Unis. La production de la mémoire collective à travers la commémoration, l’éducation et le tourisme sont un reflet de ces rapports de pouvoir. Elle démontre aussi quels évènements du passé définissent le présent. Ce mémoire de maîtrise tente de comprendre comment les récits de la présence autochtone au Kentucky sont inscrits dans le paysage culturel de l'état. Le Kentucky détient un riche passé précolonial encore visible sur le territoire. Plusieurs artefacts témoignent de l’occupation millénaire du Kentucky par des nations autochtones. Toutefois, selon l’histoire dominante du Kentucky, le territoire n’était pas occupé au moment des premiers contacts. La contradiction entre ce mythe et les preuves archéologiques qui se retrouvent dans le paysage a été peu étudiée. Ce mythe continue de servir de base pour, entre-autres, l’éducation et le tourisme et encourage une image fausse de la présence autochtone au Kentucky. Les moyens utilisés par le pouvoir colonial américain pour tenter d’effacer la présence autochtone aux États-Unis vont au-delà de la violence des politiques de relocalisation et d’assimilation. En effet, des moyens plus subtils, comme la commémoration et les mythes, ont permis à la culture dominante de se réapproprier le territoire à travers la mémoire. Quels sont les facteurs qui ont permis de créer et qui aident à maintenir un écart entre l'histoire dominante du Kentucky et les preuves archéologiques? Quelles représentations matérielles dans le paysage culturel du Kentucky définissent cet écart? Le tourisme patrimonial au Kentucky sera l'élément central de cette analyse.In all societies, power dynamics greatly influence memory. British and American colonialism, and relocation policies, like the Indian Removal Act (1830), had a strong impact on Native American presence in the cultural landscape of the Southeast United States. The production of collective memory through commemoration, tourism and education is a reflection of the power relations within society. It also shows which events in the past still define the present. This master’s thesis seeks to understand how narratives of the past influence today’s narratives about Native Americans in Kentucky, as well as how these narratives are inscribed in the cultural landscape of the state. Kentucky holds a rich pre-colonial history that is still visible on the landscape. Many artifacts can be found on the land and bear witness to the long-standing Native American presence in Kentucky. However, according to Kentucky’s dominant history, the territory was ''empty'' at the time of first contact. The contradiction that exists between this myth and the abundance of archaeological evidence, and the way it is translated into the cultural landscape, has seldom been studied. This myth provides the basis for, among other things, education and tourism, and promotes an inaccurate image of the Native presence in Kentucky, which contributes to keeping Native American identities in the past. The colonial means used to erase Native American presence in the United States went further than the violence of the federal policies of assimilation and relocation. Subtler methods, like commemoration and myths, have allowed the dominant culture to claim the land through memory. What are the factors that have created and helped to maintain the gap between Kentucky’s dominant interpretation of history and archaeological fact? What material representations on the cultural landscape of Kentucky are most evident of the gap? Heritage tourism will be the focus of this analysis.
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Škopánová, Zuzana. "Vybrané kulturní atraktivity cestovního ruchu Indie." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-16631.
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This diploma thesis deals with Indian monuments and tourism. First, the basic information about India is given, followed by the analysis of Indian tourism. All the facts resulting from this part of the thesis are summarised in the SWOT analysis. The main part of the thesis deals with the tours offered by Czech travel agencies. It also includes the list of Indian monuments which were choosen according to the own experience and people's recommandation. The final part of the thesis evaluates the results of the questionnaire research. The aim is to determine the potential of Indian tourism, to give the overview of the current tourism of India and its monuments and to find out if the Czech public opinion about India confirmes the assumed thesis.
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Sabino, Andre Luiz. "Urbanização e turismo em Bertioga - o caso da praia de Indaiá." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8136/tde-30012008-115956/.
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O desafio ao longo dessa investigação foi o de encontrar nexos espaciais da atividade do turismo a partir de um estudo de caso. Partimos da noção do espaço como um conjunto indissociável de objetos e de ações, buscamos apreender a produção do espaço em Bertioga e no loteamento Jardim Indaiá. Os objetos incorporados a este espaço, ao longo do tempo - funcionais ou refuncionalizados, nos permitiram cindir a totalidade, encontrando quais foram as principais variáveis que explicam a atual configuração espacial e, para isso, a noção de evento foi fundamental. O turismo é por nós considerado como uma prática social e uma atividade produtiva, que pressupõe o consumo do espaço, que usa os sistemas de objetos existentes, bem como, não raras vezes, cria um novo, ancorado em um sistema de ações, existente ou a ser criado, no imbricado jogo de relações entre mercado, Estado e sociedade. O estudo de Indaiá, um loteamento da praia da Enseada, no município de Bertioga, nos foi fundamental por permitir a análise do papel dos sujeitos sociais, os mais e os menos hegemônicos bem como os hegemonizados, incluindo nesta equação o espaço, o turismo, o capital imobiliário, o poder público e a sociedade.The actual challenge regarding this investigation was to find spatial relationships of tourism activity based on a study of case. We start from the notion of space as an umbreakable whole of objects and actions, searching to analyse Bertioga\'s (and particularly Jardim Indaiá) spatial production development through time. Objects added to this space during this process, maintaining their original functions or being submitted to a new one - allowed us to split totality, finding the main variables that explain the present spatial configuration. About this purpose, the notion of event was fundamental. We consider tourism as a social practice and also a productive activity, that implies space consumption using existent object systems, frequently creating a new system and also, which is rooted in an existing or to be created actions system, in the entangled relationship performed by market, State and society. The study of Indaiá, a real state property development located in Enseada Beach (Bertioga County) was very important to allowing us to analyse the role of social subjects: the more, the less hegemonic, and the hegemonized too, including in this equation space, tourism, real state capital, public policy and society.
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Volle, Aurélie. "Tourisme et développement local en terre mapuche (Chili) : une approche culturelle des territoires." Aix-Marseille 1, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003AIX10089.
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L’activité touristique développée par des individus, des familles, des communautés ou des associations mapuche dans les campagnes chiliennes des VIIIème, IXème et Xème Régions administratives, est un phénomène relativement récent qui peut être appréhendé comme une innovation locale face aux logiques globales dominantes qui s’opèrent sur le territoire mapuche et comme révélateur de situations contemporaines complexes. La grande diversité des réalités socio-spatiales du tourisme en terre mapuche rend difficile une caractérisation selon les catégories touristiques établies (tourisme rural, culturel, ethnotourisme, etc. ). Aussi l’approche culturelle de la ressource touristique (de la nature, de la campagne, de l’identité et des savoirs, de l’histoire) tente-t-elle de conduire à la fois à une analyse renouvelée des impacts du tourisme sur les sociétés locales en se plaçant du côté des acteurs mapuche, et de prendre en compte leurs représentations pour mieux qualifier ce tourisme. Pour cela, la recherche s’est inspirée des travaux de géographie culturelle, d’ethnogéographie mais également des méthodes d’analyse du capital territorial amorcées depuis l’institutionnalisation du développement local en Europe. En effet, les acteurs mapuche du tourisme sont impliqués dans des dynamiques de développement local animées par une logique qui leur est propre. Quelles spécificités revêt donc le développement local dans ces territoires ? Un retour sur le concept né dans les pays industriels et une réflexion autour de quelques expériences du développement local en Amérique Latine permettent de comprendre que le développement local mapuche dépend du degré de contrôle territorial, autrement dit de la production d’espaces de pouvoir local. Ce tourisme ne saurait être abordé uniquement en termes économiques car il est souvent géopolitique.
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Loscher, Tricia, and Tricia Loscher. "Lone Wolf (Hart M. Schultz): Cowboy, Actor and Artist." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621717.
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The art and art history of the American West has long been uncritically accepted as embodying positive nationalistic values that include courage, optimism, democracy, and individualism. In 1991, William Truettner's The West as America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820-1920 (1991) became one of the most politically charged western art exhibitions in American history to question and criticize these values and to underscore the ideological content of western art. The exhibition with its accompanying catalogue reinterpreted nineteenth-century images of the American West as expansionist propaganda. In spite of this groundbreaking and controversial exhibition and catalogue, exhibitions continue to promote largely romanticized and idyllic images of pristine landscapes with American Indians living in a harmonious world. The scholarly essay and museum exhibition entitled Lone Wolf (Hart M. Schultz): Cowboy, Actor and Artist, focuses on the artwork and life of Blackfeet artist Lone Wolf, (aka Hart Merriam Schultz, 1882-1970), who was active from 1915 to 1960, painting in Montana at Glacier National Park in the summertime, and wintering in Tucson, Arizona. As a little known and understudied American Indian artist, this exhibition and essay serve to expand awareness of the significant contributions by marginalized artists who successfully negotiated the terrain of the mainstream art world. Lone Wolf exemplifies a unique case study as an artist with American Indian heritage, who actively participated in the creation of stereotypical and romantic images about the American West, while he maintained that his first-hand experience and indigenous knowledge helped him to accurately depict what was considered the authentic American West. The exhibition and essay adds to the growing scholarly interest in the art of the American West and incorporates contemporary theories and scholarship that recognizes the American West and the art devoted to it as distinctly heterogeneous and embedded in a number of discourses that are overshadowed by the lingering romanticism and nostalgia that clings to much art of the American West.
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Henley, Alison Mary. "Balancing values : environmental degradation in India and the role of tourism (an examination of change in the coastal physical environment of Kovalam, Kerala)." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.402125.
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Slívová, Vladimíra. "Potenciál výjezdového cestovního ruchu Indů do zemí Visegrádské čtyřky." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-197077.
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The diploma thesis "Potential of Indian Tourism Outbound to the Countries of Visegrad Group" deals with the recent trends in Indian outbound tourism, especially in relation to the countries of Visegrad Four. For a better understanding of the issue, the thesis seeks to analyze the consumer behaviour of the Indian tourists, especially on the trips to long-haul destinations, it also describes some of the conditions of travelling from India to the Visegrad Group countries such as transport and the offer of Indian travel agencies. The thesis also deals with the analysis of inbound tourism to the countries of the Visegrad Group from India and common promotional activity of these countries called The European Quartet - One Melody on Indian market. Important part of the thesis is the publication of results of my own survey conducted amongst Indian citizens in order to study the perception of the countries of Visegrad Group and the consumer behaviour of Indian people when travelling. In the very end, the potential of the development of Indian tourism outbound to the countries of Visegrad Group was evaluated.
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Dubesset, Éric. "Culture, nature et tourisme à Baracoa (Cuba) : une approche méthodologique et appliquée de l'éco-aménagement touristique." Bordeaux 3, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996BOR30065.
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Par suite de sa recente devitalisation economique et sociale, la region de baracoa (cuba) a opte pour un plan de restructuration axe sur le developpement touristique. Mais ce developpement souhaite par les dirigeants et la population locale pour redynamiser la vie economique et sociale de la region ne devra pas denaturer son idiosyncrasie culturelle et perturber son equilibre ecologique actuel. Comment y parvenir ? comment amenager rationnellement et a des fins touristiques ce territoire sans alterer ses caracteristiques structurales et patrimoniales ? comment "marier" culture nature et tourisme ? c'est precisement a ces questions que la presente these tente d'apporter des elements de reponse par son approche methodologique de l'ecoamenagement touristique. L'application de cette reflexion a la region de baracoa essaie de mettre en evidence le role fondamental des lectures heuristique et hermeneutique dans une perspective eco-amenageante pour favoriser un developpement local garant de la sauvegarde de l'identite du milieu d'accueilOwing to the recent economic and social devitalization it has been through, the baracoa region (cuba) has opted for a restructuring program based on the development of tourism. But this development, calledfor both by the country's officials and the local population to revive the economic and social life of the region, must neither distort its cultural idiosyncrasy nor upset its present ecological balance. How can that be achieved ? how can this land adapt to tourism in a rationalway without altering its structural and patrimonial features ? how can culture nature and tourism be "matched" ? those are the questions that this thesis will try to answer through a methodologist approach of the tourist eco-amenagement. By applying this line of research to the baracoa region we intend to undescore the fundamental role of heuristic and hermeneutic reading in an ecodeveloping perspective, with a view to favouring local expansion while safegarding the genuine identity of this land