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Karobonik, Teri Jane. "SATIRE AND THE BRITISH TRAVEL NARRATIVE IN GULLIVER'S TRAVELS AND HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/192499.
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Chowdhury, Sujoy Kumar. "Pintail : a travel companion for guided storytelling." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119082.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2018.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Pintail is a mobile companion application for guided storytelling. To inspire and augment story creation, Pintail uses priming as a technique by showing the user what others feel or have drawn about the places s/he is visiting. These Pintail prompts are synthesized from online travel reviews and doodle books. Some prompts are displayed in an ambient manner on a second screen. Users can use the Pintail story-creation tools to remix, reflect and create their own stories. The stories created by Pintail have an analog form. They are printed on a re-purposed mobile receipt printer. They are designed to catalyze in person-conversations. Pintail tries to balance between the story creation activity and the actual travel experience. Pintail provides the users with the structure and tools for storytelling that are aware of the short attention span of today's audience.
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Björklund, Elin Maria. "Metaphorical mountainscapes : Translating metaphors, similes and metonymy in an adventure travel guide." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-97999.
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This study examines the translation of an adventure travel guide from English to Swedish, focusing on the translation of conventional metaphors, original metaphors, metonymy and similes, with special attention to conceptual metaphors. The results show that most of the metaphors are reproduced in the target text, along with most of the metonymic segments and all similes. The findings suggest that the relatively high rate of metaphors and metonymy reproduced is due to a high degree of shared metaphorical concepts in source and target culture, whereas the decrease likely is due to an asymmetry in the preference of usage and degree of elaboration for these metaphors. The qualitative analysis shows that many conceptual metaphors fulfilled important functions in the source text, which confirms previous research that preserving the conceptual metaphors as much as possible in the translation process is essential in order to preserve all the functions of the source text. Analysis of metonymy and the personification of cities shows how the metonymic concept place for person is related to the central theme of personification and that this concept is likewise used to fulfill an important purpose of the source text, showing that metonymy is equally important to preserve in the translation process. The results of this study suggest that the choice of translation strategy in some cases is less dependent on category and more dependent on to what extent the cultural concepts that the metaphor/simile/metonymy is based on is similar/different, more/less elaborate or more/less preferred in source and target culture.
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Montesi, John L. "Modern Escapism: A Field Guide OR, How to Get Lost Without Really Trying." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/937.
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Morlier, Hélène. "Les guides-Joanne (1841-1919) : généalogie, hégémonie et renaissance d’une collection nationale de guides touristiques." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019EHES0102.
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Cette recherche porte sur la collection de guides de voyage Joanne qui fut célèbre pendant plusieurs décennies avant de devenir les guides Bleus en 1919. L’enjeu est de comprendre sa généalogie, son développement et sa transformation, en prenant en considération les espaces géographiques concernés : l’Europe du XIXe siècle et du début du XXe siècle.Ce travail s’inscrit dans une démarche pluridisciplinaire : cette recherche est principalement historique, mais contient aussi une forte dimension géographique, tout en faisant souvent appel à l’histoire de l’art, l’archéologie, la littérature et l’histoire des techniques.Dans un premier temps, comme la collection des guides Joanne n’est pas née ex-nihilo, il faut comprendre pourquoi la Librairie Hachette a racheté en 1855 des guides portant le nom de Richard. Pour cela, il faut se plonger dans l’histoire des guides Reichard nés à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Il convient ensuite de saisir la généalogie des acquisitions de guides existants qui a abouti à la création de la Bibliothèque des chemins de fer, distribuée dans les kiosques de gares. Dans un second temps, l’histoire des guides-itinéraires à la couverture bleu de Prusse est retracée, en tenant compte des évolutions techniques de l’imprimerie et en les replaçant dans leur contexte historique et concurrentiel. En effet, cette abondante production française est comparée à celle de ses homologues anglais (Murray) et allemand (Baedeker), ces derniers présentant une menace commerciale avec leurs guides en français, mais aussi une émulation. Dans un troisième temps, sont présentées les séries dérivées des guides-itinéraires qui démontrent le perpétuel souci d’adaptation des guides Joanne à leur public et aux évolutions des manières de voyager liées aux développements des transports ferroviaire et automobile avant la rupture de la Première Guerre mondiale. La mutation qui aboutit à la naissance des guides Bleus est analysée. Cette recherche est clôturée par une synthèse sur les apports de ces guides, en les inscrivant dans leur contexte historique et dans celui de la naissance du tourisme qui devint de masse au milieu du XXe siècleThis study focuses on the “Joanne” series of guidebooks that acquired popularity several decades before it was renamed “Guides Bleus” in 1919. The aim of this work is to grasp the series’ genealogy, evolution and transformation throughout the geographical regions it dealt with, mostly 19th and early 20th century Europe. This thesis falls into a multidisciplinary approach: mainly a historical research, it also makes use of Geography as well as History of Art, Archaeology, Literature and History of techniques. As the Joanne guidebooks were not created ex nihilo, this thesis first delves into the context that pushed the editor Hachette, in 1855, to buy back a tourist guidebook series that was then called “Richard”. It is thus necessary to go back to the late 18th century and the appearance of the first "Reichard" guidebooks. It then analyses the first acquisition of guidebooks that resulted in the creation of the “Bibliothèque des chemins de fer” (Railway library), distributed in the kiosks of train stations. In its second part, this study aims to reconstruct the emergence of these guidebooks famous for their “Prussian blue” covers, taking into account technical evolutions of printing and overall competition in this domain. This brings about a comparison between the French production and its British and German counterparts, Murray and Baedeker. These series pose a serious commercial threat to the French guidebooks, but also represent a source of emulation. The third part of this work introduces the reader to the various derivatives of the Joanne series. They are seen as an example of how the guidebooks were adapted to change in travel practices and to the appearance of new forms of transport, rail and automobile, before the rupture of the First World War. The thesis hence studies the shift that brought about the “Guides Bleus”. The work ends with a synthesis of the role played by these guidebooks in their historical period as well as to the birth of mass tourism in the middle of the 20th century
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Lombard, Johanna Christina. "A pangalactic gargle blaster of Lilliputian proportions: A comparative analysis of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/62647.
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Douglas Adams and Jonathan Swift are satirists who lived and worked 250 years apart. Swift's eighteenth-century text, Gulliver's Travels, tells the story of an Englishman's adventures during numerous sea voyages that bring him into contact with fantastical peoples and places. Adams's twentieth-century text, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, relates a hapless Englishman's trials and tribulations during an intergalactic voyage which takes him and his companions to bizarre destinations. This study considers key similarities and differences between the texts. Resonances between Gulliver's celestial navigation in the eighteenth century and Arthur Dent's navigation among those very heavenly bodies in the twentieth century are explored. The novels are examined for evidence of satire, the travel genre, proto science fiction and mock science fiction and for generic similarities between the works. Through a process of elimination, Gulliver's and Arthur Dent's respective journeys are abstracted, summarised and represented graphically. Communication theory and linguistic trends during the Enlightenment and the twentieth century, as well as the science and technology of each era are also briefly reviewed. This study finds that, through the exploitation of the journey as literary device which allows Gulliver and Arthur Dent to view England and Earth from different places and from different times, both Swift and Adams are able to comment on and satirise humankind. The illustrations of the journeys highlight the differences between the two novels in terms of structure and adherence to markers of time and place. Lemuel Gulliver's journeys are shown to be radial voyages with England as the core location of departures and arrivals, whereas Arthur's appear to be random and follow neither the expected and known rules of travel, nor the laws of time and space. The study furthermore considers the nature of the locations visited and finds resemblances and differences between the authors' and readers' known worlds, and the fictitious worlds described. This naturally leads to a consideration of the degree of alienation experienced by the protagonists and, indeed, humanity. Finally, the texts are examined for communication problems faced by the protagonists. The conclusion of this study suggests that in Gulliver's Travels and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy both Adams and Swift show their awareness that language is not neutral, and that it possesses the power to entertain, inform, deceive and destroy. Both texts function metonymically to highlight the perilous complexity of the human condition and show that humanity's journey through space/time in the twentieth century remains as treacherous as one by sea during the Enlightenment.Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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Hiltunen, Nina. "The translation of cultural references and hyphenated premodifers in a travel guide about the Caribbean." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-78138.
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This paper studies how cultural references and hyphenated premodifiers in an English travel guide about the Caribbean are translated into Swedish. The aim is to investigate what strategies that are used when translating cultural references, and why; as well as to see which grammatical structures that appear when translating hyphenated premodifiers from English to Swedish. The qualitative analysis focuses on how cultural references and hyphenated premodifiers are translated, the strategies/categories used, and the corresponding result. The quantitative analysis aims at summarizing what strategies or grammatical categories that are most commonly used in overcoming these translation issues. The results show that most hyphenated premodifiers are translated with another grammatical structure, namely through premodifying adjectives, without the use of hyphens. Regarding cultural references, equivalence, transference, and generalization were common strategies to convey the same content and sense to the new target readers, whereas the domesticating method together with communicative translation proved to be the most helpful methods.
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Suhett, de Morais Raul. "The evolution of tourism destination image through travel guidebooks. The case of Barcelona." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/667214.
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Les guies turístiques impreses son una font excepcional d’informació per a futurs turistes. Aquests llibres proporcionen consells, suggeriments, pistes, recomanacions i molt més per a que el viatger pugui entendre el Destí i són, per tant, un mediador entre el visitant i el lloc visitat. Les guies turístiques impreses donen forma a l’experiència turística al interpretar el Destí i, fent-lo, donen forma també al Destí. En temps en que turistes corren cap a Internet buscant per informació sempre canviat com si visquéssim en un món Orwellià on els fets d’ahir ja no existeixen, les guies en paper són crucials per a un estudi longitudinal perquè la Imatge del Destí Turístic (IDT) que elles tenen de qualsevol lloc dura allò que duren les seves pàgines. La meva recerca pretén entendre com una IDT canvia al llarg del temps i, per fer-ho, utilitzo el Mètode de la Teoria Fonamentada (MTF) per a tal de recollir dades de diverses guies turístiques de diferents èpoques i determinar com la imatge canvia al llarg del temps. La recerca està construïda sobre una revisió de la literatura actual en Geografia, Autenticitat i, és clar, Turisme. El meu estudi de cas es Barcelona i he seleccionat 13 guies turístiques impreses des de 1888 –l’any de la primera Exposició Universal– fins a 2016. Degut a la immensa quantitat de dades i la fragilitat d’algunes guies, utilitzo el software d’anàlisis de dades qualitatius assistida per ordinador ATLAS.ti per a ajudar-me amb la codificació, recodificació, visualització, recuperació i anàlisi dels llibres. La recerca en Turisme es coneguda per dependre fortament de teories i mètodes d’altres camps per a entendre els intricats problemes del fenomen. Tant treballar amb guies turístiques com aplicar el MTF a la recerca en Turisme són maneres innovadores de proveir el tòpic amb els seus propis marcs de referència i pot ajudar a desenvolupar nous paradigmes, teories y pràctiques per al fenomen. La recerca conclou que utilitzar guies turístiques impreses com font de dades per a analitzar la IDT de Barcelona és un mètode vàlid i pot ser reproduït en altres Destins; que Barcelona ha tingut diverses IDTs al llarg de la seva història com a Destí Turístic i que la que experimentem avui és només la més recent; que un estudi longitudinal a través del MTF enquadrat per una recerca d’Estudi de Cas és una mena vàlida d’entendre l’evolució de la IDT d’un Destí; que la història del Destí influeix en la seva IDT; que la imatge Fonamentada (Grounded image) de Barcelona ha canviat d’acord amb les tendències de cada període de la seva història, però que la seva imatge de Densitat (Density image) s’ha mantingut estable enfocant-se al Barri Gòtic. Per fi, aquesta Tesi presenta alguns tòpics per a recerques futures.Las guías turísticas impresas son una fuente excepcional de información para futuros turistas. Estos libros proporcionan consejos, sugerencias, pistas, recomendaciones y mucho más para que el viajero pueda entender el Destino y son, por lo tanto, un mediador entre el visitante y el lugar visitado. Las guías turísticas impresas moldan la experiencia del turista al interpretar el Destino y, al hacerlo, moldan el Destino también. En tiempos en que turistas corren a Internet buscando por informaciones siempre cambiantes como si viviéramos en un mundo Orwelliano donde los hechos de ayer desaparecen, las guías en papel son cruciales para un estudio longitudinal porque la Imagen del Destino Turístico (IDT) que tienen de cualquier lugar dura lo tanto que duran sus páginas. Mi investigación aspira a entender cómo una IDT cambia a lo largo del tiempo y, para ello, empleo el Método de la Teoría Fundamentada (MTF) para recoger datos de diversas guías turísticas de diferentes épocas y determinar cómo la imagen cambia a lo largo del tiempo. La investigación está construida sobre una revisión de la literatura actual en Geografía, Autenticidad y, por supuesto, Turismo. Mi estudio de caso es Barcelona y he elegido 13 guías turísticas impresas de 1888 –el año de la primera Exposición Universal– hasta 2016. Debido a la inmensa cantidad de datos y la fragilidad de algunas de las guías, utilizo el software de análisis de datos cualitativos asistida por ordenador ATLAS.ti para ayudarme con la codificación, recodificación, visualización, recuperación y análisis de los libros. La investigación en Turismo es conocida por depender fuertemente de teorías y métodos de otros campos para entender los problemas intricados del fenómeno. Tanto trabajar con guías turísticas como aplicar el MTF en la investigación en Turismo son manera innovadora de abastecer el tópico con sus propios marcos de referencia y puede ayudar a desarrollar nuevos paradigmas, teorías y prácticas para el fenómeno. La investigación concluye que usar guías turísticas impresas como fuente de datos para analizar la IDT de Barcelona es un método válido y puede ser reproducido en otros Destinos; que Barcelona ha tenido diversas IDTs a lo largo de su historia como Destino Turístico y que la que experimentamos hoy es sólo la más reciente; que un estudio longitudinal a través del MTF encuadrado por una Investigación de Estudio de Caso es una manera válida de entender la evolución de la IDT de un Destino; que la historia del Destino influye en su IDT; que la imagen Fundamentada (Grounded image) de Barcelona ha cambiado de acuerdo con las tendencias de cada periodo de su historia, pero que su imagen de Densidad (Density image) se ha mantenido estable enfocada en el Barri Gòtic. Por fin, esta Tesis presenta algunos tópicos para investigaciones futuras.
Travel guidebooks are an exceptional source of information for future tourists. These books provide advices, suggestions, clues, tips, and much more so that the traveler can understand the Destination, being, therefore, a mediator between the visitor and the place visited. Travel guidebooks shape the tourist’s experience by interpreting the Destination and, by doing so, shape the Destination itself as well. In a time when tourists are rushing to the Internet to find always-changing information similar to an Orwellian world where yesterday’s facts disappear, paper guidebooks are crucial to a longitudinal because the Tourism Destination Image (TDI) they have of any given place lasts as long as their pages exist. My research aims to understand how a TDI changes through time and, in order to do so, I employ the Grounded Theory Method (GTM) to gather data from several Travel Guidebooks from different periods and determine how the image changes throughout time. The research is built over a review of the current literature on Geography, Authenticity, and, of course, Tourism. My case study is Barcelona and I have selected 13 guidebooks from 1888 –the year of the first Universal Exposition– to 2016. Due to the immense amount of data and the fragility of some guidebooks, I use the computer assisted qualitative data analysis software ATLAS.ti to help me with the coding, recoding, visualization, retrieving, and analysis of the books. Tourism Research is known to strongly rely on other areas’ theories and methods to understand the phenomenon’s intricate problems. Both working with travel guidebooks and applying the GTM to Tourism Research is an innovative way to provide the subject with its own research frameworks and it can help develop new paradigms, theories, and practices to the field. The research concludes that using travel guidebooks as source of data to analyze Barcelona’s TDI is a valid method and it can be reproduced in any other Destination; that Barcelona has had several TDIs throughout its history as a Tourism Destination and the one we experience nowadays is only the most recent one; that a longitudinal study through a GTM framed by a Case Study Research is a valid way to understand the evolution of a Destination’s TDI; that the history of the Destination influences its TDI; that Barcelona’s Grounded image has changed according to trends of each period in its history, but its Density image has remained stable focused in the Barri Gòtic. Finally, this Thesis presents some topics to future research.
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Rankin, Carin. "Development by design - an example in the South African craft industry the Due-South travel guide /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2007. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10082008-094907.
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Carlsson, Lovisa. "Designing a Digital Voice-Controlled Travel Guide : Investigating the User Experience of Voice-Controlled Customer Service." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad fysik och elektronik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-160863.
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Varonis, Maria E. "An Unofficial Backpacker's Guide to Being Awesome Abroad." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1353433953.
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Davis, Sarah Lee 1945. "The development of travel guide specifications to increase the awareness of landscape architecture and natural resource management." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278402.
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The problem addressed is the public's lack of awareness of the contributions of landscape architects and other natural resource professionals to the practices of land stewardship. One solution is a travel guide to be developed using marketing and interpretive principles. The research question is: what should be the content of the travel guide such that it would increase public awareness about landscape architecture and related natural resource professions and their role in land stewardship? The scope included research for planning the guide: it excluded collection of specific project information. A questionnaire was administered to landscape architects at two professional meetings. The major findings include which topics best explain the profession, and the types of projects that should be selected. These findings are valuable to natural resource professional societies and to publishing industry marketers, and for use in pursuing grant funding to continue the guide's development.
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Самусенко, Ю. А., and Yu A. Samusenko. "Квестбук по Екатеринбургу: концепция путеводителя : магистерская диссертация." Master's thesis, б. и, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10995/94047.
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Магистерская диссертация посвящена концепции квестбука по Екатеринбургу. К настоящему моменту на рынке путеводителей представлены квестбуки по целому ряду городов: по Москве, Санкт-Петербургу, Иркутску, Владимиру, Казани, Калининграду. Квестбук по Екатеринбургу к настоящему моменту на рынке не представлен. В работе представлен экскурс в историю появления и развития путеводителей в России и за рубежом. Кроме того, рассматриваются современные тенденции на рынке путеводителей в России и в Екатеринбурге в частности. Для разработки концепции квестбука по Екатеринбургу был осуществлен анализ рос¬сийского рынка квестбуков, определены визуальные и содержательные особенности квестбуков. В результате исследования разработаны визуально-полиграфические и структурно-содержательные особенности квестбука, был определен читательский адреc.The master's thesis is devoted to the concept of the Yekaterinburg questbook. To date, the market of guidebooks presented questbook in a number of cities: in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Irkutsk, Vladimir, Kazan, and Kaliningrad. The quest book for Yekaterinburg is not currently available on the market. The paper presents an excursus into the history of the appearance and development of travel guides in Russia and abroad. In addition, current trends in the travel guide market in Russia and in Yekaterinburg in particular are considered. To develop the concept of a questbook to Yekaterinburg, an analysis of the Russian market of questbooks was carried out, and the visual and content features of questbooks were determined. As a result of the research, visual and printing and structural and content features of the quest book were developed, and the reader's address was determined.
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Kroni, Prandvera. "Les fictions du tourisme albanais : des images et des lieux toujours en chantier." Thesis, Lyon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LYSE2138.
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La chute des murs et la mondialisation ont engagé de nouveaux pays à s’ouvrir au développement de leur secteur touristique. Au cœur des Balkans, l’Albanie, un pays ex-communiste, peu connue, voire totalement méconnue, représente à la fois une destination et un objet de recherche en angle mort en sciences sociales, un territoire laboratoire singulièrement stimulant pour rendre compte des modalités d’une « (re) mise en tourisme » dans un contexte d’économie de marché éminemment concurrentiel et ce, dans le plus vieux bassin touristique du monde. Ayant connue aux XIXème-XXème siècles ses voyages de découvertes et d’explorations, ses modernités touristiques avant la clôture de l’ère d’Enver Hoxha (1944-1991) interrompant l’évolution touristique, qu’ont en revanche ont connu ses voisins, l’Albanie sera confrontée à ses propres faiblesses en matière du développement touristique au XXIème siècle. Cette recherche vise à explorer l’épaisseur historique des pratiques touristiques - dans les contextes politiques successifs, permettant de pister depuis le XIXème siècle les éléments constitutifs qui ont progressivement fabriqué les lieux, les images et les discours d’une « Albanie touristique », constituant la matière d’une offre touristique aujourd’hui mobilisée par une pluralité d’acteurs et de ministères du Tourisme. S’appuyant sur une approche privilégiant un plan chronologique diachronique à travers des continuités et des perdurations du discours, ce travail dévoile la construction des premières représentations des voyageurs en Albanie au début du XIXème siècle, afin de dévoiler l’image et la communication touristique albanaise à la fois ancienne et contemporaine, s’appuyant sur une analyse textuelle et iconographique des guides touristiques et d’autres supports de communication. Tandis qu’une analyse quantitative par questionnaire mobilisant des images et des lieux permet de connaitre les représentations et les pratiques touristiques de la jeunesse albanaise au XXIème siècle, mettant l’accent sur des spécificités à travers un processus de construction et d’inversion des valeursThe fall of walls and globalization have appointed new countries to open to the development of their tourism sector. At the heart of the Balkans, Albania, a former communist country, little known, even completely unknown, present both a destination and a blind spot in social sciences topic researches, a singularly challenging laboratory territory in terms of "(re) development of tourism" in a highly competitive market economy context and, this one, in the oldest tourist area in the world. Knowing during the 19-20th centuries her discovery and exploration travels, her tourist modernity’s before the Enver Hoxha’s era (1944-1991), which interrupted tourist development, that however have experienced its neighbors, Albania will face to his own weaknesses in terms of tourism development in the 21th century. This research aims to explore the historical density tourism practices - in successive political systems, to track since the nineteenth century the elements that have gradually created places, images and discourses of a "touristic Albania", constituting the material of a tourist offer, mobilized today by a plurality of actors and tourism ministries. Based on an approach considering a chronological diachronic approach through continuities and loss of discourse, this research reveals the construction of the first representations of travelers to Albania in the early 19th century, in order to present the image and Albanian tourism communication, both ancient and contemporary, based on a textual and iconographic analysis of tourist guides and new communication media. Representations and tourism practices of the Albanian youth in the 21th century, mobilized in a quantitative analysis by questionnaire focused in characteristics and construction through a process of the inversion of values
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Gullström, Sofia. "Pura Vida : A study on translation of proper nouns, figures of speech and terminology in an English travel guide about Costa Rica." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-26412.
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The purpose of this paper is to discuss some of the difficulties that came up in the translation of an English travel guide about Costa Rica into Swedish, and what strategies may be employed in order to solve them. The focus is on how to handle proper nouns, figures of speech and terminology. In order to gather material for the study an English travel guide about Costa Rica was translated into Swedish and then some of the translation problems encountered during translation were chosen for an in-depth analysis. The analysis is mainly based on Rune Ingo’s and Peter Newmark’s theories, but other sources have also been used as a basis for the discussion. Proper nouns were mostly handled by transference of the names in their original forms into the TT as well as transference in combination with a functional or descriptive equivalent. Where appropriate, some proper nouns were translated with recognized Swedish translations or partially translated and partially transferred. Many metaphors and idioms were translated into corresponding figurative expressions found in the target language. When this was not possible, they were either translated word-for-word, provided that they still conveyed the meaning of the ST metaphor or idiom, or translated with a non-figurative expression. In order to make up for lost figurative expressions, one non-figurative expression was translated with a metaphor. Regarding terminology, terms were mostly translated with corresponding terms found in Swedish bilingual dictionaries or other resources on the Internet. However, some terms had to be transferred from the ST in their original forms or translated with less specific words, since no corresponding terms could be found in the target language. The findings show that several different strategies were used to handle translation of proper nouns, figures of speech and terminology in this specific travel guide and which strategy to use depends on situational factors.
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Galant, Ivanne. "Séville dans les guides de voyage français et espagnols (XIX-XXe siècles)." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016GREAL002.
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Sous le titre Séville dans les guides de voyage français et espagnols (XIX-XXe siècles), la thèse se propose d'analyser l'image de la capitale andalouse dans un corpus générique peu étudié, celui des guides de voyage, depuis leur émergence moderne jusqu'à l'avènement du tourisme de masse. La première partie de la thèse s’attache à analyser comment les relations politiques et culturelles franco-espagnoles ont façonné une ou des images de l'Espagne qui varient au cours de la période étudiée, de la « légende noire » (1700-1823) à la « légende rose » (1905-1962) en passant par la « légende rouge » (1823-1905), période à laquelle s’affirme le genre du guide de voyage. La deuxième partie montrera qu’en tant que vecteurs de diverses représentations temporelles, spatiales, historiques, artistiques, sociales, humaines, les guides sont des sources idéales pour l’histoire culturelle. Contrairement aux idées reçues, il n’existe pas de modèle unique de guide : nous en proposerons une classification. Enfin, la richesse du corpus exploré permet de montrer, dans une troisième partie, que les diverses formes que le guide adopte agissent sur la perception de la réalité et sur les représentations, en s'appropriant certains concepts tels que le pittoresque ou l'exotisme, et surtout en reprenant ou en réfutant les images stéréotypées d'une Espagne « fanfare et tambourin », selon l'expression du poète Antonio Machado. À ce double titre, l'examen des regards croisés que véhiculent les guides constitue une approche nouvelle de la question des relations entre la France et l'Espagne, en même temps qu'un point de départ fécond pour aborder la construction d’un discours sur le couple notionnel identité / altérité. La thèse s’intéresse à ces concepts par le biais de l’étude du patrimoine bâti et vivant, des relations entre l’auteur du guide et son lecteur ainsi qu’au travers de la lecture de l’Histoire dans le corpus convoqué. Mots clés : Histoire culturelle, Espagne, XIXe et XXe siècles, voyage, tourisme, guide de voyage, Séville, stéréotype, imageEntitled Séville dans les guides de voyage français et espagnols (XIX-XXe siècles) [Seville in French and Spanish Travel Guides (XIXth-XXth centuries)], this dissertation intends to analyze the image of the Andalusian capital in the barely studied corpus of travel guides, from their emergence in the modern times until the dawn of mass tourism. The first part is meant to study how Franco-Spanish political and cultural relations shaped one—or more—picture(s) of Spain that varied from the “Black Legend” (1700-1823) to the “Red Legend” (1823-1905)—when travel guides were established as a genre—to the “Pink Legend” (1905-1962). The second part shows that guides, as vehicles of various temporal, spatial, historical, artistic, social and human representations, are ideal sources for cultural historians. Contrary to common beliefs, there is no single pattern for travel guides and this work intends to classify them. In the third part, the richness of the sources enables us to show that by appropriating such concepts as the picturesque or the exotic for example, but mostly by taking up or refuting stereotypes such as that of Spain as all “fanfare and tambourine”—in poet Antonio Machado’s words—, the varied forms adopted by guides have an influence on our perception of reality and on our representations. Thus the examination of the intersecting perspectives provided by guides constitutes a new approach to the relations between France and Spain and a fruitful starting point to tackle the construction of a discourse on the dialectics of identity and alterity. These concepts are explored through the study of built and living heritages, of the relations between the guides’ authors and their readers but also through the reading of History in the studied corpus.Key words: Cultural history, Spain, XIXth and XXth centuries, travel, tourism, travel guide, Seville, stereotypes, image
Bajo el título Sevilla en las guías de viaje francesas y españolas (siglos XIX-XX), la tesis propone analizar la imagen de la capital de Andalucía en el corpus genérico poco estudiado de las guías de viaje, desde su emergencia moderna hasta el advenimiento del turismo de masas. La primera parte de la tesis muestra como las relaciones políticas y culturales franco-españolas crearon una o varias imágenes de España que variaron a lo largo del periodo estudiado, desde la « leyenda negra » (1700-1823) hasta la « leyenda rosa » (1905-1962), pasando por la « leyenda roja » (1823-1905), periodo durante el cual el género de la guía de viaje se afirma. La segunda parte considerará las guías como unas fuentes ideales para la historia cultural ya que se pueden apreciar como vectores de diversas representaciones temporales, espaciales, históricas, artísticas, sociales, humanas. En efecto, a pesar de las ideas preconcebidas al respecto, no existe un único modelo de guía: podemos establecer una clasificación. Por fin, la riqueza del corpus estudiado permite mostrar, en una tercera parte, que las diferentes formas que la guía puede adoptar actúan sobre la percepción de la realidad y sobre las representaciones, apropiándose conceptos como lo pintoresco y lo exótico, y sobre todo utilizando o desmintiendo las imágenes estereotipadas de una España « de charanga y pandereta », según la expresión del poeta Antonio Machado. Por este doble motivo, el examen de las miradas cruzadas constituye un acercamiento nuevo para explicar las relaciones entre Francia y España, y a la vez un punto de partida fecundo para abordar la construcción de un discurso acerca de la pareja nocional identidad/alteridad. Estos conceptos reivindican su presencia en la tesis mediante el tratamiento del patrimonio arquitectural y vivo, la relación entre autor y lector de guía, así como mediante la lectura de la Historia en nuestro corpus
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Vergopoulos, Hécate. "Tourisme et curiosités : approche communicationnelle du légendaire dans les guides de voyage imprimés." Phd thesis, Université d'Avignon, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00585410.
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On considère volontiers que la légende est un objet que se partagent les communautés " extra-modernes ". Traditionnelle, elle est donc lointaine dans le temps et/ou dans l'espace. C'est cette légende qu'étudient, par exemple, les anthropologues. Une autre alternative consiste à penser que la légende est, au contraire, très proche de notre " modernité ". Elle est alors urbaine ou contemporaine, n'est plus vraiment une légende mais une rumeur et s'impose comme le terrain privilégié des " rumorologues ". Traditionnelle, elle se manifeste ainsi dans un ailleurs de la modernité urbaine ; moderne, elle s'y incarne, mais n'est plus traditionnelle. En somme, on refuse à la légende, en tant qu'objet traditionnel, une opérativité socioculturelle à l'intérieur de nos propres sociétés. Or, si les guides les médiatisent, c'est bien qu'elle possède cette opérativité. Toute la question est de savoir comment la définir. À partir d'analyses sémiotiques menées sur un corpus de guides généralistes présentant New York et l'Écosse (Le Routard, les guides Bleu, Vert et Voir, le Lonely Planet, le Petit Futé et la Bibliothèque du voyageur) mais aussi de guides " spécialisés " (Guide du Paris mystérieux, Le Guide de la France mythologique et les Sites mystérieux et légendaires de nos provinces françaises), cette étude qui défend une approche communicationnelle se propose d'aborder le légendaire - à savoir les légendes et la façon dont elles sont commentées par les guides - comme un objet de discours capable d'instituer un certain rapport à la culture qui serait de l'ordre de la curiosité ou de l'insolite. La première partie met ainsi en évidence le fait que le légendaire se manifeste comme un objet anecdotique dans les guides de voyage. Ceux-ci disent, en effet, le caractère extraordinaire du référent légendaire tout en postulant et/ou en instituant, cependant, son insignifiance du point de vue culturel. Anecdotique, le légendaire est, en outre, insaisissable. C'est ce que montre la seconde partie en se concentrant sur la façon dont les guides font des énoncés légendaires des objets proprement inclassables : curieux, ils disent l'étrangeté de l'ordre du monde ; insolites, ils ne disent rien de plus que leur incongruité. S'il est à la fois anecdotique et insaisissable, comment se fait-il que le légendaire fasse pourtant culture ? La troisième partie répond à cette question en montrant que c'est précisément parce qu'il se définit comme tel qu'il fait culture. Ainsi, le légendaire est un objet de discours qui permet, à celui qui le dit, de se manifester dans le monde social à travers une forme d'auctorialité définie par une désinvolture à l'égard des hiérarchies de valeurs traditionnelles. Par ailleurs, elle montre qu'il est un objet de discours qui se livre au lecteur/voyageur dans le but d'être réitéré. Autrement dit, le légendaire circule, à partir de ces dispositifs touristiques que sont les guides, en proposant à ceux qui se l'approprieraient de renverser ou de détourner l'ordre culturel ; d'habiter le monde en tant qu'il est social, le temps infime de l'énonciation légendaire
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Skåmedal, Jo. "Telecommuting's implications on travel and travel patterns /." Linköping : Univ, 2004. http://www.bibl.liu.se/liupubl/disp/disp2004/tek869s.pdf.
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Gonzales, Domingo. "Reconciliation of travel advances and travel liquidations." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/27748.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.This thesis was an investigation of the causes that prevented the matching of the accounting line associated with an advance travel payment with the accounting line associated with the liquidation payment or collection for shore activities serviced by the Fleet Accounting and Disbursing Center Pacific, San Diego, CA. Utilizing a random sample of 179 standard document numbers from fiscal year 1989, the researcher concluded that the two major causes preventing the matching of an advance to the liquidation were document type code errors and execution code errors. Both types of errors are attributable to input error. The researcher identified manual inputs, multiple activity processing and inadequate management reports as the three major barriers affecting the travel reconciliation process. Recommendations designed to prevent input errors and to improve the travel accounting process were provided.
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Faquinha, Raquel Marques. "A divulgação de sustentabilidade empresarial e a visibilidade nos media : evidência empírica do setor do turismo." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/19955.
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Mestrado em Contabilidade, Fiscalidade e Finanças EmpresariaisO presente estudo tem como objetivo estudar, pela primeira vez, a relação existente entre o investimento em divulgação de sustentabilidade e o investimento em visibilidade nos media, bem como o impacto relativo de cada um destes investimentos na qualidade e na popularidade percebidas pelas organizações do setor do turismo. Assim, foram identificadas organizações presentes na Base de Dados de Divulgação de Sustentabilidade (BDDS) da Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) com atividade no setor do turismo, bem como organizações com propriedades hoteleiras classificadas como 2019 Star Awards Winners (2019SAW) pela Forbes Travel Guide (FTG), e presentes numa das vinte cidades mais visitadas no mundo em 2018. Como principais conclusões, destaca-se a confirmação da existência de uma relação concorrencial entre o investimento em divulgação de sustentabilidade e o investimento em visibilidade nos media. Os resultados mostram que as organizações optam pelo primeiro esperando uma melhoria no segundo. Inversamente, dada a escolha pelo investimento em visibilidade nos media, as organizações não sentem a necessidade de investir em divulgação de sustentabilidade. Para empresas com um nível de qualidade percebida superior, o investimento em divulgação de sustentabilidade não é uma condição causal. No que toca às empresas com um nível de popularidade percebida superior, estas continuam, na sua maioria, a resultar de um investimento em visibilidade nos media, excetuando na presença da combinação de investimento em divulgação de sustentabilidade feito por empresas cotadas.
The purpose of this investigation is to analyze, for the first time, the relationship between corporate sustainability disclosure and media visibility, as well as the relative impact of each of these investments on the quality and popularity perceived in the tourism sector. Thus, were identified organizations in the Sustainability Disclosure Database from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), active in the tourism sector, as well as organizations with hotel properties rated as 2019 Star Awards Winners (2019SAW) by Forbes Travel Guide (FTG), settled in one of the twenty most visited cities in the world in 2018. The results show that organizations choose sustainability disclosure expecting an improvement in their media visibility. When they choose to invest in media visibility, organizations don't feel the strategic need to invest in sustainability disclosure. For companies with a higher perceived quality level, investing in sustainability disclosure isn't a causal condition. For companies with a higher perceived popularity, the majority continues to result of an investment in media visibility, except in the presence of a combination of sustainability disclosure investment by listed companies.
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Young, Pamela L. "Travel Log." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10156/2084.
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Alvaro, Llancari Elizabeth Paola, Gonzales Shiu Yen Chung, Paquiyauri Jaymi Palomino, Segura Vanessa Cecilia Pichilingue, and Chiroque Daniel Cesar Temoche. "Latin Travel." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/654882.
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Muchas mujeres que quieren viajar por América del Sur desconocen de los sitios turísticos, comidas, hospedaje, restaurantes y más, incluso tienen pocas oportunidades para viajar porque no encuentran opciones y una oferta variada en precios, además de productos y servicios necesarios para tener nuevas experiencias agradables.
Por ese motivo, nació APP Latin Travel, un aplicativo móvil dirigido a las singles o viajeras para ofrecerles diversos beneficios e información para viajar sin preocupaciones y con la finalidad de hacer más agradable su viaje, pudiendo encontrar diferentes precios que se acomoden a su presupuesto, obteniendo como resultado experiencias positivas para viajar por Latinoamérica ofreciendo beneficios como es, tener la oportunidad de un intercambio cultural con otras mujeres.
El precio de los tours es un factor importante durante su viaje, por la cual brindaremos una variedad de tours a precios competitivos en el mercado, así las singles podrán escoger con libertad la opción más conveniente para ellas de acuerdo al tiempo que estarán en dicho país. Asimismo, Latin Travel ganará un porcentaje de 10% sobre el precio de venta de los servicios turísticos y sobre la venta de la línea de productos, además obtendremos ingresos por suscripción mensual.
Al final, se analizaron los flujos de caja y sus indicadores, demostrando la viabilidad y rentabilidad del negocio, lo que significa que el negocio dejará ganancias para todos sus inversionistas.Many women who want to travel through South America are unaware of tourist sites, meals, accommodation, restaurants and more, they even have few opportunities to travel because they do not find options and a varied offer in prices, as well as products and services necessary to have new experiences nice. For this reason, APP Latin Travel was born, a mobile application aimed at singles or travelers to offer them various benefits and information to travel without worries and in order to make their trip more pleasant, being able to find different prices that suit their budget, obtaining as a result positive experiences to travel through Latin America offering benefits such as having the opportunity of a cultural exchange with other women. The price of the tours is an important factor during your trip, for which we will offer a variety of tours at competitive prices in the market, so singles can freely choose the most convenient option for them according to the time they will be in that country. Likewise, Latin Travel will earn a 10% percentage on the sale price of tourist services and on the sale of the product line, we will also obtain monthly subscription income. In the end, the cash flows and their indicators were analyzed, demonstrating the viability and profitability of the business, which means that the business will leave profits for all its investors.
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Smith, Andrew F. "Travel expenses /." Available to subscribers only, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1594477981&sid=11&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Chávez, Becerra Ana Milagros, Salas Karla Ivonne Condo, Padilla Massiel Milagros Garma, Vergara Gabriela Nicole Rivero, and Flores Milagros Marcell Villanueva. "Travel Safe." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/651860.
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En la actualidad, existe un alto índice de robos de maletas al momento de realizar un viaje, puesto que según la SITA (Societé Internacionale de Telécommunications Aéronautiques) se pierden cerca de 25 millones de maletas por año a nivel mundial. La situación no es muy diferente en el Perú, ya que constantemente se ven casos de robo o pérdida de equipaje en el territorio nacional. Para estos casos, ante la ineficiencia de las autoridades y la falta de medidas de control, se han propuesto diversas alternativas de solución para proteger las maletas como candados especiales, sistema TSA, entre otros. Sin embargo, estos no son efectivos al ser fácilmente manipulados o forcejeados. En base a lo mencionado anteriormente, nació la idea de Travel Safe. Este modelo de negocios ofrece maletas inteligentes con un sistema compacto que utiliza tecnología NFC y permite conectarse a través de una aplicación móvil y rastrear en tiempo real la ubicación de la maleta. Asimismo, posee un sistema integrado que ayuda a la protección contra el robo e intento de manipulación. Por ello, para probar tal aceptación de nuestra propuesta que corresponde a una solución óptima de una problemática existente en el Perú, se han desarrollado diversos experimentos e investigaciones que se abordará en el presente trabajo de investigación. Una vez hecha la validación de nuestro proyecto, se presentan los compromisos de ventas efectuados y los diversos planes de acción en las diferentes áreas. Finalmente, se concluye que el negocio propuesto es un éxito y genera una atractiva rentabilidad.Nowadays, there is a high rate of theft of suitcases when making a trip, since according to the SITA (Société Internationale de Telécommunications Aéronautiques) are lost about 25 million suitcases per year worldwide. The situation is not very different in Peru, since cases of theft or loss of luggage are constantly seen in the national territory. For these cases, due to the inefficiency of the authorities and the lack of control measures, several alternative solutions have been proposed to protect the suitcases such as special locks, TSA system, among others. However, these are not effective because they are easily manipulated or wrestled. Based on the above, the idea of Travel Safe was born. This business model offers intelligent suitcases with a compact system that uses NFC technology and makes it possible to connect through a mobile application and track the location of the suitcase in real time. It also has an integrated system that helps protect against theft and attempted tampering. Therefore, to prove such acceptance of our proposal that corresponds to an optimal solution of an existing problem in Peru, have developed various experiments and research that will be addressed in this research work. Once our project has been validated, the sales commitments made and the various action plans in the different areas are presented. Finally, it is concluded that the proposed business is a success and generates an attractive profitability.
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Wan, Ke. "Estimation of Travel Time Distribution and Travel Time Derivatives." Thesis, Princeton University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3642164.
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Given the complexity of transportation systems, generating optimal routing decisions is a critical issue. This thesis focuses on how routing decisions can be computed by considering the distribution of travel time and associated risks. More specifically, the routing decision process is modeled in a way that explicitly considers the dependence between the travel times of different links and the risks associated with the volatility of travel time. Furthermore, the computation of this volatility allows for the development of the travel time derivative, which is a financial derivative based on travel time. It serves as a value or congestion pricing scheme based not only on the level of congestion but also its uncertainties. In addition to the introduction (Chapter 1), the literature review (Chapter 2), and the conclusion (Chapter 6), the thesis consists of two major parts:
In part one (Chapters 3 and 4), the travel time distribution for transportation links and paths, conditioned on the latest observations, is estimated to enable routing decisions based on risk. Chapter 3 sets up the basic decision framework by modeling the dependent structure between the travel time distributions for nearby links using the copula method. In Chapter 4, the framework is generalized to estimate the travel time distribution for a given path using Gaussian copula mixture models (GCMM). To explore the data from fundamental traffic conditions, a scenario-based GCMM is studied. A distribution of the path scenario representing path traffic status is first defined; then, the dependent structure between constructing links in the path is modeled as a Gaussian copula for each path scenario and the scenario-wise path travel time distribution is obtained based on this copula. The final estimates are calculated by integrating the scenario-wise path travel time distributions over the distribution of the path scenario. In a discrete setting, it is a weighted sum of these conditional travel time distributions. Different estimation methods are employed based on whether or not the path scenarios are observable: An explicit two-step maximum likelihood method is used for the GCMM based on observable path scenarios; for GCMM based on unobservable path scenarios, extended Expectation Maximum algorithms are designed to estimate the model parameters, which introduces innovative copula-based machine learning methods.
In part two (Chapter 5), travel time derivatives are introduced as financial derivatives based on road travel times—a non-tradable underlying asset. This is proposed as a more fundamental approach to value pricing. The chapter addresses (a) the motivation for introducing such derivatives (that is, the demand for hedging), (b) the potential market, and (c) the product design and pricing schemes. Pricing schemes are designed based on the travel time data captured by real time sensors, which are modeled as Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes and more generally, continuous time auto regression moving average (CARMA) models. The risk neutral pricing principle is used to generate the derivative price, with reasonably designed procedures to identify the market value of risk.
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Jaatinen, Salla, and Laura Aho. "Recommendations’ and preferences’ impact on online travel purchases : A quantitative study investigating Instagram influencers’ travel recommendations and consumers’ travel preferences effect on online travel purchases." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-48272.
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Quantitative data analysis revealed that out of the two proposed hypotheses, consumers’ travel preferences have a positive effect on online travel purchases, while Instagram influencers’ travel recommendations did not have a positive effect on consumers’ online travel purchases. Despite that, male respondents experienced travel recommendations to be more influential than their own travel preferences when purchasing travel. However, the results indicate that there is a need for further research.
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Musgrove, Brian Michael. "D.H.Lawrence's travel books." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.293786.
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Onderdonk, John A. "Monument of Travel." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53407.
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Let's go up. Yeah, but it's raining. I know, let's just go. Well, we'll meet you up there.
"Therefore we travel not like messengers but like travelers. We do not think only about the departure and the arrival but also the interval separating them. The trip itself is a pleasure for us." Rousseau Emile, Book V
Convenience is tough on architecture. Most Americans have no time for architecture. Necessity has been diluted by today’s 24-hour, car fax, tummysizing, books-on-tape life-style. It is through a lack of convenience that one can see what is important and appreciate it.
“Primitive” forms, stone circles, mounds, and roads are generators of my projects; not in the sense of an homage or reference, but more in the sense of “that was the image I held in mind.” They try to produce some of the same feeling or presence. Few elements, simple forms, no clutter; I try to achieve clarity and control in the design of the object. Buildings to me are objects.
The ruins of Italy, Hadrian’s Villa and the Foro Romano were inspiring in their formal nature and in the presentation. To see a building as a ruin, to see the building as a section or as a plan, and to experience the generation of the architecture really started to define the basis of architecture.
In the Ticino region of Switzerland, these ideas were present in a different culture, specifically Galfetti’s Castelgrande project, as well as the existing castle. The region’s architecture made it possible to see what was important personally in architecture: the craft, the materials, and the sense of place.Master of Architecture
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Alarcón, Zelaya Eddy, Flores Fredy Manuel Canchanya, Rodríguez Raquel Corbalán, and Revoredo Roxana Francesca Noriega. "Friends & Travel." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/626482.
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Hoy en día, diversas empresas de turismo buscan la forma de diferenciarse entre ellas, desarrollan todo tipo de estrategias que les permitan atraer a más clientes y fidelizarlos. En el mercado, ya son varias empresas que optaron por ser digitales debido a su público objetivo y la época en la que vivimos, pero son pocas las que brindan además de un servicio digital, un servicio que se adapte las necesidades o deseos del cliente. Por dicha razón, en el presente trabajo se eligió desarrollar una plataforma digital que brinde a los turistas un servicio 100% personalizado. Dado el boom del turismo en el Perú y la pasión de cada uno de nosotros por viajar se eligió crear Friends & Travel, una empresa que busca conectar a viajeros de todo el mundo con personas que los ayuden o asesoren con la planificación de su viaje para conocer mejor su destino y vivir una experiencia única y diferente.
Los resultados de este trabajo demuestran como el turismo es una importante fuente de desarrollo en nuestro país por lo que crear nuevos modelos de negocio en el sector debe ser exitoso. Las tradicionales agencias de turismo o plataformas digitales internacionales como Booking o Trip Advisor no deben ser las únicas empresas que brindan la información necesaria a cada turista, deben exitir otros medios con un trato personalizado que los ayude a programar sus aventuras y viajes.Today, various tourism companies seek to differentiate between them, develop all kinds of strategies that allow them to attract more customers and build loyalty. In this market, there are already several companies that chose to be digital due to their target audience and the time in which we live, but few provide a digital service, a service that suits the needs or wishes of the client. For this reason, in this work we chose to develop a digital platform that provides tourists with a 100% personalized service. Given the tourism boom in Peru and the passion of each one of us to travel, we chose to create Friends & Travel, a company that wants to connect travelers from all over the world with people who can help or advise them with the planning of their trip to Know their destination better and live a unique and different experience. The results of this work demonstrate how tourism is an important source of development in our country, so creating new business models in the sector must be successful. Traditional tourism agencies or international digital platform such as Booking or TripAdvisor should not be the only companies that provide the necessary information to each tourist, there must be other means with a personalized service that helps them to program their adventures and trips.
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Hair, P. E. H. "Hawkins in Guinea: 1567-1568." Universität Leipzig, 2000. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A32909.
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John Hawkins' three voyages to Guinea were anomalous in respect of the first eight decades of English commercial voyaging to Guinea (1550s-1630s), in that they were slaving voyages and hence proceeded to America. His third voyage of 1567-1569 was the most ambitious and, partly because it ended in disaster, the best recorded. This edition analyses the Guinea section of the voyage by drawing on English, Portuguese and Spanish sources. Two notable features are an attack on a Portuguese shipping base in River Cacheu, an episode concealed in the account published at the time, and the mercenary assistance lent to one side in an African civil war in Sierra Leone. The evidence for each Guinea episode, much of it previously unpublished, is presented with a commentary.
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Nyblom, Åsa. "Making travel sustainable with ICT? : The social practice of travel planning and travel information use in everyday life." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Miljöstrategisk analys (fms), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-154474.
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Adopting the perspective of the traveller, this thesis examines how travel plans are actually made in the everyday situation and how information is used and drawn on when planning the many, often unremarkable, trips of ordinary urban life. Ethnographical field studies in southern Stockholm, Sweden, employing a practice theory perspective showed that people use a vast mixture of different types of information when planning and making trips. Therefore, the concept of travel information should be defined broadly enough to encompass informal, formal, analogue and digital types of travel information. Then, and only then, is it possible to perceive the interactions between these and see their potential as a change factor for sustainable city travel. In relation to this, situations when travel information was not used, were also identified in the qualitative data and are acknowledged and discussed in the thesis. Travel planning is in everyday practice undertaken little by little, squeezed in between other activities of daily life. It is a process more extended in time, space and content than the limited search for information about the best way to get from A to B, assumed and facilitated in many existing travel information services. Travel planning is closely connected to the overall scheduling of activities (planning of life) and thus spans much larger time frames than the single trip. Planning travel also includes consideration of issues such as preparations needed (things to be done before departure/brought on the trip); managing vehicles and equipment in time and space (getting the bicycle/car home again or safely parked); the weather (current and forecast); social relations (the potential of different travel options for relationship building or conflict triggering); social norms (e.g. of 'good parenting' or 'proper behaviour on public transport'); and health issues (wanting exercise or inability to manage stairs/luggage). The qualitative data revealed that travel information is sometimes perceived and used as a security blanket, i.e. something to hold on to and give the traveller courage on the trip until they are safe at their destination. It also showed that travel planning, depending on life situation, can be experienced as either a house of cards, i.e. if anything changes the whole house collapses and has to be rebuilt to a different layout, or a prefab building, i.e. the same prefabricated pieces are joined together in more or less the same pattern every time. Recent decades have seen rapid growth in ICT services relating to transportation. Different types of travel information services have been proposed as a means to decrease the environmental impacts of transportation through effecting behavioural change. Taking the empirical 4 insights provided by this thesis into travel planning and travel information use in practice, it is clear that travel information services of tomorrow, if connected to other ICT systems in everyday life, could be designed in a way that broadens their horizon of assistance in supporting travel planning processes in everyday life. Although, as this thesis demonstrates, the role and potential of travel information services and ICT in the work of achieving sustainable mobility should be discussed from a perspective critical of overly linear perceptions and instrumental starting points.Denna avhandling tar resenärens perspektiv, och undersöker från vardagslivets horisont hur resor egentligen planeras, och hur information används när de många, ofta obemärkta, vardagsresorna görs i staden. Etnografiska fältstudier i södra Stockholm, gjorda och analyserade med ett praktikteoriperspektiv, visar att människor använder sig av många olika typer av information för att planera och genomföra sina resor. Därför bör begreppet reseinformation definieras vitt nog att rymma både informella, formella, analoga och digitala typer av reseinformation. Först då är det möjligt att iaktta interaktioner mellan dessa, och också se informationens eventuella potential som förändringsfaktor för hållbart stadsresande. Även situationer när reseinformation inte används uppmärksammas och diskuteras. Reseplanering är i vardaglig praktik något som sker lite i taget, i mellanrummen mellan andra sysslor och aktiviteter. Det är en process mer förgrenad i tid, rum och innehåll än den avgränsade sökning efter information om bästa sättet att ta sig mellan A och B som många existerande IT-baserade reseplanerare verkar förutsätta och i dagsläget assisterar. Reseplanering är starkt knutet till den övergripande planeringen av aktiviteter i livet, och reseplanering har därför oftast ett vidare tidsspann än endast en resa. Planering av resor inkluderar även hänsyn till faktorer som nödvändiga förberedelser (saker att göra innan avfärd/ta med sig på resan); hantering av fordon och bagage i tid och rum (få hem cykeln/bilen igen eller få den säkert parkerad); vädret (nuvarande och prognostiserat); sociala relationer (potentialen för konflikter/positiv samvaro vid olika färdmedelsval); sociala normer (om gott föräldraskap eller hur man för sig på kollektiva färdmedel); och hälsoaspekter (vilja till motion eller oförmåga att gå i trappor). Fältarbetet gjorde tydligt att reseinformation ibland används som en snuttefilt – något att ty sig till och hålla i handen på okänt territorium tills du har kommit till målet för din resa. Reseplanering kan också, beroende på livssituation, antingen upplevas och liknas vid husbygge med prefabricerade element – samma standardiserade, välkända bitar sammanfogas på ungefär samma sätt varje gång; eller också ett korthus – om någonting ändras brakar hela huset ihop, och måste byggas upp igen med en helt annan design. Under de senaste decennierna har det skett en snabb utveckling av IT-lösningar på transportområdet. Olika typer av reseinformationstjänster har föreslagits som ett verktyg för att ändra resebeteenden och därmed minska transporters miljöpåverkan. Med utgångspunkt från studiens 6 empiriska insikter i hur reseplanering går till i praktiken, och hur reseinformation används blir det tydligt att morgondagens reseplanerartjänster, om de kopplades ihop med andra digitala system vi använder i vår vardag, skulle kunna utformas på ett sätt som utvidgar systemets "assistanshorisont" för att bättre passa ihop med reseplaneringspraktikerna i vår vardag. Potentialen och rollen för reseinformationstjänster och IT i arbetet med att minska transporters miljöpåverkan bör diskuteras från ett perspektiv som är kritiskt till alltför linjära och instrumentella utgångspunkter, vilket denna avhandling bidrar till.
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Yu-ChenCheng and 鄭宇辰. "A Path to Nature: Travel Guides by Nature-Writers in Taiwan." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/13114123630040221514.
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Chang, Chen-Huang, and 張振煌. "A Study On Service Satisfaction of Travel Agencies to Professional Tour Guides － The case of Taiwan Guides Association." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/57554119409355266636.
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碩士銘傳大學
觀光研究所碩士在職專班
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The domestic tourism is booming these years in Taiwan. And the tour guide plays the most important role in the successful tour. Meanwhile, the demands of domestic tour guide is significantly increasing. Unfortunally, most of the domestic itineraries and recreational activities on the market are similar, that why the performance and satisfaction of the tour become the main factors for a tourist who decisides whether to come back to join the next journey or not. On the other hand, for a human resource supplier, to provide well- trained and qualified guides to meet the travel agencies’ demands is essential and beneficial to both ends. After reviewing the literature on the subject and interviewing travel agency staff as well as referencing to the interaction between Taiwan Tourism Association and travel agency, we found that how a tour guide could achieve good performance to satisfay tourist’s expectancy is based on his/her character, abilities, personal behavior, working attitude and professional ethic, whereas whether the agency releases demands to Taiwan Tourism Association is depended on if the later could offer well- trained and qualified tour guides to them. The conclusions of the study are as follows: A well- trained and qualified tour guide is required not only play his role appropriately but also needs to do pre-job and close-job correctly and to respond to problem quickly. Thus, it is able to please both tourist and travel agency. The tourist satisfaction includes the performance of tour guide, company brand, itinerary design, hotel and restaurant choices as well as the group control staff’s work. The performance of tour guide will affect tourist’s satisfaction and this is in a positive correlation to the loyalty of travel agency. However there will be variance among different tourists’ characters. The travel agency highlights the professional ethic of tour guide, especially, competing with them privately, disclosing secret or bottom price, false checking out. Low level professional ethic will make the travel agency no trust in him and lose any future employment opportunity. It is recommended that the travel agency admires tour guides’ professionalism, provides them job opportunity and pay them reasonably are ways to get their loyalty. Moreover, considerate logistics and care-free working conditions as well as a friendly couch bus driver are all positive influence factors.
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Jhen, LI-Jia, and 李佳蓁. "Web 2.0-based on Travel guide system." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67751830862429373412.
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碩士國立交通大學
資訊科學與工程研究所
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This paper presents an on-line multimedia travel guide system. This system combines film with map, which enables users to upload and edit the information of scenic spots in the film. It also allows the users to know the corresponding location of the scenic spot on the map. The map uses the API function which is opened by Google Map. This system helps users to plan the itinerary more easily. Furthermore, as each user can revise the information of the scenic spots on-line directly, in order to assure the accuracy of the information, a corresponding protective measure and message system is designed. It can enhance the reliability of the system, and allow the users to search for the necessary information of the journey efficiently. Finally, according to the experiment, the system allows 117 users to send request simultaneously on-line. Among these 117 users, 90% feels that the responding and connecting speed of the system is satisfactory. Within 1 second, the webpage can be opened completely which caters to the users’ demands.
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Cheng, Li-ling, and 鄭麗玲. "A STUDY ON SATISFACTION OF TRAVEL AGENCIES AND TOURIST GUIDES OF INTERNATIONAL TOURISTS IN TAIWAN." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/51415402242934613449.
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碩士南華大學
休閒產業經濟學系
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The government has put a lot of efforts to promote Taiwan’s tourism industry over the past few years since attracting foreign tourists to visit Taiwan is an important issue of economic development. However, how is the overall satisfaction with the services provided by Taiwan’s travel agencies and tour guides for foreign tourists? Most of the literature usually employs case studies to examine this question but with the shortcomings that the trend and the overall performance of Taiwan’s travel agencies and the services they provided can not be fully explored. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis is to investigate the satisfaction of foreign tourists to Taiwan’s travel agencies and tour services from the perspective of overall performance. The topics studied includes: itinerary, accommodation arrangements, transportation arrangements, catering arrangements, tour guide service, tour guide quality and the overall impression. Using data from 2003-2010 “Survey of Visitors Expenditure and Trend in Taiwan” conducted by the Tourism Bureau of Taiwan, and STATA statistical software as well as the ordered logit model to investigate service quality and satisfaction issues of foreign tourists toward Taiwan’s travel agencies and tour guides. We focused on seven important indicators: (1) itinerary, (2) accommodation arrangements, (3) transport arrangements, (4) catering arrangements, (5) tour guide service, (6) tour guide quality and (7) the overall impression, to analyze foreign tourists’ satisfaction levels, to explore the relationship between demographic characteristics and the satisfaction levels, and to investigate the satisfaction trends of foreign tourists on Taiwan’s travel agencies and tour guides from 2003 to 2010. Due to the increasing demand of tourism, this industry continues to bring new services for consumers in order to earn this piece of pie. On the other hand, the government''s comprehensive planning and implementation to the overall tourism industry has become more and more well-constructed, and the relevant systems and incentives are getting complete. This article expects and predicts that the service satisfaction levels of foreign tourists to Taiwan’s travel agents and tour guide will increase year by year.
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Hong, Shu-Yuan, and 洪淑湲. "Study on Travel Resources, Service Quality and Tourist Guides’ Willingness of Recommendation in Green Island." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7723r7.
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碩士遠東科技大學
休閒運動管理碩士學位學程
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The Green Island has abundant natural resources and landscapes. Recently, the government and the private sectors have also made many efforts to promote tourism development. Hence, the Green Island has become an important tourist attraction for domestic tourism. The problem that how to improve the quality of tourism services and tourism resources in response to the increasing demand for sightseeing and tourism activities have become an important topic in the research of the tourism industry.Based on the background and motivation of this research, this study intends to explore Green Island Sightseeing from the viewpoints oftourist guides, and examine whether the tourism resources and service quality of tourism can satisfy the tourism guides. Furthermore, it would be verified whether the satisfaction can affect the guides to be willing to recommend consumers to visit or relatives and friends to play on the island. We also hope the results inis the main purpose of this studycan provide relevant applications for the government and travel operators.
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Huang, Siao-Ting, and 黃筱婷. "Design and Implementation of a Recommendation SystemFor Self-Guided Travel." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/03753793543525408215.
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碩士東海大學
資訊管理學系
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Due to the great advancement of transportation and information techniques, as well as the transition of the life style, travel becomes one of the most popular recreational activities recently. Among various types of travel, self-guided travel attracts more and more people. In general, self-guided travelers usually have to customize a travel plan, so that they can visit some particular scenes which are seldom visited in regular group tours, or arrange a bonus tour in their business trips. Some researches pointed out that the self-consciousness and self-determination of modern probably increase the popularity of self-guided travel. However, it takes a very long time to create a travel plan out of nothing. For example, a traveler can find a variety of site information scattered in the internet, which is possibly conflict, outdated, or fragmented without integration, however, he or she cannot easily decide which sites to visit and how long to stay. The traveler has to choose from several combinations and sequences of sites and schedule the necessary transportation properly to save time and cost. To address the issues related to travel planning for self-guided travels, we propose a travel plan recommendation system, which is a supplemental module in an Integrated Information System for Self-Guided Travel. Travelers can input their preferences and the recommendation system will suggest several travel plans which were previously planned and commented by other travelers. Based on these plans, the travelers can easily customize a travel plan for themselves.
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Liu, Chia Ju, and 劉家茹. "An Exploratory Study of the Relationship among Tour Guide Competency, Travel Quality and Satisfaction in Graduation Travel from Pingtung Junior High Students’ Perspectives." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/38y6az.
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碩士美和科技大學
運動與休閒系碩士班
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The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship among tour guide competency, travel quality and satisfaction in graduation travel from Pingtung junior high students’ perspective. The method of this study adopted a quantitative method and questionnaire investigation. The questionnaire of “Pingtung junior high students’ travel quality, tour guide competency, and satisfaction in graduation travel” was developed by the researcher. The researcher randomly selected 200 students in two junior high schools in Pingtung as pilot study participants. Item analysis, exploratory factor analysis were used to test the reliability and validity of the questionnaire. Quota sampling were utilized to collect data in the formal investigation. Six hundred and fifty copied questionnaires were randomly distributed in 10 junior high schools in Pingtung, and five hundred and ninety-eight copied questionnaires were collected. The validity of rate was 92.0%. Description analysis, analysis of variance, Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient, and regression analysis were used to analyze collected data. The results of this study indicated that accommodation quality, professional attitude, and guiding service were the highest performance in graduation travel from junior high students’ perspectives. The family travel frequency and graduation travel fee would cause significantly different perceptions of travel quality; family travel frequency, allowances, and graduation travel fee would lead significantly different perceptions of tour guide competency; different graduation travel fee would cause different satisfaction in graduation travel. There was a medium level of positive correlation among travel quality, tour guide competency, and satisfaction in graduation travel. Travel quality would significantly influence satisfaction in graduation travel. The suggestions of this study were that education and activity-based experiences should be enhanced in graduation travel. Furthermore, graduation travel should have a clear segmentation and position in the travel market.
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Lin, Shao-Lun, and 林劭倫. "Development of a Location-Based Travel Guide App for Yunlin County." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/nc7cqv.
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碩士國立虎尾科技大學
資訊管理研究所
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In recent years, technology development is booming. Almost everyone has a cell phone. The smart phone provides more and more diverse features, such as wireless internet access, GPS satellite positioning. With these handy features, this study develops an application to employ location-based services. It makes use of GPS or Wi-Fi to provide users with related services, such as location information for the convenience store, ATM or gas station. Hopefully the app can provide the necessary information and help users easily plan their travel in advance. In the end, the literature is reviewed to establish the research framework. Through questionnaire recovery and data analysis, correlation results among dimensions are obtained for reference of future system maintenance.
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Chun-Hsin, Chang, and 張俊鑫. "Design and Implementation of A Mobile Itinerary Browser for Self-Guided Travel." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99545374963275824381.
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碩士東海大學
資訊管理學系
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In recent years, backpacking becomes much more popular. When backpackers travel around an unfamiliar area, they usually want to check the information of the itinerary effectively, quickly and conveniently. We believe that the best tools to assist backpackers are their personal mobile devices, such as Smart Phones and Tablet PCs, which are in high penetration nowadays. To meet the trend of travel type transition, we have designed an e-tourism system, named IEBSR (Itinerary Editing, Browsing, Sharing and Recommendation), which is composed of four subsystems, namely Itinerary Editing, Mobile Browsing, Itinerary Sharing and Itinerary Recommendation, to assist users to carry out backpacking easier. Based on the prototype implementation of Itinerary Editing and Recommendation of IEBSR, this study focuses on Mobile Browsing. In IEBSR, backpackers can use the Web-based Itinerary Editor to customize an itinerary. After they depart and are going to visit a site, they can check the information stored in their itinerary easily in their personal mobile devices, such as the description of the site, transportation hints, and to-do list. With built-in GPS and other sensors, the devices can automatically show the maps and many other useful information of the site from 3rd information systems, such as Google Maps, official and wiki websites (if exist), and so on. The Mobile Browsing subsystem also supports an offline mode. The devices can cache essential information of the itinerary in advance so that users can check the information when Internet is not accessible. As a result, this application can provide best supports to backpackers to carry out a wonderful self-guided travel.
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CHANG, CHIUNG-HUI, and 張瓊惠. "The Effects of Guide Style, Service Quality and Itinerary Arrangement on Travel Satisfaction." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/xtgec6.
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碩士大葉大學
休閒事業管理學系碩士在職專班
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The purpose of this study is to explore the influences of tour guide style, itinerary arrangement and service quality on travel satisfaction. Based on past experience and researches, the tour leader style and leadership has direct effects on travel satisfaction. In essence, the tour guide style acts the core of the whole group package tour experience. The tour guide's style dictates the service quality and planned points of interest, thus ultimately affects travel satisfaction. So the tour guide not only influences service quality and itinerary arrangement but also affects the travel satisfaction. This study was carried out by means of purposive sampling of data collection from 20 travel agencies located at northern and central Taiwan. Participants surveyed were tourists from China, Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, and Malaysia that are able to speak Mandarin for communication. One group of tourists per travel agency was chosen as research target from February to April 2017. Structured questionnaires were issued either the day before departure or at the end of the tour. Therefore, a total of 387 questionnaires issued, 369 of them considered valid, achieving effective rate of 95.35%. SPSS statistical software was applied by using methods of descriptive statistics, reliability analysis, one way ANOVA and multiple regression analysis. The analysis results show that personal background has a significant effect on the tour guide style; travel characteristics have a significant impact on the tour guide style; tour guide style has a significant impact on the itinerary arrangement; tour guide style has a significant impact on travel satisfaction; tour guide style has a significant impact on the quality of service; itinerary arrangements have a significant impact on travel satisfaction; service quality has a significant impact on travel satisfaction. The results of this study can provide travel agency with information to select the appropriate travel guide style, improve service quality and itinerary arrangements to achieve greater travel satisfaction.
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Yeh, Ya-Ting, and 葉雅婷. "Wang Shizhen as a Travel Guide—through the Pictorial Record of a Journey." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7eau2e.
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碩士國立臺灣大學
藝術史研究所
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During the Ming period, the flourish of “jiyou tu” (tourism paintings), with travel trend, has been considered one of the most significant developments in the time. However, a series of painting, Jixing tu (pictorial travel journey), in an innovative format, has only begun to be explored in these years. Jixing tu, also called Shuicheng tu (journey by water), commissioned by Wang Shizhen (1526-1590) and were done by Qian Gu (1508-1572) and Zhang Fu (1546-ca. 1631), recording Wang‘s journey from Taicang to Beijing. This thesis mainly focuses on this series of painting which is divided into a three-album set and another version of the first album. In the past, some scholars have discussed the visual materials adapted by Jixing tu and Wang''s purpose, but the function and style of the painting have never been fully explained. This thesis gives two perspective to the subject. First, the function of these paintings is not only to commemorate one''s experience but to provide tour materials for future travelers. In general, rather than determining the representation of the scenery, painters added a style of traditional maps to the albums, such as the application of high point of view and the script next to landmarks, to illuminate the tour information about each site. Secondly, painters obviously made a conscious effort to simplify the brush, yet the effort has received scant attention, leaving its feature underappreciated. This thesis suspects that Wang was trying to publish these paintings. This interpretation would be helpful to understand the brush style, furthermore, explains the relationship between the print culture and tourism. Given the possibility, it is suggested that Wang Shizhen plays a crucial role at the experimental stage of woodblock-printed of landscapes.
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Lu, Jen-Kuei, and 呂仁貴. "An Android-based Service of Mobile Travel Guide -A Case Study of Kaohsiung City." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/50994568899161053379.
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碩士崑山科技大學
資訊管理研究所
101
Mobile travel has becoming a new type of popular information service now due to the fast growing of intelligent devices are in a huge user base. Accordingly, the present study develops a LBS-based Mobile Travel Guide System (MTGS) to provide a better service quality for traveler including of real-time travel information, e-compass navigation, a special tour and the right way to the destination. Business District of Kaohsiung City is selected as the service scope of MTGS. Additionally, GPS, QR-Code and e-compass are used to promote the sightseeing service and product marketing for the convenience of traveler. As a result, the travelers had a high satisfaction degree on service quality on mobile travel thru the navigation assistance.
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LIN, SUNG-FENG, and 林松峯. "Research on the establishment of Taiwan integrated travel agency and the strategy of driver guide." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6eza5q.
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碩士世新大學
觀光學研究所(含碩專班)
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At the beginning of the Recession of Taiwan, all works of life are booming but the travel industry. Since the Kuomintang (KMT) government signed a contract with the United States for their soldiers from Vietnam War, the government realized that the travel industry, also called chimney free industry, can earn US dollars and increase foreign exchange reserves. The first public travel agency was established to cater to the US soldiers from Vietnam War to come to Taiwan for vacation. Erotic hotels in Beitou, Taipei were built compliantly, which made Taiwan a ‘man paradise.’ This stigma was gradually disappeared from the beginning of the 1990s. This study would like to research the history and develop quality tourism for Taiwan. This study adopts qualitative research method with literature review and in-depth interview. We investigate ideas that were collected from interviews with three tourism-related academic professionals and ten senior tour guides. A content analysis was conducted according to literature reviews initially and the transcripts were analyzed. The results of study, conclusions, and practical implications are offered to industry and government.
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Hsu, Kai-Yen, and 許凱雁. "A Study of Impacts on the Travel Agencies in Taiwan and on the Job and Salary of Taiwanese Tour Guides upon Receiving Tourists from Mainland China." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/26044135332826535743.
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碩士銘傳大學
觀光事業學系碩士在職專班
102
With the beginning of the Three Links between Taiwan and China in 2008, Taiwan received 7.31 million international arrivals in 2012, of which 2.58 million were from China. Chinese tourists, with their sheer size, bring commercial and job opportunities that are too huge to overlook. The number of international tourists to Taiwan has risen year after year, and the increases in tourists from China are especially noteworthy. The travels across the Taiwan Strait have become more frequent. The people on either side have been gradually allowed to visit relatives, work, sightsee, and conduct academic exchanges on the other side, bringing more vigor to the links between the two parties. The demand for Chinese-speaking tour guides has therefore gone up rapidly. These are professional guides working on the frontline of tourism and playing advocating roles for national diplomacy. The general public does not have a good understanding of the work of tour guides. Their work requires a sense of mission, and touring shopping stops is part of the work. The economic growth and the policy of opening up the nation in China have attracted international envy and competition for the purchasing power of tourists from China. As we welcome tourists from China, the differences in political systems, economic systems, social structures, and culture between the two sides, the strategies for attracting Chinese tourists, and the efforts to elevate their competitiveness are all important topics that affect the work and pay of tour guides. This study used an in-depth interviewing method as found in a qualitative research approach. Based on a prepared interview outline, we conducted interviews in a half-structred manner. Samples were selected Fang,Yan-bo Fan,Shih-ping iv through a purposive sampling method. The interviews took a professional approach to explore and reexamine the relationship between the policy of opening up the market to tourists from China and the work and pay of tour guides. Based primarily on the effects on the work and pay of tour guides, this study concludes and offers the following findings: 1. The relationship between the degree of satisfaction that the travel industry has with tour guides and the re-offering of work to them. 2. Should choose qualified tour guides. The quality of service will determine the pay of tour guides. 3. Should elevate the basic employment threshold for tour guides and pursue commercial interests from Chinese tourists. 4. Should offer reasonable pay and protection to tour guides and maintain the rights of their work. 5. From the managerial perspective, key elements that firms in the travel industry should possess.
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LIN, TSUNG-SHENG, and 林宗聖. "The Influence of eWOM Source Credibility and Product Involvement on Travel Product Purchase Intention: take the Recipients of the Information from Google Local Guides for Example." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/m2q3vk.
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碩士亞洲大學
休閒與遊憩管理學系碩士在職專班
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This research is aimed to find out whether eWOM credibility level and product involvement level should affect the purchase intention of recipients of Google Local Guides (An affiliated Service of Google Maps). The subjects of this research are users in Taiwan who have viewed comments, photos, or experience shared by others through Google Maps or Google search engine. From January 2018 to March 2018, 407 questionnaires were given out through the Internet, and 387 copies of which are valid. The data went through descriptive statistics analysis, correlation analysis, regression analysis, and hierarchical regression analysis. The results are as follows: 1.The subjects' level of trust towards Google Local Guides, the level of product involvement, and purchase intention of tourism products all fall on “Fair” and “Agree,” above the average of evaluation. 2.eWOM source credibility and product involvement level both carry significant positive influence on the purchase intention of tourism products. The more attractive the content of eWOM messages are to the public, the more likely their purchase intention of tourism can be predicted. Furthermore, findings have also revealed that when tourism products are important to the subjects, or when the subjects consider tourism as a way to show their personalities, the intention is more likely to be estimated. 3.eWOM source credibility has a positive effect on the purchase intention of tourism products, and the product involvement level does not interfere with the process.
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Rankin, Carin. "Development by design - an example in the South African craft industry : the Due-South travel guide." Diss., 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28539.
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KAO, MENG-TING, and 高孟廷. "Follow Your Heart or Follow the Tour Guide: The Relationship between Personality Traits and Travel Types." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/k9zc7t.
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碩士中國文化大學
國際貿易學系
107
Along With the relaxation of travel policy, development of technology, global economic growth, the growth of tourism industry is beyond your expectation. Travel types have changed. Travel types can be divided into group tour and self-guided tour. Consumers do not need to arrange the schedule if they choose group tour, showing the personality of dependence. Consumers who choosing self-guided tour prefer footloose travel. As a result, choosing the way to travel is related to personality. The purpose of this study is to examine when people are choosing travel types, whether they will affect by personality traits? Structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis based on 302 respondents between the age 18 to 30. Our findings are that the consumers who choose group tour tend to have the personality of conscientiousness, the consumers who choose self-guided tour tend to have the personality of agreeableness, extraversion, and openness.
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Chiu, Wei-Yu, and 邱薇羽. "Understanding the brand consumer involvement on a travel forum via path analysis and machine-guided semantic network analysis." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/538ur5.
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碩士國立交通大學
客家學院傳播與科技學系碩士班
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The objective of the current study is to understand the factors that predict customer behavior enacted on online hotel booking platforms. In particular, this study pays particular attention to how such consumer behavior is influcned by social relaitonships and opinion exchange taking place on a travel forum (backpackers.com.tw). In order to achieve this goal, the current study employed a mixed-method approach, consisting of an online survey (N= 776) and a machine-guided semantic network analysis on the messages posted on the travel forum (2016-2018, N=1,457). The analysis of the survey data showed that brand image and customer satisfaction had positive effects on consumers’ brand trust and repurchasing intention. In addition, both community tie stength and informational social influence on the travel forum had positive effects on opinion seeking, opinion giving, and opinion passing within the online travel community. This study also examined the content of the messages on the travel forum. The results revealed that consumers engaged in different topics of discussion for different brands. In Airbnb, the brand consumer focus on the topic of interaction with host. In Agoda, the brand consumer focus on the topic of brand commitment with the lowest hotel price. In Booking.com, the brand consumer focus on the topic of flexible hotel price. In conclusion, consumers of the three hotel reservation platforms are care about the topic of hotel cancellation policy.
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Huang, Je-Yu, and 黃哲愉. "The Study on the Affecting Factors of Diet Behavior at Specific Travel Destination-A Case of Mediterranean Food Guide." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/30116804779561608300.
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碩士國立台北護理學院
旅遊健康研究所
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In this study, specific attention is paid to the importance attached by food consumers to Mediterranean destinations and trip attributes upon food experience. Healthy diet was explored according to Mediterranean culture food with a convenience sample of 210 Taiwan free and independent travelers in Mediterranean. A self-administered questionnaire was used to obtain healthy diet at travel destinations. Food consumption was estimated using a frequency diary. A majority of the samples had a positive attitude towards their healthy diet behavior. Those who perceived their own food habits to be healthy and had searched healthy diet information were more likely to comply with Mediterranean diet guidelines than those who did not. Females, age of 20 to 39 with tertiary education were associated with positive attitude towards their healthy diet behavior. An positive correlation with greater care about culture was evident for these with high healthy diet score. These preferences are compared to the previous studies on affecting factors, and the general literature on food tourism. It can be concluded that attitudes or motivation towards healthy diet was related to dietary and lifestyle behavior. Future research is suggested to devise appropriate methods of changing attitude towards dietary behavior in certain subgroups of the population.