Culture and cultures in tourism

Tourism , Culture and Sustainable Development

This study has been carried out as a part of the programme " Culture, tourism and development " of the Division of cultural policies and intercultural dialogue, Section culture and development by Pr Mike Robinson and Dr David Picard. The views expressed by the author, the selection of facts presented and the opinions stated with regard to the facts are the responsibility of the author and do no...

Understanding Urban Tourism: researching culture and experience

Although the formidable growth of urban tourism around the world is well documented, it is widely acknowledged (see Page, 1995; Ashworth, 1989) that research focusing on the culture and experience of urban tourism is rare. Indeed, there is a degree of consensus that quantitative visitor surveys tend to dominate urban tourism research. Whilst recent cultural research focusing on the embodiment a...

STUDIES IN PHYSICAL CULTURE AND TOURISM Vol. 14, Supplement 2007

The aim of the work was to compare body balance in a standing position of the blind (6-17 years of age) in sex and age categories as well as to evaluate the relations between the somatic development of the subjects and their balance in a standing position. Sixty students from the Primary School and Lower Secondary School of the Education Centre in Laski took part in the tests. Tests consisted o...

Material Culture of Post-colonial Wildlife Tourism

Many independent nations with strong tourism economies have colonial pasts. In parts of Africa and Asia, former colonial powers have left post-colonial legacies of language, buildings, trade and diplomatic links, and government bureaucratic structures (Ashcroft, Griffiths, & Tiffin, 2007; Sharp, 2009; Zein-Alabdin, 2009). There are also strong postcolonial influences on tourism (Carrigan, 2011;...

Culture, Cultures, and the Meaning of Education