Is Tourism Just Another Commodity? Links between Commodity Trade and Tourism

Food Commodity Trade

The level of price volatility should theoretically be confined to export parity price levels at the lower end and import parity price levels at the upper end of the price band, reflecting supply and demand conditions during surplus and deficit marketing seasons respectively. A greater gap between these export and import parity prices will reflect high marketing costs, often representing high tr...

Trade and International Commodity Programs

The search for solutions to problems in international commodity trade has been more actively pursued during the past five years than at any previous time in history. Long negotiations in the Kennedy Round were aimed both at tariff questions and at establishing international commodity arrangements. The need for improved commodity trading arrangements was emphasized by developing countries at the...

Culture for sale? ‘Traditional’ Practices, Institutions and values as Commodity in Nature-based Tourism

The Maloti Drakenberg Transfrontier Conservation and Development Project between South Africa and Lesotho is a transfrontier conservation initiative that simultaneously aims at conserving biodiversity and fostering the economic development of the local population. This is to be attained via nature-based tourism activities. These, I argue, highlight certain practices, institutions and values of ...

Smartphones in Vocational Tourism Education: Truly Useful or just another Reason to Find New Excuses

This article describes a longitudinal study of vocational tourism students’ perceptions of the use of smartphones before and after being given the devices. Data includes interviews and online learning diary data from a period of about 18 months (N=14). By providing smartphones for these extremely mobile students, the researchers mainly aspired to promote possibilities to reflect their learning ...

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