This article discusses the concomitant processes of increasing familiarisation, responsiveness and responsibility that digital technology enables in realm tourism. We reflect on influence proliferation interactive platforms solutions within tourism practice behaviour through a range lenses, from user generated content associated platforms, emergence gamification embedded these, immersive mixed-reality media (such as virtual reality [VR] augmented [AR]) changes tourist have paralleled these...

This paper seeks to renegotiate the role of visuals and visual practice within tourist experience. Embracing recent developments in studies, I seek move from understanding tourism as a series predetermined, linear, static stages through which we pass be tourist. In doing so, explore ways visuals, particular photography subsequent visualities, enliven tourists' becoming multiplicity fluid dynamic performances, practices, processes. suggest is not merely an empty practice, but, rather, lights...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been linked with numerous organizational advantages, including recruitment, retention, productivity, and morale, which relate specifically to employees. However, despite specific benefits of CSR relating employees their importance as a stakeholder group, it is noteworthy that lack attention paid the individual level analysis primarily being studied at level. Both research practice have largely treated organization "black box," failing account for...

Social media platforms, like Instagram, have played a significant role in augmenting the profile of several previously obscure destinations. However, some these places were subsequently ‘ruined’ due to related impacts associated with type visitor behaviors that are social media-induced. It is thus critical better understand how overcome such issues by discerning salient destination response strategies cater cognitive biases travelers. This research explains effectiveness behavioral...

This study shifts the focus from building individual capacities to understanding relational acts through which empowerment and education acquire their value meaning. Conceptually, paper employs social cognitive theory explore interplay between learning, agency, culture. builds foundation for development of an model capacity that proposes interlinked system community dimensions. The is explored in context Education All project High Atlas Mountains Morocco. research combines participant...

Social media users are increasingly harming destination brands through their posts. This article examines how to counter brand co-destruction in social the application of storytelling practices. Based on a netnography TripAdvisor and Facebook, combined with case study Danish management organization (DMO) VisitDenmark, investigates prospective ways which co-destroy DMO’s brand. We demonstrate value creation is fluid process generated along “brand continuum,” as complex interplays between...

The aim of this paper is to decipher ways experiencing religiousness through tourist performances, intersecting textual approaches with the essential embodiment and materiality world. Exploring diversity religious tourists' practices within Greek Orthodox context, two dimensions underpinning experience are highlighted: institutional performances unconventional performances. Focussing on embodied drawing upon theories performance, critiques interplays body place re-conceptualise current...

The vision of a more responsible form tourism was much discussed in the 1980s and became an important element within then emerging concept sustainable (Krippendorf, 1987: 138–139)...

Nature-based tourism offers the opportunity for tourists to see first-hand both wildlife and conservation efforts of organisations individuals protect habitats species. Whilst recent studies hint that can prompt visitors provide philanthropic support conservation, to-date have focused on behavioural intentions within specific case rather than actual behaviour, thereby limiting generalisability explanatory scope. Consequently, little is known if why donate more after nature-based tourism. An...

While there is significant existing research linking travel photography to self-presentation, it the effects of 'Instagrammability' that mobilize shifts in motivations and behaviours tourists. This paper applies Goffman's (1956) notion impression management unfolding as a performance, with both front- backstage characteristics. finds frontstage this context identified cyber behaviour, while encapsulates physical manifestations occur 'behind scenes' 'get shot'. By employing content analysis...

Travel vlogs are inherently storytelling-centric videos. However, the ways in which travel vloggers can craft engaging stories and whether their storytelling effectively influences audiences’ decision-making have not been fully explored. To address this gap, research developed a scale for measuring using three-phase exploratory sequential design. In Study 1, key elements were identified through semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 38 audience members. Studies 2 3, these examined factor...

Using the example of Scottish Tourist Board ([STB] now VisitScotland), this article outlines three spaces mediation involved in discursive transformation material landscapes into brochure images. STB marketing personnel occupy first space mediation. Market research provides specialist knowledge consumer expectations and key icons Scotland that form dominant ideological foundations upon which positive discourses place are constructed. Photography occupies second Directly influenced by...