On site tourist experiences are varied in both nature and intensity. Many merge to become part of an overall experiential perception. A few stand out as being extraordinary or special. These are the experiences likely to ...

Out of 23 village units that are dependent on Park resources for wood and pasture, nine village units were randomly selected for detailed investigation. The investigation included structured questionnaire interviews of 212 ...

Visitors to the West Coast of the South Island were interviewed (using a survey questionnaire and in-depth interview techniques) in order to determine their satisfactions with the attractions which they had visited. The ...

This thesis is concerned with an assessment of the viability of cooperative marketing arrangements, in particular, horizontal cooperative advertising. An examination of the linkages between the components of the tourism ...

Growing public interest in viewing wildlife in 'natural' habitat poses the problem to conservation managers of balancing the potential benefits of wildlife viewing tourism with the protection of endangered wildlife. The ...

This research follows on from the research of Mayo, Jarvis and Xander (1988) and Crompton (1979a). The former found that more subjectively distant destinations tended to be considered to be more attractive vacation ...

A high level of service quality is being widely acknowledged among German tourism marketers as the strategy to survive in an increasingly competitive market. In tourism many independent suppliers contribute to the tourist ...

Promoting cities as tourism destinations is seen as a way to enable growth. This promotion involves the projection of selective imagery to specific target groups and often includes the physical reshaping of places to fit ...

This study reports an investigation into the promotion of New Zealand as a whole, and of specific places throughout New Zealand, from the 1870s to the 1990s. The theme pursued in the examination of "place promotional" ...

Very few meta-theoretical frameworks have been applied to the field of tourism studies despite the vast amount of literature produced. In this thesis a public choice theoretical framework is applied to tourism to evaluate ...