Attractions Management

A new issue of 

Attractions Management 

can be read online here

Contents include:

• National Museum of Scotland - completion of a 15 year development project
• Puy du Fou theme park in France
• Designing a science centre
• Impact of extending visits on increasing revenue
• Adventure World Warsaw

This month's issue focuses on special effects; the newest 3D/4D offers are announced and there's a round-up of the latest audioguides and apps.

Leisure Opportunities

The latest issue of 

Leisure opportunities 

is now available here

On The Road

The latest issue of On the Road magazine is now out -  

Read it online here

Via @

A new interdisciplinary, international tourism journal, Via@, has just been launched. A collaboration between a number of universities, it encourages open online engagement, particularly between young researchers, to share views and contribute to issues of interest - find out more

The first issue discusses the topic of Tourist Imaginaries. Articles are available in a variety of languages and the website itself can be viewed in German, Catalan, Spanish, French, Italian or Portuguese as well as English. Read the issue here...

There is a call for papers for the next 3 issues, on the following topics:

• Gastronomy, tourism and globalization
• Tourism and identity processes
• Tourism and memory, tourism as memorial, memories of tourism

Instructions for submissions can be found here. Paper proposals on other topics are also welcomed.

Leisure Opportunities

The latest digitial edition of Leisure Opportunities is a special issue for graduates. News from various leisure industries is given, covering:

• Sport
• Health & Fitness
• Hotels
• Attractions & Museums
• Arts & Culture
• Spa
• Tourism
• Property
• Training
• Jobs

RASAALA Journal

Recreation and Society in Africa, Asia & Latin America (RASAALA) is an open access e-journal; the current issue covers lifestyle migration and an archive is available. They are currently inviting papers on the subject of Sport Event Legacies (abstract deadline 22/2/120 and the Power of Place: Heritage, Archaeological and Sacred (abstract deadline 16/1/12).

Journal of Tourism Consumption & Practice

The current issue of this journal is now available online; contents include the following articles: 

• Tracking tourists: Mobility, experiences and the supply-demand gap in a Swedish mountain resort. Bo Svensson, Robert Pettersson and Ingrid Zakrisson

• Madrid: Literary Fiction and the Imaginary Urban Destination.Graham Busby, Maximiliano E. Korstanje and Charlie Mansfield

Research Notes:

• Hispaniola: The future tourism Destination of the Caribbean? Hugues Séraphin

Conference Reports:

• British and American Studies XXI, Timisoara, 19-21 May 2011
• Sixth Annual International Conference on Tourism, Athens, 1-4 July 2010

Book Review:

• Flirting With Space: Journeys and Creativity by David Crouch. Reviewed by Les Roberts 

Tourismos Journal

The latest issue of Tourismos is now available online and packed full of articles across a range of current topics. Here are the contents:

• The impact of macroeconomic country-specific factors on international expansion of US hotel chains
• The impact of carbon discharge legislation on future development of maritime tourism and cruising
• Tour guiding : interpreting the challenges
• Tourism activity and economic conditions in Britain
• The effect of wellness brand awareness on expected and perceived service quality
• Exploring the effects of destination's positioning on hotels' performance : the Milan case
• The economic potential of tourism : a case study of Agra
• Tourism development and politics in the Philippines
• Jet ski development strategies: the case of Caspian Sea's South-West Beach
• Assisted-suicide tourism : is it tourism?
• Rural tourism offer and local community participation in the Gambia
• Angkor heritage tourism and tourist perceptions
• Considerations for sustainable tourism development: perspectives from the South Pacific
• Local food in local menus : the case of Gokceada
• The D.I.Y. tourist
• Case Studies: benchmarking the Egyptian medical tourism sector
• Against international best practices: an exploratory case study 
• The role of alternative types of tourism and ict strategy for the tourism industry of Lesvos  
• Analysis of the economic impacts of cultural festivals: the case of Calabar Carnival in Nigeria
• Movies as a tool of modern tourist marketing
• The development of cultural tourism: a review of the UK experience 
• The environmental management systems and contemporary tourism development 

Research Notes:

• The sustainability of tourism supply chain: a case study research
•  Casino v. historical tourism destinations along Route No.9 In Savannakhet City

 + book reviews!

Journal of Tourism Challenges and Trends

There is free access to the archive of the Journal of Tourism Challenges and Trends, available here. 

Previous issues have covered the following topics:

• Rural Tourism
• Tourism assisting Sustainable Development
• Health Tourism, 
•  Mountain Tourism
• Event Tourism

Journals

JURN is a search-engine dedicated to indexing free ‘open access’ ejournals in the arts and humanities. Here's a link to the directory for a list of the titles they include.

Tourism Review

Tourism Review have recently published a special issue on 'Destination Governance', which looks at how tourist destinations must be organized, coordinated and governed through mechanisms of action and control.

Contents:

• Governance: a review and synthesis of the literature
• Analysing tourism stakeholders networks
• Park visitors' perceptions of governance: a comparison between Ontario and British Columbia provincial parks management models
• Improving tourism destination governance
• Archetypes of destination governance: a comparison of international destinations
• Roles and opinions of primary and secondary stakeholders within community-type destinations

Journal of Tourism Consumption & Practice

The latest edition of this journal is available online; articles are entitled:

• Researching tourism: reflexive practice and gender
• Touristing home: muddy fields in native anthropology
• Single or married? Positioning the anthropologist in tourist research
• Gender, reflexivity and encounters of Indian-ness in the field
• Research Notes: Mirroring the Anthropologist: reflex-ions of the self

Also included are book reviews and a summary report on the International Conference on Intangible Heritage.  Click here to access...

The Journal of Tourism & Peace Research

A new international journal 'The Journal of Tourism and Peace Research' is to be published shortly that will aim to study and discuss all aspects of tourism and leisure in relation to peace, co-operation and conflict issues. There is an online version of the first issue available here.

A global conference on peace and tourism will be taking place 24 to 26 March 2011 in The Gambia. Presentations and proceedings from previous conferences are also available at the ICPTR website.

Are you currently conducting research on Africa?

If so, this website may be of interest - it contains the African Journal Archive, a retrospective repository project of full-text journal articles, in the Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities. Titles include the South African Journal of Wildlife Research and South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences. And if you're looking for up-to-date statistics on Africa, you may find them in the Bulletin of Statistics which also provides the latest figures for tourism.

Another section of the website has Open Access Journals amongst which is the South African Business Review.

South Asian Journal for Tourism & Heritage

This journal aims to explore the various facets of tourism, with a particular focus on heritage tourism; it's published annually and all issues are currently available in fulltext online. Examples of topics covered are:

• The prospects of developing Kashmir as an adventure tourism destination
• Challenges and future strategies for heritage conservation in Macao
• Cave tourism in Kerala : Edakkal Caves
  
• Sustainable tourism: a case of destination competitiveness in South Asia
• Customer satisfaction with low cost airlines in India
  
• Transition of human resources in the hospitality industry: heritage hotels in Rajasthan
  
• Dimensions of Indian culture, values and event marketing implications
  

JUPTRR

Published in cooperation with the National Recreation and Park Association, the Journal of Unconventional Parks, Tourism & Recreation Research is a new online journal with articles which challenge conventional ideas on leisure. They encourage submissions of papers from anyone interested in these subject areas; a special issue next year will explore dark tourism more...

LJTSCI

The second edition of the London Journal of Tourism, Sport and Creative Industries is now available online. Contents include:

• Creating service opportunities using mobile phone technology in museums
• Community attitude to Barbados' alternative accommodation initiative
• The benefits of using student volunteers for small businesses in the event industry
• The use of social networking within the sport and exercise sciences
• The development of limited overs cricket: London's loss of power

Here's the link to the first issue, and a page to register for future alerts.

ABTA Magazine

The August issue of ABTA magazine is jam-packed as always with news from the travel industry. Adventure travel is the cover story in this one with examples given of various activities and links to tour operators. Destinations in focus are the Red Sea Riviera, Argentina, India and Chicago. News stories include air travel, technology, business travel and hotels. A profile of Sunvil Holidays is given. Just some of the other topics discussed are homeworkers, business travel and high-speed rail travel across Europe with samples of destinations.

SportBusiness.com publish a journal which focuses on events, marketing and media within the sports industry. Within these sections articles cover a range of sport-related matters, including:

• education
• event management
• finance
• hospitality
• law
• gaming
• sponsorship
• sports tourism
• technology
• ticketing
• TV rights

The website provides a list of various sporting activities which link to related news articles, or there is the option of searching articles by country. News stories have also been archived.

For email alerts on contents of the latest issues, subscribe by entering your email address at the top of the page on the website. The print journal can be found in print at Summer Row library.

Journals Roundup

International Journal of Sport Marketing and Sponsorship (Olympics special edition via Infotrac):

• Coca-Cola China’s Virtual Olympic Torch Relay Programme at the Beijing Olympic Games
• Olympic sponsorship: evolution, challenges and impact on the Olympic Movement
• Selection of leveraging strategies by national Olympic sponsors: a proposed model
• Winning the Olympic marketing game: recall of logos on clothing, equipment and venues at the 2006 Turin Olympics
• The Olympic Equestrian Games: brand collaboration and associations occurring within a destination and a sports event
• Olympic Games host and bid city marketing: exploring issue management in the relationships among event stakeholder group

Hidden Europe:

• From Prussia to Russia: Kaliningrad
• Atarazanas market, Malaga
• Maltese arrivals - refugee camps
• Both sides of the Dniester: Moldova
• The Via Sacra
• Rediscovering our rivers: the Thames experience

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