Cultural Tourism in a Digital Era [electronic resource] : First International Conference IACuDiT, Athens, 2014

ISBN:

9783319158594

Title:

Author:

Katsoni, Vicky.

Personal Author:

Katsoni, Vicky.

Publication Information:

Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2015.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 p.)

Series:

Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics

General Note:

Description based upon print version of record.

Contents:

Preface; Contents; Part I: Consumers ́View on Todayś Tourism Industry; The Views of Greek Mountain Travelers on Mountain Tourism During Summertime: A Questionnaire Web-Based Analysis; 1 Introduction; 2 Literature Review; 3 Methodology; 4 Results; 5 Discussion; 6 Implementations; 7 Limitations; 8 Conclusions; References; Preferences and Behaviors of the Elder People Resting in Valuable Natural Areas; 1 Introduction; 2 Purposes and Methods; 3 Results of the Research; 4 Recapitulation and Conclusions; References

Interrelationships of Service Quality, Customer Satisfaction, Corporate Image and Customer Loyalty of Malaysian Hotel IndustryEgyptian Tourism with the Expected Water Scarcity Crisis; 1 Introduction; 2 Literature Review; 2.1 The Nature of Water; 2.2 The Global Water Challenge; 2.3 Interrelationships Between Tourism and Water; 2.4 Water Tourism; 2.5 Managing Water Resources in Tourism; 2.5.1 Tourism Sustainability and Water Crisis; 2.5.2 Climate Change; 2.6 World Tourism Day (WTD) 2013; 2.7 Egypt; 2.7.1 About Egypt; 2.7.2 Water Resources in Egypt; 2.7.3 Managing Water Resources in Egypt

Threats of Ethiopian Dam2.7.4 Egyptian Tourism and Water Resources; 3 Discussion and Results; 3.1 International Water Crisis; 3.2 International Tourism Industry and Water Scarcity; 3.3 Egyptian Tourism and Water Scarcity; 4 Conclusion and Recommendations; References; The Concept of Classification of Tourist Motivation Factors; 1 Introduction; 2 Overview of Tourist Motivation Factors; 3 Conclusion; References; Part II: Cultural Tourism Today; Art in the Globalised Era: A Disembodied Journey with Traces in the Past; 1 Introduction; 2 Looking at the Present: Globalisation and Post-Modernism

3 The Artistic Experience Journey4 The Artistic Experience Journey Annulled; 5 Looking at the Past; 6 Concluding Remarks; References; Russian Artistic Gymnastics as a Sports Tourism Product: Some Observations and a Research Agenda; 1 Artistic Gymnastics: Some Background; 2 The Relationship Between Sports Tourism and Artistic Gymnastics; 2.1 The Nature of Tourism Visitation Within Artistic Gymnastics; 2.2 Fan Behaviour, Vicarious Participation and Online Activity; 3 Artistic Gymnastics as Russian Heritage; 4 The Level of Development of Sports Tourism in the Russian Federation; 5 Method

6 A Research Agenda for Russian Gymnastics and Its Potential for Sports Tourism6.1 Profiling the Motivations of Gymnastics Tourists; 6.2 Profiling Online Russian Gymnastics Fans and Their Behaviour; 6.3 Understanding the Nature of Gymnastics as a Cultural Form; 6.4 The Commodification of Artistic Gymnastics; 6.5 Artistic Gymnastics as an Agent in the Formation of Russian National Identity and Destination Image; 6.6 Issues and Challenges in Sports Tourism Development in Russia; 6.7 Conceptual Issues Surrounding Sports Tourism; 7 Conclusions; References; Greek Museums on the Web; 1 Introduction

2 Content of Websites

Subject Term:

Heritage tourism -- Congresses.

Tourism -- Congresses.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2015

Publication Information:

Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2015.

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Summary

This book covers the entire spectrum of cultural and digital tourism and presents the latest findings, examples and cases, highlighting innovations for the tourism industry from both an academic and a practical point of view. The book invites readers to discover ongoing developments and recent trends in fields like heritage and museum management; sports tourism; tourism economics and policy; e-marketing and e-business; and many other fields, making it of value to researchers in tourism management, practitioners and policymakers alike. The book was edited in collaboration with the International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism - IACuDiT - and includes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Cultural and Digital Tourism.

Author Notes

Dr.Vicky Katsoni is an Assistant Professor at the Tourism Department of the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Athens, Greece and she is also teaching at the Greek Open University at the MSc program of Tourism Management. She holds a PhD in Tourism Marketing Management and ICT Applications in Tourism, an MBA and a BA (Hons) in Economics. She has participated in several European and National research projects and her research interests include tourism distribution channels, digital tourism, tourism marketing, medical tourism and consumer behavior. She has published 7 books on tourism, chapters in edited volumes, and numerous papers on highly academic journals. She is the president of the "International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism", and is member of the Editorial Board of many journals in tourism and marketing.