Taking Tourism to the Limits: Issues, Concepts and Managerial Perspectives
Drawing upon case studies, current research and conceptualizations, this book explores concepts and challenges facing contemporary tourism in five main sections.
Taking Tourism to the Limits: Issues, Concepts and Managerial Perspectives
By Michelle Aicken (eds)
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction Conceptualising "the Limit"
Figure 1.1: Amsterdam in Sasebo, Japan an example of "de-spacing" place.
Chapter 4: Monitoring Visitor Patterns of Use in Natural Tourist Destinations
Figure 4.1: Coastline Port Campbell National Park Mutton Bird Lookout.
Figure 4.2: Roads and walking tracks at Loch Ard Gorge.
Figure 4.3: The study site at Loch Ard Gorge showing the road and track network with GPS recorded locations.
Figure 4.4: Relationship between leg attributes and individual logged location. Leg speed, time and bearing recorded at point C refers to the line segment between B and C. Leg speed, time and bearing recorded at point B refers to the line segment between A and B.
Figure 4.5: Region boundaries for the study site.
Figure 4.6: Average travelling speeds by region.
Figure 4.7: Average length of stay within each region.
Figure 4.8: Topological network diagram for Loch Ard Gorge with associated numbers. The labelled sequence node was used for determining visitor sequence patterns.
Figure 4.9: Sequence of movements through the site network. Figures in parenthesis indicate absolute numbers (close to percentages) of visitors taking that path sequence. Total number of surveys 102.
Figure 4.10: Tracked events for the single groupie.
Figure 4.11: Tracked events for the international couple.
Figure 4.12: Tracked events for the elderly couple.
Figure 4.13: Tracked events for the local family.
Chapter 5: The Use of Strategic Visioning to Enhance Local Tourism Planning in Periphery Communities
Figure 5.1: The Gold Coast destination visioning process. Source Faulkner...
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