Search for dissertations about: "Tourism system"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 26 swedish dissertations containing the words Tourism system.
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1. Guided tourism : the role of guidebooks in German tourist behaviour in Sweden
Abstract : Tourism is a spatial phenomenon. Tourist behaviour on-site is not only dependent on the destination itself, but also on the situation in other places, tourists’ spatial mobility and access to information. On the basis of this argument, the whole tourism system is taken into account in this thesis. READ MORE
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2. Members in Tourism Settings : their motivations, behaviours and roles
Abstract : Membership programs are widely-used marketing tools. Many customers belong to a number of different membership programs across a variety of organizations and contexts. Memberships are based on the idea of mutual benefits of a relationship. READ MORE
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3. Behind the Scenes of Rural Tourism : A Study of Entrepreneurship in Micro-Firms
Abstract : This thesis is a study of entrepreneurship in tourism micro-firms in rural areas. It provides a close, behind-the-scenes look at how owner-managers of tourism micro-firms generate value, overcome limitations, and promote change through interactions with their customers, their local environment and actors in their social networks. READ MORE
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4. Moved by the mountains : migration into tourism dominated rural areas
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5. Tourism, Ecosystem Functions, and Human-Environmental Relations
Abstract : The thesis aims at deconstructing the sustainable tourism paradigm: can tourism be "a global strategy for sustainable development", as the tourist industry claims? And will developing countries in particular profit from tourism development?To most international organizations and institutions (from the World Wide Fund for Nature to The World Bank), tourism, if carefully managed, is a positive, sustainable development tool. However, the research presented in this thesis exposes this view as unrealistically optimistic for at least three reasons: first of all, global environmental change caused by tourism has never been investigated and integrated with the discourse on sustainable tourism development. READ MORE