Dallen J. Timothy

Dallen J. Timothy
Arizona State University | ASU · School of Community Resources and Development

PhD

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In this book, we facilitate a critical investigation of gaps in theorizing and framing dark tourism by navigating through some onto-epistemological issues, theoretical entanglements, future possibilities, and the application of critical theoretical perspectives related to #affect and emotions, human-animal studies, #postcolonialism, feminism, traum...
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This paper introduces a framework for analyzing and interpreting the visual content of tourism landscapes, particularly focusing on the comparative representation of these landscapes by destination management organizations (DMOs) in the cross-border context of Usedom Island, shared by Poland and Germany. Drawing on a literature review and employing...
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The study of online souvenirs has increased in recent years. Considering the importance of tourists' perceptions for souvenir retailers, and the lack of studies on this issue, it is critical to understand tourists' attitudes toward this phenomenon. In general, interviewees expressed neutral or positive attitudes toward online museum stores. Online...
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Industrial decline, changes in agricultural production, natural and human-caused disasters, geopolitical turmoil, environmental change, cultural desertion, dam construction, and transportation bypasses often result in deserted communities worldwide. These deserted communities are sometimes referred to as ghost towns, sharing common attributes of ab...
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This chapter delves into the ways in which heritage tourism can enhance travellers’ and host communities’ wellness and quality of life. In particular, it describes three important manifestations of heritage tourism, namely pilgrimage, roots travel and archaeology-based tourism, as being particularly evidentiary of how improved quality of life can d...
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Souvenir production and consumption play an important role in tourism destination development. Because constructs most commonly examined until now (e.g., authenticity, production methods, and souvenir typologies) have failed to explain several paradoxes, this study examines souvenirs from a different conceptual angle: product???place relationships...
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This study illustrates the temporal dynamics of tourism development in a peripheral region of Northeast India (Cherrapunjee area) with an extreme rainfall. The analysis indicates that tourism development has accelerated in the last two decades as a result of the administrative opening of Meghalaya State and the dynamic development of tourism throug...
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This paper analyzes a boundary landscape and relevant evolutionary changes in land use at an EU/Schengen internal border (Poland-Slovakia), which was once a closed barrier but is now an open tourism resource. The study shows the role international borders can play in constructing recreational, tourism, and other use spaces, by identifying elements...
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Tourism is sometimes referred to as the ‘peace industry’, yet many scholars have argued that tourism itself does not create peace and harmony. Instead, these must exist before tourism can succeed. Nonetheless, tourism can help repair relations and create a certain level of benevolence. Heritage is one of the most contested tourism assets and has th...
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This study investigates how tourists engage with heritage at contemporary experiential sites that have become popular amongst visitors and vital ambassadors of a destination's heritage. Grounded in the theoretical concept of engagement from an andragogical standpoint, the study utilizes and critically examines reviews from a specific interactive an...
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Abstract: Interest in slow tourism is surging as consumers seek immersive experiences and self enrichment. Only a handful of studies have examined this phenomenon minutely from an authenticity standpoint. To fill this vacuum, by employing a case study technique, this study examines the manner in which authenticity is promoted and showcased in a bro...
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This study measures the impacts of environmental concern and environmental altruism on eco-friendly behaviors, and the impacts of environmentally friendly behaviors on nature-based tourism behaviors and ecologically friendly purchasing behaviors. The study sample included a population of tourists and recreationists in three different destinations i...
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Gamification as an innovative concept has become more emphasized in some fields, including business, education and training, and healthcare. Recently, gamification has been considered in other fields such as tourism. Tourism-based games are becoming increasingly popular and beneficial in various tourism sectors, ranging from marketing and advertisi...
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Modern pilgrimage has become more complex due to ever increasing numbers of people who engage in pilgrimage-like travel. Another complicating factor is that changing national boundaries has led to some religious sites being located in places whose surrounding populations no longer adhere to the religion that originally created them or which contemp...
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Competitive adventure sports tourism, involving such activities as mountain climbing and ultramarathon running, has traditionally been dominated by men. Although women’s participation has grown, the gender gap is still pronounced in terms of quantitative engagement in these forms of sport tourism. Yet, when the percentage of people who reach the fi...
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The phenomenon of tourism, driven by individuals’ desire to experience something new, different, or otherly, has seen significant changes [...]
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This article reflects on the growing trend of cultural landscape appreciation and connecting landscapes with their broader heritage surroundings. It focuses on historical trails and their adjacent cultural and natural heritage as a holistic cultural landscape with a particular case from the Costa Brava. The paper links the concepts of natural scene...
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MICE tourism had become a significant development tool for local economies before the COVID-19 outbreak. An effective destination brand is one way in which MICE stakeholders can work together to redesign and rebrand MICE tourism in the post-pandemic times. This study argues that heritage resources at a MICE destination add to the attractiveness of...
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The authors examine several ways in which political boundaries may be viewed as cultural heritage and its tourism implications. They discuss the processes and forces in the heritagization of borders and the heritage manifestations of borders. Often, state boundaries commemorate major events and envelop national stories and narratives that underscor...
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To understand the most significant factors that influence agricultural households' decision whether or not to work in rural tourism in China, this study applies Elinor Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) extension model. It also constructs a model of influence consisting of five key variables: land consolidation, market characteri...
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Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, tourism had permeated all spaces of experience, reaching nearly every country, region, community, and corner of the globe. In recent decades, the meanings, implications, and roles of tourism have also expanded significantly. This article focuses on unconventional tourism mobilities, including same-day visits, which a...
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This book examines the unique characteristics of the Himalaya that mark them as a special region among other orographic regions of the world. The Himalayan range is an important global asset for ecological, climatic, cultural, spiritual, and economic reasons. Its diversity of landscapes, climates, and biotic systems makes the Himalaya an extremely...
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Combining intangible cultural heritage (ICH) with tourism is one way of protecting living culture, and community residents have long been the most important stakeholders in these efforts. This paper explores the relationship between residents’ role in heritage conservation and heritage tourism and determines a means of protecting ICH by introducing...
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As the tourism industry faces a long road to full recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, this study utilized a scenario planning method to depict widely contrasting conditions in which tourism recovery in the U.S. state of Arizona will need to navigate. To collect data, we held a scenario planning session in June 2020 with 24 participants r...
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Tourism has clear connections to bordering, debordering and rebordering. Each part of this process has important implications for tourism and development in the heritage borderscapes of border tourism destinations. The study illustrates past and current changes to the border within the bordering-debordering-rebordering framework. In particular it h...
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As markets evolve in the era of the experience economy, experiences have become more meaningful and are an essential part of tourism. Several studies have found that higher expenditures are a positive outcome of a successful and satisfying tourism experience. The purpose of this study is to examine the economic potential of staged experiential offe...
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El turismo como actividad dinámica en la economía de los países, se ha visto disminuida por la pandemia del COVID-19. Al estar comprometida la seguridad sanitaria, ha significado un declive de la actividad. Ante este escenario de incertidumbre la búsqueda de estrategias para hacer frente a la situación se ha convertido en la prioridad, tanto para e...
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This paper examines the typical ways in which mass tourism has utilized cultural heritage as a salient asset for development. Tourism has long focused on extraordinary, exotic and grand heritage assets at the expense of ordinary, mundane elements the human past that are part of the everyday lives of ordinary people. The paper argues that there are...
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This study explores the effects of social media use constraints on destination image under the internet restrictions in China. The empirical results indicate that information search constraints have a significant effect on the affective image of destinations through emotional experience. Not allowing certain social media use has negative implicatio...
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the issues, practices, current debates, concepts and management concerns associated with cultural heritage-based tourism, as well as applied knowledge. The 2nd edition expands on timely and emerging topics and includes up-to-date data, statistics, references, case material, figures and plates.
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Since the early 1900s, Mexico’s northern border towns became important tourism destinations, receiving more foreign tourists than any other areas of Mexico. Historically, postcards followed the development of tourism in the borderlands, depicting unique border-oriented tourismscapes and life in general, and establishing an iconic image of the borde...
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This paper argues that the traditional way of defining and measuring domestic tourism may beoverly simplistic and is not necessarily as straightforward as is commonly thought. Thisdiscussion provides insights into certain geographic conditions and spatial anomalies that givecause to re-think situations that might be labeled ‘domestic tourism’ but w...
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This study compares the contents of different online tourism information sources. In addition to developing a quantitative linguistic framework for comparing heterogeneous tourism information sources, a case study of the city of Barcelona in Chinese sources is presented. To understand the structural characteristics of textual communication, efficie...
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In many developing countries, tourism has been adopted as a driver to improve local community livelihoods. With most communities depending on their natural resources for tourism development, it is assumed that through benefits from natural resources, communities can achieve community development and will be willing to promote conservation efforts i...
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In spite of its influential history of saffron production and carpet weaving, as well as its notable urban historic fabric, the historic city of Birjand, Iran, has lost its original appeal due to various social, cultural, economic, and physical problems. This research investigates the potential for heritage tourism to help regenerate a declining hi...
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Ecomuseums, which reflect the heritage of places, can be an important model for advancing the relationship between tourism, heritage, and local development. This paper examines the relationship between an ecomuseum and development in the context of the Ak-Chin Him-Dak Ecomuseum in Arizona, the only officially designated ecomuseum in the United Stat...
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In relation to the Food and Agriculture Organization’s 2002 Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems project, increasing attention has been devoted to agricultural heritage and tourism in China, especially since 2006. Based on an analysis of English and Chinese literature, this paper reviews agricultural heritage and related tourism develop...
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Even though Iran’s borders are vast, shared with seven neighboring states, its borderlands are socially and economically deprived owing to their remoteness from the capital and their marginal location on the national periphery. Therefore, considering the need for border development is essential. Because so many borderland residents survive through...
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The Routledge Handbook on Tourism in the Middle East and North Africa examines the importance of tourism as a historical, economic, social, environmental, religious and political force in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). It highlights the ecological and resource challenges related to water, desert environments, climate change and oil. It pr...
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National park managers must consider people’s different values, beliefs, and attitudes in developing management plans and policies to justify providing opportunities for public recreation preserving ecological integrity. This study examines tourists’ perceptions of appropriate uses of, and services within, national parks, which in turn are influenc...

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