Dallen J. Timothy

Arizona State University | ASU · School of Community Resources and Development

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...

The phenomenon of tourism, driven by individuals’ desire to experience something new, different, or otherly, has seen significant changes [...]

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Tourism destinations operate as a complex system, consisting of multiple interacting components that are nonlinear, cross-scale, evolving, and interdependent. The purpose of this article is to deconstruct the complex tourism system so that the important components of the system can be identified and critically evaluated. The research was conducted...

This chapter examines the role of dark events and their associated locales in the United States. It examines the various dark spaces that have become significant tourist attractions in the US. America’s unique dark heritage is often associated with wars, slavery, maltreatment of indigenous people, pioneer settlers, terrorism, natural catastrophes,...

lud. Un gran número de personas en calidad de pacientes realizan viajes a otros países donde las condiciones para sus tratamientos son considerablemente más favorables con respecto a su país de origen, generando así el fenómeno de Turismo de Salud (TS), que comienza a perfilarse como una actividad económica de gran valor dentro del campo de servici...

Through a combination of theoretical and case-study chapters, this volume focuses on religious routes and trails in terms of their spiritual, cultural and economic meanings, and considers the opportunities and challenges arising from their recent increase in popularity. The book is divided into three sections. Part I (chapters 1-5) deals with conce...

This essay examines several emerging research trends in the field of heritage tourism. These trends, including experiential connections with heritage, blurred boundaries between tourisms, more accurate portrayals of the commodified past and technological advancements, demonstrate a precipitous growth in heritage tourism scholarship that focuses mor...

This textbook on service failures and recovery in tourism and hospitality is written for academics, practitioners, as well as researchers. As the book has been written with the above audiences in mind, chapters contain many student aids such as real-life examples, case studies, links to websites, activities and discussion questions, recent research...

Purpose Despite the significance of tour guiding and interpreting in the tourism system, relevant research is lacking in both depth and breadth. Current scholarly work tends to ignore tour guides’ self-expectations and assumes they are altruistic mediators who carry out their tasks without question. Considering tourism intermediaries are rational...

This paper explores the social distance between local residents and African–Americans who have settled in Ghana since the 1960s. Data generated from in-depth interviews suggest the African–American expatriates felt their proximity to collective slave memory or particularly slavery heritage conferred on them certain rights to exclude local residents...

This paper examines how a single international border can exact different policies, practices, spatial variations, and tourism spaces at various points along its length. Based on an examination of the westernmost portion of the Canada–US frontier, this constructivist study investigates how the juxtaposition of barriers, attractions, transit spaces,...

Although tourism suppliers project the positive changes visits wrought upon tourists, the latter do not mindlessly consume the information they receive. A research gap exists in understanding how tourists consume political heritage and read the embedded nationalistic discourses from an emic perspective. This paper adopts the framework of social sit...

Tourism involves the temporary movement of people outside their usual places of residence from one area of the Earth to another. While tourism has existed for centuries, modern-day tourism has become an increasingly important component of national and regional economies. Although tourism has seemingly not been fully embraced by the discipline as a...

Rural land consolidation has been a very important and efficient development tool all over the world for a century and is now an indispensable instrument for rural sustainable development in China. The Chinese central government has devoted large sums of money to rural consolidation projects each year in an effort to help protect cultivated land, t...

This book considers a range of selected forms of special interest tourism in an attempt to provide a greater depth of understanding of its complexities. The book consists of a total of 17 chapters, including an introduction and a conclusion, with each focusing on a specific 'interest' or tourism theme, organised in five distinct sections: (1) famil...

Apart from economic factors, issues that may influence, bilateral tourist flows include shared histories, geopolitical factors, diplomatic relations, nationalism and domestic political issues. China and Japan provide an example of a bilateral tourism relationship that has been influenced by a range of factors beyond the usual economic factors of GD...

This case study examines the unique situation of the Pink Store in Palomas, Chihuahua, Mexico, a small town and crossing point on the US-Mexico frontier. This case is unique and interesting because of how managers have recognised the value of the international border and capitalised on it as a positive experience for day-trippers from the United St...

From the perspective of local residents, who are the ultimate stakeholders and guardians of heritage preservation, this paper aims to explore the public perceptions and internal and external factors that can influence residents’ preferences for historic preservation criteria. The results of multiple regression analyses reveal that the three preserv...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the competitive strategies employed by two of the largest theme park operators in Florida, based on a content analysis of popular media articles about theme park giants in the USA. It aims to provide a comparative examination of their competitive strategies, to develop a conceptual model of the same and to expan...

This study examines the role of social distance in the relationships between people of different faiths visiting the sacred sites of others, with Lumbini, Nepal, the birthplace of Buddha, as a case study. The findings of this study suggest that Hindus and Christians visited Lumbini because they considered Buddhists more closely aligned to their own...

This discussion piece was prompted by arguments in the original submission, ‘If you can keep your head: The unintended consequences of the impact factor’. This short essay stresses that many academic institutions around the world rely too much on impact factors (IFs) as a sole indicator of research quality and impact. It argues that other indicator...

This study describes the progress of cross-border tourism between South Korea and China in the volatile region of East Asia. It moves beyond normative economic modelling to explain some of the changes in tourist flows between the two countries from a descriptive perspective, looking at influential external factors that affect tourism cooperation an...

This research note examines how international borders have created a unique heritage context within which a number of hotels and restaurants have flourished largely because of their border locations. A spatial typology is presented of border-located lodging and food services to include establishments that lie directly on borderlines, as well as tho...

Because of its ability to harbor social values, norms, and beliefs, heritage is heavily politicized through tourism development. Despite the importance and universality of the politics of heritage in the tourism context, its political dimensions remain insufficiently explored. This study maps the major roles that governments play in China's red tou...

This paper examines the costs and benefits of smallness, islandness, and peripheral location within the context of tourism. These characteristics of place enhance the attractiveness of some destinations as people seek to experience foreignness, remoteness, and unique cultures and lifestyles. However, the same characteristics can create problems for...

This section is devoted to research notes, conference resumes and other significant research events. Two copies of write-ups, not exceeding 1,000 words, may be mailed to the Section Editor, Associate Professor Ross K. Dowling, School of Marketing and Tourism, Faculty of Business, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup Campus, WA 6027, Australia. In all...

This section is devoted to research reports, notes, conference resumes and other significant research events. Two copies of write-ups, not exceeding 2,000 words, may be mailed to the Section Editor, Associate Professor David A. Fennell, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2S 3A1; e-mail: dfennell@arnie.pec.brocku.ca. In all cases, on...

Many natural and cultural tourist attractions have been given World Heritage Site (WHS) status. This designation, however, has not always resulted in numbers of visitors increasing as this is often influenced by other factors like marketing and accessibility. Equally, there remain few world heritage sites that have been placed on the danger list as...

Trails and routes have been indispensable to travel and tourism over the centuries, helping to form the basis of mobility patterns of the past and the present. This book is the first to comprehensively examine these tourism trails from a tourism and recreation perspective. This cutting-edge volume is global in scope and discusses a wide range of na...