Wickens Eugenia

Universiti Utara Malaysia | UUM · Research & Innovation Management Centre (RIMC)

This paper discusses stakeholders’ relationships in a service learning project in a rural destination in Ecuador (Mashpi, province of Pichincha). A conceptual framework was developed examining three areas: stakeholder management, tourism development and service learning projects and knowledge transfer. Sixteen (16) stakeholders took part in the cas...

This article has the aim of presenting the basis for a new, clearer classification of restaurant attributes. The research followed an interpretive approach with a systematic review of the literature, compared and contrasted with the findings of six focus group interviews. A new model was devised with seven categories of restaurant attributes. This...

The focus of this paper is the London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. More specifically, this article examines the pre-Games views of a sample of 301 British residents (57.8% male, 42.2% female; age range: 18–65 years) on imagined themes and content of the Opening Ceremony. In addition, the paper discusses the perceptions of cultural identity,...

Since the publication of the Brundtland Report, Our common future (1987), there has been a proliferation of guidelines on sustainability in rural areas at the international level that have gradually made their way to the centre of national policies. In this paper, thematic analysis is applied to establish the current situation in relation to sustai...

The significant role of tourism as an agent of change in global society makes its study a relevant one for higher education. However, how tourism manifests itself in higher education can vary from a management orientation to a multi-disciplinary social science studies based approach. But how tourism curricula are decided is not a decision of academ...

Tourism destination images are often shaped through media exposure during mega sport events such as the Olympic Games. The opening ceremony of Olympic Games is watched by an audience of millions worldwide making it a good opportunity for each host city and country to promote their image and identity. London, the host city of the 2012 Olympic Games,...

This significant and timely volume aims to provide a focused analysis into tourist experiences that reflect their ever-increasing diversity and complexity, and their significance and meaning to tourists themselves. Written by leading international scholars, it offers new insight into emergent behaviours, motivations and sought meanings on the part...

Staging a mega sport event such as the Olympic Games has been traditionally viewed as a ‘golden’ opportunity for urban regeneration and economic development. Research into residents' perceptions of environmental impacts and security risks at Olympic Games is limited. This paper discusses residents' perceptions of environmental and security issues a...

This paper explored the impact of vacation travel on the ‘self’ using a questionnaire survey and interviews. Vacation travel emerged as a form of learning about the self, a journey of self-discovery rather than self-recovery. Travel impacts are predominantly self-centered, producing changes that provide opportunities for personal growth. Experience...

The paper is concerned with exploring how the media coverage of mega sport events influences the travel decision-making process and destination choice of potential travellers. The decision was made to use Euro 2004 and Portugal as a case study in order to discover the conceptual factors relevant to this phenomenon. The methodology consisted of a co...

The Chalkidiki region in Northern Greece is promoted primarily as a sun, sea and sand rather than a cultural destination. Travel brochures convey information about beaches, the number of hours of sunshine, location and facilities of the accommodation and details of the nightlife. Less emphasis is given to details of special interest tours to nearby...

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV, is a major health issue with respect to international travel. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), HIV/AIDS-associated illnesses have caused the deaths of over 20 million people since 1981 and an estimated 39 million or more cases had occurred worldwide by the end of 2004. Moreover...

Although the link between human mobility and infectious disease spread is well established (Wilson, 1995), scholarly interest in the possible correlation between tourism and HIV/AIDS dissemination is fairly recent (Apostolopoulos &Sönmez, 2001a, 2001b, 2002; Apostolopoulos, Sönmez, &Yu 2002; Clift &Grabowski, 1997; Mulhall, 1996; Sönmez, Apostolopo...

This paper explores the experiences of first year leisure and tourism undergraduates. Engagement with the literature on the factors influencing students’ success or failure is supported by qualitativeevidence from a case study of one Higher Education Institution in England. The study made use of focus groups and one-to-one semi-structured interview...

Rural tourism in South Africa has undergone fundamental change since the advent of political democracy in 1995. Previously perceived as a ‘white man's thing’, rural tourism is increasingly finding a home amongst South Africa's formerly marginalised rural communities. The country has considerable potential in attracting tourists in search of new, ex...

Both eulogised and reviled as a development option, rural tourism is increasingly viewed as a panacea, increasing the economic viability of marginalised areas, stimulating social regeneration and improving the living conditions of rural communities. Less developed countries, afflicted by debilitating rural poverty, have considerable potential in at...

One of the teaching methods available to teachers in the ‘andragogic’ model of teaching is the method of ‘Socratic Seminars’. This is a teacher-directed form of instruction in which questions are used as the sole method of teaching, placing students in the position of having to recognise the limits of their knowledge, and hopefully, motivating them...

Much writing treats the tourist as a unitary type, confined to a touristic bubble. Attempts have been made to subdivide the tourist by developing various typologies. These approaches neglect the tourists' voice. By contrast, this paper's case study from Chalkidiki, Greece, indicates that different tourist types experience the same host community in...

Research findings concerning two ethnic minority groups in Greece focus on employment experiences of Albanian migrant workers and the type of tourist who chooses to “go native” in this host society. It is argued that although both these groups are found in low-paid occupations, the Western “tourist-worker” is treated more favorably by the host coun...