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Summarization: Olive oil is one of the products closely related to the Mediterranean basin and it represents one of the most important agricultural activities. Greece represents the third largest producer of olive oil in Europe. This research attempts to explore the olive oil preferences of tourists who have visited the island of Crete. The approach involved collecting questionnaires during the summer of 2014, in order to derive quantitative data, preferences, attitudes, socio-demographic profiles and the purchasing criteria of tourists towards olive oil. Logistic regression was used with the aim of studying the profile of the tourist that decides to buy olive oil in Crete. The results of the study demonstrated that the country of origin of the tourists is one of the most important driver in olive oil choice as well as the time spent in Crete and the interest in typical products. ; Presented on: International Journal of Tourism Policy

This study want to determine the buyer values relationship with willingness to pay higher price. The statistical society includes all of the buyers or luxury goods owners (iPhone mobile and Samsung galaxy) at Marivan city and city settlements and tourists in 2015. Because of the unlimited statistical society based on Morgan table, 384 people were determined as a statistical sample. Study is done by descriptive method from a survey kind. Compilation tool was questionnaire that was based on available random sampling and they were distributed after estimating prestige and perpetuity among respondents. Research gave the questionnaire to persons who were Marivan citizen or tourist and bought luxury goods (iphone mobile and samsung galaxy). It is used content validity method to estimate authenticity and it is used cronbach's Alpha to measure perpetuity question naire that optained 0/895 ammount. After questionnaire completion by applying SPSS 20software and statistical tests, person correlation coefficient and variance analyses and T-test were accounted and analyzed that it's hypothesises test result indicated that there is a relationship with social values variables and functional values with willingness to pay higher cost for luxury goods while there is not a relationship among symbolic values with willingness to pay higher cost for luxury goods.

"Drawing upon the literature of landscape geography, tourism studies, cultural studies, visual studies and philosophy, this book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the interaction between urban environments and tourists. This is a necessary prerequisite for cities as they make themselves into enticing destinations and compete for tourists' attention. It argues that tourists make sense of, and draw meaningful conclusions about, the places in which they tour based upon the interpretation of the signs or elements encountered within the built environment, elements such as graffiti and lamp posts. The writings of the American pragmatist Charles S. Peirce on interpretation provide the theoretical model for explaining the way in which mind and world, or thoughts and objects, result in tourists interacting with place. This theoretical framework elucidates three applied studies undertaken with foreign visitors to the Hungarian capital of Budapest. Based upon extensive ethnographic field work, these studies focus on tourists' interpretation of the urban landscape, with particular attention paid to the encounters with national culture, the role of architecture and the importance of the prosaic in urban tourism"--Back cover

This book represents the first attempt to step inside the holiday experience of young British tourists in San Antonio, Ibiza. Briggs' ethnographic study reveals the ugly truth about how and why they get involved in deviance and risk-taking when they go abroad, driven by self validation and a commodified social context, This book represents the first attempt to step inside the holiday experience of young British tourists. Using ethnographic methods such as observation, open-ended interviewing and focus groups in San Antonio, Ibiza, this book reveals the ugly truth about 'how' and 'why' young Brits get involved in deviance and risk-taking when they go abroad, exploring vivid accounts of drug use, drug dealing, violence, prostitution, and injury. In contrast to existing knowledge and populist depictions, Briggs argues that the root of these behaviours is not pathological but rather it is more about how this social group have come to self validate what is expected of them in their leisure time and, as a consequence, how their attitudes are subtly guided and endorsed by the commodified social context of resorts which are only interested in making money at their expense. Exploring issues of youth culture, political economy, tourism and identity, this book will appeal to scholars in sociology, criminology, cultural studies, tourism and youth studies

"Harvey Levenstein's Seductive Journey explains why so many Americans have visited France and tells the colorful story of what they did when they got there. From Fragonard to foie gras, the result is a highly entertaining examination of the transformation of American attitudes toward French food, sex, and culture, as well as an absorbing exploration of changing notions of class, gender, race, and nationality."--Jacket

Purpose. Our research intention is to reveal new contexts of authenticity in tourism and their sources. Analytical works also provide justification for moral responsibility of researchers regarding the course of research works and circumstances in which they are conducted. Method. The principal research method was critical review of subject-matter literature. We used the autoethnographic approach combined with field participant observation. Findings. Critical desk research on the subject-matter literature and other sources of methodical reflection has led to a new understanding of authenticity in tourism. The paper also discusses traits of original research attitudes. Finally, it proposes a diagnosis of the contemporary model of science. Research and conclusions limitations. This is a theoretical contribution resulting from the heuristic approach. The effects of research published here reflect the author's views. Practical implications. Considerations included in the paper and results flowing from them are addressed to those who manage tourist space at different administrative levels. Ideas and methodical suggestions included in it may provide valid input into scientific debates. Originality. The ideas outlined here represent a new approach to the issue of authenticity in tourism. They also justify the introduction of autoethnography into research on tourism. Type of work. This work is an overview and a conceptual paper.

"British youth have a notorious reputation for binge drinking, drug use, sex and risk behaviours within most major European holiday resorts. Consequently, there is much concern about their social activities abroad - especially in the Spanish Balearics. While research has documented these behaviours among British youth on these islands, it has tended to rely on survey data and offered little understanding of why these behaviours might take place. This is the principle aim of our paper. Our research aims were to examine the drinking attitudes among British youth abroad and investigate the reasons that underpin these attitudes. Additional research interests were drug use, sex and risk behaviours. The paper is based on findings from ethnographic research with British youth in San Antonio, Ibiza. We spent one week with British youth and undertook participant observation and 17 focus groups (equating to 97 young people aged 17 to 31). The data suggests that British youth engage in these behaviours because they are exciting; to escape the constraints of work and family in the UK; and because these behaviours are integral to the construction of their life biographies and identities. The data also indicates that these behaviours are aggressively endorsed by various aspects of the social context of Ibiza." (author's abstract)

AbstractIn Palermo, Sicily, actors use the metaphor of hospitality to profess cosmopolitan attitudes towards 'migrants'. This raises a conceptual puzzle: hospitality and cosmopolitanism represent contradictory models of social ethics. But an ethnography of one social enterprise reveals that the hospitality in use is not traditional hospitality. Rather, employing what I call 'postmodern hospitality' shows a contemporary, reimagined form of hospitality that is compatible with the 'Mediterranean cosmopolitanism' invoked. Actors can thus declare sociopolitical aims of including 'migrants' while saving their 'dying' city. But this politics blurs with economic aims of attracting tourists. Following 'postmodern hospitality' shows how local actors use idealized images of Sicily to appeal to outsiders while attempting to subvert engrained ideas of Sicily as 'backwards'. The risk is that they participate in the European spectacle of migration, and the commodification of notions of 'Mediterraneanness' and 'Southernness'.

Purpose: Although volunteer tourism has been studied via several theoretical lenses, little is known about the behavioural intention of potential volunteer tourists from developing nations. This study aimed to identify the behavioural intention of potential volunteer tourists and the factors motivating them. This study extends the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) to identify the potential volunteer tourists' behavioural intentions by adding four motivations: altruism, personal development, escape, and travel.

Methods: A total of 272 valid responses were collected through an online survey. SmartPLS 3.0 was used to test the hypotheses.

Results: The findings indicate that attitude, perceived behavioural control, subjective norms, escape, and personal development positively influences potential volunteer tourists' intention to take part in volunteer tourism programs. However, altruism and travel do not influence the potential volunteer tourists' intention to take part in volunteer tourism programs.

Implications: Volunteer tourism organisers will get help from the present study's findings to design or improve volunteer tourism programs and activities accordingly, resulting in improved volunteer tourism experiences and, ultimately, impacting the tourists' intention to take part in volunteer tourism programs.

This study aims to analyze the factors that influence tourists to travel for medical tourism in Malaysia. The four main factors used were destination competitiveness, service quality, tourist attitudes, and costs, with 6 additional factors as supporting factors. This study used a quantitative approach. The data were analyzed using Confirmatory Factor Analysis run by SPSS and AMOS 22.0. The sampling technique used was non-probability sampling with the sample consisted of 100 respondents. Results showed that there were 44 elements adopted from the study. Based on the anti-image results, 5 factors were removed. According to the component rotation matrix table, 9 factors influence tourists to visit Malaysia for medical tourism. Then, these 9 factors labelled with the new names, i.e., internal and external factor, location attractiveness, ease of accommodation and services, tourist attraction and service quality, transportation and political condition, information and environment, medical service quality, medical tourism and language, and medical personnel. Keywords:cost, destination competitiveness , medical tourism , service quality, tourist attitude

AbstractBerlin is witnessing a massive tourism boom, and parts of it can be described as 'new urban tourism', which shows a preference for off the beaten track areas and 'authentic' experiences of the city. This form of tourism seems especially salient in Kreuzberg. It is here that an openly articulated critique of tourism attracted national attention in 2011 and has not ceased to do so since. This article aims to better understand the conflictive potential of (new urban) tourism in Kreuzberg. We argue that the readily expressed negative attitudes against tourists and the easily accepted link between tourism and gentrification have to be explained against the backdrop of certain housing‐market dynamics. Rising rents and a diminution in the number of flats available for rent are fuelling fears of gentrification in Kreuzberg, while the interest shown in new urban tourism and the comparatively low‐priced real‐estate market in Berlin result in a growing number of holiday flats. Although adding only slightly to the tightening of the housing market, holiday flats render complex processes of neighborhood change visible and further sustain an already prevalent tourism critique.

The Xi'an Muslim Quarter, in the central part of Xi'an City, China, is famous for its culture and food. It attracts visitors from all over the world each year. By analysing the contexts of online media, this research investigates tourists' experiences in the Xi'an Muslim Quarter. As a famous tourist attraction, the Xi'an Muslim Quarter fascinates more and more visitors due to the development of the tourism and hospitality industry. However, tourists have mixed attitudes towards the Xi'an Muslim Quarter. The Xi'an Muslim Quarter has yet to maximise the connection between heritage experience and tourists. The lack of tourism management and promotion of traditional culture causes unsatisfactory customer experiences. Specifically, my research dissertation asked in what ways tourists using online media express their experiences of the Xi'an Muslim Quarter. Responding to that question, my qualitative inquiry examined 59 online media uploads about the Xi'an Muslim Quarter. To understand those uploads I used thematic analysis to identify the key tourist themes that emerged from their data. My research found that several factors impacted tourists' experiences in the Xi'an Muslim Quarter. Of particular note in my research findings was the importance tourists placed on: halal food taste; the service encounter and servicescape; and experiencing authenticity and helping community. Fortunately, the Government of Xi'an has planned to renovate the Xi'an Muslim Quarter. With that consideration in mind, this research is timely because it may benefit government agencies with its exploration of tourist experiences. By exploring what tourists think about and experience in the Xi'an Muslim Quarter, this research can contribute to a better understanding of how historical and cultural tourism can be improved in the Xi'an Muslim Quarter. This research may benefit tourism government agencies and small business enterprises alike in the Xi'an Muslim Quarter because it provides a timely insight into tourist experiences.

Though increasingly a focus of both political concern and academic research, `sex tourism' is a difficult term to define. This article presents both quantitative and qualitative data on the sexual behaviour and attitudes of single and/or unaccompanied heterosexual female tourists in the Dominican Republic and Jamaica. In so doing it aims to contribute to the body of research evidence on the phenomenon, as well as to highlight some of the conceptual problems associated with existing analyses of both `sex tourism' and `romance tourism'. It calls for the development of a theoretical model of sex tourism which can accommodate both the diversity of tourist-related sexual-economic exchanges which take place in economically underdeveloped countries and the complexity of the power relations that underpin them.

Aiming to expend the existing knowledge regarding behavioural patterns of cultural tourists who are visiting Montenegro, the purpose of this research is to identify the main reasons that motivate cultural tourists to use e-WOM as a source of information about this destination. To fulfil this task a structured questionnaire was designed and a field research was carried out during 2019 among 376 cultural tourists who used e-WOM to gain more information about Montenegro. Twenty seven indicators were identified and grouped in three groups of factors of influence which were examined using one-way analysis of variance and independent sample T-test. Besides the respondents 'personal attitude, the research shows that certain demographic characteristics and the respondents' country of origin influenced their propensity in using e-WOM prior to visiting this destination. By identifying concrete reasons why cultural tourists use e-WOM, this study offers insights that can be useful in designing future destination marketing strategies.