Selling cruises: Gender and mobility in promotional brochures

Vanolo, Alberto; Cattan, Nadine

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“…Similarly, Gutberlet (2016a and 2016b) analysed sociocultural impacts of mega-cruise tourism in a market opposite the port in Muscat. Vanolo and Cattan (2017) investigated visual representations of cruise experiences in promotional brochures, focusing on gender and mobility. Most articles focus on the economic, social and environmental impacts of cruise tourism (Cusano et al, 2017; Gutberlet, 2016b; Hritz and Cecil, 2008; Larsen et al, 2013; Larsen and Wolff, 2016; Lűck et al, 2010; MacNeill and Wozniak, 2018) the globalization and its effects on the production and consumption on board (Da Cruz, 2018; Wood, 2000) as well as on the work environment on board (Gibson, 2008; Weaver, 2005a).…”

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‘In a rush’: Time-space compression and its impacts on cruise excursions

Gutberlet

2019

Tourist Studies

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With the increase in large-scale cruise tourism worldwide, researchers have highlighted the inauthenticity of the cruise experience and the reconstruction of space. This research deals with new aspects: fast tourism through time-space compression, and the formation of enclosed, customized ‘tourist bubbles’ that confine the tourists and promote a constructed authenticity of the experience on-shore. The second aim is to advance applied research in slower cruise excursions, especially in emerging cruise destinations. The research is based on extensive field work conducted during nine cruise-excursions to the sand desert and an oasis in the Sultanate of Oman. Oman is in the early stages of developing mega-cruise tourism while having received little attention in tourism research. For this study, in-depth interviews were conducted with German-speaking cruise tourists, cruise employees as well as with local cultural brokers and the Minister of Tourism. Moreover, participant observation, travel ethnography and photography were applied. Results indicate while moving from one customized ‘tourist bubble’ to the next one, time is controlled and enhanced through fast modes of transportation and a tight schedule of the excursion. The tourists and their cultural brokers are ‘contained’ in time and space, while some are struggling for more authentic experiences. They are shielded off from the local environment, ‘grazing’ destinations within a short time.

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‘In a rush’: Time-space compression and its impacts on cruise excursions

Gutberlet

2019

Tourist Studies

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“…Studies have found that gender and age significantly affect the perceived image of tourism destinations (Baloglu, 1997;Baloglu & McCleary, 1999;Chen & Kerstetter, 1999;Walmsley & Jenkins, 1993). Over the years, relationships between gender, culture and space in the sense of tourism have been emerging as research topics in tourist studies (Aitchison, 1999(Aitchison, , 2001Anderson, 1996;Pritchard & Morgan, 2000, 2005; as cited in Vanolo & Cattan, 2016). Vanolo and Cattan (2016) in their article analyzing representations of gender and mobility in cruise promotional brochures, outline how activities in tourism are gender-influenced.…”

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Does a destination image differ based on the gender of “ITB” visitors? The case of Serbia as a developing travel destination

Berić¹,

Simat²,

Milutinović³

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J GEOGR INST CVIJIC

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This paper's frame of reference is tourism marketing, evaluating the image of targeted travel destination from the gender standpoint. For emerging destinations in southeastern Europe like Serbia, latent connections between destination image and gender are therefore of particular interest for exploration. The International Travel Trade in Berlin (ITB) was the venue for the research. The connections between ITB visitors' gender and the image they perceived about Serbia were assessed, crossed with their socio-demographic attributes, annual travel spending, information sources, association and awareness of Serbia. In this way, the authors wanted to observe and explain the perception of this target group of Serbia's image. The findings suggest that men and women do not differ in attitudes related to the country's image. On the other hand, there is a difference in image scores for positive, negative and no associations of Serbia. The research results could help in modifying tourism strategies for Serbia.

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“…Disney cruises). These big ships oftentimes have seductive names such as Caribbean Princess, Harmony of the Seas, or Norwegian Spirit Vanolo and Cattan (2017). have studied the narratives about gender and mobility in promotional brochures for cruises, pointing out their use of discourses of pleasure and intimacy, of 'happy ageing', professionality of the workforce and exoticism of both urban and natural destinations.…”

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Saint Mark’s Square as Contested Political Space: Protesting Cruise Tourism in Venice

López¹

2021

Shima

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Saint Mark’s Square is unquestionably the most famous tourist attraction in Venice, a piazza characterised by its complex history, unique aesthetics and many allusions to power (given its proximity to the Doge’s Palace and Saint Mark’s Basilica). This square is the largest open space in the city and while it is routinely crowded with tourists from all over the world, political demonstrations have been prohibited since 1997. This article explores Saint Mark’s Square as a contested political space by focusing on the many local struggles against cruise tourism in Venice and its lagoon. Instead of constituting an ‘apolitical’ space, the preferred uses given to the square by local authorities and tourism stakeholders are manifestly ‘political’, producing a space of leisure and consumption that benefits the economic logic behind the ‘normal’ functioning of the piazza. Other alternative social and political uses of the square are not only discouraged but banned, which brings into discussion the Lefebvrian notion of the right to the city: who has access to the centre as a (political) privileged space? The article examines protest acts undertaken by the collective No Grandi Navi, particularly the political events that took place after the MSC Opera collision with another tourist vessel and the dock in June 2019.

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Selling cruises: Gender and mobility in promotional brochures

Cited by 8 publications

References 66 publications

‘In a rush’: Time-space compression and its impacts on cruise excursions

‘In a rush’: Time-space compression and its impacts on cruise excursions

Does a destination image differ based on the gender of “ITB” visitors? The case of Serbia as a developing travel destination

Saint Mark’s Square as Contested Political Space: Protesting Cruise Tourism in Venice

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