The politics of knowledge as a tourist attraction

Travési, Céline

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2017.07.014

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“…In the context of an enduring paternalistic domination of the state (Lattas and Morris 2010), Bardi and Jawi people could very much be seen as reversing a relation of power in this context (Travesi 2017). Tour guides, however, do not really seek to dominate their 'students' and accompany their practices with humour and self-derision.…”

Section: 'Hi Everybody!' (The Tourists Hesitantly) -Hi…mentioning

confidence: 99%

Knowing and Being Known. Approaching Australian Indigenous Tourism Through Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Politics of Knowing

Travési

2018

Anthropological Forum

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Based on ethnographic research conducted with Bardi and Jawi people, an Indigenous group from the Northwestern Kimberley region of Western Australia, the aim of this paper is to approach the complexities related to Indigenous tourism in Australia through the politics of knowing and not-knowing as embodied by Indigenous tour guides and non-Indigenous tourists. It examines the notion of knowing (or not knowing) and its usages by Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in the context of their tourist encounter. 'Knowing' represents an important aspect through which Aboriginal people and their non-Indigenous guests negotiate their interactions. In particular, the paper shows how Indigenous and non-Indigenous expectations from tourism lead actors to adopt divergent positions and to assert renewed claims in relation to knowledge or knowing, casting new light on issues of selfrepresentation and empowerment in the domain of Indigenous tourism.

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Section: 'Hi Everybody!' (The Tourists Hesitantly) -Hi…mentioning

confidence: 99%

Knowing and Being Known. Approaching Australian Indigenous Tourism Through Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Politics of Knowing

Travési

2018

Anthropological Forum

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“…Similar examples are reported for guide representations of slavery in the United States (Modlin et al, 2011), the Nazi Party in Germany (Macdonald, 2006), and the political history of South Africa (Jethro, 2015). Travesi's (2017) work in Western Australia powerfully illustrates how interwoven considerations of knowledge and power in the context of Indigenous tourism are. While Aboriginal people wish to use tourism to teach visitors about their culture, any related action is seen as exercising the right to speak with authority about one's culture.…”

Section: Learning and Training For Tour Guidingmentioning

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Learning About Learning in Tourism: Indigenous Guide Perspectives on Their Personal and Professional Development

Albrecht

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Dwyer³

2021

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research

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This empirically based article examines guides’ knowledge and skills acquisition. Using two cultural tourism attractions in New Zealand as field sites, the focus is on guides in cultural tourism contexts. Twenty-one semistructured in-depth interviews with guides and managers were conducted and analyzed using a social constructivist perspective. This article is thus among the first to add the voices of (Indigenous) guides to the discussions of guide knowledge acquisition and learning. The relevance of previous personal experience of guides, conceptualized as informal experiential (practice-based) learning and lifelong learning, is identified as critical in guided tour content selection and delivery, as well as in engagement with participants of a guided tour experience. Implications address power relationships, ownership of information and stories, and credibility of a message in (Indigenous) cultural tourism; the need to focus on recruitment of guides, and a call for perceiving guides as humans with a sophisticated, demanding, interpersonal role.

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“…Agents applying the Adaptive Markets Hypothesis make their decisions based on past experiences and expectations. Tourist offers and socioeconomic situations influence decisions; agents can decide based on tourism demand factors such as seasonality or weather [20], social-psychological factors [21], a combination of factors [22] and travel decisions at a microeconomic level [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]. Referring to the literature on accommodation in tourist apartments, researchers have focused on other factors influencing customer decisions, such as images on web pages [35], externalities created by the market and geolocation offers [36] or quality-price [37].…”

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Entropy Method for Decision-Making: Uncertainty Cycles in Tourism Demand

Reina

2021

Entropy

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A new methodology is presented for measuring, classifying and predicting the cycles of uncertainty that occur in temporary decision-making in the tourist accommodation market (apartments and hotels). Special attention is paid to the role of entropy and cycles in the process under the Adaptive Markets Hypothesis. The work scheme analyses random cycles from time to time, and in the frequency domain, the linear and nonlinear causality relationships between variables are studied. The period analysed is from January 2005 to December 2018; the following empirical results stand out: (1) On longer scales, the periodicity of the uncertainty of decision-making is between 6 and 12 months, respectively, for all the nationalities described. (2) The elasticity of demand for tourist apartments is approximately 1% due to changes in demand for tourist hotels. (3) The elasticity of the uncertainty factor is highly correlated with the country of origin of tourists visiting Spain. For example, it has been empirically shown that increases of 1% in uncertainty cause increases in the demand for apartments of 2.12% (worldwide), 3.05% (UK), 1.91% (Germany), 1.78% (France), 7.21% (Ireland), 3.61% (The Netherlands) respectively. This modelling has an explanatory capacity of 99% in all the models analysed.

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The politics of knowledge as a tourist attraction

Cited by 17 publications

References 63 publications

Knowing and Being Known. Approaching Australian Indigenous Tourism Through Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Politics of Knowing

Knowing and Being Known. Approaching Australian Indigenous Tourism Through Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Politics of Knowing

Learning About Learning in Tourism: Indigenous Guide Perspectives on Their Personal and Professional Development

Entropy Method for Decision-Making: Uncertainty Cycles in Tourism Demand

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