The tourism industry is growing fast in the recent years. Every place is looking up on tourism and expect it to bring benefits for local developments; and the metropolitan areas are not exceptions. This research focus on the strategy of developing tourism in the metro-area. Although the metropolitan -area may not have significant amount of nature attractions, it has the advantage of being the ¡§gate¡¨ of all sorts of transportations. People have to pass through the metropolitan area in order to arrive their destination. Thus, the strategy of how to use this advantage and cooperate with the surrounding areas is essential. In this research, we call the above described metropolitan area the ¡§Metropolitan Tourist Gateway.¡¨ Also, we use the term ¡§Metropolitan Tourist Gateway Economy¡¨ to express the total product of the metropolitan tourism. The researcher uses TOWS matrix and three successful cases as the foundation of the tourist gateway strategies of Kaohsiung city; then use Delphi to generalize strategies from experts¡¦ opinions. In the end, the author concludes this research into six aspects and fourteen recommendations.

Kaohsiung City locates in the Southern Taiwan, being the second largest municipality directly under the jurisdiction of the Central Government. Among all the cities in Taiwan, Kaohsiung City not has the highest population density, but also prospers in heavy industry. Following with the population aggregation, urbanization trends, and industry development, Kaohsiung City has become the most important urban metropolis and is now the centre of economy, administration, education, and entertainment in the Southern Taiwan. Kaohsiung City is representative for the characteristics and spirits of Taiwan, comprising mountains and oceans. Kaohsiung harbor is the 6th largest harbor in the world, the center of Taiwan's shipbuilding industry, a key position of pelagic fishing business, as well as home to a large R.O.C. Navy base. Kaohsuing is therefore considered as the Marin Capital. Nowadays, Kaohsiung City further develops its tourism markets and endeavors to make Love River, most representative symbol of Kaohsiung, become one of the well-known tourist attractions in Taiwan. ¡§Promoting business and encouraging economy¡¨ is the slogan for developing Kaohsiung City. In Kaohsiung Lantern Festival 2006, there were 6,000,000 tourists coming to Kaohsiung and thus raised 15% of the lodging rate for Tourism Hotels in Kaohsiung. In order to mold Kaohsiung City into a International Tourist City, it is plan to continuously developing the Love River Transportation System, and working on landscaping projects around the Lover River and Kaohsiung Harbor. Kaohsiung City is expected to be a Tourism Spots of the Southern Taiwan, and an International Urban Metropolis. This study investigates the tourism business of Love River. By conducting in-depth interviews with experts in business and history of Kaohsiung, we explores whether if the media marketing strategies in tourism is contributive to the tourism industry of Kaohsiung Love River.

The purpose of the study is to highlight and investigate lack of basic services on city tourism in Bamenda from a national and an international stakeholders’ perspective. The study also aims to explore potential solutions and suggest improvements that can make Bamenda more competitive as a tourist destination. Basic services focused on has been insecurity, infrastructure shortage and unskilled personnel on tourism sub industries, electricity outages and unstable internet supply. To understand the scope of, the problem, a qualitative method approach was used whereby thirty-seven persons were interviewed. The respondents were adult males and females between the age range 38- 50 who have years of working experience and academic background that ranged from bachelor’s degree to Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D). The study identified government negligence in providing needed infrastructure and services as some of the biggest setbacks to the smooth functioning of the tourism industry in Bamenda. It was surprisingly realized that Bamenda has a diverse culture capable of attracting many international tourists as well as a very dynamic population. Additionally, it was noted that there is a devastating crisis of identity in the Cameroons that has brought tourism to near zero.

京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(工学) / 甲第23178号 / 工博第4822号 / 新制||工||1753(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院工学研究科都市社会工学専攻 / (主査)教授 山田 忠史, 教授 藤井 聡, 准教授 SCHMOECKER Jan-Dirk / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Philosophy (Engineering) / Kyoto University / DFAM

Esta é uma tese sobre Geografia e Turismo. O problema investigado: como Porto Alegre (RS), metrópole regional de 1,4 milhão de habitantes, constitui-se em destino turístico? O relato desse trajeto investigativo foi estruturado em quatro momentos. Em um primeiro movimento se buscou visitar as controvérsias sobre a episteme do Turismo e o modo em que a Geografia tem se dedicado a esse campo de estudos. Posteriormente se procurou interpretar a relação entre Turismo e urbano. Apresentou-se uma tipologia de locais urbanos investidos pelo Turismo, sublinhando a variedade de modos que os espaços podem ser turísticos. Neste conjunto está a cidade com função turística e a cidade de trânsito, que parecem corresponder à realidade de Porto Alegre. Investigou-se a maneira como o Turismo passa a ser um signo de urbanidade que atua no coração das metrópoles e na arquitetura produtiva do capitalismo contemporâneo. Considerando esse percurso teórico, buscou-se então uma melhor compreensão da situação de Porto Alegre. Assim, foi feita uma breve revisão da evolução urbana da cidade e sua vinculação com o Turismo. Avaliou-se a situação e a inserção de Porto Alegre na dinâmica global do Sistema Turismo a partir de uma análise com indicadores em três escalas: global, nacional e local. Tendo em vista esse contexto, se propôs então o exame da produção do discurso turístico sobre Porto Alegre. Para isso foi analisado um corpus de 135 documentos produzidos entre 1915 e 2015, incluíndo guias de viagem, folhetos, catálogos, reportagens de revistas e jornais, além de um recorte da base de dados de comentários da plataforma Trip Advisor. Esse corpus serviu de subsídio para quatro roteiros investigativos No roteiro A examinou-se o caráter pragmático dessa literatura e tem como resultado um quadro das cenografias (MAINGUENEAU, 2011) dos enunciados turísticos sobre Porto Alegre. No roteiro B, em analogia as 'cidades invisíveis' de Calvino, descreveu-se as balizas e os marcadores a partir dos quais constituí-se uma intencionalidade turística sobre Porto Alegre. No roteiro C tomou-se os documentos do corpus como testemunhos dos arranjos institucionais e espaciais que permitiram a emergência das iniciativas e políticas de turistificação de Porto Alegre. No roteiro D analisou-se quais são as práticas turísticas existentes em Porto Alegre, onde se localizam, e aponta um quadro com as trajetórias possíveis das dinâmicas dos lugares turísticos da cidade. Em geral, constata-se que Porto Alegre apresenta as características dos tipos espaciais cidade com função turística e cidade de trânsito. O Turismo na cidade sofre tanto uma concorrência interna, de outras mobilidades e atividades, quanto externa, em competição com outros destinos em um sistema mais amplo. Essa concorrência e a pluralidade caraterística de atividades em uma metrópole contribuem para certa invisibilidade do Turismo na dinâmica da cidade. O sistema turístico de Porto Alegre é intermitente e vulnerável, fortalecendo-se ou debilitando-se ao sabor da conjuntura local e extra-local. Entretanto, não se podem desprezar as variadas iniciativas e políticas de ativação turística do território porto-alegrense, que recebe 3,5 milhões de visitantes anuais, muitos em projeto de descoberta turística da cidade. / This thesis is about Geography and Tourism. It's research problem is how Porto Alegre, the southernmost brazilian metropolis with 1,4 million inhabitants, becomes a tourist destination? The text is structured in four chapters. Firstly there is a review on the controversies of tourism definitons and on the way that the geographical science has dedicated itself to this field of inquiry. The following goal was to interpret the relation between tourism and urban. A typology of urban sites invested by tourism is presented, in which is stressed the variety of ways that spaces might be touristic. Among those there are the city with a tourist function and transportation hub, which seems to fit Porto Alegre's reality. Another concerning topic it the way by which tourism becomes a sign of urbanity that is active in the heart of today's metropolises and capitalism productive architecture. Considering this theoretical path, a better understanding about the situation of Porto Alegre is seeked. Therefore, it is presented a brief description of the city's urban evolution and its ties to tourism. To assess the situation and insertion of Porto Alegre in the global dynamics of the Tourism System, an analysis with indicators operating in three scales: global, national and local is displayed. Minding this context, it is proposed an analysis upon the production of tourism discourse about Porto Alegre. In order to so it was collected a corpus of 135 documents, issued between 1915 and 2015, including tourist guidebooks, leaflets, catalogs, magazine and newspaper's coverage, and also the Trip Advisor database From these documents' analysis, four research paths are followed. Route A examines the pragmatic feature of this literature and as a result it presents a table of Porto Alegre's tourist statements scenography (MAINGUENEAU, 2011). Route B, in analogy to Calvino's 'invisible cities', describes the markers from which the tourist intention upon Porto Alegre was constructed. Route C considers this documents corpus as witnesses of the institutional and spatial settings that allowed Porto Alegre's touristification initiatives and policies to emerge. Route D analyses which are the tourist performances existing in Porto Alegre, where they are located, and points to a set of possible tourist city places' dynamics. Broadly, it appears that Porto Alegre displays the characteristics of the space type city with tourist function and transportation hub. Tourism in the city suffers both from an internal concurrency, with other mobilities and activities, and an external one, competing with other tourist destinations in a broader system. This competition and the typical plurality of the activities in a metropolis contributes to a certain invisibility of tourism in the city's dynamics. The tourist system in Porto Alegre is unsteady and vulnerable, strengthening or weakening, according to external or internal conjuctures. Nonetheless, the multiple attempts and policies of touristifing Porto Alegre's territory cannot be dismissed, as well as its 3,5 annual million visitors, many of those planning to discover the city as tourists.

Esta é uma tese sobre Geografia e Turismo. O problema investigado: como Porto Alegre (RS), metrópole regional de 1,4 milhão de habitantes, constitui-se em destino turístico? O relato desse trajeto investigativo foi estruturado em quatro momentos. Em um primeiro movimento se buscou visitar as controvérsias sobre a episteme do Turismo e o modo em que a Geografia tem se dedicado a esse campo de estudos. Posteriormente se procurou interpretar a relação entre Turismo e urbano. Apresentou-se uma tipologia de locais urbanos investidos pelo Turismo, sublinhando a variedade de modos que os espaços podem ser turísticos. Neste conjunto está a cidade com função turística e a cidade de trânsito, que parecem corresponder à realidade de Porto Alegre. Investigou-se a maneira como o Turismo passa a ser um signo de urbanidade que atua no coração das metrópoles e na arquitetura produtiva do capitalismo contemporâneo. Considerando esse percurso teórico, buscou-se então uma melhor compreensão da situação de Porto Alegre. Assim, foi feita uma breve revisão da evolução urbana da cidade e sua vinculação com o Turismo. Avaliou-se a situação e a inserção de Porto Alegre na dinâmica global do Sistema Turismo a partir de uma análise com indicadores em três escalas: global, nacional e local. Tendo em vista esse contexto, se propôs então o exame da produção do discurso turístico sobre Porto Alegre. Para isso foi analisado um corpus de 135 documentos produzidos entre 1915 e 2015, incluíndo guias de viagem, folhetos, catálogos, reportagens de revistas e jornais, além de um recorte da base de dados de comentários da plataforma Trip Advisor. Esse corpus serviu de subsídio para quatro roteiros investigativos No roteiro A examinou-se o caráter pragmático dessa literatura e tem como resultado um quadro das cenografias (MAINGUENEAU, 2011) dos enunciados turísticos sobre Porto Alegre. No roteiro B, em analogia as 'cidades invisíveis' de Calvino, descreveu-se as balizas e os marcadores a partir dos quais constituí-se uma intencionalidade turística sobre Porto Alegre. No roteiro C tomou-se os documentos do corpus como testemunhos dos arranjos institucionais e espaciais que permitiram a emergência das iniciativas e políticas de turistificação de Porto Alegre. No roteiro D analisou-se quais são as práticas turísticas existentes em Porto Alegre, onde se localizam, e aponta um quadro com as trajetórias possíveis das dinâmicas dos lugares turísticos da cidade. Em geral, constata-se que Porto Alegre apresenta as características dos tipos espaciais cidade com função turística e cidade de trânsito. O Turismo na cidade sofre tanto uma concorrência interna, de outras mobilidades e atividades, quanto externa, em competição com outros destinos em um sistema mais amplo. Essa concorrência e a pluralidade caraterística de atividades em uma metrópole contribuem para certa invisibilidade do Turismo na dinâmica da cidade. O sistema turístico de Porto Alegre é intermitente e vulnerável, fortalecendo-se ou debilitando-se ao sabor da conjuntura local e extra-local. Entretanto, não se podem desprezar as variadas iniciativas e políticas de ativação turística do território porto-alegrense, que recebe 3,5 milhões de visitantes anuais, muitos em projeto de descoberta turística da cidade. / This thesis is about Geography and Tourism. It's research problem is how Porto Alegre, the southernmost brazilian metropolis with 1,4 million inhabitants, becomes a tourist destination? The text is structured in four chapters. Firstly there is a review on the controversies of tourism definitons and on the way that the geographical science has dedicated itself to this field of inquiry. The following goal was to interpret the relation between tourism and urban. A typology of urban sites invested by tourism is presented, in which is stressed the variety of ways that spaces might be touristic. Among those there are the city with a tourist function and transportation hub, which seems to fit Porto Alegre's reality. Another concerning topic it the way by which tourism becomes a sign of urbanity that is active in the heart of today's metropolises and capitalism productive architecture. Considering this theoretical path, a better understanding about the situation of Porto Alegre is seeked. Therefore, it is presented a brief description of the city's urban evolution and its ties to tourism. To assess the situation and insertion of Porto Alegre in the global dynamics of the Tourism System, an analysis with indicators operating in three scales: global, national and local is displayed. Minding this context, it is proposed an analysis upon the production of tourism discourse about Porto Alegre. In order to so it was collected a corpus of 135 documents, issued between 1915 and 2015, including tourist guidebooks, leaflets, catalogs, magazine and newspaper's coverage, and also the Trip Advisor database From these documents' analysis, four research paths are followed. Route A examines the pragmatic feature of this literature and as a result it presents a table of Porto Alegre's tourist statements scenography (MAINGUENEAU, 2011). Route B, in analogy to Calvino's 'invisible cities', describes the markers from which the tourist intention upon Porto Alegre was constructed. Route C considers this documents corpus as witnesses of the institutional and spatial settings that allowed Porto Alegre's touristification initiatives and policies to emerge. Route D analyses which are the tourist performances existing in Porto Alegre, where they are located, and points to a set of possible tourist city places' dynamics. Broadly, it appears that Porto Alegre displays the characteristics of the space type city with tourist function and transportation hub. Tourism in the city suffers both from an internal concurrency, with other mobilities and activities, and an external one, competing with other tourist destinations in a broader system. This competition and the typical plurality of the activities in a metropolis contributes to a certain invisibility of tourism in the city's dynamics. The tourist system in Porto Alegre is unsteady and vulnerable, strengthening or weakening, according to external or internal conjuctures. Nonetheless, the multiple attempts and policies of touristifing Porto Alegre's territory cannot be dismissed, as well as its 3,5 annual million visitors, many of those planning to discover the city as tourists.

Esta é uma tese sobre Geografia e Turismo. O problema investigado: como Porto Alegre (RS), metrópole regional de 1,4 milhão de habitantes, constitui-se em destino turístico? O relato desse trajeto investigativo foi estruturado em quatro momentos. Em um primeiro movimento se buscou visitar as controvérsias sobre a episteme do Turismo e o modo em que a Geografia tem se dedicado a esse campo de estudos. Posteriormente se procurou interpretar a relação entre Turismo e urbano. Apresentou-se uma tipologia de locais urbanos investidos pelo Turismo, sublinhando a variedade de modos que os espaços podem ser turísticos. Neste conjunto está a cidade com função turística e a cidade de trânsito, que parecem corresponder à realidade de Porto Alegre. Investigou-se a maneira como o Turismo passa a ser um signo de urbanidade que atua no coração das metrópoles e na arquitetura produtiva do capitalismo contemporâneo. Considerando esse percurso teórico, buscou-se então uma melhor compreensão da situação de Porto Alegre. Assim, foi feita uma breve revisão da evolução urbana da cidade e sua vinculação com o Turismo. Avaliou-se a situação e a inserção de Porto Alegre na dinâmica global do Sistema Turismo a partir de uma análise com indicadores em três escalas: global, nacional e local. Tendo em vista esse contexto, se propôs então o exame da produção do discurso turístico sobre Porto Alegre. Para isso foi analisado um corpus de 135 documentos produzidos entre 1915 e 2015, incluíndo guias de viagem, folhetos, catálogos, reportagens de revistas e jornais, além de um recorte da base de dados de comentários da plataforma Trip Advisor. Esse corpus serviu de subsídio para quatro roteiros investigativos No roteiro A examinou-se o caráter pragmático dessa literatura e tem como resultado um quadro das cenografias (MAINGUENEAU, 2011) dos enunciados turísticos sobre Porto Alegre. No roteiro B, em analogia as 'cidades invisíveis' de Calvino, descreveu-se as balizas e os marcadores a partir dos quais constituí-se uma intencionalidade turística sobre Porto Alegre. No roteiro C tomou-se os documentos do corpus como testemunhos dos arranjos institucionais e espaciais que permitiram a emergência das iniciativas e políticas de turistificação de Porto Alegre. No roteiro D analisou-se quais são as práticas turísticas existentes em Porto Alegre, onde se localizam, e aponta um quadro com as trajetórias possíveis das dinâmicas dos lugares turísticos da cidade. Em geral, constata-se que Porto Alegre apresenta as características dos tipos espaciais cidade com função turística e cidade de trânsito. O Turismo na cidade sofre tanto uma concorrência interna, de outras mobilidades e atividades, quanto externa, em competição com outros destinos em um sistema mais amplo. Essa concorrência e a pluralidade caraterística de atividades em uma metrópole contribuem para certa invisibilidade do Turismo na dinâmica da cidade. O sistema turístico de Porto Alegre é intermitente e vulnerável, fortalecendo-se ou debilitando-se ao sabor da conjuntura local e extra-local. Entretanto, não se podem desprezar as variadas iniciativas e políticas de ativação turística do território porto-alegrense, que recebe 3,5 milhões de visitantes anuais, muitos em projeto de descoberta turística da cidade. / This thesis is about Geography and Tourism. It's research problem is how Porto Alegre, the southernmost brazilian metropolis with 1,4 million inhabitants, becomes a tourist destination? The text is structured in four chapters. Firstly there is a review on the controversies of tourism definitons and on the way that the geographical science has dedicated itself to this field of inquiry. The following goal was to interpret the relation between tourism and urban. A typology of urban sites invested by tourism is presented, in which is stressed the variety of ways that spaces might be touristic. Among those there are the city with a tourist function and transportation hub, which seems to fit Porto Alegre's reality. Another concerning topic it the way by which tourism becomes a sign of urbanity that is active in the heart of today's metropolises and capitalism productive architecture. Considering this theoretical path, a better understanding about the situation of Porto Alegre is seeked. Therefore, it is presented a brief description of the city's urban evolution and its ties to tourism. To assess the situation and insertion of Porto Alegre in the global dynamics of the Tourism System, an analysis with indicators operating in three scales: global, national and local is displayed. Minding this context, it is proposed an analysis upon the production of tourism discourse about Porto Alegre. In order to so it was collected a corpus of 135 documents, issued between 1915 and 2015, including tourist guidebooks, leaflets, catalogs, magazine and newspaper's coverage, and also the Trip Advisor database From these documents' analysis, four research paths are followed. Route A examines the pragmatic feature of this literature and as a result it presents a table of Porto Alegre's tourist statements scenography (MAINGUENEAU, 2011). Route B, in analogy to Calvino's 'invisible cities', describes the markers from which the tourist intention upon Porto Alegre was constructed. Route C considers this documents corpus as witnesses of the institutional and spatial settings that allowed Porto Alegre's touristification initiatives and policies to emerge. Route D analyses which are the tourist performances existing in Porto Alegre, where they are located, and points to a set of possible tourist city places' dynamics. Broadly, it appears that Porto Alegre displays the characteristics of the space type city with tourist function and transportation hub. Tourism in the city suffers both from an internal concurrency, with other mobilities and activities, and an external one, competing with other tourist destinations in a broader system. This competition and the typical plurality of the activities in a metropolis contributes to a certain invisibility of tourism in the city's dynamics. The tourist system in Porto Alegre is unsteady and vulnerable, strengthening or weakening, according to external or internal conjuctures. Nonetheless, the multiple attempts and policies of touristifing Porto Alegre's territory cannot be dismissed, as well as its 3,5 annual million visitors, many of those planning to discover the city as tourists.

The purpose of the research study was to find about who the National Museum visitors are and what is their five reasons and motives to visit the National Museum. To get a better understanding about finding out who are the National Museum visitors a qualitative method was used in the form of a questionnaire that dealt with questions about the respondent’s demographic background and open questions related to finding out more details about the respondents’ reasons to visit the National Museum that is an art and design museum. The data that was gathered from the questionnaire was analysed through the use of a thematic analysis to find specific themes based on the female and male respondent’s answers. The results indicate that most of the respondents who took part in the questionnaire on the 5th of April 2019 at the National Museum are a mix of female and male between the age 20-72 years from Sweden and other countries, all of them have a higher education (High School, Bachelor and Master Degree) and have studied art, history of art or design. The reason that many of the respondents choose to visit the museum and what attracted them to the National Museum was foremost for they all share an interest in art and design. The National Museum itself is an interesting place to be at because many of the female and male respondents have an appreciation in the art and design collections and exhibitions that is displayed at the museum. The National Museum offers a free admission and entry so many of them could visit the museum either by themselves or with a companion, and many of the respondents like how the National Museum teaches history about the art and design.

Title: Development ot the Status of Prague - Tourist Destination in the Central European Space Author: Veronika Dumbrovská Department: Social Geography and Regional Development Supervisor: RNDr. Dana Fialová, Ph.D. Abstract The objective of this thesis is to analyse the development of the status of Prague as a destination of city tourism in Central European since 1989. Prague, the Czech capital, is compared to other capitals in the region - Berlin, Vienna, Bratislava, Warsaw, and Budapest. The research is focused especially on a comparison between Prague on the one hand and Vienna and Budapest on the other in the period 2003-2011. For the research presented in the submitted thesis, secondary data from national statistical offices of the selected countries and specialized statistical databases were used. This quantitative research has been combined with qualitative studies. Since 1989, Prague has transformed from a destination of "former Eastern bloc" into a destination comparable with major cities of Western Europe. The development of tourism in Prague has been rapid and misbalanced. Tourism impact on Prague is higher than in other capitals of Central Europe, especially in its historical centre. This thesis presents major theoretical characteristics of city tourism and applies them on the case of Prague -...

This diploma thesis focuses on the issue of cultural tourism, particularly focusing on Prague theatres and incoming tourism in Prague. This work specifically examines the relationship between these two areas. The aim of this study is to confirm the hypothesis whether it makes sense to look at theatres in Prague as one of the tools of marketing strategies and promotion of the city in relation to foreign visitors. First part of this work is theoretical. It deals with the definition of culture, performing arts and tourism. This part also examines theoretical approaches to the issue of cultural tourism and cultural tourist. Practical part of this study includes a survey and interviews in selected theatres and institutions, thematically focused on marketing communication and overall approach to the target group of foreign visitors.