This thesis considers how 'day visitors' to the Peak National Park construct accounts for their behaviour. It takes an inductive approach to the problem of 'day visits' as an under-researched topic within tourism and leisure studies. The thesis examines the discourses within tourism studies and in particular the ways in which notions of what it is to be a 'tourist' are constructed and used in tourism studies. Further it seeks to relocate the notion of tourism within the realm of ordinary social member's understandings, and therefore tourism becomes an object of study within everyday life. The thesis is particularly interested in the concept of motivation for tourism. Rather than regarding tourism motivation as a set of fixed 'needs' the study sets out to demonstrate the inherently social, locally managed and produced nature of motivation for tourism within everyday conversation about tourism. The empirical analysis is based on a small number of semi-structured, conversational interviews with people who had recently been on a 'day visit' to the Peak National Park. It was found that the respondents orient to the production of accounts of their experiences and accounts for their behaviour that served a number of functions. Accounts were found to allow members to construct notions of identity as a resource to achieve credibility in their accomplishment of 'day visitor' experiences in talk. This study considers how 'being a tourist' is accomplished or resisted by the respondents in their talk. Identity construction is also considered in relation to the accomplishment of spatial practice in accounting for 'day visitor' behaviour.

Οι περιοχές του ευρωπαϊκού οικολογικού Δικτύου Natura 2000 είναι περιοχές πρόσφορες για την ανάπτυξη πολλαπλών ήπιων τουριστικών δραστηριοτήτων, που έχουν σκοπό την ηρεμία, την απομόνωση, την αισθητική απόλαυση του τοπίου καθώς και τη γνωριμία με το φυσικό περιβάλλον. Η πολύτιμη αξία και η αναγκαιότητα προστασίας και ανάδειξης του φυσικού πλούτου που τις διακρίνει, απαιτούν την υιοθέτηση και εφαρμογή μίας πολυεπίπεδης στρατηγικής, αποτελούμενης από εξειδικευμένα έργα, μέτρα και δράσεις, με σκοπό τη συστηματικότερη διαφύλαξη και διαχείριση των εν λόγω περιοχών και κατ’ επέκταση την εξασφάλιση της βιώσιμης τουριστικής τους ανάπτυξής. Στην παρούσα εργασία θα εξετασθεί η προστατευμένη περιοχή τους ορούς βόρα. Η οποια είναι μια εκτεταμένη περιοχή από συνεχόμενα δάση , βαθιές κοιλάδες και βοσκοτόπους. Εκτός από τα παραπάνω η περιοχή διαθέτει και θερμά λουτρά στο Λουτράκι Αριδαίας τα οποία και επισκέπτονται καθ’ολη την διάρκεια του χρόνου πληθώρα επισκεπτών. Η έρευνα, με τη βοήθεια ενός κατάλληλα διαμορφωμένου ερωτηματολογίου, εξετάζει τα ατομικά χαρακτηριστικά των επισκεπτών, τις δραστηριότητες που αυτοί ασκούν κατά την επίσκεψής τους, τις προτιμήσεις τους, καθώς και τις απόψεις και παρατηρήσεις τους για τα όσα η περιοχή διαθέτει και προσφέρει. Από την ανάλυση και επεξεργασία των απαντήσεων που δόθηκαν, εξάγονται χρήσιμα συμπεράσματα για την εκτίμηση της παρούσας κατάστασης, με απώτερο σκοπό την γενικότερη αναβάθμιση των εν λόγω περιοχών και την επίτευξη μίας ορθολογικής και αποτελεσματικής διαχείρισης, μέσω της ουσιαστικής βελτίωσης της ποιότητας των υπαρχουσών εγκαταστάσεων, υποδομών και παρεχόμενων υπηρεσιών, έτσι ώστε να είναι ανταγωνιστικές και πιο ελκυστικές για όσους επιλέγουν τέτοιους είδους προορισμούς. / The regions of European ecological Network Natura 2000 are regions expedient for the growth of multiple soft tourist activities, that has aim the calm, the isolation, the aesthetic enjoyment of landscape as well as the acquaintance with the natural environment. The precious value and the necessity of protection and appointment of natural wealth that distinguishes him, require the adoption and application of multileveled strategy, constituted from specialised work, metres and action, aiming at the more systematic safeguarding and management of regions in question and at extension the guarantee of their viable tourist growth. In the present work will be examined the protected region the terms [bora]. Whoever is a extensive region from possessed forests, deep valleys and pasture lands. Apart from more the region allocates also hot baths in [Loytraki] [Aridaias] which they visit also at the all duration of time abundance of visitors. The research, with the help of suitably shaped questionnaire, examines the individual characteristics of visitors, the activities that these practise at their visit, their preferences, as well as the opinions and their observations for that the region allocates and offers. From the analysis and treatment of answers that was given, are exported useful conclusions on the estimate of present situation, with final aim the more general upgrade of regions in question and the achievement a rational and effective management, via the essential improvement of quality of existing installations, infrastructures and provided services, so as to they are competitive and more attractive for those who they select such type destinations.

This research was initiated from two questions: what personality San Antonio has as a tourist destination despite its being an inanimate object and what relationships there are among destination personality, self-congruity, and visitors’ intentions. A conceptual framework was employed based on these questions, and this research focused on the generation of the destination personality of San Antonio and how destination personality and self-destination congruity influence visitors’ intentions. Data were collected from students (n=143) at Texas A&M University in consideration of Texas residents who have visited San Antonio as the focal population for this research. A personality scale consisting of 31 items for San Antonio was first developed from a preliminary survey (n=19), which were then included in a main survey for the measurement of destination personality. Using an exploratory factor analysis, destination personality dimensions were generated with the 31 personality traits. Finally, five personality dimensions were extracted with 25 traits. The five personality dimensions were: competence, sincerity, culture, excitement, and vibrancy. Three of five dimensions were found in Aaker’s (1997) scale: competence, sincerity, and excitement. The dimension of culture was specific to San Antonio, while the dimension of vibrancy was found in another destination personality study. In this research, six hypotheses regarding the relationships among destination personality, self-congruity, and visitors’ intentions were tested using a multiple regression analysis. The results indicated that: (1) hypotheses 1 and 2, destination personality will have a positive impact on visitors’ intentions to return and to recommend, were supported in part; (2) hypotheses 3 and 4, four types of self-congruity (actual, ideal, social, and ideal social self-congruity) will have a positive effect on visitors’ intentions to return and to recommend, were not supported, but self-congruity as a single dimension was significant; (3) hypotheses 5 and 6, four types of congruity will mediate the relationship between destination personality and intentions to return and to recommend, were not supported, while destination personality as a single dimension was significant in terms of visitors’ intentions. The results offered practical implications. First, destination marketers need to focus on the personality of a destination from a marketing perspective. Specifically, destination marketers for San Antonio should place emphasis on sincerity regarding intention to return and sincerity and excitement regarding intention to recommend in order to attract potential visitors to San Antonio. Second, destination marketers should know that there is a connection between destination personality and visitors’ personalities. They should make their efforts to market to potential visitors who have personalities that are consistent with the destination’s personality.

Final Project (M.A.)--John F. Kennedy University, 2004. / "August 30, 2004"--T.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-135).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Oregon State University, 2009. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.H.S.A.)--University of Michigan, 1982.

Thesis (M.H.S.A.)--University of Michigan, 1982.

Universidade Federal do Amazonas / A questão central desta Tese diz respeito à emergência de uma singular modalidade de assistência social no campo das políticas públicas e sociais no pós 1930, direcionada aos trabalhadores assalariados da área urbana e suas famílias. A produção discursiva sobre as condições de vida e de trabalho do operariado, no bojo das novas teorias científicas e enunciados médicos-sanitários reivindicava uma organização geral da sociedade. Afirmava-se a urgência de uma intervenção política estatal de cunho preventivo e coercitivo no modo de vida desses indivíduos em sociedade. O que se colocava até então como um caso de polícia ou de caridade passa a ser nomeado como questão social legitimando novas formas de exercício de poder e a conformação do Estado em suas novas atribuições de promotor da justiça social. Nesta pesquisa de doutoramento investiguei o exercício dessas estratégias de poder nas intervenções realizadas pelas visitadoras sociais no cotidiano de um grupo de operários e operárias da Cia (têxtil) Nova América na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, objetivando pela investigação minuciosa dessas práticas relativamente microscópicas iluminar uma rede muito maior de ardis e disputas de poder. As ações de ordenação do dia a dia desse operariado implicava a fiscalização do emprego dos serviços sociais disponibilizados pelo Estado e empresa, o monitoramento do uso do tempo e dos espaços, e finalmente a doutrinação em valores e práticas instituídas em nome da preservação e otimização da vida. Tais intervenções aconteciam em diferentes espaços: no interior da Fábrica, na vila operária Cidade Jardim Nova América e nas dependências da Associação Atlética Nova América e ficaram registradas em textos e imagens no boletim mensal da Fábrica. Esses periódicos constituem o principal corpus documental formado por sessenta e seis periódicos que abrangem o período entre novembro de 1944 e dezembro de 1953: Boletim Nova América - Órgão da Associação Atlética Nova América. Acionei como instrumento teórico-metodológico as reflexões do pensador francês Michel Foucault sobre biopolítica, ou a estatização da vida nos liames do biopoder enquanto gestão da vida em sua plenitude ocupando-se de não apenas garantir o corpo dócil e útil pelas técnicas disciplinares, mas, principalmente, assegurar no investimento sobre o corpo e mente desses indivíduos o saber normalizador para melhor manejá-los. Nesse sentido, no campo das políticas sociais, tanto estatais quanto empresariais, utilizei a noção de poder pastoral, atualizada por Foucault, para identificar o modo como em nome e pelo bem dos assistidos se constituiu um eficiente dispositivo de poder operando em intervenções e controle da vida das pessoas: as visitadoras sociais.

Universidade Federal do Amazonas / A questão central desta Tese diz respeito à emergência de uma singular modalidade de assistência social no campo das políticas públicas e sociais no pós 1930, direcionada aos trabalhadores assalariados da área urbana e suas famílias. A produção discursiva sobre as condições de vida e de trabalho do operariado, no bojo das novas teorias científicas e enunciados médicos-sanitários reivindicava uma organização geral da sociedade. Afirmava-se a urgência de uma intervenção política estatal de cunho preventivo e coercitivo no modo de vida desses indivíduos em sociedade. O que se colocava até então como um caso de polícia ou de caridade passa a ser nomeado como questão social legitimando novas formas de exercício de poder e a conformação do Estado em suas novas atribuições de promotor da justiça social. Nesta pesquisa de doutoramento investiguei o exercício dessas estratégias de poder nas intervenções realizadas pelas visitadoras sociais no cotidiano de um grupo de operários e operárias da Cia (têxtil) Nova América na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, objetivando pela investigação minuciosa dessas práticas relativamente microscópicas iluminar uma rede muito maior de ardis e disputas de poder. As ações de ordenação do dia a dia desse operariado implicava a fiscalização do emprego dos serviços sociais disponibilizados pelo Estado e empresa, o monitoramento do uso do tempo e dos espaços, e finalmente a doutrinação em valores e práticas instituídas em nome da preservação e otimização da vida. Tais intervenções aconteciam em diferentes espaços: no interior da Fábrica, na vila operária Cidade Jardim Nova América e nas dependências da Associação Atlética Nova América e ficaram registradas em textos e imagens no boletim mensal da Fábrica. Esses periódicos constituem o principal corpus documental formado por sessenta e seis periódicos que abrangem o período entre novembro de 1944 e dezembro de 1953: Boletim Nova América - Órgão da Associação Atlética Nova América. Acionei como instrumento teórico-metodológico as reflexões do pensador francês Michel Foucault sobre biopolítica, ou a estatização da vida nos liames do biopoder enquanto gestão da vida em sua plenitude ocupando-se de não apenas garantir o corpo dócil e útil pelas técnicas disciplinares, mas, principalmente, assegurar no investimento sobre o corpo e mente desses indivíduos o saber normalizador para melhor manejá-los. Nesse sentido, no campo das políticas sociais, tanto estatais quanto empresariais, utilizei a noção de poder pastoral, atualizada por Foucault, para identificar o modo como em nome e pelo bem dos assistidos se constituiu um eficiente dispositivo de poder operando em intervenções e controle da vida das pessoas: as visitadoras sociais.

For many years, the experience and entertainment industry overall has had strong growth and become something that is important for the current tourism in big cities. Repeatable experiences mean that there is a second-hand value of the experience and that it is possible to implement again. This means that visiting attractions, such as Gröna Lund, are places that allow visitors to experience their roller coasters and other experiences several times, which leads to more frequent visits. The intention of this study is to investigate what motivates young adults to repeatedly visit the amusement park Gröna Lund repeatedly. Interviews have been conducted with seven respondents aged 20–25 who return to Gröna Lund several times a year. An interview with Gröna Lund’s project manager at the marketing department has also been conducted. The interviewers’ answers have been analyzed along with selected theories of loyalty development, push and pull factors and the communications process. The result shows that all respondents have a loyalty to Gröna Lund and are motivated to visit the park both through the promotion of Gröna Lund on social media, but also through the products that the park offers, mainly rides and concerts. It turns out that they are also motivated to return to Gröna Lund, with family and friends, as a tradition.