Madox Ford est une des grandes figures, non seulement de la littérature d’expressionanglaise, mais de la vie culturelle et artistique d’Europe occidentale dans le premier tiersdu XXe siècle. Il est très lié à Henry James et à Conrad (avec qui il écrit trois romans),joue un rôle de premier plan comme éditeur et contribue au développement del’impressionnisme littéraire et à l’instauration du « modernisme ». Cosmopolite par sesantécédents (anglais, allemand, français), grand voyageur partagé entre l’Angleterre, lesEtats-Unis et la France (surtout la Provence, sa terre d’élection et Toulon), Ford estl’auteur d’une oeuvre considérable qui compte plus de 80 ouvrages. Marine Bernot achoisi d’analyser plus particulièrement une dizaine de récits de souvenirs de toutes sorteset deux récits de voyage qu’il publie de 1904 à 1937. On y découvre toute une époque, unécrivain original et une personnalité d’une rare complexité – politiquement avancé,féministe et libertaire, écologiste avant la lettre, quelque peu visionnaire, un homme quiparle aux gens d’aujourd’hui. / Ford Madox Ford is one of the most important figures, not only of English literature butof the Western European cultural and artistic world of the twentieth century. Closelyconnected with Henry James and Joseph Conrad (with whom he wrote three novels incollaboration), Ford played a vital role as editor, contributor to literary impression and aspioneer of “modernism”. Cosmopolitan by birth (English, German, French), this tirelessvoyager, torn between England, the United States and France (especially Provence, hischosen domain and Toulon), Ford is the author of a voluminous sum of publicationsmade up of more than 80 books and other items. The author of this thesis, Marine Bernot,has chosen to concentrate on a dozen or so memoirs covering the years going from 1904to 1937, focusing particularly on two travel ‘novels’, Provence and The Great TradeRoute. These works, which give an original insight into the first half of the twentiethcentury, introduce the reader to an original and complex personality – politicallyadvanced, feminist, non-conformist, ecologist ahead of his times, visionary –, a man inharmony with contemporary preoccupations.

This paper improves upon the methods for modelling the determinants of PGA TOUR golfers’ performance-based earnings by incorporating the most recent and accurate PGA TOUR statistics while controlling for year and individual fixed effects. Using a panel of golfers from the 2004 through 2011 PGA TOUR seasons, I find that a one standard deviation improvement in putting renders the average golfer 27 percent additional earnings; meanwhile, the same degree of improvement in driving distance offers only 14 percent more earnings. Even as PGA TOUR golf course yardages and driving distances continue to grow, this study shows that improved driving distance yields are no greater than those to scrambling, greens in regulation, or strokes gained-putting.

This thesis interrogates the intersections of gender and emotional labour in an exploratory study of guided kayak tours. The kayak tour is a socially produced location where guides hold the double role of entertainer and protector of their clients. The social space of the tour not only constructs and markets to particular clients (which impact guide-clients interactions), but also constructs particular gender locations for guides. Semi-structured, open-ended interviews were conducted to produce rich qualitative data, and were supplemented by fieldwork and examination of promotional materials. Guides’ stories offer detailed accounts of the emotional labour in which they engage as they produce a tour experience for clients. They also reveal the ways in which this labour is intertwined with their gender projects. As kayaking is unexamined within sociological literature, this thesis contributes to an understanding of the social world and furthers knowledge on the complexities of gender and emotional labour. / viii, 112 leaves ; 29 cm

The master's thesis deals with long bus tours and role of tour leader. The theoretical core is interdisciplinary definition of tourism as a specific assemblage of practices with a relationship to people, objects, practices of others and self. The concept of the third space makes it possible to overcome the established definition of tourist within the traditional dichotomy (self - Other, home - away etc.). Therefore, the tourist is regarded as a metaphor of both these opposites simultaneously. The tourist experiences are concerned here as psychological phenomenon consists of expectations, perception of tourist events and tourist memory. The main objective of this paper is to explore formation of tourist experiences during specific conditions of long bus tours from Belarus to EU countries, and to reveal the importance of tour leader within this process. Keywords: bus tour, tour leader, tourism, tourist experiences, anthropology of tourism

The advent of on-demand transport modes such as ride-hailing and microtransit has challenged forecasters to develop new methods of forecasting the use and impacts of such modes. In particular, there is some professional disagreement about the relative role of activity-based transportation behavior models -- which have detailed understanding of the person making a trip and its purpose -- and multi-agent demand simulations which may have a better understanding of the availability and service characteristics of on-demand services. A particular question surrounds how the relative strengths of these two approaches might be successfully paired in practice. Using daily plans generated by the activity-based model ActivitySim as inputs to the BEAM multi-agent simulation, we construct nine different methodological combinations by allowing the choice to use a pooled ride-hail service in ActivitySim, in BEAM with different utility functions, or in both. Within each combination, we estimate ride-hailing ridership and level of service measures. The results suggest that mode choice model structure drastically affects ride-hailing ridership and level of service. In addition, we see that multi-agent simulation overstates the demand interest relative to an activity-based model, but there may be opportunities in future research to implement feedback loops to balance the ridership and level of service forecasts between the two models.

The purpose of the study was to (1) identify pedagogical touring competencies needed by volunteer docents in art museums, (2) catalog the competency statements into major competency categories, (3) validate the list of competency statements, and (4) compare priority designations awarded each statement by the individuals within the two major subgroups: museum staff and volunteer docents. In conclusion, many of the needs represented by the highest ranking competencies in each category are seldom addressed in the traditional volunteer docent training program. This study showed that abilities to help the child feel comfortable in the museum and combinations of abilities to help the docent make judgments regarding the presentation of the material require attention and, at the very least , special training. It is recommended that training personnel in art museums identify the needs of volunteer trainees and design training programs less on traditional guidelines and more on the specific needs appropriate to the task.

Published Article / The purpose of this paper is to investigate the consumer-related information tour operators in South African have access to. Data was obtained by means of a self-administered computer-aided questionnaire forwarded to 1 000 tour operators; it was viewed by 360 tour operators and a response rate of 42,45% was achieved. The results indicate that 68,4% are satisfied with their information systems while a concerning low 34,9% 'Agree' that their information systems do provide them with consumer-related information. Tour operators will not be in a position to satisfy the dynamic needs and wants of today's tourists, unless there is information system innovation.

In this thesis, we study time-sensitive applications where it is important to minimize the completion time, i.e., time passing between receiving the instance and finishing the implementation of the solution. Different from the traditional approach, we are directly focusing on the minimization of the computation time as well as finding the optimal solution to the problem. The conventional approach to these conflicting objectives is generally to trade off one for the other. As an alternative, we propose a new approach called Computation-Implementation Parallelization (CIP), and develop methods to embed the computation time into the solution-implementation to minimize the total completion time. We implement our CIP approach and show its effectiveness on a type of TSP we call the TSP Race problem, where the goal is to minimize the time between receiving the instance and finishing the travel. We demonstrate a method for determining a priori when CIP will be effective. We also implement our CIP approach on Computation-Time Limited Capacitated Vehicle Routing (CTL-CVRP) problems, and show that it is possible to decrease the computation-only time while maintaining the solution quality. By this means, some of the computation time can be set free and used to improve the customer service either by delaying the order cutoff time or dispatching the trucks earlier. As a tangential study, we develop a new TSP tour length estimation model. Our model is distribution-free, and is shown to produce very accurate estimates on many different node dispersions.

The aim of this research was to compare the distribution channel relationships in two different tourism markets: the mature market of Britain and the evolving market in Poland, with a view to assessing likely courses of tourism development in Poland. Relationships in channels of distribution can be understood as all the interactions, processes and flows taking place between companies involved in exchange of products and services. The focus of the research was an investigation of channel relationships between travel agents and tour operators. The evolution of tourism channel relationships in Britain and Poland was investigated in three stages: initiation, implementation and review, following the Kale and McIntyre (1991) and Crotts et al. (1998) models. Analysis of existing literature established that historical, political and economic backgrounds, as well as demand and supply, impact in different ways upon the structure of such channels in each country. Following that recognition two phases of empirical research were conducted using a mixed methods approach. The exploratory phase was based on interviews with British and Polish travel agents and tour operators, and from this phase a set of propositions was developed regarding travel agents' and tour operators' attitudes towards channel relationships. These propositions were explored using data collected from a detailed questionnaire survey distributed to a sample of British and Polish tour operators and travel agents. The results from this quantitative research were qualitatively augmented by outcomes from indepth interviews. The key findings from the research were that the Polish distribution system resembled to some extent the old British tourism structure. It was, however, unable to directly follow the development route undertaken by British companies. The pattern of operation was different in both countries due to four factors. Firstly, the distortions in operations in Poland originated from the post-socialist business structure; secondly, the diversity of business in Poland was much greater than in Britain, whilst, thirdly, the level of vertical integration between companies and the level of the development of information technology was more extensive in Britain. Finally, although the relationship development process consisted of similar stages in both countries, the field investigations showed differences in partners' selection, monitoring and support. The Polish companies relied heavily on social bonding and social ties in the selection stage, while in Britain the transparency and higher stability in the market reduced the necessity of close social bonding between employees and companies. The overall conclusion from the research is that the Polish travel companies are likely to follow many aspects of the British route, though with some specifically Polish characteristics. The initial evaluation of channel partners and the evaluation of the relationship between agents and tour operators would be strengthened in Poland, if there were a strong, regulatory and advisory association in the Polish market such as ABTA in Britain. Further research is recommended in terms of the impact of information technology on channel relationships in tourism and the role of tourism associations in the organisation of the tourism market.

Dr. Kelly Price analyzes key research confirming that elite female athletes including pro tour golfers are still judged on their physical attractiveness and social behaviors.