Tourism Marketing in Banyumas

Nowadays the travel companies are flattering larger, more cultured, and more computerized in management. This paper is motivated by how customer’s services and facilities are provided to tourists in Tourism destinations, Hotels, and Local people. The purpose of this study is about the development of tourism Marketing and destinations in Banyumas and out of the city, make it more attractive and known as one of the Best cultural, artificial, and natural tourism destinations in Indonesia. Using a quantitative method this study analyzed face-to-face and improvement made virtual by Social Media and Web sites. Also, compared Indonesia tourism market with other countries' achievements to develop tourism in Banyumas. It was found that the greatest role play in tourism marketing is connecting people, cultures, and businesses across the country. It is needed for all tourism agencies and partners to work together to maximize the benefits of Hotels, restaurants, tourism destinations, air transport, and to upkeep the sustainable growth of air travel by connecting more people and more places even if small cities like Banyumas, more often.This study answers the questions about the importance of Tourism Marketing in Banyumas and an airport in it or any nearest cities to Banyumas for tourism development. Because local people mostly choosing the type of natural, artificial tourism objects and cultural tourism objects. It concludes that native Societies, Restaurants, Hotels, Social media (promotions) and Aviation is the most important for tourism marketing and its development in Banyumas. Keywords: Tourism Marketing; City Branding; e-WOM; Tourism servic

Reaching out to people struggling with their lives. A discourse analysis of answers from Internet-based services in Norway and Sweden

Peer reviewedThe Internet has enlarged the scope of human communication, opening new avenues for connecting with people who are struggling with their lives. This article presents a discourse analysis of 101 responses to 98 questions that were posted on 14 different Internet-based mental health services in Norway and Sweden. We aimed to examine and describe the dominant understandings and favored recommendations in the services’ answers, and we reflected upon the social consequences of those answers. The services generally understood life struggles as an abnormal state of mind, life rhythms, or self-reinforcing loops. Internet-based mental health services primarily counsel service users to seek help, talk to health care professionals face-to-face, and discuss their life struggles openly and honestly. They also urge service users to take better care of themselves and socialize with other people. However, such answers might enhance the individualization of life problems, masking social origin and construction. Consequently, the services are challenged to include social explanations in their answers and strengthen their responsibility to amplify peoples’ messages at a societal level. Potentially, such answers could strengthen democratic structures and put pressure on social equity

Reaching out to people struggling with their lives: a discourse analysis of answers from Internet-based services in Norway and Sweden

Published version of an article in the journal: Psychology Research and Behavior Management. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/prbm.s34524 Open accessThe Internet has enlarged the scope of human communication, opening new avenues for connecting with people who are struggling with their lives. This article presents a discourse analysis of 101 responses to 98 questions that were posted on 14 different Internet-based mental health services in Norway and Sweden. We aimed to examine and describe the dominant understandings and favored recommendations in the services’ answers, and we reflected upon the social consequences of those answers. The services generally understood life struggles as an abnormal state of mind, life rhythms, or self-reinforcing loops. Internet-based mental health services primarily counsel service users to seek help, talk to health care professionals face-to-face, and discuss their life struggles openly and honestly. They also urge service users to take better care of themselves and socialize with other people. However, such answers might enhance the individualization of life problems, masking social origin and construction. Consequently, the services are challenged to include social explanations in their answers and strengthen their responsibility to amplify peoples’ messages at a societal level. Potentially, such answers could strengthen democratic structures and put pressure on social equity

Text 4 Health: Addressing Consumer Health Information Needs via Text Reference Service

This study seeks to provide empirical evidence about how health-related questions are answered in text reference service in order to further the understanding of how to best use texting as a reference service venue to fulfill people’s health information needs. Two hundred health reference transactions from My Info Quest, the first nation-wide collaborative text reference service, were analyzed identify the types of questions, length of transactions, question-answering behavior, and information sources used in the transactions. Findings indicate that texting-based health reference transactions are usually brief, and cover a wide variety of topics. The most popular questions are those seeking general factual information about human body, medical/health conditions, diseases, or medical concepts/jargons. Great variance is discovered among the question-answering behavior, with only a little more than half of the answers containing citation to information sources. The study will inform the practice of health reference service via texting, and help libraries make evidence-based decisions on establishing service policies and procedures, providing training for librarians, and ultimately implementing the service successfully

Standing Up by Sitting Down: Join the Student Sit-Ins at the Smithsonian

Continuing my review and discussion that I started last week of the NMAH\u27s historical theater programs, this week, I want to talk about the other program I attended on my most recent visit down to the mall: the Join the Student Sit-Ins program. Long story short, Join the Student Sit-Ins is another great interpretive offering from the Smithsonian Museum of American History. The program thrives on visitor involvement and reflection. It\u27s engaging, historically deep, emotional, and probing for answers, ultimately asking more questions than finding answers. [excerpt

Sustainable development projects: explicit and acroamatic story telling as part of a new ‘project ethnography’

This paper constitutes an attempt to find a means to represent multiple stories in the strong narrative of conventional sustainable development (SD) projects. The author’s experience of such projects in various parts of the world indicates that they have a tendency to arise from and reflect a dominant mindset, placing the SD project in what can be a working environment which is inimical to the very ideals which SD is supposed to represent. Short termism and value for money drive project formats and objectives whilst counter narratives and alternative stories arising from stakeholders in such projects are often ignored. Yet these alternative threads often contain strong SD messages of their own and could, if effectively utilised, enhance the SD project process. This paper sets out the case for a new field – ‘project ethnography’ – allied with the growing use of meta analysis to compare project ‘stories’. The paper presents preliminary findings using an analytical framework to facilitate an ethnographic analysis and draw out the stories that those working in such projects can tell. The analysis focuses on some SD projects in the Mediterranean which reinforces the view of the authors that the conventional model of SD project organisation and delivery often contains within itself alternative understandings – understandings which the authors regard as stories in collision with the presenting and accepted project narrative, but at the same time valuable in richness of experience and perspective which can be drawn upon for informing SD project design and implementation

Peer research by children and young people and their allies Rapid Evidence Review of best practices in health and social science literature

The Youth Endowment Fund have set up a network for young people to do peer research about issues related to violence. They asked us to find out about how peer research has happened in the past with children and young people (aged 5-25 years). So, we met with a group of young researchers, university researchers and adults involved with the YEF network to talk about what peer research is and what questions we should be trying to answer. This report tells you about the answers we found so far. We built and explored a database of academic articles and reports from the last ten years. We will use this database to answer more questions– so let us know if you want to find out anything else! What peer research is being done, where it is happening and who is involved? Peer research involves children or young people taking the lead in some or all of the parts of a research project. It is happening across the world, in communities, schools and other places. Children and young people, working with adults, find out about health, education and community issues that they are interested in. Peer research about violence and the causes of violence has looked at things like racism, gender violence, bullying, and effects on health. What sorts of things happen as part of peer research? Peer research starts when children, young people or adults come up with an idea for something they want to find out about, or an opportunity they want to provide. It involves preparation and planning, connecting with other people, learning about research and the issues, deciding on topics and on different ways of investigating. Then children and young people, with adults, do things like interviews, group discussions, creative activities or surveys, and usually a combination of these. They explore the topic and analyse what they are finding out. The new things they have learned are used to plan, take action and are shared. During peer research people take time to think about what is going well and how to deal with any challenges. At the end they sometimes think about what has happened and how well it happened and people share feedback

Villagers’ perceptions of tourism activities in Iona National Park: locality as a key factor in planning for sustainability

Local people's perception of nature-based tourism evolution and consequent impacts on their well-being are crucial in promoting ecotourism and achieving sustainable development. This study focused on indigenous populations' attitudes concerning tourism activities taking place in the Iona National Park, located in the Namibe Province of Angola, where ecotourism is considered an anchor product and is expected to become an economic driver of major importance. To obtain information that is useful for a changing tourism management in order to increase rural communities' well-being, we conducted a survey addressing local people's perceptions about the following main topics: perception of the presence of visitors and of their activities; present and prospective positive and negative effects of the park; and government policies that should be developed in the near future. The research shows that most respondents' perceptions strongly vary according to locality. The level of urbanization and the distance to the core areas of touristic activities appear to be the main factors driving the villagers' perception polarization. Thus, conflicting interests between nature conservation and local populations' well-being should be addressed and managed according to locality profiles, with some exceptions, such as ensuring the entire population has access to pastoral lands.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

How to choose and how to watch: an on-demand perspective on current TV practices

In Sweden, digital TV services have until very recently not been accessible to most people through the TV set. At the same time, TV channels offer more and more content on the web and the majority of the population has access to high-speed internet connections. A web survey aimed at investigating attitudes and behavior related to on-demand TV was distributed in December 2008 to 52 households in an experimental, open (operator neutral) access network in Sweden. Questions were posed on TV arrangements, habits and attitudes; social aspects of TV watching; watching film or TV on-demand; and watching film or TV using the computer. Complementary interviews were also performed with participants that were not part of the experimental environment. Results show that participants in the studies understood and felt a need for time-shift and on-demand TV services: time-shift needs for re-scheduling, catch-up and repeats were expressed as well as on-demand needs for movies and for accessing otherwise unavailable TV content. Support for on-demand TV could also be found in that subjects reported little need for viewing TV content according to a broadcast schedule, with the main exception of news, sports events and other live broadcasts