Souvenirs in Dark Tourism:Emotions and Symbols

This chapter explores the proposition that the act of ‘souveniring’ recent and/or ancient places of death, disaster, or atrocities is a more emotionally immersive experience—and thus less cognitively controlled—than in other tourism contexts. We introduce and explore the notion of ‘dark souvenirs’ which encompass unlikely forms, redolent of darkness, emotions, and affective experiences in the dark tourism context of places connected to death, disaster, or atrocities.<br/

Remote sensing for shipwreck location. Or, all your problems solved.

A routine site inspection of a proposed shipwreck salvage excavation revealed a technique with important ramifications for survey archaeology. Its potential may prove disastrous to the present job market for field archaeologists

Risk factors for congenital chondrodystrophy of unknown origin in beef cattle herds in south-eastern Australia

A case control study was conducted on 46 farms in south eastern Australia with a recent history of congenital chondrodystrophy of unknown origin (CCUO) between 2002 and 2007. For each farm data was collected using face-to-face interviews concerning the management of case and control mobs during the gestation period in which affected calves were born. Data concerning the paddocks in which gestating cattle were maintained was also collected for analysis. Three separate multivariable models were constructed using generalised linear mixed models (GLMM). The first model was based on the dichotomous outcome of mob status (affected/not affected) and included explanatory variables for management and environment factors. The second model used a novel approach, taking into account the number of cases in affected mobs in order to utilise available data. The outcome events/ trials was used where the numerator was equal to the number of affected calves in a mob, and the denominator was equal to the total number of calves in the mob. The third model used the dichotomous outcome paddock status and included environmental and soil variables for paddocks involved with case and control mobs. Confounding for dam age and year affected was included in the mob outcome models, and random effects for paddock and farm were incorporated into the models. The birth of CCUO calves was associated with dams grazing native pastures on hilly terrain during gestation. Low levels of pasture were also associated with the outcome. The two models used for the mob outcome were similar in many respects. The events/trial model included the use of supplemental feed and an interaction term. This study demonstrates an association between a maternal nutritional disturbance and the occurrence of CCUO. Keywords: Risk factors, congenital chondrodystrophy, case control study, epidemiology, Australiafunded by Meat and Livestock Australi

Regenerative tourism: the challenge of transformational leadership

Purpose – The aims of this paper are to share how one cohort of tourism practitioners viewed the transformative change needed within the tourism industry and to explore the implications for leadership in the future. Design/methodology/approach – The research design is based on a virtual whiteboard brainstorming activity incorporating both the individual and collective thinking of 20 participants in a global cohort class. Using conversational techniques to elicit cognitive knowledge and felt experience, the methodology generates shared understandings about the opportunities and challenges of implementing regenerative tourism. Findings – The conversations reported in the findings of this paper provide important insights into the challenges and opportunities faced by tourism professionals as enablers of regenerative tourism. Findings included, first, that participants within the course demonstrated characteristics of transformational leadership including a strong moral positioning, embodied self-awareness, collaboration and collective action. Second, specific points of inertia that impede regenerative tourism are identified including embedded culture, power and organisational structures. Third, professionals are calling for practical tools, new frames of reference, and examples to help communicate regenerative tourism. Research limitations/implications – This is a viewpoint, not a research paper. Nonetheless, it provides a rich vein of future research in terms of disruptive pedagogy, potentially gendered interest in regenerative tourism, issues of transforming the next generation and power. Practical implications – Governance, organisational, destination management strategies, planning and policy frameworks, individual issues as well as contradictions within the tourism system were revealed. Transformative change in an uncertain future requires transformational leadership, characterised by moral character and behaviours that trigger empowered responses. Originality/value – This paper shares insights from a unique global cohort class of tourism professionals wherein the challenges and opportunities for regenerative tourism are identified. The methodology is unusual in that it incorporates both individual and collective thinking through which shared understandings emerge

GEO-6 assessment for the pan-European region

Through this assessment, the authors and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) secretariat are providing an objective evaluation and analysis of the pan-European environment designed to support environmental decision-making at multiple scales. In this assessment, the judgement of experts is applied to existing knowledge to provide scientifically credible answers to policy-relevant questions. These questions include, but are not limited to the following:• What is happening to the environment in the pan-European region and why?• What are the consequences for the environment and the human population in the pan-European region?• What is being done and how effective is it?• What are the prospects for the environment in the future?• What actions could be taken to achieve a more sustainable future?<br/

Tourism border-making: A political economy of China's border tourism

This paper is the result of 4 years of research which identifies evolutionary processes and developmental impacts upon communities and tourism business within changing power structures at the Chinese/ Myanmar border. The significant contribution it makes to literature is identification of agency contained within tourism development as a force which (de)constructs conceptions of borders between nations but paradoxically is contained in ‘official’ place-making narratives

Souvenir sellers and perceptions of authenticity – The retailers of Hội An, Vietnam

An innovative analysis that contributes new theory to the concept of authenticity, in a research context, hitherto ignored. Cultural and performative authenticity is an important issue in tourism literature, however the attitudes of souvenir retailers to authenticity has not been assessed. Micro ethnographic and case study approach is used to interview 25 souvenir suppliers at the in the UNESCO World Heritage site of Hoi An, Vietnam who despite seeking authenticity, purchase their supplies from national and local sources rather than those created on-site. They also believe that tourists create experiential authenticity, attributed to purchase in the UNESCO heritage context - as 'prosumers'