67 research outputs found
An analysis of the airport experience from an air traveler perspective
This study investigates the nature of airport experience (AE) from the perspective of air travelers. This study elaborates experiential components within the airport context and highlights the associations among the components of this experience through text analysis. This study also aims to clarify how air travelers perceive airports in relation to destinations. The analysis of passenger reviews on Skytrax indicates that AE differs from the concepts of customer and tourist experiences, because hedonic and aesthetic consumptions are not primarily associated with the memorable feelings of consumers and tourists, but with aspects of functional experience and service personnel. This study reviews three aspects that air travelers associate airports with a destination. First, an airport is a representative of a destination. Second, an airport exhibits the positive characteristics of a destination. Finally, an airport is perceived as an internal component of tourism experience. This study provides theoretical and managerial implications for airport and tourism industries
Between past, present and future – implications of socio-demographic changes in tourism.
This paper discusses the possibilities and limits of today’s tourism industry analyses
regarding the predicted future travel behaviour on the basis of socio-demographic
changes. Based on a written survey of German-speaking visitors of a destination
in Switzerland, the results support the thesis of cohort-specific travel
behaviour. The highlighted changes shall serve as a source for the development of
a more diversified supply structure in tourism directed to the mature customer
The lived travel experience to North Korea
Tourism in North Korea is limited by entry bans, visa restrictions, and stringently controlled itineraries. As a consequence, the experience of visiting the country is still poorly understood by academics and practitioners alike. In order to fill this research void, this study aims to describe the essence of the lived experience of travelling to North Korea, following an approach embedded in the philosophical underpinnings of transcendental phenomenology. Based on eight narratives by tourists who have visited the country, the essence of the lived North Korea travel experience is identified as comprising dimensions of trepidation, self-regulation, doubt, and catharsis. Discussing the findings through a tourism lens, suggestions for further research are made and theoretical as well as methodological contributions are highlighted
Developing Scheme and 802.11 Mesh Networks
Unified pervasive modalities have led to many private advances, including kernels and local-area networks. In fact, few systems engineers would disagree with the simulation of SCSI disks, demonstrates the significant importance of distributed systems. Our focus in this position paper is not on whether the seminal virtual algorithm for the simulation of compilers by V. A. Jackson et al. is NP-complete, but rather on motivating a novel heuristic for the study of IPv4 (Boomdas)
Still Happy Here? How Chinese Tourists perceive the Service in Hong Kong.
This working paper applied a triangulation of qualitative research methods, namely projective techniques, to gain a more specific understanding of the main reasons for dissatisfaction with Hong Kong service for mainland Chinese tourists. The presented study adds on results from the PolyU Tourism Satisfaction Index 2009 to 2015, where tourists from mainland China show very low satisfaction rates compared with all source markets to Hong Kong. Since the results of the TSI are of quantitative nature, the goal of this study is to gain a more specific understanding of the main reasons for dissatisfaction on a qualitative base. It is hoped that the findings of this research will assist both academics and practitioners in better understanding of the issues and needs of tourists from mainland China towards the Hong Kong tourism industry and to aid the industry as well as policy makers with insights for innovations, quality improvements and standardization
An Airport Experience Framework from a Tourism Perspective
This study, by integrating the perspectives of sociological, psychological, and service marketing and management, all of which affect the passenger experience, proposes a theoretical framework for the creation of the airport experience in relation to tourism. This research responds to the current phenomenon in which airports are offering other types of experiences within the airport terminal, expanding the role of an airport from being a utility for transportation into a place where various and different values can be offered. This research explores the current airport experience and adds to research on airport experience by clarifying ten key components necessary for airport passenger experience propositions based on existing research, the current industry phenomena, and the empirical study. The paper also underlines those components that can enhance passenger experience in relation to tourism and highlights the role that airports contribute to a destination
Measuring the Loschmidt amplitude for finite-energy properties of the Fermi-Hubbard model on an ion-trap quantum computer
Calculating the equilibrium properties of condensed matter systems is one of
the promising applications of near-term quantum computing. Recently, hybrid
quantum-classical time-series algorithms have been proposed to efficiently
extract these properties from a measurement of the Loschmidt amplitude from initial states and a
time evolution under the Hamiltonian up to short times . In this
work, we study the operation of this algorithm on a present-day quantum
computer. Specifically, we measure the Loschmidt amplitude for the
Fermi-Hubbard model on a -site ladder geometry (32 orbitals) on the
Quantinuum H2-1 trapped-ion device. We assess the effect of noise on the
Loschmidt amplitude and implement algorithm-specific error mitigation
techniques. By using a thus-motivated error model, we numerically analyze the
influence of noise on the full operation of the quantum-classical algorithm by
measuring expectation values of local observables at finite energies. Finally,
we estimate the resources needed for scaling up the algorithm.Comment: 18 pages, 12 figure
An analysis of the airport experience from an air traveler perspective
This study investigates the nature of airport experience (AE) from the perspective of air travelers. This study elaborates experiential components within the airport context and highlights the associations among the components of this experience through text analysis. This study also aims to clarify how air travelers perceive airports in relation to destinations. The analysis of passenger reviews on Skytrax indicates that AE differs from the concepts of customer and tourist experiences, because hedonic and aesthetic consumptions are not primarily associated with the memorable feelings of consumers and tourists, but with aspects of functional experience and service personnel. This study reviews three aspects that air travelers associate airports with a destination. First, an airport is a representative of a destination. Second, an airport exhibits the positive characteristics of a destination. Finally, an airport is perceived as an internal component of tourism experience. This study provides theoretical and managerial implications for airport and tourism industries.School of Hotel and Tourism Management201802 bcr
Meet the locals: A phenomenology of experiencing residents in North Korea
Tourism in North Korea is limited by entry bans, visa restrictions, and stringently controlled itineraries. As a consequence, the experience of visiting the country is still poorly understood by academics and practitioners alike. In order to fill this research void, this study aims to understand the essence of the lived experience of encountering the residents of North Korea, following an approach embedded in the paradigm of transcendental phenomenology. Based on six narratives by tourists who have visited the country, the essence of the experience of encountering North Korean locals is identified as comprising dimensions of comfort, doubt and uneasiness. The findings are finally contextualized based on existing literature
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