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The Struggles of Living in a Postcard: Tourisms Social and Cultural Influences on a Mountain Community
Tourism scholarship is continuously advancing the understanding of tourism development as it positively relates economically and environmentally to tourism-based societies. In recent years, the tourism discipline as a whole has made little progress in identifying the social and cultural impacts of tourism, including questions of why and how local communities’ traditional foundations and defining characteristics are changed, influenced, and challenged by tourists and tourism business development. This dissertation restores the conversation that focuses on how tourism development and consumerism can change the socio-cultural profiles of local communities by addressing the understudied area of the ways in which tourism may affect the social systems and collective dynamics of a tourism-based community. Drawing on Nash’s (1977) view of tourism as a form of imperialism and expanding on Doxey’s (1975) original attempt to identify tourism’s influence on local residents, this dissertation contributes to social theories of the tourism discipline by bringing a different frame of reference and set of questions to exploration of the social impact of tourism growth through a qualitative ethnographic method and a constructivist grounded theory analysis of primary (participant observation and interviews) and secondary (written documents and pictures) data sources from eighteen months of immersion in one mountain community in the advanced industrial society of the United States. The findings suggest that tourism impacts four dimensions of this mountain community: structuring the local social world, intensifying acceptance issues between members of different social groups, shaping conflict and disagreement, and establishing the centrality of the environment. This research contributes to previous research by arguing that a holistic, complex account of interconnected relationships in a local community, such as this, can illuminate the nature of social conflict and disagreement around tourism, as well as suggest that tourism business decision-makers have the ability to influence the relationships of the major players in a recreation-based community
A CLT for Plancherel representations of the infinite-dimensional unitary group
We study asymptotics of traces of (noncommutative) monomials formed by images
of certain elements of the universal enveloping algebra of the
infinite-dimensional unitary group in its Plancherel representations. We prove
that they converge to (commutative) moments of a Gaussian process that can be
viewed as a collection of simply yet nontrivially correlated two-dimensional
Gaussian Free Fields. The limiting process has previously arisen via the global
scaling limit of spectra for submatrices of Wigner Hermitian random matrices.
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Qualitative Research Methods for Critical Inquiry: An Emergent Method of Analysis from the Social Sciences
Elizabeth A. Cartier is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management in the Isenberg School at UMass-Amherst. Her research interests include: host and tourist behavior, tourism culture, and the critical aspects of power and control. Human resources, leadership and tourism are the focus of her teaching
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Using the CMM Theoretical Lens to Deconstruct Problematic Discourse Regarding Quality and Rigor in Tourism Research: Can Transparency Bridge the Metatheoretical Divide?
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Tourism’s social impact on a local community: The case of a mountain ski town
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Producing Higher Quality Ethnographies: The Blending of Two Methods of Analysis to Better Understand Ski Culture
Occupational Asthma: New Low-Molecular-Weight Causal Agents, 2000–2010
Background. More than 400 agents have been documented as causing occupational asthma (OA). The list of low-molecular-weight (LMW) agents that have been identified as potential causes of OA is constantly expanding, emphasizing the need to continually update our knowledge by reviewing the literature. Objective. The objective of this paper was to identify all new LMW agents causing occupational asthma reported during the period 2000–2010. Methods. A Medline search was performed using the keywords occupational asthma, new allergens, new causes, and low-molecular-weight agents. Results. We found 39 publications describing 41 new LMW causal agents, which belonged to the following categories: drugs (n = 12), wood dust (n = 11), chemicals (n = 8), metals (n = 4), biocides (n = 3), and miscellaneous (n = 3). The diagnosis of OA was confirmed through SIC for 35 of 41 agents, peak expiratory flow monitoring for three (3) agents, and the clinical history alone for three (3) agents. Immunological tests provided evidence supporting an IgE-mediated mechanism for eight (8) (20%) of the newly described agents. Conclusion. This paper highlights the importance of being alert to the occurrence of new LMW sensitizers, which can elicit OA. The immunological mechanism is explained by a type I hypersensitivity reaction in 20% of all newly described LMW agents
Experiencing the Event Brand: Examining the Branded Images for a New England Regional Fair
Introduction. Brands and branding are critical to the understanding and perception of destinations and products and now events are even “branded. ” Some of these events have had a long history, and may or may not have been intentionally ‘branded ” but contain images and perceptions of a ‘branded event ” by different types of event consumers. Clearly different types of event consumers likely have different brand images of the same event or in this study- a regiona
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