destination chosen for any of a number of reasons. Although the question of what motivates tourists to travel is not an easy one to describe and understand‚ there are other factors which help break down the complexity of this question. In order to understand exactly why tourists feel the need to travel‚ it is ideal to understand why it is important for tourist destinations and companies to know what motivates tourists and to determine their market respectively‚ the techniques and theories used to identify
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Definitions of ‘Tourism’ & ‘Tourist’ Many studies on tourism and tourists have been conducted yet there is not one single definition on ‘tourism’ or ‘tourists’ that everyone complies with. Many researchers and academia writers have many concepts in defining tourism and tourists‚ some factors they consider are similar and some are different. This essay will attempt to illustrate the differences between the definitions of tourism & tourist‚ and also outlining the strength and weaknesses of
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Redline Training Program – The “Institutional Gaze” and Disciplining Subjects Introduction Southwestern is a sales and leadership company based in Nashville‚ Tennessee that provides summer work opportunities for university students across North America. Students sell educational products directly to families in their homes throughout the summer (SW Corporate). Redline is part of the Southwestern Company training and working with mostly students from the West Coast‚ including Canada‚ Washington
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Managing tourist experience is a major key to success and also a difficult task for all tour operators. Tourist experience is measured by the whole process‚ from the beginning such as counselling to the very end‚ which is a happy and safe returning home. Explore! has taken this into account by putting tourist experience on the first priority to be considered and managed. It’s policy clearly shows the importance of tourist and how they try to look after roughly 30000 travellers per year in term of
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Laura Mulvey made the term “Male Gaze” in 1975. Mulvey plans to use Freud and Lacan’s concepts as a "political weapon” she states. She used some of their concepts to argue that the cinematic apparatus of classical Hollywood cinema unavoidably placed the viewer in a masculine subject position‚ by the figure of the woman on screen as the object of desire and "the male gaze." During the era of classical Hollywood cinema‚ viewers were encouraged to recognize
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The poem ’I Am Tourist’ deals with the meaning and significance of tourism; particularly focussing on the modern take on what is a tourist. Adrian Mitchell presents the point of a ignorant tourist‚ and shows their lack of connection to the foreign land through the use of various literacy techniques such as imagery. The poem’s purpose is to let us witness the typical tourists’s shallow mindset‚ lack of respect to the culture and misplacing of priorities. It is written in first person narrative which
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The concept of the male gaze is the idea that the audience is forced to view women through the eyes of a hetereosexual male. In regards to the depiction of female criminals in the media‚ the male gaze views them as victims. The woman is almost always looked at as though she was somehow the victim‚ and that the other person involved is at fault. Though‚ if the woman in the case is homosexual‚ she will then be viewed as a man hater‚ because she is not interested in men. She will also be viewed as the
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demonstrate the effect of the male gaze in French oil paintings‚ almost all drawn from the extensive collection from Carnegie Museum of Art and The Albright-Knox Art Gallery. The ten selected works feature one or more female sitters and are painted by male artists from 1870 through 1910. The concept of the gaze in examining visual culture deals with how the audience views the subjects in the presented work‚ in this case‚ oil paintings. There are multiple forms of the gaze that can be characterized by
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Finding the Source of the Power of the Gaze In almost all of literature‚ women are represented as objects of desire. They are supposed to be submissive and their male counterparts are supposed to possess the power. This power structure is ever-present in books‚ photographs‚ and advertisements‚ but especially in film. In the film Gilda (Charles Vidor‚ 1946)‚ the main character and her male counterparts exemplify that women are mean to be recipients of the male gaze‚ and it becomes problematic if these
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travel motivations and tourist typology models and discuss their practical applicability to the type of destination choice. The first part of the discussion focusing on leisure travel motivations will be based on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs‚ Dann’s perspective on the factors that propel an individual’s desire to travel (push factors) and factors influencing the type of destination selected (pull factors)‚ as well as Urry’s tourist gaze‚ and the latter half‚ in which tourist typologies will be analysed
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