Children's representation about travel: A comparison between what children remember and what children desire

Elmi, Benedetta; Bartoli, Eleonora; Fioretti, Chiara; Pascuzzi, Debora; Ciucci, Enrica; Tassi, Fulvio; Smorti, Andrea

doi:10.1016/j.tmp.2019.100580

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“…Likewise, Poria et al (2005) argue that industry operators should improve tourist experiences that enhance children’s knowledge and examine relationships between young tourists’ geographical knowledge and travel experiences. Similarly, Elmi et al (2020) explore young tourists’ representations of travel and offer a comparison between what they remember and what they desire with regard to tourism.…”

Section: Young Tourists and Tourism Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Young tourists’ experiences at dark tourism sites: Towards a conceptual framework

2020

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While dark tourism aimed at adults reminds them of past tragic fights, faults and follies, thousands of children and youth also consume inherent memorial messages at dark tourism sites. This paper addresses these unnoticed childhood encounters, about which scholarly discourse remains conspicuously silent. At present, dark tourism research focuses almost exclusively on adults and does not adequately explain young tourists’ experiences. How children experience dark tourism sites has much to do with their understanding of death. Because younger children may not possess an adult-like knowledge of death, they are unable to experience a site as dark. Other theoretical disparities include children’s limited agency in choosing their destinations and their unique and often playful exploration of dark places. To address the inadequacy of current dark tourism conceptualisations, we propose a new framework to encourage scholarly interrogation of children’s experiences at dark tourism sites. Drawing from multiple sources including archival studies and original research with youth, we offer a rationale for considering four major, intersecting influences on a young tourist’s experience: understanding of death, visit preparation (at home or in school), site and interpretation features and dynamics of the specific visit (e.g. group membership, norms and itinerary). Ultimately, this paper uncovers potential research avenues to bring children’s perspectives and experiences to the core of dark tourism research.

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Section: Young Tourists and Tourism Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Young tourists’ experiences at dark tourism sites: Towards a conceptual framework

2020

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“…As a typical collective consumption scenario [38], tourism activities are considered an ideal environment for tourists to co-create or share service experiences, given their inherent interactive value attributes [39]. Empirical evidence suggests that compared to other leisure activities, family tourism fosters a greater intention to interact between individuals and their family members [22], and people are willing to exert greater efforts to maintain a positive interaction with their family members during family tourism than their daily lives [40]. Differing from tourist-to-tourist interactions among unfamiliar tourists, where much of the existing research focuses [41], tourist-to-tourist interactions among family members are acquaintance interactions, and many of them are direct interactions involving activities such as cooperative preparation [42] and experience sharing [43], which has been proven to yield positive effects in many cases [40,41,44,45].…”

Section: Tourist-to-tourist Interactions and Family Tourism Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although many researchers have noticed the differences between Eastern tourists and Western tourists [19], research on Chinese family tourism still heavily refers to Western cultural scenarios to understand the psychology and behavior of Chinese family tourists [20,21]. Additionally, most studies in this domain concentrate on families comprising parents and their young children, overlooking the phenomenon of adult childrenparents tourism [19,22], which has called for more discussions. Consequently, this study adopts a perspective of tourist-to-tourist interactions and incorporates the theory of role conflict to investigate the following three key questions: (1) Do positive interactions and role conflicts among family members during family tourism influence the formation of family tourism value?…”

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A Tale of Two Identities: The Value, Attitude, and Behavior of Adult Children towards Family Tourism Experiences

Hu,

Li,

Pang

2023

Sustainability

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Adult children accompanying their parents on trips is a particular form of family tourism. During family travel, adult children assume two roles: as tourists, they pursue personal hedonic experiences, while as children, they also bear the responsibility of showing filial piety towards their parents. These two roles entail inherent contradictions. How this conflict influences the formation of family tourism values between adult children and their parents, and ultimately impacts adult children’s intention to accompany their parents on future trips (re-travel intention), requires further in-depth analysis. Based on the perspective of tourist-to-tourist interaction and role conflict theory, this study applied a “value–attitude–behavior” model to empirically analyze the relationship between the interactions of adult children and parents during the tourism and their re-travel intention. An empirical investigation was conducted with 566 adult children from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai. The result of the structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis indicates that both positive interactions and role conflict have significant impacts on the formation of family tourism values, and these impacts are moderated by self-efficacy. Furthermore, these two variables influence attitude through the values of filial piety and family connection, which, in turn, affect the re-travel intentions of adult children. This study confirmed that the higher the self-efficacy of adult children, the better effect the positive interaction has and the less impact the role conflict has, which ultimately affects adult children’s re-travel intention. At the theoretical level, this study reveals the process of the formation of “adult children–parents” family tourism values, and provides practical insights for family tourism marketing.

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“…The environment and natural ecosystems provide goods and services which, regardless of whether or not they are used, ultimately lead to the well-being of communities [1,2]. According to the definition of the World Tourism Organization, tourism is a set of activities persons do, while traveling to or staying in a place other than their own living places for the purposes of entertainment, recreation, rest, sports and so on, which do not last for more than one year [3,4]. Valuing tourist areas and environmental functions is an important step in modifying economic decisions, which often assume environmental resources as free goods and services.…”

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Economic valuation of natural promenades in Iran using zonal travel costs method (Case study area: Gahar Lake in Lorestan Province in western Iran)

Kheyri¹,

Morovati²,

Neshat³

et al. 2020

PLoS ONE

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Gahar Lake is located within Oshtorankooh Protected Area (east of Lorestan Province in Iran), which has extensive potentials for the development of the tourism industry. The aim of the present research was to determine the economic value of the Gohar Lake resort using the zonal travel cost method. Therefore, at first, 380 questionnaires were distributed among the tourists by the simple random sampling method based on appropriate spatiotemporal distribution during the visiting seasons. The questionnaire items were categorized as economic, social, and miscellaneous parts. The calculation results revealed a value of USD 84.538 per visitor and a value of USD 1,986,657.163 per year, indicating the high value and importance of the region. The analysis showed that socio-economic variables have a significant role in the use or non-use of the resort. The obtained R2 coefficient was 0.82, indicating that around 82% of the changes in the number of visitors can be justified by the variables introduced in the model. The results also revealed the need to pay more attention to this region and formulate a tourism development plan.

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Children's representation about travel: A comparison between what children remember and what children desire

Cited by 9 publications

References 47 publications

Young tourists’ experiences at dark tourism sites: Towards a conceptual framework

Young tourists’ experiences at dark tourism sites: Towards a conceptual framework

A Tale of Two Identities: The Value, Attitude, and Behavior of Adult Children towards Family Tourism Experiences

Economic valuation of natural promenades in Iran using zonal travel costs method (Case study area: Gahar Lake in Lorestan Province in western Iran)

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