“Dirty pictures” – responsible photographic representation of tourism destinations

Herath, Hanshika Madushani; Hemmington, Nigel; Poulston, Jill

doi:10.1080/10548408.2020.1789026

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“…However, the dominant role of destination management in implementing sustainability is also highlighted, and their communication strategies, involvement and collaboration with stakeholders is emphasized (Haid et al, 2021). Herath and colleagues’ (2020) study corresponds to these findings, by showing that national tourism organizations (NTOs) take on a key role in sustainable tourism by developing national tourism policies. In particular, promotional attempts of NTOs to support sustainable projects are highlighted (Herath et al, 2020).…”

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“…In particular, destination management’s implementation of sustainability has been studied using qualitative research approaches (i.e. Haid et al, 2021; Herath et al, 2020; Olszewski-Strzyżowski, 2022), which underlines the novelty of this research path.…”

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“…Herath and colleagues' (2020) study corresponds to these findings, by showing that national tourism organizations (NTOs) take on a key role in sustainable tourism by developing national tourism policies. In particular, promotional attempts of NTOs to support sustainable projects are highlighted (Herath et al, 2020). Similarly, Olszewski-Strzyżowski (2022) emphasizes supporting facilities and stakeholder empowerment as essential in responsible tourism.…”

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“…Although the literature review by Mondal and Samaddar (2021) also highlights the stakeholder groups of tourists, host communities, service providers, and policy makers/governments/ DMOs as groups under study, the last group, in particular, lacks reference to responsible behavior, with the results of this literature review showing that no explicit study has been conducted that focuses on governments' responsible actions. Although research demonstrates the importance of sustainable tourism policies (Herath et al, 2020), suggesting that governments with tourism officials and policymakers are rather involved in the development of sustainable tourism strategies (Mathew & Sreejesh, 2017), they are less considered in responsible tourism research. Regarding this, future research can focus on studying the role of governments in responsible tourism and, accordingly, their contribution to sustainable tourism in detail.…”

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Tourism Actors’ Responsible Behavior: A Systematic Literature Review

Eichelberger

2023

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research

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Responsible tourism studies have neglected divergent tourism actors’ contribution to sustainable tourism development via their behavior, as well as the impact of recent crises on research. Thus, a bibliometric and thematic analysis was conducted, involving an examination of 154 recent studies that were clustered around four research streams: (1) tourists’ responsible behavior; (2) residents’ responsible tourism accounts; (3) tourism businesses’ responsible actions; and (4) destination management’s role in responsible tourism, showing that responsible tourism research is predominantly focused on tourists’ responsibility. Tourism businesses and residents are less frequently investigated. Similarly, the role of destination management is only recently emerging, while governments’ contribution to responsible tourism has been neglected in research. Environmental responsibility studies dominate on the tourist and resident level, while corporate social responsibility (CSR) studies prevail on the business level. This literature review identifies research priorities in order to derive an agenda for future research.

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Tourism Actors’ Responsible Behavior: A Systematic Literature Review

Eichelberger

2023

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research

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“…UGC in SM has started to be considered even more effective and perceived more trustworthy (Yu and Ko, 2021) possibly due to its authenticity fed by individuals’ sharing of actual experiences (Song and Kim, 2016; Mak, 2017). Despite the fact that tourism destinations have begun to use visual social platforms to communicate their images and branding mostly through DMOs which reflect the projected image, the visual SM communication has received scant attention in tourism research compared to the text-only aspects of online communication (Highfield and Leaver, 2016; Kuhzady and Ghasemi, 2019; Herath et al , 2020), which deserves more exploration.…”

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Unfolding visual characteristics of social media communication: reflections of smart tourism destinations

Adamiş

Pınarbaşı

2022

JHTT

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Purpose This study aims to explore the visual social media (SM) (Instagram) communication and the visual characteristics of smart tourism destination (STD) communication from destination marketing/management organizations (DMOs) and user-generated content (UGC) perspectives, which refer to projected image and perceived image, respectively. Design/methodology/approach Three DMO official accounts of STDs (Helsinki, Gothenburg and Lyon) and corresponding official hashtags were selected for the sample and total 6,000 post data (1,000 × 6) were retrieved from Instagram. Visual communication content was examined with a netnographic design over a proposed four-level visual content framework using corresponding methodological approaches (thematic analysis, visual analysis, object detection and text mining) for each level. Findings Among the eight emerging themes dominating the images, communication of smart elements conveys far less than expected textual and visual signals from DMOs despite their smart status, and in turn, from UGC as well. UGC revealed three extra image themes regardless of smartness perception. DMOs tend to project and give voice to their standard metropolitan areas and neighborhoods while UGCs focus on food-related and emotional elements. The findings show a partial overlap between DMOs and UGCs, revealing discrepancies in objects contained in visuals, hashtags and emojis. Additionally, as a rare attempt, the proposed framework for visual content analysis showed the importance of integrated methods to investigate visual content effectively. Research limitations/implications The number of attributes in visual analysis and focusing on the observed elements in text content (text, hashtags and emojis) are the limitations of the study in terms of methodology. Originality/value Apart from the multiple integrated methods used over a netnographic design, this study differs from existing SM and smart destinations intersection literature by attempting to fill a gap in focusing on and exploring visual SM communication, which is scarce in tourism context, for the contents generated by DMOs and users.

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A review of authenticity research in tourism: Launching the Annals of Tourism Research Curated Collection on authenticity

Rickly

2022

Annals of Tourism Research

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“Dirty pictures” – responsible photographic representation of tourism destinations

Cited by 9 publications

References 53 publications

Tourism Actors’ Responsible Behavior: A Systematic Literature Review

Tourism Actors’ Responsible Behavior: A Systematic Literature Review

Unfolding visual characteristics of social media communication: reflections of smart tourism destinations

A review of authenticity research in tourism: Launching the Annals of Tourism Research Curated Collection on authenticity

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