...Professor Arch G. Woodside; Kirsten Holmes; Steven Rowley Purpose – This study aims to apply confirmatory personal introspection (CPI) to illuminate the experiences of the authors as partial native-visitors to Western Australia. The native-visitor is the tourist who is able to see beyond Urry’s...

... analysis, field studies and case studies to examine dissonant heritage in warfare tourism sites involving Indigenous peoples in Australia and North America. Findings The content analysis reveals that aboriginal erasure is still prevalent within the literature on warfare and battlefield tourism. However...

... trails Australia Brisbane Community Government policy Tourism development As McWatters (2008 , p. 16) notes, “place experience is a channel of illumination through which people articulate greater ideas about their social and individual identities, as well as a frame through which...

..., and Magnetic Island in Queensland, Australia. Findings Findings revealed that local community members have a wide range of motivations for entering into social exchanges with visitors, ranging from solely economic, to a genuine desire to provide quality experiences. Additionally, findings showed the nature...

..., the perception of atmosphere and, “consequent behaviour and destination choice” (Gallarza et al., 2002 , p. 56). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Festivals Theatre Arts Scotland Australia Several authors have noted the inter‐relationship between theatre and tourism (see...

... in travel intention and travel choice behavior. This research utilizes data generated from the Roy Morgan Research Centre in Australia (RMRC). RMRC collected these data in 2003 and 2004 from a face‐to‐face survey and a self‐completion questionnaire survey. A large representative sample of 49,105...

... to emerging studies in hospitality, by deconstructing a colonial cookbook, via the medium of textual analysis, and underpinned by a hermeneutic interpretative paradigm. Many of the cookery books available in colonial Australia are written by English scribes in England as evidenced by tomes from Mrs Beeton...

...Michael J. Gross; Chris Brien; Graham Brown Purpose To develop and test a measurement model for the combined study of involvement and place attachment in a tourism context. Design/methodology/approach The study was conducted in South Australia, a state that has positioned itself as a lifestyle...

... patrons was gathered from regional wine festivals in Australia, then compared with Hall's stratified, New Zealand wine tourist market segments to ascertain whether the “right type” of consumer is attracted to wine festivals. Findings The study concludes that wine festivals are successful promotional...

...Conrad Lashley; Barry O'Mahony Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reveal insights into the relationship between migrant communities and the hospitality industry by examining the case study of Irish migrants into nineteenth century Victoria in Australia. Design/methodology/approach...