This literature review is written by Mink Sasiwan as part of her NHTV Master in Tourism Destination Management.
Introduction
Bhutan is a small land-locked kingdom situating in the Himalayan Mountains between India and China. This tiny country has enjoyed the reputation as one of the most pristine and exclusive travel destinations in the world – the […]
This literature review is written by Jessica Peelen as part of her NHTV Master in Tourism Destination Management.
Diving is becoming more popular. It started as a recreational activity and diving is now developing into a booming sector of travel industry all over the world. The Professional Association of Dive Instructors (PADI) measure the increasing participation in diving activity, from 2.5 million certified divers in 1988 to 17.5 million in 2008 (PADI Diver Statistics, 2008). One the world’s most popular diving destination is the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Actually it’s not possible to leave Australia without diving here, or at least snorkel. But also new diving destinations as Myanmar and Mozambique will be developed and this stimulates the development of diving tourism worldwide. More new tour operators and travel agencies specialized in diving holidays are started the last years (T.F. Ong and G. Musa, 2011).
It’s useful to find out what influence diving has on the environment and if divers’ attitude can make a difference.
Diving is often related with damaging and fracturing of coral. This will be examined from different perspectives with case studies of three dive destinations as Malaysia Sipadan, Cayman Island in the Caribbean and a Marine National Park inThailand, called Surin.
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This literature review is written by Wendy Yang as part of her NHTV Master in Tourism Destination Management.
Urban tourism has become one of main stream in tourism research since more and more urban areas promoted themselves as the most “charming”, ”sparkling” or ”touching” place on earth. In Asia, since so-called ‘tiger’ cities rose, city promotion combined with urban tourism has been view as a stage on which the state exhibits the success of economic success and modernized (Ward, 2005).Southeast Asia became a popular tourism destination to international visitors around 1970.From the beginning, tourism in Asia which consists of beach, sex, drugs, food and shopping has been based on urban. After two decades of development, in 1990s, East Asia pacific region received 16 percent of international tourists and 46 percent of them travelled to Southeast Asia (Mullins, 1999). According to UNWTO (2011), the average annual growth of international tourist arrivals in Southeast from 1995 to 2010 is 6.8 percent, second to Middle East.Hong Kong and Singapore, with spectacular growth, has been the best model for other Asian city states to imitate.In addition, Bangkok is also a good example to explain how being as a tourist gateway bring rapid growth to a city.The instant and obvious economic benefits and glory of “modern” have already driven more and more city authorities in Asia to develop tourism enthusiastically as the priority of policy. However, what if every city tries to attract tourists by using similar strategies and elements, like shopping, food and Skyscrapers (Leiper& Park, 2010). Furthermore these cities are all located in Asia, possibly modernized to different degree, but move to the same direction which early successful tourism Asian cities once went on.How do these cities make themselves to be more recognized? And do their efforts work? Is there any stakeholder without or within power but in urgency due to fast growth of urban tourism? Environmental issues about tourism in rural area have been discussed a lot, how about urban tourism? What kind of environmental impact could urban tourism cause?The ignored danger of urban tourism is the core of this literature review concerns about. […]
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Sometimes we find some things on the internet that do not seem real. That’s what I thought when I first saw the course of Tourism Destination Management (TDM) with a focus on Asia-Pacific. This happened when I was searching the internet for a master’s degree with classes in English and offered in some Asian […]
This week one group of about 30 students from 17 different nationalities starts with their Master in Tourism Destination Management at NHTV University of Applied Sciences. The Master programme of Tourism Destination Management has a unique international character. Students will not only be taught by our best professors, but they will also study in […]
People are wearing woven mats as skirts, directions are based upon “the next coconut tree” and the friendliness of the people just can’t be beaten. Let me share a bit of of Tonga with you, which was my home for a month and probably the most memorable chapter in my life so far.
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NHTV Master in Tourism Destination Management: Fernando Barrios-Martin, has his dissertation on tensions amongst collective social identities: the island of Lanzarote, published. In his research he makes an analysis of culture, power and identity in order to develop an understanding of the cultural complexity.
The book is available online through Morebooks.de.
Summary:
In recent decades, the importance of ‘Cultural Identities’ […]
After a three months research period in the Asia Pacific the master students presented the reports for their last destination: Bali.
The 30 NHTV master students Tourism Destination Management started their research period in February in Melbourne; in March they were based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The third and final month students worked in Bali: […]
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