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Author : Deborah Edwards & Tony Griffin
School/Work Place : University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Contact : deborah.edwards-1@uts.edu.au
Year : 2012

This paper reports on the outcomes of two collaborative research projects, conducted in conjunction with destination management authorities. The projects used GPS tracking devices to find out how various kinds of visitors moved around two Australian cities, Sydney and Melbourne. In both cases the GPS tracking was supplemented by interviews of the visitors in order to acquire an explanation of their patterns of movement. The broad purpose of each project was to provide information to destination management authorities which could help them improve aspects of the visitor experiences. Generally, the spatial behaviour of tourists in cities is not well understood, partly because few studies have sought to specifically explore and analyse the behaviour of tourists in cities. In a critique of textual and representational studies Selby, Hayllar and Griffin (2008) note the tendency for such studies to read landscapes on behalf of people, rather than seeking to understand how they experience such places. They argue that a better understanding is needed of the tourists’ perspectives and of the ways in which they visit places, such as their spatial movements, the time they spend and the services they utilise.


List of Articles
No. Subject Views Datesort
102 Think Tank XII Encouraging Environmentally Friendly Transport Mode Ch... file 6308 Nov 06, 2013

The travel between home and destination is a key element of any holiday and has received increasing attention by tourism scholars as its environmental and particularly its climatic impacts have become widely recognized (Gössling 2002; Metz, ...

Author: Astrid Dickinger & Anja Hergesell 

Year: 2012 

101 Think Tank XII Destination Governance and Tourist Mobilities: New Par... file 5904 Nov 06, 2013

Resort communities are complex systems where destination governance has become increasingly challenged by new mobilities of capital, finance, labor, communication, transportation, leisure and tourism. Popular destinations like the coastal co...

Author: Dianne Dredge & Tazim Jamal 

Year: 2012 

100 Think Tank XII Does Migration Have a Bigger Impact on VFR than Total ... file 4408 Nov 06, 2013

As an important global market by purpose of travel, visiting friends and relatives, VFR, is closely associated with the history and development of international migration patterns which are a more permanent form of travel. Further, the impor...

Author: Larry Dwyer, Neelu Seetaram, Peter Forsyth & Brian King 

Year: 2012 

» Think Tank XII Understanding Tourism Flows and Patterns: A Case Study... file 4568 Nov 06, 2013

This paper reports on the outcomes of two collaborative research projects, conducted in conjunction with destination management authorities. The projects used GPS tracking devices to find out how various kinds of visitors moved around two Au...

Author: Deborah Edwards & Tony Griffin 

Year: 2012 

98 Think Tank XII Civic Tourism, Environmental Art and Tourism Mobility:... file 4924 Nov 06, 2013

For several decades the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude have created and installed art all over the world. Their art projects are large scale, temporary, and outdoor-environment inspired, and usually involve woven fabric that is suspended ...

Author: Diane Gaede & James Gould 

Year: 2012 

97 Think Tank XII Identifying Issues with Tourist Wayfinding: A Collabor... file 3796 Nov 06, 2013

This paper reports on a study that was conducted in conjunction with Destination NSW, the government tourism authority for the state of New South Wales in Australia. The purpose of the study was to examine tourist wayfinding behaviour in Syd...

Author: Tony Griffin & Deborah Edwards 

Year: 2012 

96 Think Tank XII Social and Economic Mobility: Expatriate Practises in ... file 4990 Nov 06, 2013

Bali has long been a tourist destination for Australian tourists and the Australian tourist market is an important one for Bali tourism. In the last two decades, increasingly Australian tourists have and are shifting their mobility practices...

Author: Gayle Jennings 

Year: 2012 

95 Think Tank XII The Way Forward: Event Management Education and the Fu... file 4089 Nov 06, 2013

The 2011 BESTEN Think Tank XI highlighted a number of issues and themes related to education and learning for sustainable tourism. The themes addressed issues such as learning tools for sustainability, sustainability courses and curricula an...

Author: Olga Junek, Leonie Lockstone-Binney & Martin Robertson 

Year: 2012 

94 Think Tank XII Creating Tourism Transport Flow Maps with GIS: A Pract... file 6743 Nov 06, 2013

This paper explores various options to visualize tourism transport flows with spatial analysis tools and show them on maps. To facilitate implementation of these options, procedures for data preparation and map creation are explained through...

Author: Martin Landré & Paul Peeters 

Year: 2012 

93 Think Tank XII Mobile Learning for Sustainable Tourism Development: T... file 4178 Nov 06, 2013

This paper examines how mobility in higher tourism education may contribute to a dynamic leaning environment capable of integrating transnational and intercultural learning for sustainable tourism development. Central to this is the opening ...

Author: Janne J. Liburd 

Year: 2012 

92 Think Tank XII Barriers and Benefits to Professional Development: Per... file 34431 Nov 06, 2013

This paper builds upon the body of literature on tourism mobilities by considering supply-side perspectives as it relates to workforce planning and preparation. Research into tourism destination competitiveness has suggested that for a touri...

Author: Kevin Lyons, Joanne Hanley & Tamara Young 

Year: 2012 

91 Think Tank XII Blurred Boundaries: The Implications of New Tourism Mo... file 11300 Nov 06, 2013

Tourism is traditionally treated as an escape from everyday life and tourism theory is concerned with extraordinary places. Tourism and everyday life are conceptualized as belonging to different ontological worlds.” (Larsen, 2008, p. 27). A...

Author: Laurie Murphy, Gianna Moscardo, Nancy McGehee & Elena Konovalov 

Year: 2012 

90 Think Tank XII Enhancing Social Capital through Networking for Sustai... file 4731 Nov 06, 2013

Social capital has been recognised as a factor affecting sustainable development in every discipline. A network or a partnership is identified as a “structural” form of social capital and a tool to empower participants in the networks. There...

Author: Attama Nilnoppkun 

Year: 2012 

89 Think Tank XII Unsustainable Travel Development: The Case of Aviation... file 3908 Nov 06, 2013

Considering the apparent importance of low-cost aviation, and its dramatic development, there is remarkably little research done about its consequences on European mobility. A few studies have mapped the development of networks (cf. Dobruszk...

Author: Jan Henrik Nilsson 

Year: 2012 

88 Think Tank XII A Global Tourism Geography - The Role of Transport file 7000 Nov 06, 2013

After decades of tourism research definitions and statistics of global tourism, flows are still not uniformly defined. A problem is that scholars, sector stakeholders and policy makers tend to have a biased image of the global tourism system...

Author: Paul Peeters & Martin Landré 

Year: 2012 

87 OPA award Slow Travellers - Who Are They, and What Motivates Them? file 8174 Nov 06, 2013

Tourism’s contribution to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is estimated to be around 5% and is forecast to grow rapidly, to around 16% of global emissions by 2020. Future strategies for mitigation must address the levels of demand for t...

Author: Derek Robbins & Jaedong Cho 

Year: 2012 

OPA: 2012 Outstanding Paper Award Winner 

86 Think Tank XII Slow Travellers - Who Are They, and What Motivates Them? file 4109 Nov 06, 2013

Tourism’s contribution to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is estimated to be around 5% and is forecast to grow rapidly, to around 16% of global emissions by 2020. Future strategies for mitigation must address the levels of demand for t...

Author: Derek Robbins & Jaedong Cho 

Year: 2012 

OPA: 2012 Outstanding Paper Award Winner 

85 Think Tank XII Causality Between Inbound Tourism and Economic Growth:... file 6119 Nov 06, 2013

This paper examines the existing studies of the relationship between inbound tourism and economic growth. After a brief discussion of general economic growth theory and the reasons why a positive causal relationship may exist between export ...

Author: Mondher Sahli & Simon Carey 

Year: 2012 

84 Think Tank XII Intersecting Mobilities: Tourists with Vision Impairme... file 5782 Nov 06, 2013

While there has been a developing interest in mobilities amongst tourism scholars, the notion of immobilities has often been ignored. Yet, there are many people who do not participate in tourism or, if they do, only experience partial mobili...

Author: Jennifer Small 

Year: 2012 

83 Think Tank XII Enhancing Stakeholders' Participation in Community-Bas... file 17303 Nov 06, 2013

Although the iconic floating markets in Thailand have been promoted both domestically and internationally, without a well-planned tourism initiative, virtually all of them have lost their authenticity. To preserve the culture of the Don-Mano...

Author: Nopparat Suthitakon, Sombat Karnjanakit & Suchart Taweepornpathomgul 

Year: 2012 

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