In this paper we position sustainable tourism of the Wadden. The aim is to clarify the complex issues at stake and therewith provide a framework for future actions and policies.
In spite of renewed attention for practices in tourism studies, the analysis of practices is often isolated from theories of practice. This theoretical paper identifies the main strands of practice theory and their relevance and application to tourism research, and develops a new approach to applying practice theory in the study of tourism participation. We propose a conceptual model of tourism practices based on the work of Collins (2004), which emphasises the role of rituals in generating emotional responses. This integrated approach can focus on individuals interacting in groups, as well as explaining why people join and leave specific practices. Charting the shifting of individuals between practices could help to illuminate the dynamics and complexity of tourism systems.
The aim of this QSR 2022 on tourism is to make an attempt to assess available information about the tourism industry from three countries and various sources and present it in a comprehensive manner. We, thereby, describe common features of regional tourism structures, as well as differences, and we present some of the identified data incompatibilities (sections 2.2 and 2.3). The recommendations in section 3 present avenues along which data collection and monitoring can be improved, inspired by a set of key forces driving change intourism that stakeholders should be prepared for (section 2.4).
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Een veelbelovend model voor de professionele ontwikkeling van docenten/opleiders, gebaseerd op diepgaande samenwerking tussen docenten/opleiders en gericht op het verbeteren van het leren van studenten, is Lesson Study. Lesson Study wordt echter nauwelijks in het mbo toegepast. Met het Europese LS4VET-project gaan we de Lesson Study methode aanpassen en geschikt maken voor het mbo.Doel Het doel is om een diepgaande en duurzame impact te bereiken - dat wil zeggen, verbetering van de kwaliteit van het onderwijs – bij mbo’s die de methode toepassen. Aanpak Projectleden zijn onder meer hoger onderwijsinstellingen met vooraanstaande onderzoekers en lerarenopleiders die ervaring hebben met Lesson Study. Elke hogeschoolinstelling werkt samen met partner MBO- instelling die op zoek is naar effectieve manieren om de samenwerking tussen hun docenten en het beroepsonderwijs te verbeteren. Relevantie Het korte termijn resultaat van het project is een methode en een handboek van een effectief docentprofessionaliseringsmodel, Lesson Study, dat specifiek is gericht op het mbo. De resultaten zullen publiekelijk toegangkelijk zijn. Het lange termijn resultaat is dat het LS4VET-project docenten/opleiders van mbo’s wil ondersteunen bij het vormen van professionele leergemeenschappen door ze de Lesson Study-methode en een bijpassende toolkit aan te bieden. Looptijd 01 september 2020 - 31 augustus 2023 Resultaten In het project ontwikkelen we een: 1. Model - een theoretisch model dat richtlijnen biedt voor Lesson Study in het mbo 2. een online cursus 3. Storyboard and Toolkit 4. eBook - een handboek voor docenten/opleiders en managers binnen het mbo Samenwerking met kennispartners Stichting Landstede (Netherland) ELTE Eötvös Loránd University Institute of Intercultural Psychology and Education (Hungary) – project coordinator iTStudy Hungary Educational and Research Centre Ltd. (Hungary) Neumann János Computer Science Technical School (Hungary) Pedagogische Hochshule Niederösterreich (Austria) Vocational School Baden Lower Austria (Austria) Universita ta Malta (Malta) Institute of Tourism Studies (Malta)
Vacation travel is an essential ingredient in quality of life. However, the contriubtion of vacations to quality of life could be improved in two ways: by optimizing the decisions people make when planning and undertaking their vacations, and by travel industry testing and implementing––based on evidence––innovative experience products which touch customers' emotions. Secondary analysis of two longitudinal panel datasets will address the impact of people's decisions in planning and undertaking their vacations, on their quality of life. Field experiments in cooperation with travel industry partners will address the effects of innovative experience products, such as apps designed to help vacationers meet fellow travelers, or personalized memory books designed to help people relive their vacations after return home. Experience data in these field experiments will be collected using technology of the Breda University of Applied Sciences' Experience Measurement Lab, a unique facility for measuring emotions continuously from research participants' body and mind. Thus, the project will contribute to general understanding of quality of life, will feed valuable knowledge about experience design, measurement, and implementation to the Dutch travel industry, and will support the Breda University of Applied Sciences' key research theme of Designing, Measuring, and Managing Experiences. Inspiring examples from the project will reinforce research methods courses in the academic Bachelor of Science in Tourism, the HBO Master in Tourism Destination Management, and the academic Master of Science in Leisure Studies. Wearable emotion measurement from the field experiment will be a cornerstone of the fourth-year HBO-bachelor module Business Intelligence, where students will conduct their own research projects on experience measurement using consumer wearables, based on knowledge from this postdoc project. Finally, a number of methodological and content questions within the project will serve as suitable thesis assignments for graduation students in the above educational tracks.