The Other Half of Urban Tourism: Research Directions in the Global South

With the growth of cannabis tourism, destinations such as the Netherlands have begun to offer cannabis-related products and services to visitors, including tourists from countries where all drugs are strictly prohibited. Yet limited research has sought to understand cannabis-oriented tourists' efforts to neutralize deviant connotations, namely by justifying or rationalizing misbehavior, when deciding to participate in cannabis tourism. This research note proposes a framework of deviant consumption behavior (DCB) constructed of geographic shifting, self-identity shifting, and moral identity shifting from the perspective of cannabis-oriented tourists to delineate tourists' decision-making process around engaging in deviant behaviors. The proposed framework suggests that previously developed DCB frameworks in the marketing and consumer behavior literature should be adapted for use in outbound tourism research. This research note also highlights areas for debate and investigation regarding cannabis tourists' deviant behavior. Future research directions are provided based on the proposed framework as it applies to deviant tourism research.

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Eye tracking and tourism research: A systematic literature review

Journal Of Vacation Marketing ◽

10.1177/13567667211053387 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 135676672110533

Author(s):

Georgiana-Denisse Savin ◽

Cristina Fleșeriu ◽

Larissa Batrancea

Keyword(s):

Eye Tracking ◽

Tracking Data ◽

Research Papers ◽

Research Directions ◽

Heat Maps ◽

Tourism Research ◽

Dynamic Stimuli ◽

Tracking Technique ◽

The Subject ◽

Practical Implications

In recent years, the number of studies in tourism using the eye tracking technique has increased and started generating valuable information for both academics and the industry. However, there is a gap in the literature concerning systematic reviews focused on recent articles and their findings. Thus, the aim of this study is to close this gap by systematically analysing 70 research papers tackling the subject of eye tracking in tourism and published in highly ranked tourism journals. The study identifies the most popular topics and trends for eye tracking research, as well as the most used types of visual stimuli, such as exhibitions, restaurant menus, promotional pictures or websites. The study also details on measurements specific for the analysis of eye tracking data, including fixations, saccades and heat maps. Results are emphasized along with their theoretical and practical implications. In addition, we highlight the lack of the use of dynamic stimuli in the existing literature and suggest further research directions using the eye tracking technique.

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Overtourism: Between the Right to Travel and Residents’ Rights

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11072138 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (7) ◽

pp. 2138 ◽

Cited By ~ 45

Author(s):

Dalia Perkumienė ◽

Rasa Pranskūnienė

Keyword(s):

Review Paper ◽

Sustainable Tourism ◽

The Other ◽

Integrative Review ◽

Research Development ◽

Tourism Research ◽

Review Analysis ◽

Preliminary Work ◽

The One ◽

The Right

Debates on overtourism, as a challenging phenomenon, are becoming more and more active. The purpose of this integrative review paper is to discuss the right to travel and residents’ rights in the context of overtourism and sustainable tourism, analyzing different scientific and legal sources. The integrative review analysis shows that overtourism and sustainable tourism are important contexts influencing the changing meaning of the right to travel and the right to live. On the one hand, the overtourism context makes the voices of residents more important to be heard, while on the other hand the sustainable tourism context influences the discussion of the right to travel, asking tourist voices to be considered more important. The results of this integrative review also shows the importance of rethinking the concept of sustainability in tourism as a holistic principle of democracy and as a degrowth movement, and opens the broader discussion for future tourism research development. The problem of overtourism could be solved by striving to develop sustainable tourism goals, thus balancing equality between the right to travel and residents’ rights. The presented integrative review paper is a preliminary work; further research is needed in order to find possible concrete solutions for overtourism.

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North Perspectives for a Better South? Big Data and the Global South in Big Data & Society

Interações Sociedade e as novas modernidades ◽

10.31211/interacoes.n37.2019.a4 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 84-107

Author(s):

Guilherme Cavalcante Silva

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Big Data ◽

Global South ◽

The Other ◽

The South ◽

Local Data ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Data Practices ◽

Academic Scholarship ◽

The One

Over the last few years, data studies within Social Sciences watched a growth in the number of researches highlighting the need for more proficuous participation from the Global South in the debates of the field. The lack of Southern voices in the academic scholarship on the one hand, and of recognition of the importance and autonomy of its local data practices, such as those from indigenous data movements, on the other, had been decisive in establishing a Big Data in the South agenda. This paper displays an analytical mapping of 131 articles published from 2014-2016 in Big Data & Society (BD&S), a leading journal acknowledged for its pioneering promotion of Big Data research among social scientists. Its goal is to provide an overview of the way data practices are approached in BD&S papers concerning its geopolitical instance. It argues that there is a tendency to generalise data practices overlooking the specific consequences of Big Data in Southern contexts because of an almost exclusive presence of Euroamerican perspectives in the journal. This paper argues that this happens as a result of an epistemological asymmetry that pervades Social Sciences.

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PUBLICATION TREND ON TRAVEL PREFERENCES OF SENIOR TOURISTS FROM 2000 TO 2020

Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Environment Management ◽

10.35631/jthem.626015 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (26) ◽

pp. 172-185

Author(s):

Nurul Ain Farhana Zainordin ◽

Syed Muhammad Rafy Syed Jaafar ◽

Nurul Diyana Md Khairi

Keyword(s):

Literature Review ◽

The Other ◽

Ageing Population ◽

Market Segment ◽

Future Directions ◽

Tourism Research ◽

Review Analysis ◽

Future Direction ◽

Insight Into

The ageing population is the crucial phenomenon that has led to the new market segment in tourism known as 'senior tourists.' A senior tourist is determined as an older traveller or grey tourist. The number of elderly keeps growing throughout time; hence, grey tourists will be relevant preferences, differing from the younger tourists. This paper aims to evaluate the relevant studies regarding travel preferences that involve senior tourists. The objective is to understand the publication trend behind the development of travel preferences for senior tourists. The findings suggest that the overall travel preferences among senior tourists studied include 12 aspects of travel preferences. Researchers tend to focus on the aspect of accommodation among senior tourists compared to the other elements. At the end of the review, this paper is set out to outline the literature review analysis to provide greater insight into the development of travel preferences among grey tourists in tourism research from 2000 to 2020. This paper's output offers future directions to explore the offer trends and future direction in tourism and behaviour literature.

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The affective economy of transnational surrogacy

Environment and Planning A Economy and Space ◽

10.1177/0308518x18769652 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 50 (8) ◽

pp. 1626-1645 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Carolin Schurr ◽

Elisabeth Militz

Keyword(s):

Economic Sociology ◽

Global South ◽

The Other ◽

Market Making ◽

Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽

Final Good ◽

Multiple Processes ◽

Maternal Bond ◽

Effective Organization ◽

Global Surrogacy

The booming business of global surrogacy has come to a halt: one surrogacy hub after the other has started to regulate the incremental flow of intended parents to the Global South hoping to fulfill their desire for a baby with the help of a foreign surrogate laborer. Thailand and Nepal have banned surrogacy altogether; India and Mexico insist on the altruistic nature of their surrogacy arrangements. As the drive for altruistic surrogacy suggests, the baby holds an exceptional position in many societies: ideas about the ‘unique’ maternal bond create public unease about the commercialization of babies in surrogacy markets. Drawing on economic sociology and theories of affect, this paper argues that multiple processes of affective attachment, detachment and reattachment shape transnational surrogacy journeys. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico’s surrogacy industry, the paper studies processes of commodification and decommodification in three instances of market-making: (1) the assignment of value and a price to reproductive laborers’ bodies on the basis of affective postcolonial geographies of beauty; (2) the affective/effective organization of the market encounter through contracts and communication rules and (3) the detachment of the final ‘good’ of the baby from the surrogate laborer. Transnational surrogacy arrangements, the paper concludes, are always forms of partial commodification – no matter whether they are framed as altruistic or commercial – because processes of affective/effective attachment and detachment are fundamental for delineating the intimate boundaries of families that come into life with the assistance of the globally operating surrogacy industry.

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Global North-Global South Relations Around a Notional U.S.-Mexico “Border Wall”

Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts - Deconstructing Images of the Global South Through Media Representations and Communication ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-9821-3.ch013 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 296-344

Author(s):

Shalin Hai-Jew

Keyword(s):

Image Analysis ◽

Global South ◽

The Other ◽

Data Word ◽

Textual Data ◽

Mexico Border ◽

Global North ◽

Word Search ◽

The U.S ◽

Image Analyses

In the present political moment, “border walls” between the U.S. and Mexico have become a flashpoint, representing binaries like governed / ungoverned spaces, security / insecurity, morality / immorality, respect / disrespect for human rights, human unity / disunity, North / South, haves / have-nots, citizens / non-citizens, Republicans / Democrats, conservatives / liberals, patriots / traitors, nationalists / internationalists (or globalists), and others. This work explores some of the thematic Global North – Global South implications of a notional “border wall” based on social imagery (in a multi-loop image analysis approach). This work questions how the “other” may be viewed through the limiting slats of a fence or windows in a wall. In addition to the image analyses, topic-related textual data will also be studied from various sources: academia, journalism, and social media (including mass search correlations, big data word search, related tags networks, and #hashtag network analysis).

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Indigenous African Knowledge System (IAKS) Ethos

Ethical Research Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge Education - Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-1249-4.ch006 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 127-153

Author(s):

Ntokozo Mthembu

Keyword(s):

Cultural Values ◽

Global South ◽

Knowledge System ◽

Knowledge Systems ◽

The Other ◽

Social Structural ◽

Past Injustices

This chapter discovers the limitations presented by narrow cultural and moral settings and the possibility of incorporating an indigenous African knowledge systems' (IAKS) ethos to redress past injustices, especially diverse cultural values experienced in countries in the ‘global south'. However, the emergence of related protests in communities and student structures in education circles, such as calls to decolonize the curriculum and the #FeesMustFall movement. The effects of colonialism continue to be reflected in social structural settings that uphold those Aristotelian parameters that are notorious for marginalizing the knowledge of the ‘other', specifically in the ‘global south'.

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