Authentic Dishes, Staged Identities: Thailand's Cooking Schools for Tourists

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-55
Author(s):  
Mary Beth Mills
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Experience Economy ◽  
Cultural Authenticity ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Ethnographic Observation ◽  
Food And Identity ◽  
The One ◽  
International Visitors

In Thailand today local cooking-school classes are a popular attraction on many tourist itineraries. Moreover, these experiences almost always prompt rave reviews from international visitors: “It was so much fun!” But why are cooking school classes fun? And what does this pleasure tell us about the cultural logics of authenticity in Thai culinary tourism and, more generally, about the commodification of food and identity in the contemporary global economy? Drawing on ethnographic observation in two of Thailand's primary tourist destinations, Bangkok and Chiang Mai, this article explores how cooking schools' claims to cultural authenticity intertwine with participants' experiences of playful entertainment. The ways in which cooking schools mobilize these dynamics illuminate the complex production and consumption of hierarchies of value within the global experience economy. On the one hand, Thailand's insertion within transnational circuits of touristic mobility and cosmopolitan desire has made the creative strategies of recreational cooking schools possible as well as potentially lucrative. On the other hand, the encounters schools stage between Thai and tourist participants remain framed by appetites for exotic cultural difference that ultimately reflect and reproduce global hierarchies of power and privilege.

Aspects of the Evolution of the Romanian Tourists’ Preferences Concerning the Domestic Tourist Destinations

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-28
Author(s):  
Aniela Bălăcescu ◽  
Radu Șerban Zaharia
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Model ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Tourism Management ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
On Line ◽  
The One ◽  
Long Term Studies

Abstract Tourist services represent a category of services in which the inseparability of production and consumption, the inability to be storable, the immateriality, and last but not least non-durability, induces in tourism management a number of peculiarities and difficulties. Under these circumstances the development of medium-term strategies involves long-term studies regarding on the one hand the developments and characteristics of the demand, and on the other hand the tourist potential analysis at regional and local level. Although in the past 20 years there has been tremendous growth of on-line booking made by household users, the tour operators agencies as well as those with sales activity continue to offer the specific services for a large number of tourists, that number, in the case of domestic tourism, increased by 1.6 times in case of the tour operators and by 4.44 times in case of the agencies with sales activity. At the same time, there have been changes in the preferences of tourists regarding their holiday destinations in Romania. Started on these considerations, paper based on a logistic model, examines the evolution of the probabilities and scores corresponding to the way the Romanian tourists spend their holidays on the types of tourism agencies, actions and tourist areas in Romania.

scholarly journals Motivation versus risk

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 65-77
Author(s):  
I Putu Gde Sukaatmadja ◽  
Ni Nyoman Kerti Yasa ◽  
Ni Luh Wayan Sayang Telagawathi ◽  
I Gusti Agung Gede Witarsana ◽  
Putu Laksmita Dewi Rahmayanti
Keyword(s):  
Health Risk ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Perceived Health ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Revisit Intention ◽  
The Government ◽  
The One ◽  
International Visitors

The tourism industry is the one that has been hit the most by the COVID-19 outbreak. Bali is one of the most popular tourist destinations among both local and international visitors, and its economy is heavily reliant on the tourism industry. The purpose of this study is to investigate how push-pull motivation and perceived health risk affect the attitude of tourists and their impact on the intention to return to Bali. The respondents are 200 Indonesians who have visited Bali. On SMART-PLS version 3.0, structural equation model analysis was employed for data analysis. The results show that all four determinants of domestic tourist revisit intention, including push motivation (?=0.273, p < .001), pull motivation (?=0.394, p < .001), perceived health risk (?=-0.170, p < .01), and attitude (?=0.185, p < .01) significantly affect revisit intention. Recommendations are made to the government and businesses in the tourism industry to improve the revisit intention of domestic tourists.

Compressed Development

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Hugh Whittaker ◽  
Timothy Sturgeon ◽  
Toshie Okita ◽  
Tianbiao Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
National Development ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The One

This book highlights the importance of time and timing in economic and social development. ‘Compressed development’ consists of two key features and their interaction: the tendency for development processes to unfold more rapidly (compression) and the institution-shaping influences of major periods of change and growth, especially when countries become integrated into the global economy (era). Using an interdisciplinary conceptual framework of state–market and organization–technology co-evolution, the authors contrast the experiences of ‘early’ and ‘late’ developers such as the United Kingdom and Japan, with countries–most notably China–which have become more deeply integrated with the global economy since the 1990s. Compressed developers experience ‘thin industrialization’, layered types of employment, and ‘double burdens’ or challenges in social development. National development strategies must accommodate global value chains and powerful international actors on the one hand, and decentralization on the other. To cope, and thrive, states must remain developmental, whilst being increasingly engaged and adaptive in multiple levels of governance. Compressed Development explores the historical and contemporary features of economic and social development at the intersection of development studies and studies of globalization. By bringing a new perspective on the ‘middle-income trap’, as well as the emerging digital economy, and the state–market and geopolitical tensions that are currently upending conventional wisdoms, the book offers timely insights that will be useful, not only for students of development, but for policymakers, business, and labour organization seeking to navigate the rushing currents of contemporary capitalism.

Structural Transformation and Inclusive Growth

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Sumner
Keyword(s):  
Structural Transformation ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Import Substitution ◽  
National Development ◽  
Inclusive Growth ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The One ◽  
Import Substitution Industrialization

This chapter reviews currents in theory with a focus on modernization and neoclassical statements of comparative advantage on the one hand, and structuralism, dependency, and other theories of underdevelopment on the other. The latter theories of underdevelopment hit their zenith in the policies of the import-substitution industrialization of the 1960s and 1970s. They were largely dismissed in the 1980s as the limits of import-substitution industrialization became apparent and as East Asia industrialized, undermining any argument that structural transformation was problematic in the periphery. This chapter theorizes that neither orthodox nor heterodox theories of structural transformation adequately explain the development of late developers because of the heterogeneity of contemporary capitalism. That said, heterodox theories, which coalesce around the nature of incorporation of developing countries into the global economy, do retain conceptual usefulness in their focal point, ‘developmentalism’, by which we mean the deliberate attempts at national development led by the state.

Capital Production and Social Equity: Finding Balance in Chinese Cities

2014 ◽  
pp. 28-35
Author(s):  
Andrew Liang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Reform ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Social Equity ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Wealth Creation ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Chinese Cities ◽  
The One

China’s massive capital accumulation, economic ascent and wealth production has largely been the result of their rapid urbanization effort. While it is indisputable that the country has largely succeeded in its economic reform efforts given its status as the world’s second largest economy and in that process lifted hundreds of millions of its population out of poverty, it has also, in that process, created severe social inequality and friction. This essay largely argues that Chinese cities are purpose-built financial instruments for capital accumulation, a result of the forces of globalization which could only have happened in sync with the time and space of a global economy. Though highly successful, so far the process has marginalized the objective of social integration into its performative matrix indexing. In this regard China has pursued an exploitive model of market driven urbanization and the resultant morphological and spatial attributes of the Chinese cities, while having achieved spectacular results on many levels, are nevertheless disjunctive. They are commodities of generic sameness that are mass-produced and exhibit the same anesthetizing effects of the spectacle that are ever prevalent in today’s global market production process, product and place. Recognizing that globalization and capitalism are here to stay in the immediate future, it begs the question if China, while having already undertaken extreme economic reform experimentations allowing it to now bask in its temporal success, will be able to leverage its acquired market knowledge and wealth creation to prospectively overcome the incredibly complex challenge of creating equitable cities in the future — ones that balance the demands of capital production on the one hand and social equity on the other — or rather will it sink deeper into the “neoliberal modern society” that it has already become.

scholarly journals Addressing Practical Issues Related Tto Nursing Care For International Visitors To Hiroshima

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariko Nishikawa ◽  
Kiyoka Niiya ◽  
Masako Okayasu
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Word Analysis ◽  
Quality Of Patient Care ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
Open Question ◽  
Japanese Nurses ◽  
Nursing Professionals ◽  
International Visitors

When nine million foreigners visited Japan in 2013, the federal government set a goal to attract an additional two and a half million visitors including medical tourists by 2020. This research investigates the attitudes and concerns of Japanese nurses when they are in a situation dealing with foreign patients. The data were collected from March through September 2010, from 114 nurses at three hospitals, in close proximity to popular tourist destinations in Hiroshima. A questionnaire was developed for this research, named Mari Meter, which included a section to write answers to an open question for the nurses to express their opinions. These responses were examined statistically and by word analysis using Text Mining Studio. Japanese nurses expressed greatest concern about payment options, foreign language skills, and issues of informed consent, when dealing with foreigners. The results confirm that, in order to provide a high quality of patient care, extra preparation and a greater knowledge of international workers and visitors are required by nursing professionals in Japan.


scholarly journals Structural changes and economic growth in the world economy and Russia

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeriy V. Mironov ◽  
Liudmila D. Konovalova
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Growth Rate ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
The World ◽  
Preliminary Version ◽  
The One ◽  
Relationship Of

The article considers the problem of the relationship of structural changes and economic growth in the global economy and Russia in the framework of different methodological approaches. At the same time, the paper provides the analysis of complementarity of economic policy types, which, on the one hand, are aimed at developing the fundamentals of GDP growth (institutions, human capital and macroeconomic stabilization), and on the other hand, at initiating growth (with stable fundamentals) with the help of structural policy measures. In the study of structural changes in the global economy, new forms of policies of this kind have been revealed, in particular aimed at identifying sectors — drivers of economic growth based on a portfolio approach. In a given paper a preliminary version of the model of the Russian economy is provided, using a multisector version of the Thirlwall’s Law. Besides, the authors highlight a number of target parameters of indicators of competitiveness of the sectors of the Russian economy that allow us to expect its growth rate to accelerate above the exogenously given growth rate of the world economy.

scholarly journals Financial Strategy considering Sustainable Growth: evidence from China and Russia gas market companies

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alina Steblyanskaya ◽  
Zhen Wang ◽  
Elena Ryabova ◽  
Svetlana Razmanova ◽  
Maxim Rybachuk
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Growth Strategy ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Financial Strategy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ambiguous Situation ◽  
Sustainable Growth Rate ◽  
Financial Growth ◽  
Gas Market ◽  
The One

Over the past ten years have seen ambiguous situation concerning China and Russia gas companies. On the one hand, companies’ reports show conservative policies and sustainable growth in the coming years, on the other hand, companies’ financial performance suggest another situation because of insufficient level of financial indexes that reflects the inconsistency of existing sustainable growth approaches. These indicates relevance of the research concerning China and Russia gas market companies’ financial sustainable growth in conditions of global economy and investment policy implementation. The main purpose of the Research is to analyze China and Russia gas market companies’ financial growth strategy by means of Geniberg Z – matrix as well as enhanced Financial Sustainability Indicators System indexes by identifying which indicators have a greater influence on Sustainable Growth Rate. It is found that ROCE, ROFA, CR, DOL, ROL influence on Russian gas market companies’ SGR, and ROCE, WACC, ROL, CG Dummy influence on Chinese gas market companies sustainable growth.

scholarly journals Arcabouço de Comunicação Publish/Subscribe para a Coleta de Dados de Aplicações Médicas

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriele Ribeiro ◽  
Joberto S. B. Martins
Keyword(s):  
Network Structure ◽  
Medical Data ◽  
Medical Applications ◽  
Distributed Environment ◽  
Communication Framework ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Basic Set ◽  
Network Communications ◽  
The One ◽  
Health Application

Medical applications are increasingly using computing resources such as IoT sensors and network communications paradigms. An e-Health application requires a basic set of elements such as sensors, a communication framework, and a network structure adapted to the application's specific requirements. This work expands and develops a framework based on the Publish / Subscribe paradigm to develop PSIoT-Health. The PSIoT-Health framework focuses on medical applications that collect data produced in a distributed manner. The PSIoT-Health adapts the Pub/Sub model to the requirements of medical applications and proposes a solution for the production and consumption of data between producers and consumers of medical data in a distributed environment such as the one existing in a smart city.

The Global Perspective

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoltan J. Acs
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Unequal Distribution ◽  
Distribution Of Wealth ◽  
American Model ◽  
The World ◽  
American Style ◽  
Unequal Distribution Of Wealth ◽  
The One

This chapter examines the American economy and American-style capitalism in the context of the global economy. It first provides an overview of American exceptionalism before revisiting who the Americans are and comparing the American model of liberal democracy with that of East Asia and the European Union. It then reflects on what America's future looks like and what the world will look like in 2050. It concludes with an assessment of whether the American model that is spreading around the world in bits and pieces could be better promoted. The chapter suggests that American-style capitalism, with its interplay between entrepreneurship and philanthropy, on the one hand, and its balancing act between wealth and opportunity, on the other, should be encouraged despite the unequal distribution of wealth entrepreneurship creates.

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