The socio-cultural impacts of visiting friends and relatives on hosts: a Samoan study

This paper addresses the sector of VFR tourism: visiting friends and relatives (VFR). The hypoth‑ esis is that tourism based on social ties facilitates integration in terms of social interaction and social iden‑ tification in the destination, in this case the city of Buenos Aires. The concept itself of VFR tourism is dealt with together with a description and attempted characterisation of the exact movement of this type of tour‑ ism over the last few years as a result of migratory movements with emphasis on social ties and practices. The emphasis is on the degree of social integration and identification occurring in this type of tourism. The methodology used is qualitative, based on semi‑structured interviews of key agents and is complemented with statistics designed to give fuller access to the comprehension of the context.

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Analysis of tourism services in the Czech-Polish part of the Euroregion Neisse

Trendy v podnikání ◽

10.24132/jbt.2020.10.1.21_30 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 21-30

Author(s):

Jaroslava Dědková ◽

Otakar Ungerman

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Services ◽

Short Term ◽

Joint Research ◽

Cross Border ◽

Transport Services ◽

Social Events ◽

Recreational Services ◽

Visiting Friends And Relatives ◽

Tourism Services

The border areas are influenced by the cross-border visitation of tourists, which is usually of a short-term character. These are shopping, exploring natural attractions, commuting to work, visiting friends and relatives, attending cultural and social events, and transit transport. In the course of 2018-2019 a joint research of EF TUL and UE Wroclaw was carried out to determine the quality of tourism services in the Czech - Polish border area. The aim of the research was to find out how respondents perceive and evaluate the quality of services. Almost 1000 respondents on the Czech and Polish side evaluated transport services, accommodation services, sports and recreational services, catering services and the position of information centers. The paper presents the results of this research.

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Emberi ábrázolás a Változások korában, 4000 és 2000 BC között

Kaposvári Rippl-Rónai Múzeum Közleményei ◽

10.26080/krrmkozl.2014.3.113 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 113-144

Author(s):

Tünde Horváth

Keyword(s):

Bronze Age ◽

Middle Age ◽

Late Phase ◽

Early Bronze Age ◽

Copper Age ◽

Cultural Impacts ◽

Middle Bronze Age ◽

Archaeological Cultures ◽

The Bronze Age

Our survey should by necessity begin earlier, from the close of the Middle Age Copper Age, and should extend to much later, at least until the onset of the Middle Bronze Age, in order to identify and analyse the appearance and spread of the cultural impacts affecting the Baden complex, their in-teraction with neighbouring cultures and, finally, their decline or transformation. Discussed here will be the archaeological cultures flourishing between 4200/4000 and 2200/2000 BC, from the late phase of the Middle Copper Age to its end (3600 BC), the Late Copper Age (ending in 2800 BC), the transi-tion between the Copper Age and the Bronze Age (ending in 2600 BC), and the Early Bronze Age 1–3 (ending in 2000 BC), which I have termed the Age of Transformation.

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Contested homelands: Darwin’s ‘itinerant problem’

Pacific Journalism Review – Te Koakoa ◽

10.24135/pjr.v11i1.820 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 174-197 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Steve Spencer

Keyword(s):

Indigenous Population ◽

Aboriginal People ◽

Historical Context ◽

Remote Communities ◽

Cultural Genocide ◽

Visiting Friends And Relatives ◽

History Of ◽

People First ◽

Cultural Constructions ◽

The City

Darwin has the largest Aboriginal population of any Australian city at nearly nine per cent, and the Northern Territory has nearly 28 per cent of the indigenous population. While the greater majority of the indigenous population in Darwin lives in circumstances not unlike their non-indigenous neighbors, a number are, out of necessity, more transient, moving between remote communities and the city, visiting friends and relatives who may be in hospital or prison, seeking work or escaping uneviable conditions in the interior. It is important to preface the present study with a word on social and historical context, as the representation of indigenous issues in 'the Territory' is founded upon historical and cultural constructions of Aboriginality. What underpins this long-running moral panic about homeless indiginous people? First, the history of Aboriginal people in Australia has been one of the disposession, cultural genocide and displacement.

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