Poverty as a Tourism Attraction

2016 ◽  
pp. 23-40
Author(s):  
Donatella Privitera
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Strategic Choices ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Global Circulation ◽  
Slum Tourism ◽  
Online Activities ◽  
Tourist Behaviour ◽  
The Web

The visit of the favela or slum into a tourist destination is seen as a part of the so-called reality tours phenomenon and of the global circulation of the favela as a trademark. Tourist behaviour involves a search for leisure experiences from interactions with features or characteristics of places they choose to visit. Examples are the favelas in Brazil, the township of South Africa, the slum in India that have led to different definitions of “slum tourism”, “poor-poor tourism”, “reality tourism”. Web heavily affect today most of the online activities and their effect on tourism is obviously rather important. The aim of the chapter is to discuss about slum tourism definitions. At the same time, taking Reality Tours and Travel - a wholesaler slum websites - as a case, this study attempts to explore issues of the quality of strategic choices on the web. Considering that the content of web site includes a wide variety of technologies, is important that website offer also interactivity with e-tourists. Through the results of the study, it is possible to gain knowledge of the slum e-tourism.

Poverty as a Tourism Attraction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1084-1101
Author(s):  
Donatella Privitera
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Strategic Choices ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Global Circulation ◽  
Slum Tourism ◽  
Online Activities ◽  
Tourist Behaviour ◽  
The Web

The visit of the favela or slum into a tourist destination is seen as a part of the so-called reality tours phenomenon and of the global circulation of the favela as a trademark. Tourist behaviour involves a search for leisure experiences from interactions with features or characteristics of places they choose to visit. Examples are the favelas in Brazil, the township of South Africa, the slum in India that have led to different definitions of “slum tourism”, “poor-poor tourism”, “reality tourism”. Web heavily affect today most of the online activities and their effect on tourism is obviously rather important. The aim of the chapter is to discuss about slum tourism definitions. At the same time, taking Reality Tours and Travel - a wholesaler slum websites - as a case, this study attempts to explore issues of the quality of strategic choices on the web. Considering that the content of web site includes a wide variety of technologies, is important that website offer also interactivity with e-tourists. Through the results of the study, it is possible to gain knowledge of the slum e-tourism.

Investigations Into Slum Tourism

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-36
Author(s):  
Donatella Privitera
Keyword(s):  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Strategic Choices ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Slum Tourism ◽  
The Web ◽  
Poverty Tourism

This article aims at providing a deep understanding of various aspects of inquiry related to slum tourism or poverty tourism. The visit of favela or slum into a destination is a complex and challenging practice. Touring the poor is increasingly and variously organized by tour operators, local slum communities, and non-governmental organizations. The slum has joined the real of attractions, a sight to see. The research uses a qualitative approach to explore slum tourism in general as well as case study. The Web's effect on tourism is obviously rather important. Moreover, taking “Reality Tours and Travel” - a operator slum websites - as a case, this study attempts to explore issues of the quality of strategic choices on the web. Whilst academic discussion on the theme is evolving rapidly, slum tourism on the web is still a relatively young area of research.

Investigations Into Slum Tourism

2020 ◽  
pp. 531-547
Author(s):  
Donatella Privitera
Keyword(s):  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Strategic Choices ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Slum Tourism ◽  
The Web

This article aims at providing a deep understanding of various aspects of inquiry related to slum tourism or poverty tourism. The visit of favela or slum into a destination is a complex and challenging practice. Touring the poor is increasingly and variously organized by tour operators, local slum communities, and non-governmental organizations. The slum has joined the real of attractions, a sight to see. The research uses a qualitative approach to explore slum tourism in general as well as case study. The Web's effect on tourism is obviously rather important. Moreover, taking “Reality Tours and Travel” - a operator slum websites - as a case, this study attempts to explore issues of the quality of strategic choices on the web. Whilst academic discussion on the theme is evolving rapidly, slum tourism on the web is still a relatively young area of research.

scholarly journals Explore changes in the aspects fundamental to the competitiveness of South Africa as a preferred tourist destination

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Engelina Du Plessis ◽  
Melville Saayman ◽  
Annari Van der Merwe
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Frequency Analysis ◽  
Temporal Analysis ◽  
Value For Money ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
The Past ◽  
Role Players ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

Background: Tourism is an evolving and changing industry, and keeping up with these changes requires an understanding of the forces and changes that shape this industry’s outcomes. Tourism managers struggle daily to stay ahead in the competition to attract more tourists to destinations. Understanding the strengths and weaknesses of the past could shed light on the advantages of the future.Aim: The aim of this study was to do a temporal analysis of the competitiveness of South Africa as a tourism destination.Setting: This research investigated the competitive position of South Africa as a tourism destination just after the 1994 elections and compared those results to the results of a similar study in 2014.Methods: In this article, a frequency analysis revealed South Africa’s strengths and weaknesses, after which t-tests indicated the relationship between the strengths and weaknesses of the destination and the factors that contribute to South Africa’s competitiveness.Results: South Africa’s strengths include the quality of the food and experience, scenery, variety of accommodation climate and geographical features. It is clear that respondents identified different attributes that contributed to the strengths of the destination in comparison with 2002, where the strengths were wildlife, scenery, cultural diversity, climate, value for money, variety of attractions and specific icons.Conclusion: This research is valuable for South Africa because it informs tourism role players about what respondents perceive to be South Africa’s strengths. Role players can then form strategies that incorporate the strengths to create competitive advantage. This article also indicates the areas in which the country has grown in the past decade as well as indicating which weaknesses remain a problem.

A Proposed Template for the Evaluation of Web Design Strategies

2009 ◽  
pp. 293-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Xanthidis ◽  
David Nicholas ◽  
Paris Argyrides
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Web Design ◽  
International Literature ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Work Done ◽  
The Web

This chapter is the result of a two years effort to design a template aiming at standardizing, as much as such a task is feasible, the evaluation of Web sites. It is the product of a few publications in international conferences and journals. A thorough review of the international literature on the subject led the authors to conclude there is a very large number of opinions, thoughts and criteria from different professionals involved, directly or indirectly, with the process of designing a good Web site. To make matters even more complicated there are a number of different terms used by various scholars, scientists and professionals around the world that often refer to similar, if not the same, attributes of a Web site. However, it seems that all these differences could boil down to a systematic approach, here called evaluation template, of 53 points that the design strategies of the Web sites should be checked against. This template was tested on a significant number (232) of Web sites of Greek companies and proved it can be used to evaluate the quality of Web sites not only by technology experts but by non-experts alike. The evaluation template, suggested here, is by no means the solution to the problem of standardizing the process of evaluating a Web site but looking at other work done on the subject worldwide it is a step ahead.

scholarly journals Quantifying quality of WEB site based on usability

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.7) ◽  
pp. 320
Author(s):  
Dr JKR Sastry ◽  
N Sreenidhi ◽  
K Sasidhar
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
The Internet ◽  
End User ◽  
Effi Ciency ◽  
Computational Procedures ◽  
The Web

Information dissemination is taking place these days heavily using web sites which are hosted on the internet. The effectiveness and effi-ciency of the design of the WEB site will have great effect on the way the content hosted on the WEB can be accessed. Quality of a web site, places a vital role in making available the required information to the end user with ease satisfying the users content requirements. A framework has been proposed comprising 42 quality metrics using which the quality of a web site can be measured. Howevercompu-tations procedures have not been stated in realistic terms.In this paper, computational procedures for measuring “usability” of a WEB site can be measured which can be included into overall computation of the quality of a web site.

Antecedents of attitudes toward the website

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Miguel Alcántara-Pilar ◽  
Salvador Del Barrio-García
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Present Sample ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Web

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the moderating role of the cultural dimensions of long-term orientation (LTO) and individualism (IND) on the relationships between satisfaction online, message involvement (MI) and perceived usefulness (PU) of the web site on attitude toward the web site. Design/methodology/approach – The authors chose a between-subjects experimental design, using culture (Spanish vs British) as the independent variable. Two versions of a web site for a fictitious tourist destination were created – one written in Spanish and the other in English. The sample comprised 491 users. Findings – The findings indicate that the LTO dimension moderates the relationship between satisfaction online and PU on attitude toward the web site. The relationships between MI and attitude toward the web site could not be confirmed. Research limitations/implications – The main limitation of this study is the comparison of only two cultures, Spain vs the UK. Practical implications – The key implication is that if marketers and web site designers can better understand how national cultural differences moderate the attitude formation and change process among tourists, this will enable them to market their destinations and services more effectively. National cultural differences explain the differences found in the effect of satisfaction and PU on attitude toward the web site. Originality/value – This study is one of the few analyzing the moderating effect of LTO and IND on three antecedents of attitude toward the web site. The original cultural values established by Hofstede (2001) were tested among the present sample to establish the extent to which they remain true today. To create an authentic browsing scenario for the experiment, a web site was specially designed for a fictitious tourist destination, with its own domain name (buyada.org). Subjects were invited to browse the site freely while carrying out the task assigned to them. This approach contributed added value to the research by simulating the real behavior of tourists who are faced with a range of choices when putting together a tourism package for a given destination.

scholarly journals Quantifying quality of WEB sites based on content

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.7) ◽  
pp. 138
Author(s):  
Y Venkata Raghavarao ◽  
K Sasidhar ◽  
JKR Sastry ◽  
V Chandra Prakash
Keyword(s):  
Quality Factor ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Computational Method ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Use Of Internet ◽  
The Web

Information dissemination is taking place extensively through WEB and use of internet.  The quality and reliability of the information hosted on the WEB is questionable.  Many factors are to be considered for assessing the quality of the WEB sites. The Information hosted on the WEB would become valuable only when top quality of the same is maintained. Each quality factor can have many dimensions. There should be a mechanism of computing the quality of a web site quantitatively so that quality of a web site can be realistically measured.  Any subjective or objective way of measuring quality is questionable and can be prejudiced at times. Every factor as such must be measured the entire quality of a web site must be measured considering all the factors. One can develop a norm for quality of a factor and any deviation from the norm needs to be rectified and controlled.Among other factors quality of the content hosted on the WEB plays vital role. In this paper the computational method which can be used for computing the quality of a web site is presented considering all the dimensions of   content related quality factor.

Interactive E-Government

2011 ◽  
pp. 1139-1157
Author(s):  
Stuart J. Barnes ◽  
Richard Vidgen
Keyword(s):  
Web Site ◽  
Information Quality ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
Online Submission ◽  
Tax Returns ◽  
Inland Revenue ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Taxation System ◽  
The Web

As government organizations have begun increasingly to communicate and interact with citizens via the Web, providing services has demanded acute understanding of the requirements of users and appropriate tailoring of solutions. In this article, we examine the results of a survey of the quality of a Web site provided by the UK Government. The site is that of the Inland Revenue. The survey was administered directly after the launch of a new system to enable online submission of self-assessed tax returns. The instrument, E-Qual, draws on previous work in Web site usability, information quality, and service interaction quality to provide a rounded framework for assessing e-government offerings. The metrics and qualitative comments provide some detailed insights into the perceptions of users who attempted to interact with the online taxation system. The results point to specific areas in need of development in the Web site, which are found to be consistent with initiatives launched recently by the Inland Revenue.

Valuation and analysis of drug addiction web sites / Criterios de valoración y análisis de sitios web sobre drogodependencias

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Carabantes Alarcón ◽  
Carmen García Carrión ◽  
Juan Vicente Beneit Montesinos
Keyword(s):  
Drug Addiction ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Drug Dependence ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Specific System ◽  
The Web

La calidad en Internet tiene un gran valor, y más aún cuando se trata de una página web sobre salud como es un recurso sobre drogodependencias. El presente artículo recoge los estimadores y sistemas más destacados sobre calidad web para el desarrollo de un sistema específico de valoración de la calidad de recursos web sobre drogodependencias. Se ha realizado una prueba de viabilidad mediante el análisis de las principales páginas web sobre este tema (n=60), recogiendo la valoración, desde el punto de vista del usuario, de la calidad de los recursos. Se han detectado aspectos de mejora en cuanto a la exactitud y fiabilidad de la información, autoría, y desarrollo de descripciones y valoraciones de los enlaces externos. AbstractThe quality in Internet has a great value, and still more when is a web page on health like a resource of drug dependence. This paper contains the estimators and systems on quality in the web for the development of a specific system to value the quality of a web site about drug dependence. A test of viability by means of the analysis of the main web pages has been made on this subject, gathering the valuation from the point of view of the user of the quality of the resources. Aspects of improvement as the exactitude and reliability of the information, responsibility, and development of descriptions and valuations of the external links have been detected.

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