The Use of ICT in Tourist and Educational Literary Routes

2022 ◽  
pp. 15-29
Author(s):  
Jordi Chumillas ◽  
Mia Güell ◽  
Pere Quer
Keyword(s):  
Tour Guides ◽  
Actual Use

This chapter focuses on the use of ICT in literary routes and explores how technologies can influence the tour guides. It begins with a reflection on the key concept of literary routes (from both an educational and tourist perspective) and then considers the antecedents and components that define the guide. Finally, a survey of professionals and teachers with experience in the design and execution of literary routes is carried out in order to explore aspects such as (1) the actual use of ICT on the routes, (2) the synergies between the guide's skills and the use of ICT, and (3) to what extent the use of ICT leads to a change in the role of the guide.

Reconceptualising Interpretation: The Role of Tour Guides in Authentic Tourism

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 481-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvette Reisinger ◽  
Carol Steiner
Keyword(s):  
Tour Guides

Thinking Transcendence: Heidegger’s Ontological Concept of Freedom

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 247-260
Author(s):  
Stefan Schmidt ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Being And Time ◽  
Philosophical Theology ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
Fundamental Ontology ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Actual Use ◽  
Ontological Concept ◽  
Positive Concept

According to Hans Ruin, there are two ways to approach the examination of freedom in Heidegger’s writings: One can use the notion of freedom as a heuristic concept to interpret the entirety of Heidegger’s work as a philosophy of freedom, which was famously done by Günter Figal, or one can reconstruct Heidegger’s actual use of the notion of freedom. In my paper I’ll focus on the second approach and show that although “freedom” or, rather, “being-free” can already be found in Being and Time, his more elaborate concept of freedom as transcendence is developed in the years 1928-1930. These years are part of a time period in which Heidegger tried to develop his own positive concept of metaphysics. The main texts which show this development are the lecture course The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic and the essay On the Essence of Ground. Based on Aristotle’s twofold metaphysics—consisting of ontology and philosophical theology—Heidegger sketches his own concept of metaphysics. The fundamental ontology which plays the role of ontology is complemented by his cosmological interpretation of theology: metontology. Together, they form Heidegger’s novel notion of metaphysics: the metaphysics of Dasein. Whereas fundamental ontology is concerned with the question of Being, the main subject of metontology is world as beings as a whole. Heidegger develops his concept of transcendence, i.e., metontological freedom, which describes the connection between freedom and world, on the basis of the terms world-projection (Weltentwurf), world-view (Weltanschauung), and world-formation (Weltbildung), each describing an aspect of transcendence.

Situated Knowledge in Context-Aware Computing

2011 ◽  
pp. 179-197
Author(s):  
Fredrik Svahn ◽  
Ola Henfridsson
Keyword(s):  
Ubiquitous Computing ◽  
Central Feature ◽  
Navigation Systems ◽  
Route Guidance ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Situated Knowledge ◽  
Context Aware Computing ◽  
Actual Use ◽  
Car Navigation

A central feature of ubiquitous computing applications is their capability to automatically react on context changes so as to support users in their mobility. Such context awareness relies on models of specific use contexts, embedded in ubiquitous computing environments. However, since most such models are based merely on location and identity parameters, context-aware applications seldom cater for users’ situated knowledge and experience of specific contexts. This is a general user problem in well-known, but yet dynamic, user environments. Drawing on a sequential multimethod study of in-car navigation, this paper explores the role of situated knowledge in designing and using context-aware applications. This focus is motivated by the current lack of empirical investigations of context-aware applications in actual use settings. In-car navigation systems are a type of context-aware application that includes a set of contextual parameters for supporting route guidance in a volatile context. The paper outlines a number of theoretical and practical implications for context-aware application design and use.

scholarly journals The Attraction of the Mundane – How everyday life contributes to destination attractiveness in the Nordic region

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 467-484
Author(s):  
Matias Thuen Jørgensen
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Qualitative Interview ◽  
Interview Study ◽  
Tour Guides ◽  
Nordic Region ◽  
Qualitative Interview Study ◽  
Tourism Studies ◽  
Destination Attractiveness ◽  
Chinese Tourists

The paper exhibits how environments, lifestyles and institutions that are considered as mundane parts of everyday life for locals, play an important role for Chinese tourists visiting the Nordic region – as motivators to visit and as tangible or intangible attractions during the visit. It contributes to ongoing discussions about the role of mundane everyday life in tourism studies, as it highlights that tourist do not only bring their everyday lives to destinations, they also travel to experience tangible and intangible elements that locals may regard as mundane. Based on these findings, the paper aims to position such mundane destination elements not only as a supplement to, but in line with traditional attractions, in terms of their contribution to destination attractiveness. The paper is based on the findings of a qualitative interview study on Chinese tourism to the Nordic region. The interviewees include fourteen Chinese tourists, sixteen representatives of Chinese tourism intermediaries and six tour guides.

Policy analysis in the Belgian legislatures: the marginal role of a structurally weak parliament in a partitocracy with no scientific and political tradition of policy analysis

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lieven De Winter ◽  
Wouter Wolfs
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Coalition Governments ◽  
Political Tradition ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Actual Use

This chapter examines the formal existence and actual use of resources relevant for policy analysis that individual parliamentarians, parliamentary groups and the parliament, as a whole, have at their disposal in the federal House of Representatives, the Flemish and the Walloon parliament since the mid-1990s. The use and effectiveness of these comparatively meagre resources are strongly constrained by the structural need of majority MPs and groups to offer continuous and unconditional support to inherently unstable coalition governments composed of four to six parties.

scholarly journals Brokers and Tours: Selling Urban Poverty and Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-14
Author(s):  
Eveline Dürr ◽  
Rivke Jaffe ◽  
Gareth A. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Urban Poverty ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Tour Guides ◽  
Tourism Product ◽  
Slum Tourism ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Urban Deprivation

This article explores how so-called “slum” tourism commodifies poverty and violence, transforming urban deprivation into a tourism product. In particular, we pay ethnographic attention to the role of brokers who mediate encounters between residents and tourists. The article explores how brokers—tour guides, art curators and civil society organizations—work to mediate power structures and enact a specific representational-performative politics. In so doing, brokers play a key role in aestheticizing and performing poverty and violence and converting disadvantaged spaces into a tourist product. We argue that brokers are vital to the reproduction of existing inequalities and to the formation of new social relationships and subjectivities.

Tour guides and the transnational promotion of human rights: Agency, structure and norm translators in responsible travel

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 314-335
Author(s):  
Jonathan Liljeblad
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Critical Position ◽  
Tour Guide ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Tour Guides ◽  
Tourism Studies

Within tourism studies, the movement for ‘responsible tourism’ seeks to direct tourism in support of ideals such as sustainability and human rights. Central to the promotion of such ideals, however, is the tour guide who holds a critical position influencing the orientation of a tourism encounter. This article explores the capacities of tour guides to direct tourism encounters in support of human rights. The analysis draws upon tourism and human rights literature to frame tour guides within the theoretical concept of norm translators. The analysis applies a case study approach to a case of an individual tour guide leading a Vietnam tour package under the employ of a responsible travel company supportive of human rights, with the purpose of clarifying the role of tour guides in promoting human rights and elaborating the theory of norm translators.

Visitor perceptions of the role of tour guides in natural areas

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carleigh Randall ◽  
Rick B. Rollins
Keyword(s):  
Natural Areas ◽  
Tour Guides ◽  
Visitor Perceptions
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