The reality of tourism promotion in the Sudanese media (A study on the qualitative public in Khartoum state)

This descriptive study aimed at identifying the concerns of the Sudanese media for promotion of tourism in the country. To attain that, the study seeks to answer a set of questions such as: How far is the awareness and the concern given to the touristic activity as economic and social value? How efficient are the media and communications efforts to promote what existed? How the media performance corresponds with the importance of tourism in Sudan? The study adopted the survey method. Its population represents the three groups in tourism sector in Khartoum State. The sample includes: class sample and selected sample from the institutions. Data is collected by a questionnaire. The study demonstrates that the efficiency of media in promotion of tourism is impeded and weakened by the technical and professional shortcomings of the employees in the field. The study recommends the following: Capitalizing the concept of touristic promotion among the employees of the Sudanese media and raising their skills and capabilities. Activation of federal and state touristic awareness.

Bathymetric Survey of the St. Anthony Channel (Croatia) Using Multibeam Echosounders (MBES)—A New Methodological Semi-Automatic Approach of Point Cloud Post-Processing

Multibeam echosounders (MBES) have become a valuable tool for underwater floor mapping. However, MBES data are often loaded with different measurement errors. This study presents a new user-friendly and methodological semi-automatic approach of point cloud post-processing error removal. The St. Anthony Channel (Croatia) was selected as the research area because it is regarded as one of the most demanding sea or river passages in the world and it is protected as a significant landscape by the Šibenik-Knin County. The two main objectives of this study, conducted within the Interreg Italy–Croatia PEPSEA project, were to: (a) propose a methodological framework that would enable the easier and user-friendly identification and removal of the errors in MBES data; (b) create a high-resolution integral model (MBES and UAV data) of the St. Anthony Channel for maritime safety and tourism promotion purposes. A hydrographic survey of the channel was carried out using WASSP S3 MBES while UAV photogrammetry was performed using Matrice 210 RTK V2. The proposed semi-automatic post-processing of the MBES acquired point cloud was completed in the Open Source CloudCompare software following five steps in which various point filtering methods were used. The reduction percentage in points after the denoising process was 14.11%. Our results provided: (a) a new user-friendly methodological framework for MBES point filtering; (b) a detailed bathymetric map of the St. Anthony Channel with a spatial resolution of 50 cm; and (c) the first integral (MBES and UAV) high-resolution model of the St. Anthony Channel. The generated models can primarily be used for maritime safety and tourism promotion purposes. In future research, ground-truthing methods (e.g., ROVs) will be used to validate the generated models.

Tourism Promotion and Disability

This study illustrates the preliminary results of a corpus-based analysis aimed at discovering the main linguistic features characterising the promotion of tourism for special-needs travellers. Even if accessible tourism represents an important sector in the market, not only for its social and moral importance but also for its strong economic potential, detailed research on the linguistic properties of tourism for disabled people is still rather limited and mainly tends to focus on the problems of physical access rather than considering the ways to improve its promotional strategies. Through a comparative corpus-based analysis, this paper will investigate the relevant linguistic features of a corpus of promotional materials advertising holidays and tourist services for the disabled, and relate them to the communicative strategies of two other corpora dedicated to the standard and translational language of tourism. The aim of this research is to show how mainstream tourism discourse still considers disability as a taboo topic, mostly ignoring or vaguely mentioning it in the general promotion of tourist destinations. The study will also attempt to suggest new linguistic and social attitudes aimed at stylistically improving and further including the accessible tourism sector within the overall tourism promotion.

Minority Languages as a Resource for Tourism Promotion on the Web: The Case of Some Minority Communities in Italy

Minority languages have been the subject of a rich literature in the field of the sociolinguistics of tourism and a number of works have underlined that they have been increasingly used in tourism promotion in the last few decades as they convey overtones evoking authenticity. Travel websites do not only provide a first glance at a destination for potential guests, but they are also part of the tourist experience because they introduce visitors to relevant contents related to specific places. In view of this, in websites of a destination where a minority language is spoken the use of the local variety could be particularly relevant in order to promote a specific place as offering an immersion into a unique cultural experience. The present article addresses the question how ten minority communities in Italy mobilize their local languages for self-representation purposes within their tourism websites.

Design of Online-Based Tourism Ticket Purchase System

In this day and age, technology development is very rapid, especially the development of the internet which greatly facilitates human work in various fields such as the military, offices, factories, medical, and entertainment. Entertainment is something that is very much needed for some people because of the density of activities, for many recreational places have started to use all their activities through the web, one of which is in terms of promotions and ticket purchases. Here the author makes a system where ticket purchases can be made via the web. Starting from designing the existing displays by coding with the programming language that has been determined, for client-side namely HTML, CSS (Bootstrap), and JavaScript as well as server-side using PHP and MySQL. After that, it is implemented using a computer. This writing aims to build a ticket purchase information system and tourism promotion that is simple and easy to use.

TOURISM PROMOTION IN NINETEENTHCENTURY WALES: IMAGE DEVELOPMENT AND MARKETING ON THE CAMBRIAN COAST

This article examines how small seaside towns in Meirionnydd and Caernarfonshire positioned themselves to benefit from increased tourism during the nineteenth century, and it shows how an image was developed for the region as a whole. Based on romantic scenery, this image evolved and was sensitive to growing emphasis on comfortable accommodation, changing attitudes to health, family and recreation and to local concerns for propriety and respectability. It illustrates how local and regional marketing was linked to the railway network and provides insight into the way in which a range of interests worked together to challenge larger resorts elsewhere for a share of the growing tourism market in the nineteenth century.

Critical Analysis of a World Heritage Site in Terms of Conservation and Tourism Promotion: The Case of “Ibiza, Biodiversity and Culture” (Ibiza, Spain)

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites (WHS) have great prestige. Each year, candidatures are presented by advocates seeking to raise awareness of the importance of certain cultural and natural sites, to achieve better protection and to make them known, which can promote tourism to benefit the surrounding regions. One of these cases is Ibiza, which, after a first rejection in 1986, obtained the inscription of “Ibiza, Biodiversity and Culture” in 1999. This WHS is made up of various cultural and natural elements of the island, although the best known is the fortified Upper Town of Ibiza (Dalt Vila). Since then, important restoration and musealization actions have been carried out in the old town, and some tourism promotion events have been held, but there have been failures in its conversion into a tourist product: Both residents and tourists see this as complementary to the traditional offer (sun and beach tourism); confusion has been generated in communication, focusing on the old town and forgetting the other elements; tourist visits to the registered elements have not taken off and are concentrated in the summer months (the traditional high season); some decisions have been politicized, among other problems. Finally, different lines of tourism development are proposed.

role of social media instagram community to tourism promotion in Baubau city

compete in terms of promotion with several other regions. The tourism policy carried out by the local government has not been able to make tourism the main asset of the City of Baubau. This study examines the role of community social media in the tourism promotion of Baubau City, particularly on Instagram social media accounts. The research is focused on Instagram accounts that have tourism content and searches for hashtags that have the most posts about tourist objects. The research method used is descriptive qualitative. Next, to check the validity of the data, what the researchers did was to make previous observations on various relevant Instagram accounts randomly. Then the data that has been obtained is confirmed, described, categorized which is the same view, which is different, and which one is specific from the data sources. Finally, the data were analyzed by researchers to produce conclusions. The analysis technique used by these researchers is the source and content triangulation analysis technique. The results showed that community accounts on Instagram were very helpful in providing promotion for tourism in Baubau City, besides that the popular hashtags used made it easy for the public to get information about content, location, and access to several tourism objects in Baubau City.