Why are states interested in Tourism?
Good question – glad you asked…… well, you were going to, weren’t you? Well, if politicians and industry leaders are being honest, it is not (as the World Tourism Organisation once put it) for ‘spiritual reasons’ i.e. the non-material benefits to the tourist….. rather Tourism is considered to be a means to an end rather than an end in itself: governments want to see things like: new jobs created and existing jobs sustained …. (reducing government unemployment expenditure) rural communities sustained by tourism activity and local expenditure tourism income to local, regional and national services like: heritage, sports, arts, culture and systems like transport (again reducing government expenditures) improved international image [do you get much of an image...
Tourism, New Technologies and Alsace
[A draft article I wrote for the British Tourism Society focusing upon the point that it is the contexts and cultures in which ICT is to be embedded which determines how it looks, feels, is used and the degree to which it is successful rather than the technology itself.] Le Tourisme et les Nouvelles Technologies: TNT – just about says it all, really – it has considerable explosive potential. However, as ever, it is not technology that is the important issue here, so much as the context in which it is employed; a realisation that dawned upon me most emphatically on the evening of my 17th birthday on the old Homesley Aerodrome in the New Forest some thirty-odd...
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