This book is a history of the Soviet tours of European and American intellectuals, writers, bohemians, professionals, and political tourists who saw the “Soviet experiment” in the 1920s and 1930s. It ...provides a new framework for understanding the relationship between intellectuals and communism and the Soviet reception of foreign visitors, including the leading fellow-travelers who praised Stalin and Stalinism in the interwar period. The work is based on a far-reaching analysis of the declassified archives of agencies charged with crafting the international image of the first socialist society, including VOKS (the All-Union Society for Cultural Ties Abroad). The book brings this story into new focus as one of the great transnational encounters of the twentieth century. As many visitors were profoundly influenced by their Soviet tours, so too was the Soviet system itself: the experiences of building showcases and tutoring outsiders to perceive the future-in-the-making comprise a neglected international dimension to the emergence of Stalinism. Probing entanglements between far-left and far-right ideological extremes, the work pays special attention to the covert interaction between communism and fascism, including Soviet attempts to recruit German “National Bolsheviks” and fascist intellectuals. The unprecedented scope of Soviet efforts to mold foreign, particularly Western public opinion created a new chapter in the history of modern cultural diplomacy. Setting the revolutionary regime's innovations in the context of the entire history of foreign visitors in Russia, the book argues that Soviet mobilization for the international ideological contest directly paved the way for the cultural Cold War.
Living with Tourism Tucker, Hazel
2003, 20050818, 2003-01-16, 2005-08-18, 20030101
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Redefining 'community' and considering the effects tourism has on culture, this detailed book delivers an ethnographic account of both the toured and touring community in Göreme, central Turkey.
...Hazel Tucker presents an in-depth analysis of the interactions between tourists, the local community and place. She demonstrates the implications that community ownership and participation in tourism have for the politics of representation and identity, and also for the nature of the tourist experience. Dealing with contentious theoretical issues related to globalization and culture, Tucker challenges contemporary thinking relating to tourism authenticity and cultural sustainability, and shows how, together with host communities, tourists themselves are continuously negotiating their own identities and experiences in interaction with the people and places they meet.
This fascinating book develops a dynamic notion of culture and tourism sustainability, providing new insights not only for scholars of tourism, but also for those in the areas of anthropology, geography and social studies who wish to gain a deeper understanding of this global phenomenon in the contemporary world.
1. Introduction 2. Imaging Cappadocia - The Construction of a Tourist Place 3. The Tourists - In Search of Serendipity 4. Continuity and Change - Gender and Production in Göreme 5. A Community in Competition - The Business of Tourism in Göreme 6. Close Encounters - Interactions between Hosts and Guests 7. Romantic Developments - New and Changing Gender Relations Through Tourism 8. Continuation of Göreme as a 'Tourist Site' - Politics of Place and Identity 9. Conclusion
Crossing Bordersdeconstructs contemporary theories of Soviet history from the revolution through the Stalin period, and offers new interpretations based on a transnational perspective. To Michael ...David-Fox, Soviet history was shaped by interactions across its borders. By reexamining conceptions of modernity, ideology, and cultural transformation, he challenges the polarizing camps of Soviet exceptionalism and shared modernity and instead strives for a theoretical and empirical middle ground as the basis for a creative and richly textured analysis.Discussions of Soviet modernity have tended to see the Soviet state either as an archaic holdover from the Russian past, or as merely another form of conventional modernity. David-Fox instead considers the Soviet Union in its own light-as a seismic shift from tsarist society that attracted influential visitors from the pacifist Left to the fascist Right. By reassembling Russian legacies, as he shows, the Soviet system evolved into a complex "intelligentsia-statist" form that introduced an array of novel agendas and practices, many embodied in the unique structures of the party-state.Crossing Bordersdemonstrates the need for a new interpretation of the Russian-Soviet historical trajectory-one that strikes a balance between the particular and the universal.
This study aims to determine how festivalscape components (i.e., the festival program, staff, information, and atmosphere) affect the positive and negative emotions of festivalgoers. It also examines ...the impact of visitors' emotions on their satisfaction. Moreover, it explores the influence of participants' satisfaction on their behavioral intention. To test the research hypotheses, a quantitative approach, with a sample of 300 Tunisian who have attended the International Festival of Carthage, was conducted. The analytical packages (exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses) confirmed most of the research hypotheses. The empirical results indicated that the festival information, program, atmosphere and staff are crucial predictors of festivalgoers' emotions. Furthermore, positive and negative emotions seem to predict satisfaction, which in turn is a determinant of tourists' behavior and also influences their intention to revisit and recommend the festival to others. Theoretical and managerial contributions, limitations, and further research directions are given.
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•Hedonic motivation has not previously been used to assess VR subjective well-being.•This study uses the hedonic adoption model to examine consumer use of VR tourism.•The effect of enjoyment on flow ...state is highly related to subjective well-being.•Flow state and subjective well-being significantly influence continued use of VR.•Visitor/non-visitor moderates the relationship between usefulness and flow state.
Virtual reality (VR) tourism provides consumers with the opportunity to experience a destination in VR and can play a significant role in encouraging visitation and engaging in particular travel activities and behaviors. Hedonic motivation adoption frameworks with flow state and subjective well-being have been shown to have significant roles in continued use of information technology. However, research on a theoretically integrated hedonic motivation system adoption model (HMSAM) specifically with enjoyment, flow state, subjective well-being, and continued use has not previously been conducted with respect to VR tourism. To address this gap, this study develops and investigates a conceptually comprehensive model on the effect of consumers’ hedonic behaviors on continued use, with the moderating role of visitor or non-visitor at the destination portrayed in VR tourism. Results identified the highly significant effect of consumers’ perceived enjoyment on flow state and of flow state on subjective well-being. Continued use was greatly influenced by flow state and subjective well-being. Importantly for destinations association between usefulness and flow state had a significant moderating effect depending on whether a visitor or non-visitor. The findings offer new knowledge to researchers and industry in the VR tourism fields.
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Tourism destinations are increasingly offering experiential services to promote the development of their competitive advantage. This research investigates the effects of customers' tourism engagement ...with experiential marketing activities and develops and tests a framework in this area. Findings suggest that customer engagement's dimensions exert differing effects on customer experience and identification, which subsequently affect behavioral intention toward destinations. Findings also suggest the indirect effects of customer engagement dimensions on behavioural intentions via experience and identification. Further, findings propose the significant difference between first-time and repeat-visitors in terms of the underlying constructs. Theoretical and practical implications of results are discussed.
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Hybrid reality (HR) in cultural heritage is mainly conceptual, and its exploitation in cultural heritage and museums remains an under-investigated topic. This research aims to shed light on the ...experimenting role of HR as an alternative soft-technological approach in cultural heritage virtual reconstruction, which enhance visitors' experience and satisfaction. A quantitative survey methodology was employed to analyse the 'Peasant Civilization Park', a project based on HR invisible projections installed in the Vicinato a Pozzo Museum, in the thousand-year-old city Matera (Italy) - European Capital of Culture 2019. Findings and conclusions open up innovative scenarios on the HR in cultural heritage, driving the identification of alternative museum business models and new museum immersive experiences. Managerial implications suggest how HR improves heritage exhibition management, rethinking experiential value proposition and visitors' satisfaction.
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Foreigners under Mao: Western Lives in China, 1949–1976 is a pioneering study of the Western community during the turbulent Mao era. Based largely on personal interviews, memoirs, private letters, ...and archives, this book ‘gives a voice’ to the Westerners who lived under Mao. It shows that China was not as closed to Western residents as has often been portrayed. The book examines the lives of six different groups of Westerners: ‘foreign comrades’ who made their home in Mao’s China, twenty-two former Korean War POWs who controversially chose China ahead of repatriation, diplomats of Western countries that recognized the People’s Republic, the few foreign correspondents permitted to work in China, ‘foreign experts’, and language students. Each of these groups led distinct lives under Mao, while sharing the experience of a highly politicized society and of official measures to isolate them from everyday China.
Los viajes vivieron un momento álgido en el periodo de entreguerras con el comienzo del turismo de masas en España. Mientras los intelectuales españoles visitaban Europa o América perfilando su ...identidad y su posición en el campo cultural, la España de la Segunda República atrajo a muchos escritores, científicos y artistas de otros países, que encontraron aquí uno de los grandes epicentros culturales, pero también un país donde pervivían tradiciones y maneras de vivir que se resistían al empuje de la vida moderna. La Guerra Civil confirmó la idea de que el paisaje español era el escenario donde se comenzaba a dirimir el futuro del mundo, y muchos intelectuales europeos y americanos recalaron aquí en esos años, mientras Renau iniciaba la evacuación del tesoro artístico español para protegerle de la barbarie fascista. Este libro analiza la visión de España y el mundo derivada de los viajes de Walter Benjamin, Nancy Cunard, Walter Starkie, Ortiz Echagüe, Mª Teresa León, Concha Méndez, Mijail Koltsov o los colaboradores de la revista de viajes Oasis -dirigida por los ingenieros Vicente Olmo y Silverio de la Torre-, pero también la experiencia del viaje interior de muchos de ellos y la influencia de esas experiencias culturales.
The exhibition, Beyoug Folding Screens 2, which ran from January to April 2023 at the Amorepacific Museum of Art in South Korea, is analysed with a focus on the shift in perspective in presenting ...traditional historical art in museums. The review illustrates how a historical object can be presented in diverse ways, each telling a unique story, while also actively engaging visitors in the exhibition.
