El artículo ofrece un estudio exploratorio sobre diferentes modos de habitar de manera transitoria en el medio de la naturaleza, que articulan formas de movilidad y de alojamiento en prácticas de ...ocio. Concretamente, se buscará rastrear en la incorporación del autocamping —la organización de propuestas privadas, de acampada libre y el desarrollo de las casas rodantes— para detectar cómo los viajeros intentaron tomar distancia del mundo civilizado, pero a la vez se valieron de recursos de su cultura material para domesticar la naturaleza y propiciar que la estadía fuera confortable. Se reconocerán sus móviles, se analizarán algunas de sus características tipológico-tecnológicas y se interpretará el valor simbólico que tuvieron en el desarrollo del turismo argentino. Esta búsqueda estará hilvanada por una dimensión más sensible, para interpretar cómo las estrategias de conectarse con el paisaje activaron percepciones, al tiempo que movilizaron la propia conciencia del campista, tanto a nivel individual como social. El recurso que articula los avances argumentales está dado por una metodología de carácter cualitativo con el estudio de publicaciones periódicas ilustradas y fotografías de archivos públicos y colecciones de imágenes digitales.
Living is a key concept of the social sciences and tourism practices are one of the most emblematic behaviors of the emergence of a society with mobile individuals. Addressing this issue through the ...prism of the social group of tourists in motorhome allows to highlight the existence of an identity of movement within the group. The methodology involved a long period of participant observation and 18 more recent interviews. Strategies and routines for moving and parking seem to define a common way of living. However, it is possible to identify variations according to the relation to safety, the practices of mobility or the will of distinction, which lead to the proposal of three great types of tourists in motorhome.
This paper introduces caravanning and camping as a leisure activity that consists of a number of sequential experiences. The particular focus is on motorhoming as a form of caravanning / camping. The ...Motorhome Club of South Africa has a membership base of 670. A self-administered questionnaire surveyed the opinion of the entire membership base on certain aspects relating to the Motorhome Club and motorhoming in general. Two-hundred-and-ninety-nine questionnaires were returned. A Chi-square analysis identified a number of significant differences between specific demographic groups, most notably between age groups, and the number of club rallies attended. Only one significant difference was found between English and Afrikaans respondents - the latter are less inclined to visit historical sites (such as battlefield sites) than English respondents. The MCSA management committee needs to address the needs of two very important market segments, namely those younger than 60 years of age, and those who have not attended any MCSA Club rallies since 2003.
Recreational vehicle (RV) manufacturers have traditionally been viewed as having no direct effect on caravanning experiences beyond their role as the suppliers of the vehicles. Drawing on the ...theoretical approach known as service-dominant logic, this paper suggests that RV manufacturers play an active role in the co-creation of tourism experiences. This study adopted the framework developed by Storbacka, K., Brodie, R. J., P., Böhmann, T., Maglio P. P., & Nenonen, S. (2016). Actor engagement as a microfoundation for value co-creation. Journal of Business Research, 69(1), 3008-3017 that considers engagement as a microfoundation of value co-creation to investigate value co-creation in this context. A template analysis of the data collected from in-depth interviews with all Italian motorhome manufacturers revealed themes relating to five issues: engaging actors, engaging platforms, actors' dispositions, engagement properties and resource integration patterns. The theoretical and managerial implications of these findings are discussed.
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