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Author: Kesar, Oliver, Milanović, Dragan, and Prot, Franjo
Subjects: special interest tourism, market transformation, economic effects, sustainability
Abstract: As a result of global economic and political trends, in the next decade, tourism destination development is more likely to go for the optimization than maximization of tourism economic effects. Because of that, a mass tourism development concept is by now considered as undesirable, old-fashioned and of low potential in terms of its ability to generate noticeable economic effects and ensure sustainable development. Along with the growth of the global tourism market, a more fastidious and more sophisticated tourism demand has emerged, looking for more than just a sun, sand and sea holiday package. Such trends have encouraged the development of many diverse activities for tourists, known today as the special interest tourism.
Published: 2005

Author: Charters, Stephen, Charters, Stephen, Ali-Knight, Jane, Charters, Stephen, Charters, Stephen, and Ali-Knight, Jane
Abstract: Both the wine and tourism industries have achieved high levels of growth within Australia in the 1990s, and are significant contributors to the GDP as invisible exports. In 1994, about 10 percent of the total international visitors made a visit to an Australian winery, an increase of 20 percent on the 1993 figures. Some researchers seek to explore wine tourism as a form of consumer behaviour in which wine lovers and those interested in wine regions travel to preferred destinations. Key researchers, in this emerging field of wine tourism, have commented on the lack of published research material available regarding the behaviour and characteristics of the winery visitor or the tourist. This paper addresses these issues by suggesting a model possessing three dimensions; purpose of visit, general tourist motivation and relationship to other tourist activities. With this model, it is possible to locate specific tourist activities, and thereby have a better understanding of what constitutes ‘wine tourism’. It also considers whether or not specific cultural and geographic differences may have an impact on the segmentation of the wine tourist.
Published: 2002

Author: Carla Marchant and Fernanda Rojas
Subjects: amenity migration, real estate market speculation, special interest tourism, local economic transformations, northern Chilean Patagonia, Geography. Anthropology. Recreation, Physical geography, GB3-5030
Abstract: Amenity migration in the mountain regions of southern Chile is a phenomenon that academia has not analysed very often. However, it has gained greater prominence in recent years and is becoming an important factor in generating change in these rural areas. This paper presents the results of the economic and social transformations observed in Malalcahuello, a mountain village in northern Chilean Patagonia that finds itself in an emerging stage of this process. The arrival of new economic actors, together with amenity, has produced a revival in the village and developed new economic functions, now aimed at developing residential real estate and special interest tourism. These activities represent an opportunity and also a challenge for the future development of this mountain village as a tourist destination. Furthermore, changes in social dynamics have been observed and influenced by the new inhabitants in particular, who possess the means to take action to protect the environment and the territory. This has provoked a re-evaluation of the territory, in part by the traditional inhabitants.
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Author: Edith Cowan University - Open Access Support Scheme 2020, Wen, Jun, Wu, Mao-Ying, Edith Cowan University - Open Access Support Scheme 2020, Wen, Jun, and Wu, Mao-Ying
Abstract: Wen, J., & Wu, M. Y. (2020). How special is special interest tourism–and how special are special interest tourists? A perspective article in a Chinese context. Current Issues in Tourism, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2020.1750575

Author: National Science Foundation of China Key Laboratory of Spatial Data Mining & Information Sharing of the Ministry of Education, Fuzhou University, Gu, Qiushi, Zhang, Haiping, Huang, Songshan (Sam), Zheng, Fang, Chen, Chongcheng, National Science Foundation of China Key Laboratory of Spatial Data Mining & Information Sharing of the Ministry of Education, Fuzhou University, Gu, Qiushi, Zhang, Haiping, Huang, Songshan (Sam), Zheng, Fang, and Chen, Chongcheng
Abstract: Gu, Q., Zhang, H., Huang, S. S., Zheng, F., & Chen, C. (2021). Tourists’ spatiotemporal behaviors in an emerging wine region: A time-geography perspective. Journal of Destination Marketing & Management, 19, article 100513. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdmm.2020.100513

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