New Year firework and impacts

New Year firework and impacts

From “Sydney kicks off New Year celebrations with seven tonnes of fireworks”

 

Sydney, the state capital city of New South Wales, Australia, which is one of the most important tourism cities in Australia, fired out seven tonnes of fireworks in their New Year celebrations. That was only one position in the global world. At New Year eve, how many tonnes of fireworks had been used? And how much air pollution and hard pollution had been made?

In some degree, the firework made the psychological joy for the people, which would make them feel a new beginning of a new year. However, the positive impact social impacts and economic impacts  - the firework products created more job opportunities; the firework show attracted more tourists - should also be considered with the negative impact on the environment. Though the article has not described the detail of the local government made the firework decision, hope that the negative impacts have been decreased to the minimum.

References:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2892275/Let-party-begin-World-prepares-massive-New-Year-s-Eve-celebrations-2015-set-start-bang.html

Hall C. M. & Lew A. A. (2009) Understanding and Managing Tourism impacts: An Integrated Approach, Routeledge, London ISBN 13: 978-0-415-77132-0 (hbk)

Hannam K. & Knox D. (2011) Understanding tourism: A Critical Introduction, SAGE publications Ltd, London

Tall ship season and Thames River Tourism

Tall ship season and Thames River Tourism

 

From the “Tall ships: the verdict” of GreenwichVisitors, and “Tourism should look to river” of GreenwichTime. The niche tourism of tall ships attracted a lot of tourist who were interested in their historical looking. It made people the feeling that they had come back to the past time, and joy in the river of history. The tall ship season also brought more job opportunities along the river. With these positive impacts, the Tall ship season can be understood as a good point in Thames River Tourism. After research, it may be decided as a necessary and special part of Thames River Tourism.

 

 

 

References:

Hall C. M. & Lew A. A. (2009) Understanding and Managing Tourism impacts: An Integrated Approach, Routeledge, London ISBN 13: 978-0-415-77132-0 (hbk)

Lamont, I (2014) “Tourism should look to river”, page 5, GreenwichTime, 03 September 2014

Porter, M E 1985, Competitive Advantage, New York: The Free Press

“Tall ships: the verdict”, page 11, GreenwichVisitors, October 2014 http://gwmag.skybluecreations.com/attractions/to-do/665-greenwich-hospital-commissions-local-designer-makers-to-create-collectors-stamp-for-tall-ship-leila

Comments on “Tourism battles on under dark skies: Cover Storychinadaily.com.cn”

Comments on “Tourism battles on under dark skies: Cover Storychinadaily.com.cn”

 

http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2014-10/31/content_18834008.htm

 

On the cover page of China Daily (European Weekly) 31 Oct to 6 Nov 2014, there showed a serious problem in China tourism market: the smog air pollution (smoke + fog, or smoke-create-fog) which was the main reason forced the foreign travelers turn their back to China tourism market.

        In this article, foreign tourists had created large amount and percent of tourism income for China tourism market. However, the trend was not sustainable, because of the air pollution problem. With the decreased image of China, not only may the foreign tourists come again, but also they will not show a good reflection of China to their families and friends, even show the image on the Internet. These reflections will terribly hurt China tourism market.

        To sum up, China tourism market and China Tourism Association should try to solve the environment problems before the new tourism promotion been show to the global world.

 

References:

Clemons, E K 2008 ‘How Information Changes Consumer Behaviour and How Consumer Behaviour Determines Corporate Strategy’, Journal of Management Information Systems / Fall 2008, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 13–40.

Hall C. M. & Lew A. A. (2009) Understanding and Managing Tourism impacts: An Integrated Approach, Routeledge, London

“Tourism battles on under dark skies: Cover Storychinadaily.com.cn”http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2014-10/31/content_18834008.htm

 

 

 

Happy new year!

Happy new year!

Steven
Greenwich, London
1st, Jan, 2015

Photo from Google

Notes for World Tourism Market (WTM), London, 2014

Notes for World Tourism Market (WTM), London, 2014

 

Notes for World Tourism Market (WTM), London, 2014

        In 6^th, Nov, 2014, I visited the World Tourism Market (WTM) at London. It was an amazing tour, which involved different beautiful promotion of different tourism position and tourism destinations around the world.

        To my friends and me, one of the most impressive sectors in all the market is the Korea. From this sector, I found something related to my learning.

 (In a pity, photos SIM doesn’t work well right now, I will upload some photos of it later, but here is a Youtube link, have a look first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3__obBMpkg )

(photos booking space)

        In Korea sector, there was a bright logo: "Imagine your Korea", which was beautiful and colourful, with some photos and videos of tourism destination and landscape on its title board above. In some books, the colourful and bright advertisement board has been described as an important part in a market, which could be easily noticed by the customers. However, the most significant point of Korea is: they mainly showed their culture and art at their sector that was so different from most of the other sectors, even more impressive than the tourism market itself. Or in the other words, all the Korea involves these kinds of culture.

Their culture shows involved the activities and products: the live Calligraphy, Korea opera acts; Paint glasses, traditional image on postcard, stamps, seals, hand craft activities and rice wine.

        Also, after viewed some other sectors, the promotion idea which had been put in practice can be sum up:

        In macro view, to show more information at limited space, and differentiate from the other competitors (Port M. 1985), which may include the location. WTM can be understood as a promotion and marketing flat of the tourism destinations, includes branding, product and culture. In some degree, WTM may be an opportunity to be the flagship of the coming future of every tourism destinations.

 In details, design big image (design, colour, photos and videos); to do some activities in show time, like the sector in South America had the show of tango and Samba; Sound or voice, even a whistle can attract visitors (found at canary Island, Girona); special products, may include cultural products; service; and culture if possible, to be remembered, the ones who come to visit the WTM normally is educated, and most of them have already had some tourism experience about the visiting or tourism agent.

        In the new trends of tourism (Edgell, 2008), the tourists would like to discover special interests, or get new experience during their journey. This trend can also be found from WTM.

References

Allen J. & McDonnell I. (2002). Festival and special event management, 2nd ed. Chichester : Wiley

Goldblatt J. J. & Nelson K. S. (2001). The International dictionary of event management. Chichester : Wiley

Competition, Competitive Advantage, and Clusters: The Ideas of Michael Porter

Huggins R. & Izushi H. (eds.) (2011). Competition, Competitive Advantage, and Clusters: The Ideas of Michael Porter. Oxfrod University Press

Porter, M E 1985, Competitive Advantage, New York: The Free Press

World Tourism Market (WTM): http://www.wtmresponsibletourism.com/ last retrieved at 11, Nov, 2014.

World Tourism Market (WTM) Logo Picture, http://blog.euromonitor.com/2014/10/euromonitor-partners-with-world-travel-market-2014.html

"I want to go to Guilin" & the Leisure Paradox

"I want to go to Guilin" & the Leisure Paradox

 

        When I heard the song "I want to go to Guilin" on my way home, I remembered the beauty of Guilin, and the knowledge I learnt in this semester.

 

The song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULXN98KYwJA

 

The beauty of Guilin:

Travelogue:【Travelogue HQ】Adventures in Guilin 1-2 – YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CcnH9yDVFo;

 

Beauty in Guilin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWafRmhUSZ0;

 

The natural beauty of Guilin, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBEl4RsnoCU;

 

 

        "I want to go to Guilin" or called "I wanna go to Guilin", "我想去桂林"(in Chinese writing) is a classic Chinese song. It was written and sung in 1995, which described the situation (normal and tourism) of that time:

        "I wanna go to Guilin yeah I wanna go to Guilin,

        However, when I got time, I had no money;

        I wanna go to Guilin yeah I wanna go to Guilin,

        However, when I got money, I had no time;"

        "An entired elderly that has money and time,

        Described the beauty of that heaven on earth"

 

The lyric of this song aptly depicts the contents of the "Leisure Paradox".

        The idea of "Leisure Paradox" was said to be found in 1993, and was printed on paper in 1998. It mainly analyzed about the dependent variable travel frequency, which based on the time, income and different age (social) groups. In the other words, they are the typical contradictions of tourism, group, tourism market and tourism trends, even in nowadays.

 

        Different tourism destination group could design their own focused market rely on the coefficient (Index) of this model. For example, the elderly group may have more savings and more time to spend on the tourism, maybe they also like to spend time with family members, so that, they can have tour with their grandchildren.

        In addition, in some of United Nations reports, the rhythm of the people’s lifestyle is too fast, and the people in all society levels have the right to rest, leisure, play, recreational activities, cultural life and the arts. Which is also suitable for the tourism market, in some degree.

 

References:

Cooper, C., Fletcher, J., Gilbert, D., Shepherd, R., & Wanhill, S. (1998), Tourism Principles and Practices, (2nd ed.), England: Addison-Wesley, Longman.

Hannam K. & Knox D. (2011). Understanding tourism: A Critical Introduction, SAGE publications Ltd, London, ISBN: 978-1-4129-2277-7

 

Leslie D. (Ed.) (1995). Tourism and Leisure - Culture, Heritage and Participation, Leisure Study Association, Kensett Ltd., Hove.

Office for National Statistics, "Travel Trends", www.ons.gov.uk

Travelogue:【Travelogue HQ】 Adventures in Guilin 1-2 – YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CcnH9yDVFo last retrieved at 4 Dec 2014.

Xiao H. (1995) "I want to go to Guilin", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULXN98KYwJA, last retrieved at 4 Dec 2014.

United Nations, http://www.un.org/

Youtube: Beauty in Guilin (Jap) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWafRmhUSZ0 last retrieved at 4 Dec 2014.

Youtube: the natural beauty of Guilin, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBEl4RsnoCU, last retrieved at 4 Dec 2014.