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Volume 6 Issue 1

Issue of Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft

Contents
Journal Overview

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Inhalt

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Vorwort des federführenden Herausgebers

Andreas Kagermeier

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Hauptbeiträge

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Die Bedeutung des Wintersports für den Tourismus im Südschwarzwald und Überlegungen zu potentiellen schneeunabhängigen Alternativen – Eine Analyse von Wahrnehmungen im Hinblick auf den Klimawandel

Linda Heuchele, Klemens Nothacker, Christina Renner, Werner Konold, Gerd Lupp

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Abstract

Winter sport is an important economic factor in the Southern Black Forest. Alpine skiing and other snow-related activities are the main source of income in winter tourism but also highly vulnerable to climate change. We analyzed how winter tourism in the Southern Black Forest will be affected by climate change. We assessed attitudes and views of tourism experts by qualitative interviews. We also analyzed existing offers in winter not depending on snow. However, it can be stated, that only in skiing areas situated at lower elevations, some alternative offers can be found. Up to now responsible stakeholders in higher elevations do not see a necessity to take action to adapt to climate change.

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Multiperspektivische Destinationsanalyse: GPS-gestützte Touristentypologie am Beispiel des Berliner Städtetourismus

Hans-Jörg L. Weber

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Abstract

Multi-Perspective Destination analysis: GPS-based tourist typology using the example of city tourism in Berlin. This paper will show that the hierarchy of cities can successfully be measured not only by the number of overnight stays but also by using the “barometer method”. Using the example of the tourist destination Berlin, mobility patterns recorded by GPS-tracking are differentiated by various tourist practices and explained simultaneously by the use of city guide books. Methodologically, this is done through a combination of GPS and questionnaire data and is based on the ideas of the theoreticians Giddens and Bourdieu. The results of principal component analysis show that Bourdieu‘s ideas can be successfully applied to the phenomenon of tourism in general, and that the paradox between individual tourism and mass tourism in the sense of Giddens can explain the spatial impact of tourists. The conclusion is: strategies at the individual level lead at the macro level to a mass tourism phenomena.

February 11, 2016

Der niederbayerische Kurort Bad Füssing als attraktiver Wohnstandort für Best Ager

Stefan Kordel

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Abstract

This article discusses leisure-orientated/ lifestyle migration of retirees to destinations, affected by health tourism by the example of Bad Fuessing, Lower Bavaria. For this purpose, I conducted expert interviews and image-guided narrative interviews to point out the nexus of tourism and migration. Empirical data reveal firstly, how motivations for relocating are both, interlinked to tourist experiences and reproduced within everyday activities. Particularly in the light of the paradigm of active ageing, results highlight secondly the meaning of sociability, security and reliable social networks within individuals’ daily lives. In sum, Bad Fuessing stands as an example for other destinations that may become a place of residence for Best Agers, providing heath-related infrastructure and a high amount of social familiarity, where individuals perceive to be secure and attached to.

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Personalmanagement im Tourismus zwischen theoretischen Anforderungen und betrieblicher Realität: Eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme

Marco A. Gardini

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Abstract

The crucial role and competitive relevance of employees in people based service settings, is a widely accepted fact amongst researchers and practitioners. While many service industries have already started to develop and design their human resource practices systematically to cope with future competitive challenges, the majority of the protagonist of the tourism industry is lacking such an approach. Drawing from selected scientific research streams outlining the pivotal role of the employee in people based service settings, conclusions confirming this hypothesis are set out in this article, analyzing the realities and current practices of human resource management approaches in the tourism industry. As a result this paper aims to depict the necessity and complexity of the human resource management dimension many protagonist in the tourism industry are about to confront in the near future.

Aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse und Kurzbeiträge

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„Coopetition“ und Innovation in touristischen Destinationen

– das Beispiel der Provinz Napo (Ecuador)

Arne Schuhbert

Page range: 75-82

Abstract

The phenomenon of „coopetition“ has been recently discussed in its references to the innovative capacity of regional-sectoral composite systems, but has so far found too little consideration on the part of destination research. By using the example of the Destination Napo in Ecuador, the present article presents a quantitative approach to the operationalization of the concept in the practice of tourism research.

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Untersuchung der Auswirkungen des ermäßigten Mehrwertsteuersatzes auf den Investitionsstau im bayerischen Beherbergungswesen

Alexander Gerum

Page range: 83-90

Abstract

The report presents the main results of a thesis dealing with the effects of a VAT reduction in the year 2010 on the investment behaviour of Bavarian hoteliers. This happens against the background of an investment bottleneck which originated over decades and a rising competitive pressure in this important sector of the Bavarian tourism industry. With an online questionnaire 425 hoteliers were interviewed, most of them identified the VAT reduction as a key factor for increasing investments and an improvement of their economic situation. These results are quite contrastive to the rather negative judgements by mass media and specialized literature.

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Nachhaltige Kundenbindung für Städtereisende im Schienenpersonenfernverkehr

– Kundenerwartungen und Implikationen für Angebotsstrategien

Susanne Müller

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Abstract

This contribution focuses on the development of product strategies in rail passenger transport for a special segment: Customers, that are booking their city trip via a tour operator and getting an exclusive cooperation ticket. In addition to the analysis of user structure, travel habits and alternative transport choices, customer satisfactions and importance of individual service components are considered in detail. By identifying customer segments, some differentiated approaches for the service-elements are formulated to increase the attractiveness of travelling by train and create sustained customer satisfaction.

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Explorer-Touristen im Städtetourismus

Ein Charakterisierungsversuch unterschiedlicher Besuchergruppen in Kopenhagen

Natalie Stors

Page range: 97-106

Abstract

Tourism off the beaten track has been a topic of discussion for quite some time. However, scientific results on these new tourist types mainly focus on visitors’ motives for their excursions to outlying neighborhoods. For that reasons, the author gives a short description of different tourist types in selected quarters of Copenhagen and finishes with a tourist typology based on a cluster analysis.

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Die Bedeutung regionaler Produkte bei der touristischen Entwicklung am Beispiel von Lesbos (Griechenland)

Anna Klein, Hartmut Rein

Page range: 107-112

Abstract

The following text provides an analysis of the current use of regional products in the tourism development of Lesvos (Greece). It is focusing on the strategies for regionalization of food: labeling of regional products and creating of value-added-cycles. In addition, supply potentials connected to the regional products of the island are presented.

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Konferenzvorschau

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Buchbesprechungen

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Neuerscheinungen im deutschsprachigen Raum

Page range: 135-136

About this journal

The Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft – Journal of Tourism Science – continues the tradition of profound scientific discourse in the German-speaking world. The journal focuses on multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary issues concerning touristic phenomena. In this connection, the journal is geared towards researchers and practitioners in search of substantiated information about tourism-related problems. The articles, which are of a qualitative and quantitative nature, are aimed at basic research or reflect the findings of applied research.

In addition to publishing scientific essays from all kinds of sub-disciplines (in particular history, geography, communication and media studies, cultural sciences, ethnology, cultural anthropology, methodology/statistics, ecology, psychology, sociology, economics, business administration and education), the journal also presents project reports, book reviews and conference reports.

The Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft therefore aims to

act as a forum for tourism scientists from all kinds of disciplines (social and cultural sciences, economic sciences and environmental science)
support interaction between these disciplines
encourage network-building
promote young researchers and
raise awareness among the general public of the need for scientific tourism research.

Two issues are published each year; individual issues may be dedicated to specific key topics. Specific subjects may also be addressed in additional special issues.
In its meeting on 7 February 2011, the Scientific Advisory Board of the Association of Geographers at German Universities (VGDH) resolved to include the ‘Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft’ (tw) in its list of recognised geography journals. It was included in category 2 of scientific journals (without ISCI listing).

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