Ethnic Heritage as a Tourist Attraction: the Peranakans of Singapore

Singapore's multiculturalism is an important theme in the country's destination marketing and the paper explores the manner in which ethnicity is depicted in promotional material and the forces shaping the decision-making process. The nature of Peranakan culture, a unique synthesis of Chinese and Malay influences, is the subject of particular discussion and its actual and potential role as a tourism resource is analysed. State authorities are seen to exercise considerable power, making use of tourism images to reinforce political ideologies through the communication of messages about preferred versions of identities. However, tourism representations also convey something of the complex realities of identity in Singapore and perhaps can assist in increasing awareness of, and protecting, the cultural heritage of more marginalised groups. Insights are thus offered into the relationship between tourism and ethnic heritage in plural societies and its management.     

Large Heritage Waterfronts on Small Tourist Islands: the case of the Royal Naval Dockyard,Bermuda

The paper examines the historical and present-day role of the Royal Naval Dockyard, a globally motivated waterfront development of recurrent local dominance in the affairs of a small island community. Its historical role as a bastion of imperial naval defence, the Gibraltar of the West, is reviewed from the Victorian era until 1945; and its recent and continuing revitalisation, as heritage for tourist-leisure adaptive reuse, is discussed and illustrated. Its relationship to naval/waterfront heritage-oriented innovation elsewhere is considered; and the risks of such developments for the identity and tourist-historic economy of this and possibly other (ex)colonial naval outposts are queried.     

广西桂林旅游资源深度开发研究

桂林正在由国际性观光型旅游目的地向观光度假型旅游目的地转型,旅游业开始进入第二个发展期。为此,进一步优化旅游资源的空间结构,建构旅游资源开发的核心区、联动区与辐射影响区,形成"一城、两带、三级、四联"的开发战略新格局,促进旅游产品质量升级与结构调整,是提高桂林在国际旅游市场上竞争力的关键性战略举措。     

甘肃旅游资源类型及其空间结构研究

对旅游资源类型及其地域组合、空间结构规律的研究是进行旅游资源开发利用和旅游规划的基础。在分析甘肃旅游资源形成的自然和社会历史文化因素的基础上,利用统计(SPSS)和地信软件(GIS),对甘肃旅游资源类型的地域组合和空间结构进行了定量的分析。首先对甘肃旅游资源以县域为单位,结合甘肃旅游资源特点,参照郭来喜等新拟的旅游资源分类系统,选取23个景型指标,依据其在景区的重要程度分别赋属性值,经专家打分,最后得出各单位景区的各景型指标的属性值。在此基础上把景区的各个景型要素视为多维空间的数轴,由属性值构成指标空间,每个景区都是一个向量。在多维空间中有一个数据点,依据"点"与"点"间的距离进行系统聚类,将全省旅游资源分为5个聚类;然后依据旅游规划的最大福利原则,进行旅游景点的空间聚类分区,将甘肃旅游资源分为7个区,然后将上述聚类和空间聚类在地图上进行叠加,研究其空间组合规律。得出甘肃旅游资源的类型空间组合特点;最后对甘肃旅游资源集中性进行探讨,得出甘肃旅游资源有沿交通线和河流的线状集中、依据中心地级别的等级集中、依据某个中心节点的节点集中和大的区域集中特征。     

三星堆一号青铜神树的三维数字建模与静力学分析

结构稳定性是评估文物安全的重要方面。三星堆二号坑出土1号青铜树体量庞大、结构复杂,且存在腐蚀、裂纹等危险因素,为了充分记录、评估其保存状况,本研究在原始几何形状和内部构造的基础上,利用三维数字建模技术,建立其几何模型和数值模型,并估算出青铜神树的质量分布和质心位置等无法实地测量的数据,并使用有限元方法,从应力和位移的角度分析青铜树的静置状态下的安全性。经过有限元模拟和材料力学简化计算,发现龙身和树干连接处、树枝根部应力较大,是易受损区域。     

我国经济行业分类对编制旅游卫星账户(TSA)的影响研究

旅游卫星账户（TSA）的特点是,以遵守SNA93的基本概念与核算原则为前提,采用与主体账户完全相同的生产范围和产品分类,从需求和供给两方面全面准确计量旅游活动对整体经济的影响。因此,国家经济行业分类制约着编制TSA的详细程度,从而影响TSA计量结果的准确性。本研究通过对我国TSA实践过程中出现的问题及原因进行分析,对我国原有的和新版的经济行业分类体系进行比较,提出上述观点,旨在于促进我国经济活动分类的不断细化,为构建TSA奠定良好基础。     

对国家标准《旅游资源分类、调查与评价》的若干修订意见

国家标准《旅游资源分类、调查与评价》（GB／T18972—2003）自2003年5月推出以来,各级旅游部门都以此为依据开展工作,但各地在应用过程中,也发现该标准存在诸多问题。本文对其中旅游资源分类存在的概念模糊、前后重复、类型缺项、细分不够等问题逐一进行分析,提出了具体修订意见,并对旅游资源评价的研究方向提出了初步构想。     

中国著名旅游城市旅游业的效率研究

追求更高的效率是旅游城市发展旅游业的目标之一.本文采用三阶段DEA方法,选取2010年50个著名旅游城市为研究对象,对旅游业效率值进行测算.研究表明,剥离环境因素和随机因素的影响,城市旅游业效率从0.661下降到0.559,规模效率值从0.865下降到0.634,纯技术效率值从0.761上升到0.872,42个城市的旅游业规模效率值下降,33个城市的旅游业纯技术效率值上升.从调整的数据可以看出,规模效率对综合技术效率的影响和制约程度最强,纯技术效率相对较弱.最后针对旅游业效率值分析,提出扩大生产规模,实现资源集中配置的建议.     

Collapsing contexts: social networking technologies in young people’s nightlife

In the latest discussions of children and young people’s new geographies of leisure and pleasure, one controversial issue has been how digital technologies co-produce and reconfigure young people’s everyday worlds. This article draws on semi-structured interviews with 40 young people who regularly use social networking technologies in their nightlife experiences in Zurich and Lausanne, two nightlife hubs in Switzerland. Informed by Danah Boyd’s concepts of ‘collapsing contexts’ and ‘imagined audiences’, this article enables a critical engagement with young people’s emerging understanding of their nightlife contexts, which are increasingly permeated by networking technologies. I show how social networking spaces facilitate the coming together, or collapse, of various social contexts which induce young people to imagine multiple audiences, including authority figures, in their nightlife practices. These collapsing contexts and imagined audiences, I argue, present new perspectives on debates about control and surveillance in young people’s contemporary urban nightlife.