酒文化与旅游的关系漫谈

酒文化与旅游二者之间是一种互容关系,其紧密的结合构成了较深的文化底蕴。酒文化与旅游联姻的历史由来已久,即便在当代,渗入酒文化的旅游也能展示其独有的旅游特色。     

马克思主义文艺观与文学理论教材建设

我国文学理论教材在贯彻马克思主义文艺观时,应该注意文艺学转化问题,应该根据文学理论的学科特点与马克思主义文艺观对接,应该准确地把握马克思主义的文艺观。     

2010年广州亚运会旅游的战略地位与应对策略

广州亚运会具有体育与事件旅游双重属性。旅游业是深度利用亚运会的主力资源,是提升城市竞争力的动力产业,在亚运会战略实施中占有重要地位,因此应在亚运赛前、赛中与赛后采取相应对策。政府的高度重视与战略规划是实施关键。     

生态旅游与旅游生态化辨析

10多年来,生态旅游在中国的发展虽然很快,但理论上悬而未决的争论还较多,集中表现在生态旅游是旅游产品还是旅游发展模式、生态旅游是高档旅游还是大众旅游、生态旅游对象是自然区域还是可以包括地方文化区域等三个方面。同时在发展过程中,生态旅游在中国的实践中也出现了很多非生态化现象和"泛化"现象。这些现象的出现归根结底是由于将生态旅游与旅游生态化混为一谈造成的。本文通过对"生态旅游"、"旅游生态化"的辨析,对相关问题作了初步解答,并试图还原生态旅游的本意,探索今后生态旅游发展的正确途径。     

基于RIS框架的北京旅游形象策划——兼论北京奥运旅游形象

旅游形象是一个区域或城市旅游吸引力强弱的关键所在。依据RIS框架理念,北京的旅游形象应该从横向、纵向两个维度进行策划,北京旅游形象总体可以定位为“文化之都”、“动感之都”。奥运会的召开是北京向全世界宣传自己旅游形象的绝佳时机,应通过精心组织旅游线路,制定鲜明的旅游宣传口号,创新营销理念和方式,做好旅游形象的维护和拓展管理,把北京美好的旅游形象根植于国际国内旅游者心里。     

Towards an assessment for organizational participatory research health partnerships: A systematic mixed studies review with framework synthesis

Within the health sciences, organizational participatory research (OPR) is defined as a blend of research and action, in which academic researchers partner with health organization members. OPR is based on a sound partnership between all stakeholders to improve organizational practices. However, little research on the evaluation of OPR health partnership exists. This systematic mixed studies review sought to produce a new theoretical model that structures the evaluation of the OPR processes and related outcomes of OPR health partnerships. Six bibliographic databases were searched together with grey literature sources for OPR health partnership evaluation questionnaires. Six questionnaires were included, from which a pool of 95 OPR health partnership evaluation items were derived. The included questionnaires were appraised for the quality of their origin, development and measurement properties. A framework synthesis was performed using an existing OPR framework by organizing questionnaire items in a matrix using a hybrid thematic analysis. This led to our proposed Organizational Participatory Research Evaluation Model (OPREM) that includes three axes, Trust, Collective Learning and Sustainability (with specific dimensions) and 95 items. This model provides information to help stakeholders comprehensively structure the evaluation of their partnerships and subsequent improvement; thus, potentially helping to improve health organization practices.     

A critical approach to wage devaluation: The case of Spanish economic recovery

In line with the orientation of EU economic policy, the Spanish government has favoured a strategy of internal devaluation as a way of adjusting price levels within the currency union. The results of empirical studies indicate that the internal devaluation applied in Spain does not seem to have attained the desired goals in terms of reducing the relative prices of exports and consolidating a model of growth based on external demand. Indeed, the estimates drawn up show that tailwinds – the depreciation of the euro and the fall in risk premium as results of the measures taken by the ECB, greater economic activity by trading partners and the fall in the price of oil – exercised a decisive influence in the trends followed by the prices of exports and the balance of trade during the period of crisis management in Spain.     

English and discourses of commodification among tourism workers in the Himalayas

In this article, I investigate commodification discourses and ideologies of English from the perspective of Nepali tourism workers. Drawing data from interviews with porters and trekking guides in Nepal, I argue that English is not seen as merely a transactional means to convey meaning; it works in combination with the traditional form of labor and care in the local economy, establishing itself as a powerful tool to establish closer interpersonal relationships, enhance such interpersonal relationships for economic gains and commodify local identities and cultures in the tourism market. The interview and ethnographic details show that language learners are agentive and capable of making sense of their actions by positioning themselves variously in terms of ethnicity, economic class and job category. These workers think that tourists' linguistic and financial resources are the empowering tools that enable them to travel to locations that they want. They also want to empower themselves with English skills and translocal imaginaries to travel and see the world beyond their immediate reach. Repertoires in English are considered as instruments to mediate their imaginaries and the foreign worlds they want to be part of.     

Between butch/femme: On the performance of race,gender, and sexuality in a YouTube web series

Drawing on a legacy of Black television and film production, Black web series remediate earlier media forms in order to usher in a twenty-first-century revival of indie Black cultural production. Specifically, video sharing and social media platforms operate as a sphere in which content creators and users are afforded unique opportunities to engage with video content and each other on a variety of levels. Focusing on the YouTube media sphere, one can also observe the myriad ways in which the performance of race, gender, and sexuality influences the types of discourse that circulate within these sites. In watching and analyzing Black queer web series on YouTube, I examine how the performance of gender and sexuality by Black queer women within and outside of web series are policed and protected by both community insiders and outsiders. Utilizing an ethnographic framework, which includes a critical discourse analysis of the YouTube comments for the series Between Women, as well as a textual analysis of series content, this project draws conclusions about the role that the politics of pleasure, performance, and the public sphere play in the recognition and/or refusal of queer sexuality within Black communities.