DSpace Collection:http://hdl.handle.net/10174/145832024-03-04T08:54:28Z2024-03-04T08:54:28ZMobilizing TourismSales Oliveira, C.Costa, Rosalinahttp://hdl.handle.net/10174/344022023-02-14T17:16:17Z2022-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Mobilizing Tourism
Authors: Sales Oliveira, C.; Costa, Rosalina
Editors: Buhalis, D.
Abstract: Mobilizing tourism refers to a particular kind
of tourism in which the experience of mobility
itself constitutes the central element.
Mobilizing tourism targets a niche market of
consumers with specific profiles. Overlapping
broader contemporary social movements such
as slow tourism, slow travel and green travel/tourism,
this type of tourism represents a reflexive
personal engagement with certain values and,
therefore, a political statement. Through travel
narratives, notably travel blogs and social
media, tourists/travellers praise experiences
that are ethically committed to the values of
sustainability, a low-carbon society and social
justice. While mobilizing tourism reflects the
tourist experience as deeply subjective, it also
feeds the tourism management and marketing
sector, informing new trends and requiring
adjustments in the sector.2022-01-01T00:00:00ZGenealogy TourismCosta, Rosalinahttp://hdl.handle.net/10174/343992023-02-14T17:15:11Z2022-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Genealogy Tourism
Authors: Costa, Rosalina
Editors: Buhalis, D.
Abstract: Genealogy tourism is a specific type of tourism
that involves travelling to destinations to which
the tourist is connected by family or ancestral
origin. Genealogy tourism is also known
as ancestral tourism or roots tourism (see the
entry ‘Roots Tourism’ in this Encyclopedia).
Influenced by emotional connection and affective
memory, thousands of people travel every
year to meet people or find places imagined
from a blend of memories, family stories and
myths. The trip may include distant destinations
that they have abandoned sometime in the past,
from which they were forcibly removed, or
where they have never been. Tourists (re)visit
countries, cities, towns and neighbourhoods,
ruins, memorials and diverse places of historical
resonance, but also private and sometimes
anonymous or secret places known or referred
to only by the family. Individuals search for
traces, street names, nicknames, houses and
objects, traditions, smells, colours, textures
and flavours of personal relevance that they
incorporate into the ways they construct their
identity and the self.2022-01-01T00:00:00ZRitual ViewCosta, Rosalinahttp://hdl.handle.net/10174/271402020-02-20T11:07:41Z2020-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Ritual View
Authors: Costa, Rosalina
Editors: Merskin, Debra L.
Abstract: A theoretical construct developed within the framework of communications theory, the ritual view concept, was primarily developed by James W. Carey (1934–2006) whose work distinguishes between the view of communication as ritual and the view of communication as the transmission of information. The ritual view emphasizes the power of communication in the construction and maintenance of a sense of community. This idea is consentaneous with the literature coming from the field of ritual studies.
As a focus of attention in diverse disciplines, rituals can be understood as events or occasions considered to be special and holding symbolic meanings shared among the participants who thereby feel interconnected. Nowadays, although some observers have advocated for the abandonment of ritual, others recognize its persistence as a powerful tool for constructing social reality and revealing its dynamics. Empirical studies conducted worldwide, especially in media ethnography, have contributed to confirm the continuing interest of using Carey’s ritual view to understand the (in)visible dynamics of communities, not only on a local scale but increasingly in connecting globalization to lived local culture. This entry first compares the ritual view and the transmission view in Carey’s conceptualization and then discusses how the ritual view relates to other research on communication and how it relates to the use of media, particularly online media.2020-01-01T00:00:00ZWedding RitualsCosta, Rosalinahttp://hdl.handle.net/10174/178002016-03-08T16:10:46Z2016-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Wedding Rituals
Authors: Costa, Rosalina
Editors: Shehan, Constance L.
Abstract: Wedding Rituals - Encyclopedia Entry in The Wiley Encyclopedia of Family Studies2016-01-01T00:00:00Z