The thesis centers around the planning of an art festival known in Ghana known as Chale Wote Street Art Festival hosted every year in August in the Jamestown community, The objective of this study was to understand and explore how event planners of the Chale Wote Street Art Festival can create and host it continuously even with the economic challenges that affect the everyday lives of organisations, ...

The focus on food as a significant element and topic in tourism and tourists’ experiences has increased. How tourists experience food has changed together with tourists’ motivation and needs. Current findings indicate that tourists seek and expect to find local food experiences while travelling to a new destination. This thesis aims to build knowledge on how food as an element in tourism play a ...

This master thesis in Tourism Studies is about gaining a further understanding of sustainable tourism and implementing sustainable strategies in tourism businesses for a common political region, such as Nordhordland, the first UNESCO MAB reserve in Norway. The region is used as a political district for delimiting the research. The study's primary purpose is to improve the understanding of sustainable ...

Oppgaven søker å belyse hvilke relevante kompetansekrav som kan eller bør stilles til de som skal guide gjester i norsk natur, og med Svalbard som empirisk utgangspunkt. Det vil særskilt bli vurdert hvorvidt det kan eller bør stilles differensierte krav, ut fra nærmere angitte karakteristika ved turene, som lengde/omfang, terreng, vanskelighetsgrad og risikobilde. I litteraturen benyttet i oppgaven ...

Summary: Over the last decade hiking tourism has grown in Norway. This is exemplified by the increasing numbers of tourists that visits Trolltunga, Prekestolen and Kjerag. These are the most prominent examples, which appears to be part of a larger trend. Knivskjellodden has likewise, seen a rise in visitor numbers over the last decade. This aim of this thesis is to build an understanding of ...

Globally, and, in Northern Norway, whale-watching is growing rapidly. In Norway, the growth can be partially explained by the increased number of whales near the coast. Furthermore, the popularity of nature and nature-based experiences has been reflected in increasing demand for such experiences by tourists coupled with an increasing emphasis being placed on the value of animals in the wild as opposed ...

Visit Ål sin medlemsmasse består av mange små, privateide reiselivsbedrifter. Bedriftene har begrensede ressurser, operere gjerne i ulike marked med ulike kundegrupper og ulike forventinger til hva Visit Ål skal levere av tjenester og oppgaver. Et samlet reiseliv vil ikke bare bidra med økt tyngde opp mot lokale myndigheter, men også bidra til en bedre kundeopplevelse i destinasjonen. Et samlet ...

This research project is concerned with the investigation of the image of the Arkhangelsk Region among international tourists. It will include description of images that international tourists had during different stages of their visit in the destination from pre-travel stage to post-travel stage. Following that, I offer conclusions about image development and modification and about pre and post-image ...

Cultural heritage is one of the most important elements of tourism. We can see remarkable efforts of concerned people and agencies to develop tourism potential and to discover new cultural sites in a number of places. Even the cultures of remote and less-discovered cultural sites are growing attraction to tourists. On one hand, people are trying to develop tourism on bases of cultural heritage but, ...

Using the mobilities paradigm, this thesis aims to try to explain the uniqueness of a certain group of young Chinese travel bloggers, who were also tourists. It considered that the characteristics of young Chinese travel bloggers, both in their motivations and behaviours, do not appear in the realm of tourism only. This thesis explores where their characteristics come from and how to interpret them ...