Beyond Destinations - Special Interest Tourism

BOB BROTHERTON* - BULENT HIMMETOGLU**
*Blackpool and The Fylde College
**Bogaziçi University

ABSTRACT
This paper explores the contention that the next frontier in the tourism development process lies beyond the highly packaged destination-based tourism product within the realms of Special Interest Tourism (SIT). It focuses on the underlying conceptual foundations for this contention and initiates the process of differentiating between 'General' and 'Special' Interest Tourism and Tourists by proposing both a general 'Tourism Continuum' and a new typology of special interest tourists. Finally, it also contains the results from an exploratory survey on UK Outbound special interest tourists which was designed to empirically explore many of the basic ideas and propositions developed from the earlier conceptual work.

Keywords: Special Interest Tourism, Marketing, Market Research, UK Outbound.

Developments in Information Technology: Implications for the Tourism Industry and Tourism Marketing

MICHAEL RIMMINGTON* - METIN KOZAK**
*Sheffield Hallam University
**Sheffield Hallam University

ABSTRACT
The purpose of this paper is to examine the present and potential impact of Information Technology (IT) on the tourism industry and tourism marketing. Recent developments indicate that some of the services provided by travel agencies, accommodation establishments and leisure companies will increasingly be undertaken personally by customers using IT. The paper considers current IT applications and likely future developments. It is proposed that tourism companies will need to establish appropriate marketing strategies which take account of these developments and the uncertain impact of consequent industry restructuring.

Keywords: Information technology, computer, central reservation systems, Internet, virtual reality, marketing, distribution channels.

Make No Enemies: The Tourist Contending With The Terrorist

SEVIL F. SONMEZ* - G. WESLEY BURNETT**
*Arizona State University
**Clemson University

ABSTRACT
This article examines the relationship between terrorism and tourism. Although the travel and tourism industry and government have done much to control it, terrorism remains a powerful form of communication which utilizes the tourist to convey messages. Despite their understandable expectations of government and industry action against terrorism, potential tourists must assess risk on their own and take action to protect themselves as they travel and recreate. An analogy may be drawn to touristic medicine: just as the first line of defense in health care is the tourist, so the first line of defense against terrorism lies with the tourist.

Keywords: International tourism, terrorism, decision-making.


Factor Affecting Vacation Destination Choices of College-Students

ROBERT W. McLELLAN* - ERCANSIRAKAYA**
*Clemson University
**Pennsylvania State University

ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to investigate factors affecting destination choice decisions of college students. The study reports the results of a factor analysis and discusses some marketing implications. Results suggest that college-students are mostly concerned with the cost of the vacations and convenience, local hospitality and services, entertainment and drinking opportunities, recreation and sporting activities available, and change in their daily environment. These criteria must be taken into account by destination promoters and developers as they try to appeal to this important segment in the tourism industry.

Keywords: Decisions-making, pull factors, college-students, travel behavior, factor analysis.


Anatolia: The Evolution of the Journal, and a Title Bibliography in English

HASAN ISIN DENER
Hacettepe University

ABSTRACT
Previous issues of Anatolia were published solely in Turkish. The newly designed journal in English and in Turkish is yet the resulting product of the past. In the first section, a brief analytical view of the structural and contextual developments and improvements under somewhat historical perspective was elaborated. The second section serves primarily for the reader who cannot understand Turkish, and is devoted to a slightly selected title bibliography of the past Anatolia issues being arranged alphabetically after authors' names. The translation problems that were confronted, and the characteristics of the prepared bibliography are also stated in this section. The title bibliography, being composed of 296 entries and being -for practical purposes - subdivided into three groups is presented at the end of the second section.

Keywords: Anatolia, journal development, translation problems bibliography.