Update

Putting together RT paper on all work done in the area -
with summary of each paper - then look to key indicators coming out of the papers -
env - guilt - ethical consumerism - social - economic - etc.

try to marry up the papers and the indicators
by wednesday next. tall order.

Kozak 2001

Chapter nineteen ACritical Review of Approaches to Measure Satisfaction with Tourist Destinations

excellent review of literature in satisfaction
tracks all the interesting trends and does not commit to one or the other.
goes into good debates about lots of pertinent topics
CS/D
Importance
perf
scales
attibutes
sampling
multiple member of groups
first and repeat
timing of data collection
all very useful

Experience

Starting to look more closely at the experience side of the holiday
how is this usueally measured?
the literature seems to move towards CIT
asking people about their most positive and negative experiences...
the natural follow up is then to ask what the consumer attributes this credit/blame to....

(Attribution theory)
this is a key area for Soft-adventure tourism, as i want to know what people think of the TO when all sorts of things happen - do they look at themselves - or luck - or the TO - ar the destination? The group I am with - does that mean i am lucky or the TO is good?

Dalton 2007

A survey of tourist operator attitudes to renewable energy supply in Queensland, Australia

Good leads to follow up on
pretty much all about RES - renewable energy supply - but links are to consumers opinions.
need to follow up.

Martin 2000

Attitudes Towards Package Holidays and ABTA–2000, MORI

Pages 8-9 has the key question
How important is it to you that your holiday should...?
Not damage the environment
Include visits to experience local culture and food
Benefit the people of the destination you are travelling to (for example, through jobs and business opportunities)
MORI
Another interesting point - satisfaction with holidays in general has gone up significantly since 1988

Miller 2003

Consumerism in Sustainable Tourism: A Survey of UK Consumers

Good piece - from 2000
Asks all the usual kinds of questions. Some good references to follow up on.
The aim of the survey is to gain an indication as to whether consumers were willing to use a wider spread of information in the purchase of their future tourism products.

Bargeman 2005

The role of routines in the vacation decision-making process of Dutch vacationers

No real link to what I am looking at - the article looks at routines and I thought that maybe RT behaviour might have been approached, but it wasn't really.