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Papers by Aaron Yankholmes

What We Know About Climate Change, 2012

Using data from the African Journals Online (AJOL), the world's largest online database of Africa... more Using data from the African Journals Online (AJOL), the world's largest online database of African-published, peer-reviewed scholarly journals, this paper presents the results of a study on the publication productivity of Africa-based tourism and hospitality scholars from 2000 to 2014. The results show a significant growth of African tourism literature during period under study with 340 individuals authoring or co-authoring 240 articles in 56 journals. Christian Rogerson had 10 singled-authored publications to his credit while Meville Saayman had the largest number of cauthored publications. Three journals,

Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing, 2022

Tourism and Memories of Home, 2017

Several African scholars and Africanists (e.g., Fanon, 1963, 1967; Asante, 2003; Nyamnyoh, 2012; ... more Several African scholars and Africanists (e.g., Fanon, 1963, 1967; Asante, 2003; Nyamnyoh, 2012; Dei, 2002, 2012) advocate a radical change in the conventional processes of knowledge production, which have historically deprived and marginalized African voices. The main thrust of their argument is that Indigenous knowledge (IK) offers the epistemic framework that African scholars and knowledge producers can employ to articulate, create, and produce knowledge that challenges and extends ‘western’ experiences on the continent. However, although IK has noteworthy merits, it is far less easy to disentangle. This situation is further complicated by the fact that applying the principles of IK commits African scholars to the longstanding dichotomy between Indigenous and ‘western’ knowledge (LéviStrauss, 1966; Geertz, 1983). This paper critically examines the possibilities for incorporating IK into tourism development, in general, and scholarship on African tourism, in particular, and its at...

Tourism Management, 2022

The ‘East meets West’ concept has been widely used by tourism promotion agencies and destination ... more The ‘East meets West’ concept has been widely used by tourism promotion agencies and destination management organizations engaged in marketing postcolonial tourism destinations in Asia. However, the decolonized identity-making process behind this tourism promotion concept is neglected in the literature. This paper explores the identity-making behind the ‘East meets West’ tourism promotion of the Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions of China. Through critical discourse analysis of tourism promotional texts and in-depth interviews with tourism and cultural experts, the findings reveal that, although tourism has been used effectively as a tool to decolonize Hong Kong and Macau and reposition them as Chinese cities, power struggles influence the repositioning of the two cities as ‘East meets West’, with very distinct impacts on the cities’ identities and tourism promotion. Tourism management implications are outlined for both destinations as well as future research avenues related to the study findings and limitations

This chapter sheds light on the lived leisure experiences of Ghanaians and contributes to the spa... more This chapter sheds light on the lived leisure experiences of Ghanaians and contributes to the sparse and limited literature on lifestyles in the country. I demonstrate how Ghanaians give meaning to the phenomenon of leisure and how these meanings differ and change in space and time. I argue that although lifestyles have been affected by the forces of globalization through advances in telecommunications and technology, many implications and applications of the leisure phenomenon remain almost incognita. First, the Ghanaian context is highlighted to enable an appreciation of some of the issues. Ghana (5°33′N 0°12′W) is an Anglophone country in West of Africa sandwiched between three Francophone countries: Burkina Faso to the north, Cote d'Ivoire to the west, and Togo to the east. The Gulf of Guinea forms Ghana's southern border. The country was the first African country south of the Sahara to gain independence from Great Britain in 1957. At the time of independence, Ghana's economy was purported to be in relatively good shape with gross domestic product (GDP) similar to that of Malaysia and South Korea (Werlin, 1994). The Gold Coast, as Ghana was known prior to independence, had the highest per capita income in West Africa and was described as the Model Colony (Buah, 1998). However, like most of sub-Saharan Africa, by the 1980s as a result of coups and counter-coups, the country plunged into political turmoil and economic malaise in what became known throughout Africa as the lost decades. Ghana's bright prospects at independence were derailed. Of significance is the inherently volatile and unpredictable prices of the country's major export commodities: gold and cocoa. When export revenues decline as a result of declining exports, successive governments

Tourism Management, 2021

Abstract Despite numerous studies suggesting the presence or absence of children influence family... more Abstract Despite numerous studies suggesting the presence or absence of children influence family vacation travel, there has been little focus on migrant families. Latent class analysis was used to create empirically derived travel behaviour clusters of Western professional migrant families with and without children based on their motive to move, self-concept and how they construct a sense of home in the Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions of China. The analysis identified six distinct classes. Three groups were families without children and the rest were those with children. Each segment has markedly different travel behavior patterns with differences in demographic and migration characteristics also apparent. Implications for tourism management and future research are discussed.

Tourism Management Perspectives, 2018

This study uses Lukes' (2005) three-dimensional power to explore the ability of traditional chief... more This study uses Lukes' (2005) three-dimensional power to explore the ability of traditional chiefs to influence slavery-based heritage tourism decisions. Traditional chiefs of five former slave communities in Ghana were in-depth interviewed about their efforts to harness community development through tourism and perceived influence in tourism decision-making process. Results indicated that despite being guardians of tourism resources, traditional chiefs perceive themselves to be powerless in affecting management decisions because of governmental control of local community institutions. They, however, exert considerable influence on tourism activities by either avoiding engagement or acting as community vanguards to discredit the interests of other stakeholders. Interview data support the theoretical tenets of Lukes' (2005) three-dimensional view of power, and the need to pursue cooperative tourism planning is discussed.

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020

This is a PDF file of an article that has undergone enhancements after acceptance, such as the ad... more This is a PDF file of an article that has undergone enhancements after acceptance, such as the addition of a cover page and metadata, and formatting for readability, but it is not yet the definitive version of record. This version will undergo additional copyediting, typesetting and review before it is published in its final form, but we are providing this version to give early visibility of the article. Please note that, during the production process, errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.

International Journal of Tourism Research, 2020

This study assesses whether changes in migrants' identity predict changes in their travel behavio... more This study assesses whether changes in migrants' identity predict changes in their travel behaviour. Data were collected from Western professional migrants in Hong Kong and Macau using open-ended self-completed survey questions. Results derived from content analysis indicate that long-term migrants benefit from greater accessibility to many regional destinations, home-return trips, and lower fares while temporary migrants and those on contracts felt constrained to pursue pleasure travel. Factors explaining tourism-oriented motives to move comprise convenient hub, rite of passage, continuation of identity, and career maintenance. Many reasons are also found to account for changes in travel frequency and destination choice over time. These findings can shape marketing actions for destinations in the region as well as provide a platform for future theoretical and empirical research on the relationship between tourism and migration.

International Journal of Tourism Research, 2019

This study links self-concept and place attachment to generate a better understanding of travel b... more This study links self-concept and place attachment to generate a better understanding of travel behavior patterns by migrant populations, in this case, Western professional migrants who live in the Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions of China. Five discrete Western professional migrant groups are identified, each with different demographic profiles, travel patterns, propensity, and intensity. The findings challenge the view that migrant populations are homogenous and also challenge the widely held notion that home return travel is their dominant mobility pattern. Conceptual and managerial implications of migrant travel behavior for destination marketers are briefly outlined.

Tourism Management, 2018

This paper examines travel by western migrants who have moved to the Hong Kong or Macau Special A... more This paper examines travel by western migrants who have moved to the Hong Kong or Macau Special Administrative Regions of China. Previous research suggests travel patterns are a form of learned behaviour. New migrants initially exhibit patterns learned from their home countries, but over time their patterns change and reflect more those of residents of their new countries as they learn and adopt new behaviours. This situation was not observed among western migrants. Instead, they exhibited patterns that were internally consistent, regardless of the migrant's origin, but different from those of the local Chinese populace. The paper argues that western migrants, who generally live in a parallel expatriate bubble to those host community, have learned travel patterns from others who also live in that bubble.

International Journal of Tourism Research, 2017

The stranger will thus not be considered here in the usual sense of the term, as the wanderer who... more The stranger will thus not be considered here in the usual sense of the term, as the wanderer who comes today and goes tomorrow, but rather as the man who comes today and stays tomorrow...He is fixed within a certain spatial circleor within a group whose boundaries are analogous to spatial boundariesbut his position within it is fundamentally affected by the fact that he does not belong in it initially and that he brings qualities into it that are not, and cannot be, indigenous to it. Georg Simmel (1971:143) 1 | INTRODUCTION Diaspora African 're-migration' to presumed homelands in Africa involves far more than just the search for a personal past. It is also imbued with many symbolic and social meanings in which one's exercise of a natural right to 'return' is an act that a host and ancestral community may welcome or treat with a mixture of awe and suspicion. The inevitable result is a degree of psychological and emotional detachment from members of the host society, which entails assuming a new status and role. Simmel (1971) refers to this situation as entering 'strangerhood', which may result in social distance between residents and immigrants or visitors being reified and expanded through a host society's actions and behaviors (Gallois,

Event Management, 2016

This article describes a study profiling 241 attendees to the 2014 masquerade festival in Winneba... more This article describes a study profiling 241 attendees to the 2014 masquerade festival in Winneba in Southern Ghana according to their support for and past membership of the competing masquerade groups. Three cohorts of attendees were used to highlight the differences that exist in terms of their demographics and trip/event profile, information sources, and how satisfied they were with various facilities and services provided by the event organizers. The study found that two cohorts belonged to or supported a masquerade group while the majority neither belonged to nor supported a masquerade group nor ever been masqueraders. The demographic profile of the majority subsample showed they were likely to be female, young, employed with above-average incomes and educational attainment. Their main source of information on the festival was friends, and they also tended to be intolerable of the long ticket queues and other appalling conditions of the event venue more than the other subgroups...

Tourism Recreation Research, 2016

Los Valores Del Ocio Cambio Choque E Innovacion 2011 Isbn 978 84 9830 312 4 Pags 137 160, 2011

Tourism and Hospitality Research, 2014

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