Sökning: "tour guides"

Hittade 3 avhandlingar innehållade orden tour guides.

  1. 1. The Threatened Paradise : Tourism on a Greek Island

    Författare :Peter Smekal; Jan Ovesen; Julie Scott; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cultural anthropology; Greece; Kárpathos; tourism; anti-tourism; tourist typologies; repeat vacationing; tour guides; host-guest relations; festivals; guidebooks; tourist media; Orientalism; lifestyles; social distinctions; Romanticism; nostalgia; Kulturantropologi; Cultural anthropology; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology; kulturantropologi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is about attitudes and practices of foreign tourists in Ólymbos, a village in the north of the Greek island of Kárpathos. Based upon several periods of fieldwork from 1999 to 2005, it focuses on the discomfort with tourism and the tourist role which is shared by many holidaymakers, and which also can be found in various types of representations of the area. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Gäst i Sverige : Sanningsregimer, villkorade själv(re)presentationer och nationell tillhörighet vid moskévisningar i Stockholm

    Författare :David Gunnarsson; Lars Kaijser; Linda Berg; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; storyline; authority; regimes of truth; Swedish Muslims; self-representation; guided tours; respect; comfort zone; sanningsregimer; svenska muslimer; självrepresentation; guidade visningar; respekt; bekvämlighetszon; Ethnology; etnologi;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores the regimes of truth surrounding Muslims in Sweden. The main focus lies on the production of knowledge regarding Muslims in the context of the guided tours of a mosque in Stockholm. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Toward human-robot collaboration

    Författare :Kristian T. Simsarian; KTH; []
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    Sammanfattning : Recently robots have been launched as tour-guides in museums, and as lawnmowers, in-home vacuum cleaners, and remotely operated machines in so-called distant, dangerous and dirty applications. While the methods to endow robots with a degree of autonomy have been a strong research focus, the methods for human-machine control have not been given as much attention. LÄS MER