Noga Collins-Kreiner
Biographic Data
| ID | 1448323 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noga Collins-Kreiner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noga |
| FAMILY NAME | Collins-Kreiner |
| SIGNATURE | COLLINS-KREINER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9221-7260 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 377 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Older adults at nature-tourism sites: Experiments with aging suits
Visitations to nature-tourism sites have a “healing effect” and improve well-being. • Goals were both educational (to increase understanding) and practical (planning). • Aging suits can improve managers' understanding of the needs of older adults. • Analysis yielded four main topics: senses; feelings; infrastructure and the route. • The suits improved participants' understanding of the limitations of older adults
The return of the ‘Black Swan’? Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land and the Covid-19 pandemic
This article’s first goal is to propose an interpretation of a historical event of major economic, political, and religious significance with attributes resembling those of the current Covid-19 pandemic: the Roman Empire’s conversion to Christianity. The second goal is to explain and analyze the Christian pilgrimage market and to suggest that, due to its unique nature and attributes, this specific segment has the potential to serve as a preferred…
Is there a Covid-19 vaccination effect? A three-wave cross-sectional study
This research examines the impact of COVID-19 mobility restrictions and vaccinations on people’s behavioural intentions to travel and their actual travel patterns. The study was conducted in Israel using three-wave cross-sectional analysis: June 2020 (n=129), November 2020 (n=211) and April 2021 (n=208). The findings reveal that the main factor supporting tourism is the desire to resume travel and not vaccination. The study also shows that domest…
National tourism strategies during the Covid-19 pandemic
A review of research into religion and tourism Launching the Annals of Tourism Research Curated Collection on religion and tourism
Social world, hiking and nation: The Israel National Trail
Hiking is a system of spatial behaviour. This study explores hiking as practiced along the Israel National Trail and posits that hiking and the hikers' community together constitute a 'social world'. Our study asked three primary research questions: As the mobility of hiking is typically contextualized within the social world of the pastime, how has the conceptualizations of social world and mobility contributed to the research? What are the char…
Tourism, heritage and politics: Conflicts at the City of David, Jerusalem
This article analyses the development and progress of conflicts at the “City of David” heritage-tourism site in Jerusalem, Israel and the reciprocal relations between heritage sites and conflicts. It offers a comprehensive examination of the development of a major tourist attraction in Israel. Our research is based on the following two methods of qualitative research: (1) in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 43 key stakeholders; (2) textual …
Tourism and depressive symptoms
Visitors with their ‘Backs to the archaeology’: Religious tourism and archaeology
This paper presents a conceptual analysis of the crossover between religious tourism and archaeology. It begins with a clarification of what religious tourism is and continues to consider the link between archaeological sites, religious heritage and religious tourism. It then moves on to a supply-focused typology of sites and a typology of visitors according to their characteristics. It also discusses the primary conflicts existing today between …
Backpacking memories: A retrospective approach to the narratives of young backpackers
Numerous studies have found that backpackers experience their trips as highly meaningful, to the point of being transformative. Whereas the majority of these studies were conducted not long after the return of the backpackers, when the experience was still fresh in their minds, the current exploratory study is a response to call to study the deep and enduring impact of tourist experiences that raises the question of whether the influence reported…
Preserving cultural assets of others: Jewish heritage sites in Macedonian cities
Issues arise when trying to understand the motivation of policymakers to preserve the assets of cultures that do not belong to the mainstream population. Tunbridge and Ashworth's seminal study on 'Dissonant Heritage' and Bennett's developmental model of intercultural sensitivity (DMIS model) provide a basis to evaluate both the motivations and the existence of a cultural dissonance. As there is a growing worldwide trend towards preserving and dev…
The seductions of pilgrimage: Sacred journeys afar and astray in the western religious tradition
The seductions of pilgrimage: sacred journeys afar and astray in the western religious tradition." Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 16(3), pp. 330–331
Why Do People Hike? Hiking the Israel National Trail
The main aim of this study is to better understand why people hike the Israel National Trail (INT) and the behavioural, experiential, and spatiotemporal phenomena that accompany this activity. In this explorative study, we assumed that hiking the INT encompasses both universalistic aspects of hiking, in its capacity as a mobility system shared by hikers of long‐distance trails worldwide, and particularistic aspects of hiking, that can be identifi…
A double life cycle: Determining tourism development in Macedonia
This article investigates the symptoms of tourism development in Macedonia by applying the Tourism Area Life Cycle (TALC) model. The study explores the political context and the government's role in policy-making and implementation at each TALC stage. It also attempts to assess key arenas of governmental influence on tourism, such as privatization, legislation, tourism promotion, and fiscal policy. To this end, we conducted an analysis of seconda…
Cultural and behavioral differences: Tour guides gazing at tourists
The aim of this exploratory study is to describe, examine, and analyze the manner in which tour guides in Israel gaze at the groups of foreign tourists they lead, in light of their close familiarity and cumulative experience with them. How do Israeli tour guides view different types of tourists, tourist behaviors, and tourist worldviews? The concept of ‘gaze’ refers to the manner in which people view the world around them. When a gaze is focused,…
Particularism vs. Universalism in Hiking Tourism
The lifecycle of concepts: The case of 'Pilgrimage Tourism
A theoretical framework is proposed for systematizing our understanding of how concepts in tourism emerge and change over time through the example of a structured description of the evolving phenomenon of 'Pilgrimage Tourism.' Using the 'product lifecycle' (PLC) model, I explain the changes that have taken place in pilgrimage research over the years and contend that, as part of an ongoing process of change, this phenomenon, as a concept, is gradu…
Maps and Meaning: Reading the Map of the Holy Land
The research methods of hermeneutics and semiotics were used to analyze maps of the Holy Land. The main conclusion of this study is how those methods could help us to read and understand maps. Other issues of concern are which religious elements actually appear and their form of representation in the range of maps. Narratives identified on the various maps were the holy Christian narrative- which proved the most dominant, the Jewish narrative and…
Framing Spatial‐Religious Conflicts: The Case of Mormon Development in Jerusalem
The paper's aims are twofold: first to present framing methodology as an approach which provides insights into conflicts stemming from the construction of new religious sites. Second, to analyse the B righam Y oung U niversity J erusalem C enter, using framing in order to understand the spatial‐religious conflicts involved in its establishment. The findings fall within three frame categories (‘super‐frames’) identified in the research: ‘process’,…
Tourism, religion and pilgrimage in Jerusalem
Conflict over sacred space: The case of Nazareth
Are birders good for birds? Bird conservation through tourism management in the Hula Valley, Israel
Evaluation of an Urban Tourism Destination
Using the Tourist City model, this study evaluates Tel Aviv's tourism product and visitor satisfaction and asks three major questions. What tourism components does the city offer? How do tourists relate to these components? And what differences, if any, emerged in the responses of the different visitor groups? This article employs two primary research tools: objective examination and structured interviews (n = 199). Respondents were classified in…
Tourism to India as popular culture: A cultural, educational and religious experience at Dharamsala
This paper considers a cultural, educational and religious experience of Western tourists to Dharamsala in Northern India. It supplies information on the growing phenomenon of Western people visiting the East for self-fulfilment, study and belief. The article aims to deal with tourism in its popular cultural format, as this aspect of the phenomenon is under-theorized. A structured questionnaire was administered to 127 visitors at seven different …
Tourists and souvenirs: Changes Through Time, Space and Meaning
This study focusses on souvenirs and their meanings. It employs both quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate time-dependent changes in tourists' attitudes toward souvenirs and the process through which objects become souvenirs. The research indicates that the passage of time and gaining tourist experience does affect the meanings of tourists' souvenirs. The changes in the meanings given to souvenirs affected their location in the tour…
Researching pilgrimage
Pilgrimage tourism in the Holy Land: The behavioural characteristics of Christian pilgrims
The lifecycle of concepts: The case of 'Pilgrimage Tourism
A theoretical framework is proposed for systematizing our understanding of how concepts in tourism emerge and change over time through the example of a structured description of the evolving phenomenon of 'Pilgrimage Tourism.' Using the 'product lifecycle' (PLC) model, I explain the changes that have taken place in pilgrimage research over the years and contend that, as part of an ongoing process of change, this phenomenon, as a concept, is gradu…
Negotiated space: Tourists, pilgrims, and the Bahá’í terraced gardens in Haifa
Tourists and souvenirs: Changes Through Time, Space and Meaning
This study focusses on souvenirs and their meanings. It employs both quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate time-dependent changes in tourists' attitudes toward souvenirs and the process through which objects become souvenirs. The research indicates that the passage of time and gaining tourist experience does affect the meanings of tourists' souvenirs. The changes in the meanings given to souvenirs affected their location in the tour…
Tourism and depressive symptoms
Tourism, Heritage and Pilgrimage: The Case of Haifa's Bahá'í Gardens
This paper examines the tourist experience within the context of the Bahá'í Gardens in Haifa, Israel. Using Cohen's (1979) typology and Smith's (1992) continuum model, we differentiate between visitors and perceptions of the same site. The study employs a mixed methodological approach that includes participant-observation, archival documents and short-informal and unstructured interviews with Bahá'í volunteers, tourists and guides, as well as emp…
Evaluation of an Urban Tourism Destination
Using the Tourist City model, this study evaluates Tel Aviv's tourism product and visitor satisfaction and asks three major questions. What tourism components does the city offer? How do tourists relate to these components? And what differences, if any, emerged in the responses of the different visitor groups? This article employs two primary research tools: objective examination and structured interviews (n = 199). Respondents were classified in…
Geographers and Pilgrimages: Changing Concepts in Pilgrimage Tourism Research
Pilgrimage is one of the basic and oldest population mobilities in the human world, and it has wide implications: political, social, cultural and economic. In this paper, geographical research on pilgrimage is reviewed, with attention to relevant findings from neighbouring disciplines. The aim of this research is to examine key issues, arguments and conceptualisations regarding the research of pilgrimage. This is in order to indicate the shifts t…
The reflection of a political conflict in mapping: The case of Israel's borders and frontiers
This article deals with the mapping of borders and frontiers in conflict regions, focusing on the disputed borders of Israel. The study constitutes part of a broader research project on the meaning
Preserving cultural assets of others: Jewish heritage sites in Macedonian cities
Issues arise when trying to understand the motivation of policymakers to preserve the assets of cultures that do not belong to the mainstream population. Tunbridge and Ashworth's seminal study on 'Dissonant Heritage' and Bennett's developmental model of intercultural sensitivity (DMIS model) provide a basis to evaluate both the motivations and the existence of a cultural dissonance. As there is a growing worldwide trend towards preserving and dev…
Cultural and behavioral differences: Tour guides gazing at tourists
The aim of this exploratory study is to describe, examine, and analyze the manner in which tour guides in Israel gaze at the groups of foreign tourists they lead, in light of their close familiarity and cumulative experience with them. How do Israeli tour guides view different types of tourists, tourist behaviors, and tourist worldviews? The concept of ‘gaze’ refers to the manner in which people view the world around them. When a gaze is focused,…
Graves as Attractions: Pilgrimage-Tourism to Jewish Holy Graves in Israel
Pilgrimage, whether religious or secular, is experiencing resurgence around the world. This research deals with the phenomenon of pilgrimage to the graves of saintly Jews in Israel. Its aim is to analyze the characteristics of Jewish pilgrims to holy grave sites in Israel at the present time, and to assess the phenomenon of pilgrimage. This includes the motives for pilgrimage, activities during the pilgrimage, and the influence of tourism on it. …
Why Do People Hike? Hiking the Israel National Trail
The main aim of this study is to better understand why people hike the Israel National Trail (INT) and the behavioural, experiential, and spatiotemporal phenomena that accompany this activity. In this explorative study, we assumed that hiking the INT encompasses both universalistic aspects of hiking, in its capacity as a mobility system shared by hikers of long‐distance trails worldwide, and particularistic aspects of hiking, that can be identifi…
Are birders good for birds? Bird conservation through tourism management in the Hula Valley, Israel
Tourism to India as popular culture: A cultural, educational and religious experience at Dharamsala
This paper considers a cultural, educational and religious experience of Western tourists to Dharamsala in Northern India. It supplies information on the growing phenomenon of Western people visiting the East for self-fulfilment, study and belief. The article aims to deal with tourism in its popular cultural format, as this aspect of the phenomenon is under-theorized. A structured questionnaire was administered to 127 visitors at seven different …
National tourism strategies during the Covid-19 pandemic
Social world, hiking and nation: The Israel National Trail
Hiking is a system of spatial behaviour. This study explores hiking as practiced along the Israel National Trail and posits that hiking and the hikers' community together constitute a 'social world'. Our study asked three primary research questions: As the mobility of hiking is typically contextualized within the social world of the pastime, how has the conceptualizations of social world and mobility contributed to the research? What are the char…
A double life cycle: Determining tourism development in Macedonia
This article investigates the symptoms of tourism development in Macedonia by applying the Tourism Area Life Cycle (TALC) model. The study explores the political context and the government's role in policy-making and implementation at each TALC stage. It also attempts to assess key arenas of governmental influence on tourism, such as privatization, legislation, tourism promotion, and fiscal policy. To this end, we conducted an analysis of seconda…
Religion and Politics: New Religious Sites and Spatial Transgression in Israel
In order to view the establishment of new religions centers and how they are received by local populations, I analyze such basic geographical concepts as scale, space, location, and image. I see how these can alter the perception and further refine the concept of spatial transgression in three case studies in Israel: the building of the Mormon Center in Jerusalem, the establishment of the Bahá‘í Gardens in Haifa, and the struggle to build a mosqu…
Tourism, heritage and politics: Conflicts at the City of David, Jerusalem
This article analyses the development and progress of conflicts at the “City of David” heritage-tourism site in Jerusalem, Israel and the reciprocal relations between heritage sites and conflicts. It offers a comprehensive examination of the development of a major tourist attraction in Israel. Our research is based on the following two methods of qualitative research: (1) in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 43 key stakeholders; (2) textual …
Backpacking memories: A retrospective approach to the narratives of young backpackers
Numerous studies have found that backpackers experience their trips as highly meaningful, to the point of being transformative. Whereas the majority of these studies were conducted not long after the return of the backpackers, when the experience was still fresh in their minds, the current exploratory study is a response to call to study the deep and enduring impact of tourist experiences that raises the question of whether the influence reported…
Particularism vs. Universalism in Hiking Tourism
Conflict over sacred space: The case of Nazareth
Pilgrimage Holy Sites: A Classification of Jewish Holy Sites in Israel
This paper deals with Jewish pilgrimage sites in Israel. The research analyzes the characteristics of Jewish holy sites in present-day Israel, in terms of the fundamental concepts introduced into the study of pilgrimage by Turner (1969; 1973), Turner and Turner (1978), and Cohen (1992). The paper concentrates on a critique of the Turners' concept of the location of the pilgrimage centers, following which the connection between pilgrimage and tour…
Cartographic Characteristics of Current Christian Pilgrimage Maps of The Holy Land
This article investigates some aspects of the cartography of current Christian pilgrimage maps of the Holy Land, using the research method of cartographic content analysis. It was found that uniform characteristics occur in the cartographic representations of Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The maps are designed to convey a Christian-religious message, are politically and religiously biased, and lead to misinformation and misinterpretation…
Pilgrimage Holy Sites: A Classification of Jewish Holy Sites in Israel
This paper deals with Jewish pilgrimage sites in Israel. The research analyzes the characteristics of Jewish holy sites in present-day Israel, in terms of the fundamental concepts introduced into the study of pilgrimage by Turner (1969; 1973), Turner and Turner (1978), and Cohen (1992). The paper concentrates on a critique of the Turners' concept of the location of the pilgrimage centers, following which the connection between pilgrimage and tour…
Pilgrimage tourism in the Holy Land: The behavioural characteristics of Christian pilgrims
Wait For Us - We're Not Ready Yet: Holy Land Preparations for the New Millennium - The Year 2000
The purpose of the paper is to examine the premise that pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the year 2000 was staged as a 'hallmark event' for Israel, and to a lesser extent, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority. Many Christian sacred sites are located in Israel (Jerusalem, Nazareth and the Sea of Galilee) and in the Palestinian-held areas (Bethlehem). Staging a mega event or a hallmark event in Israel/Palestine, a region renowned for its political in…
Mapping of the Holy Land: Contemporary Religious Mapping
One hundred and one current maps of Israel were analysed for their modern mapping religious ele‐ments in respect of the Holy Land. The main issues of the study are which religious elements appear and their form of representation in the range of maps; the impressions that can be derived from the different maps; and the narratives that can be construed from this representation. The research methods applied were hermeneutics and semiotics. Narrative…
Tourism, Heritage and Pilgrimage: The Case of Haifa's Bahá'í Gardens
This paper examines the tourist experience within the context of the Bahá'í Gardens in Haifa, Israel. Using Cohen's (1979) typology and Smith's (1992) continuum model, we differentiate between visitors and perceptions of the same site. The study employs a mixed methodological approach that includes participant-observation, archival documents and short-informal and unstructured interviews with Bahá'í volunteers, tourists and guides, as well as emp…
The reflection of a political conflict in mapping: The case of Israel's borders and frontiers
This article deals with the mapping of borders and frontiers in conflict regions, focusing on the disputed borders of Israel. The study constitutes part of a broader research project on the meaning
Negotiated space: Tourists, pilgrims, and the Bahá’í terraced gardens in Haifa
Graves as Attractions: Pilgrimage-Tourism to Jewish Holy Graves in Israel
Pilgrimage, whether religious or secular, is experiencing resurgence around the world. This research deals with the phenomenon of pilgrimage to the graves of saintly Jews in Israel. Its aim is to analyze the characteristics of Jewish pilgrims to holy grave sites in Israel at the present time, and to assess the phenomenon of pilgrimage. This includes the motives for pilgrimage, activities during the pilgrimage, and the influence of tourism on it. …
Religion and Politics: New Religious Sites and Spatial Transgression in Israel
In order to view the establishment of new religions centers and how they are received by local populations, I analyze such basic geographical concepts as scale, space, location, and image. I see how these can alter the perception and further refine the concept of spatial transgression in three case studies in Israel: the building of the Mormon Center in Jerusalem, the establishment of the Bahá‘í Gardens in Haifa, and the struggle to build a mosqu…
Geographers and Pilgrimages: Changing Concepts in Pilgrimage Tourism Research
Pilgrimage is one of the basic and oldest population mobilities in the human world, and it has wide implications: political, social, cultural and economic. In this paper, geographical research on pilgrimage is reviewed, with attention to relevant findings from neighbouring disciplines. The aim of this research is to examine key issues, arguments and conceptualisations regarding the research of pilgrimage. This is in order to indicate the shifts t…
Researching pilgrimage
Tourism to India as popular culture: A cultural, educational and religious experience at Dharamsala
This paper considers a cultural, educational and religious experience of Western tourists to Dharamsala in Northern India. It supplies information on the growing phenomenon of Western people visiting the East for self-fulfilment, study and belief. The article aims to deal with tourism in its popular cultural format, as this aspect of the phenomenon is under-theorized. A structured questionnaire was administered to 127 visitors at seven different …
Tourists and souvenirs: Changes Through Time, Space and Meaning
This study focusses on souvenirs and their meanings. It employs both quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate time-dependent changes in tourists' attitudes toward souvenirs and the process through which objects become souvenirs. The research indicates that the passage of time and gaining tourist experience does affect the meanings of tourists' souvenirs. The changes in the meanings given to souvenirs affected their location in the tour…
Are birders good for birds? Bird conservation through tourism management in the Hula Valley, Israel
Evaluation of an Urban Tourism Destination
Using the Tourist City model, this study evaluates Tel Aviv's tourism product and visitor satisfaction and asks three major questions. What tourism components does the city offer? How do tourists relate to these components? And what differences, if any, emerged in the responses of the different visitor groups? This article employs two primary research tools: objective examination and structured interviews (n = 199). Respondents were classified in…
Tourism, religion and pilgrimage in Jerusalem
Conflict over sacred space: The case of Nazareth
Maps and Meaning: Reading the Map of the Holy Land
The research methods of hermeneutics and semiotics were used to analyze maps of the Holy Land. The main conclusion of this study is how those methods could help us to read and understand maps. Other issues of concern are which religious elements actually appear and their form of representation in the range of maps. Narratives identified on the various maps were the holy Christian narrative- which proved the most dominant, the Jewish narrative and…
Framing Spatial‐Religious Conflicts: The Case of Mormon Development in Jerusalem
The paper's aims are twofold: first to present framing methodology as an approach which provides insights into conflicts stemming from the construction of new religious sites. Second, to analyse the B righam Y oung U niversity J erusalem C enter, using framing in order to understand the spatial‐religious conflicts involved in its establishment. The findings fall within three frame categories (‘super‐frames’) identified in the research: ‘process’,…
A double life cycle: Determining tourism development in Macedonia
This article investigates the symptoms of tourism development in Macedonia by applying the Tourism Area Life Cycle (TALC) model. The study explores the political context and the government's role in policy-making and implementation at each TALC stage. It also attempts to assess key arenas of governmental influence on tourism, such as privatization, legislation, tourism promotion, and fiscal policy. To this end, we conducted an analysis of seconda…
Cultural and behavioral differences: Tour guides gazing at tourists
The aim of this exploratory study is to describe, examine, and analyze the manner in which tour guides in Israel gaze at the groups of foreign tourists they lead, in light of their close familiarity and cumulative experience with them. How do Israeli tour guides view different types of tourists, tourist behaviors, and tourist worldviews? The concept of ‘gaze’ refers to the manner in which people view the world around them. When a gaze is focused,…
Particularism vs. Universalism in Hiking Tourism
The lifecycle of concepts: The case of 'Pilgrimage Tourism
A theoretical framework is proposed for systematizing our understanding of how concepts in tourism emerge and change over time through the example of a structured description of the evolving phenomenon of 'Pilgrimage Tourism.' Using the 'product lifecycle' (PLC) model, I explain the changes that have taken place in pilgrimage research over the years and contend that, as part of an ongoing process of change, this phenomenon, as a concept, is gradu…
The seductions of pilgrimage: Sacred journeys afar and astray in the western religious tradition
The seductions of pilgrimage: sacred journeys afar and astray in the western religious tradition." Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 16(3), pp. 330–331
Geography (27 works) · Religious Tourism and Spaces (24 works) · Tourism (24 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Political science (20 works) · Archaeology (19 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (19 works) · Law (14 works) · Halal products and consumer behavior (13 works) · History (13 works)