https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:26:41 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/tourism-and-the-refugee-crisis-in-greece-perceptions-and-decision-making-of-accommodation-providers/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:51 +0000 http://arc.local/items/tourism-and-the-refugee-crisis-in-greece-perceptions-and-decision-making-of-accommodation-providers/ Continued]]> This paper focuses on the tourism impacts of the 2015–16 refugee crisis in Greece. It examines the implications of the related publicity for the perception of Greece and the expected reaction of inbound tourists; the way refugees are regarded from a security and cultural aspect; the interaction between refugees and host communities; and the decisions made by the Greek tourism accommodation sector to face the crisis. Using fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis the paper employs a nationwide survey of 811 tourism accommodation managers. The results reveal three configurations explaining the decisions of respondents characterised by refugee-centric orientation; the emphasis on the visitors-locals nexus; and the host communities’ behavioural impact on tourism. The paper also compares asymmetric with symmetric analysis highlighting the suitability of the former when dealing with complexity. The modelling exercise also steps forward from fit to predictive validity. The findings contribute to both managerial and methodological aspects of tourism.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/proxy-brigands-and-tourists-visualizing-the-greek-german-front-in-the-debt-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:41 +0000 http://arc.local/items/proxy-brigands-and-tourists-visualizing-the-greek-german-front-in-the-debt-crisis/ Continued]]> This article explores Greek social imagination and daily experiences during the debt crisis particularly in relation to Germany, which is increasingly the object of public suspicion with reference to its role in Greece’s bailout program. The essay investigates the prevailing Greek fantasy of nativism and the role of the visual in its constitution and conception during a period characterized by anxiety over national sovereignty. Furthermore, the article explores Greek‐German social relations in western highland Crete, which lies at the intersection of cultural investments, as an archetype of the native. The essay especially focuses on photography and other material practices in unraveling the complexities, circularities, and ambivalences in the relationship between Cretans and German tourists and between Greek national imagination and German cultural representations.

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