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50 festivals to blow your mind
There's something about festivals, be it a giant, joyous party or a respectful honouring of tradition; a seemingly bizarre adherence to ritual or a celebration of a quirky obsession; it's a uniquely human thing to be involved in. We like to get together to dance, sing, eat, laugh, drink, dress up, light fires, take our clothes off, throw tomatoes at each other, roll around in mud--just about anything really, but we seem to like doing it in really large groups with bags and bags of enthusiasm. Why is it that we behave in this way? Because we're pleasure seekers? Because we're obsessives? We think it's because festivals are a life-affirming example of the inherent goodness in humanity. They take our desire to have a good time with our friends to a global level. They kick-start because of our passions and our wish to spread and share our joy with as many other people as possible. But they continue and thrive because they ignite curiosity and go on to promote understanding, compassion and a greater acceptance of the human race, and all the crazy fun and fervour that comes with it.
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Evaluation and Interpretation of Tourist Satisfaction for Local Korean Festivals Using Explainable AI
In this paper, we propose using explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) techniques to predict and interpret the effects of local festival components on tourist satisfaction. We use data-driven analytics, including prediction, interpretation, and utilization phases, to help festivals establish a tourism strategy. Ultimately, this study aims to identify the most significant variables in local tourism strategy and to predict tourist satisfaction. To do so, we conducted an experimental study to compare the prediction accuracy of representative predictive algorithms. We then built a surrogate model based on a game theory-based framework, known as SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP), to understand the prediction results and to obtain insight into how tourist satisfaction with local festivals can be improved. Tourist data were collected from local festivals in South Korea over a period of 12 years. We conclude that the proposed predictive and interpretable strategy can identify the strengths and weaknesses of each local festival, allowing festival planners and administrators to enhance their tourist satisfaction rates by addressing the identified weaknesses.
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Strategies Employed in Translation of Tourist Guidebooks Culture-specific Items from Persian into English
One of the major duties of every translator is to use an appropriate method in dealing with culture-specific items (CSIs). In this paper an attempt has been made to study the translation of two Iran tourist guidebooks translated by Oksana Beheshti and Amir Hassan Hakimian from Persian into English in order to analyze the strategies the translators have employed for translating CSIs based on Newmark's model and then to explore whether most these CSIs are domesticated or foreignized. For this purpose a number of instances which are highly specific cultural references have been collected and the strategies applied by translators have been identified. According to the obtained results, the most abundant strategies used in the translation of these two corpses are Newmark's transference with the addition of some notes. Therefore, although both domesticating and foreignizing strategies have been used, the most common strategy in the translation of these two tourist guidebooks is foreignization. Index Terms--culture, culture-specific items (CSIs), domestication and foreignization, tourist guidebooks, translation strategies
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Portugal por Fora e Por Dentro Descrições da Identidade Portuguesa nos Guias de Viagem Publicados nos Estados Unidos da América - De 1948 a 1962
Portugal por fora e por dentroi pretende analisar as descrições da identidade portuguesa nos guias de viagens publicados nos Estados Unidos da América entre 1948 e 1962. É um trabalho de investigação baseado na análise de um corpus, composto por 15 guias de viagens que foram analisados com vista à recolha de informações sobre a identidade, lazer, etnografia e etnologia em Portugal.Num primeiro momento, são apresentados os guias a título individual, numa espécie de perfil, onde se faz referência à biografia do autor, ao seu estilo de escrita e, claro, ao conteúdo. Depois são examinadas as passagens transcritas - que poderão ser consultadas no apêndice final -, de modo a analisar melhor e com mais minúcia os vários relatos e informações escritas pelos autores. Para além de comparações entre fontes, são também realçados casos únicos de abordagem - uma vez que essas singularidades são pertinentes para a narrativa construída.
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