Making a Splash: Are Water-Related Touristic Experiences Linked to Authentic Island Tourism?
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Abstract
Water is universally synonymous with islands, encompassing a defining feature of islands’ very existence. For islanders, water is critical to their sense of self, place, cultural identity, social framework, and economic livelihood. In tourism marketing, water is often portrayed as a warm, inviting place for relaxation and/or leisurely pursuits, and is a common theme used to entice visitors to the island destination. The purpose of this paper is to examine the various ways in which water-related touristic experiences are linked to authenticity in island tourism, thereby providing visitors with myriad opportunities to make meaningful connections to the place. Residents of Prince Edward Island were surveyed to explore what kinds of island tourism experiences in their home province offered opportunities for visits to experience the authentic place. Findings show that water transcends specific touristic categories and is deeply embedded throughout authentic island experiences. Island respondents identified an array of water-related experiences through which visitors experience different types of authenticity, including objective, constructive, and existential authenticity.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".