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Tourist information search and destination choice in a digital age
Volume 1, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 39-47
Jens Kr Steen Jacobsen | Ana María Munar
This study provides empirical evidence of self-reported impacts of selected electronic and other information sources on international tourists' destination choices regarding a popular, mature and mainstream summer holiday location. It is shown that traditional information provisions such as direct word-of-mouth, Web 1.0 sources and own experience are highly resilient and influential when tourists to a well-known destination area decide where to spend their summer holiday. Moreover, results indicate a complementary nature of Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. In this context of destination decision-making, utilitarian information values seem more relevant than socialisation opportunities. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
A review of tourism and climate change as an evolving knowledge domain
Volume 6, Issue , April 2013, Pages 53-62
Susanne Becken
The academic debate on tourism and climate change has expanded considerably in the last few years. This paper's narrative and systematic review of 459 English-language academic publications (1986 to 2012) synthesises the research on tourism and climate change, identifies key trends and social networks, and provides a critique for further discussion in this evolving knowledge domain. The analysis shows that the size of the field has grown, that research includes multiple dimensions (e.g., climate impacts, adaptation, mitigation, and policy), and that studies have become more integrative and critical. The co-authorship network is characterised by a core, which is disconnected from a more fragmented periphery, whereby the "centre of gravity" comprises a relatively small number of researchers who tend to co-author a large number of publications. The paper concludes that, overall, research on tourism and climate change has developed into a knowledge domain in its own right. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
Determinants of tourist expenditure: A review of microeconometric models
Volume 6, Issue , April 2013, Pages 28-40
Juan Gabriel Brida | Raffaele Scuderi
This paper presents a comprehensive review of the econometric approaches for the analysis of tourism expenditure at the individual level. Considering only regression models is a novel step in literature. The paper reviews 86 papers and 354 estimates of econometric models from data at individual level, over a time period ranging from 1977 to early 2012. Discussion focuses on models used, dependent variables, explanatory variables by category and their effect on expenditure. The most frequently used explanatory variables turn out to be income, socio-demographic and trip related, and these were tested mainly through classical regression techniques (OLS, quantile, Tobit and two-step, logistic). Future research directions should move towards exploring new evidence through novel methodological techniques, making a more extensive use of psychographic variables and tracing a stronger relation to economic theory. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
Local leadership for rural tourism development: A case study of Adventa, Monmouthshire, UK
Volume 4, Issue , November 2012, Pages 28-35
Claire Haven-Tang | Eleri Jones
Using a case study approach, this paper analyses the leadership role of Adventa, Monmouthshire's LEADER+ programme, in promoting followership amongst rural tourism small-scale businesses in Monmouthshire. Adventa is identified as a best practice example of leadership for rural tourism development as a result of their approach to creating competitive advantage for Monmouthshire by working with local rural tourism businesses to promote grassroots rural tourism. This paper focuses on Adventa's leadership role in relation to various tourism projects, through which they promote authenticity and the use of local producers; raise awareness of food miles; attempt to increase linkages to other sectors in the local rural economy and endeavour to promote followership amongst local rural tourism small-scale businesses. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
Tourists' opinions and their selection of tourism destination images: An affective and motivational evaluation
Volume 4, Issue , November 2012, Pages 19-27
Raffaella Nicoletta | Rocco Servidio
Image is an important component of tourism destination marketing because it influences tourists' behavior by stimulating multiple creative activities and experiences. Previous studies have shown that destination image formation affects travelers' thinking and feeling. Therefore, exploring the role of destination images is vital for the promotion of tourist destinations as holiday resources. We were interested in exploring the tourist's opinion in selecting touristic images used for promotional aims. Hence, the aim of this study is to investigate the affective and motivational factors with regard to a case-tourist destination, comparing two sets of images. The results showed that tourists considered the images in the first set to be stereotypical, while those in the second set evoked more affective and motivational attributes, increasing their desire to visit the represented places. The results of logistic regression analyses underlined that tourists are more influenced by the images in the second set. Finally, marketing implications are discussed. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
A netnographic examination of travelers' online discussions of risks
Volume 2-3, Issue , April 2012, Pages 65-71
Peter Björk | Hannele Kauppinen-Räisänen
This research explores online discussions of risk by applying a netnographic approach, which in previous tourism studies has been used to probe travelers' online narratives in general, rather than examining a particular dimension. In the present study, blogs about risk and safety issues were analyzed with the intention of scrutinizing risk categories discussed online and exploring the contingency of risk dimension for cities of different risk levels. Helsinki (Finland), Madrid (Spain), and Cape Town (South Africa) were chosen to represent low-, medium-, and high-risk cities, respectively. Findings from our analysis of the TripAdvisor's forum for risk prove the applicability of the taxonomy of risk categories previously identified in offline contexts and that perceived risk dimensions are destination specific. Insight into risk dimensions that tourists discuss online enable destination marketers to take action, eliminate factors that cause risk perception, refine destination marketing communication, and build strong brands. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
The nature and management of geotourism: A case study of two established iconic geotourism destinations
Volume 2-3, Issue , April 2012, Pages 19-27
David Newsome | Ross Dowling | Yu Fai Leung
Regional and global geopark networks are rapidly expanding internationally. A key impetus for their establishment is local community development through geotourism, or tourism that is based on sites of geological interest. Geotourism can be a powerful tool for sustainable development but, if not managed effectively, can constitute a direct threat to geoheritage resources. This paper articulates the characteristics and challenges of geotourism by examining two iconic geosites in Taiwan and Australia. Management challenges of Yehliu Geopark (Taiwan) are many, the most prominent ones being congestion, depreciative visitor behaviour and excessive management footprint. Depreciative behaviour is also a significant challenge to Pinnacles Desert (Australia), though congestion is not yet an imminent problem. These two cases illustrate that achieving sustainable visitor use at iconic geosites can be challenging despite the presence of infrastructure, site hardening and interpretation. The importance of visitor management at geoparks and implications for geotourism are discussed. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
Citations and impact of ISI tourism and hospitality journals
Volume 1, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 2-8
Chia Lin Chang | Chia Lin Chang | Michael McAleer | Michael McAleer | Michael McAleer | Michael McAleer
The paper analyses the leading international journals in Tourism and Hospitality Research using quantifiable Research Assessment Measures (RAMs), highlights the similarities and differences in alternative RAMs, shows that several RAMs capture similar performance characteristics of highly cited journals, and shows that some other RAMs have low correlations with each other, and hence add significant informational value. Several RAMs are discussed for the Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science database (hereafter ISI). Alternative RAMs may be calculated annually or updated daily to answer the questions as to When, Where and How (frequently) published papers are cited. The RAMs include the most widely used RAM, namely the classic 2-year impact factor including journal self citations (2YIF), 2-year impact factor excluding journal self citations (2YIF*), 5-year impact factor including journal self citations (5YIF), Immediacy (or zero-year impact factor (0YIF)), Eigenfactor, Article Influence, C3PO (Citation Performance Per Paper Online), h-index, PI-BETA (Papers Ignored - By Even The Authors), 2-year Self-citation Threshold Approval Ratings (2Y-STAR), Historical Self-citation Threshold Approval Ratings (H-STAR), Impact Factor Inflation (IFI), and Cited Article Influence (CAI). As data are not available for 5YIF, Article Influence and CAI for 11 of the 14 journals considered, 10 RAMs are analysed for 14 highly-cited journals in Tourism and Hospitality in the ISI category of Hospitality, Leisure, Sports and Tourism. Harmonic mean rankings of the 10 RAMs for the 14 highly-cited journals are also presented. A comparison of rankings is made for the h-index and C3PO for data from ISI and SCImago (2007) (see also SciVerse Scopus (2010)), which covers a broader range of journals, as well as a ranking of Tourism and Hospitality journals according to a subjective Aggregate Importance Rating. It is shown that emphasizing the 2-year impact factor of a journal, which partly answers the question as to When published papers are cited, to the exclusion of other informative RAMs, which answer Where and How (frequently) published papers are cited, can lead to a distorted evaluation of journal impact. © 2011 .
Near field communication technology in tourism
Volume 4, Issue , November 2012, Pages 11-18
Juho Pesonen | Eric Horster
Technological progress and tourism have been gone hand in hand for years. The use of mobile devices such as smart phones and tablet computers has increased at a phenomenal rate in recent years. With the increase in the number of mobile devices more and more devices will be supporting Near-Field Communication (NFC), which is a short range and wireless technology for data transfer without physical touch. NFC technology will open up new opportunities for various stakeholders in tourism from destination level to tourism researchers. In this article earlier research on NFC technology is reviewed and categorized into four different topics: business models and ecosystems, software and applications, security and hardware, and threats and issues. Current and potential applications of NFC in tourism are also reviewed using existing case studies. Also managerial contributions of the study are presented. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
Cross-institutional collaboration networks in tourism and hospitality research
Volume 2-3, Issue , April 2012, Pages 55-64
Qiang Ye | Haiyan Song | Tong Li
This paper examines cross-institutional collaboration in tourism and hospitality research using a co-authorship network model based on papers published in six top-tier tourism and hospitality journals over the past 20. years. Data analysis reveals that multi-author, multi-university studies are the fastest-growing type of authorship structure in tourism and hospitality research. We use several network measures to evaluate the intensity of research collaboration among academic institutions in tourism and hospitality disciplines. Institutions with tourism and hospitality programs worldwide are ranked according to their centricity in cross-institutional research collaboration networks and categorized according to their characteristics in collaboration. The empirical analysis shows significant associations between research performance and a university's centricity position in cross-institutional research networks. Through advanced social network analysis, this study provides new insights into institutional collaboration in tourism and hospitality research over the past two decades. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
The changing structure of the Chinese hotel industry: 1980-2012
Volume 4, Issue , November 2012, Pages 56-63
Huimin Gu | Chris Ryan | Larry Yu
This paper describes the structure and challenges facing the domestic Chinese hotel industry at the start of the second decade of the twenty-first century. It notes the progress that has been made and the increasing internationalization of the industry and Chinese chains as they commence to raise capital overseas and begin a period of mergers and acquisitions of foreign based chains. An analysis of the balance between demand and supply is provided for different cities throughout China. The challenges facing the Chinese domestic industry and for foreign chains operating in China are classified and a commentary is provided for each of these categorisations. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
China hotel research: A systematic review of the English language academic literature
Volume 6, Issue , April 2013, Pages 68-78
Michael J. Gross | Hailian Gao | Songshan Sam Huang
This paper presents the findings of a systematic review performed on 115 academic papers published over a 26-year period from 1984 to 2009 and provides a content analysis of research themes and trends in China hotel research. The findings reveal that hotel management and performance is the theme most frequently examined by researchers, followed by hotel development strategies, and hotel business environment analysis. The analysis also indicates shifts in research methods, trends of publication, journal outlets and authorship information. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
Tourism and corporate social responsibility: A critical review and research agenda
Volume 6, Issue , April 2013, Pages 122-141
Tim Coles | Emily Fenclova | Claire Dinan
This paper presents a critical review of recent progress in research on corporate social responsibility (CSR) in tourism management, and possible directions for future research. In comparison to a well established, empirically-grounded body of knowledge dealing with other sectors of economic activity, dedicated research on CSR in travel and tourism is at a relatively early stage. In the past decade, CSR has been the primary subject of a limited number of studies from a small academic community of practice. Studies have primarily focused on three macrolevel topic areas: implementation; the economic rationale for acting more responsibly; and the social relations of CSR. Interest in responsibility as an approach to tourism governance and management is nevertheless growing as several policy prescriptions and corporate vision statements reveal. For research to progress further and to match these ambitions, greater critical engagement with mainstream thinking on CSR is required as well as greater conceptual and methodological sophistication. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
Effects of the high speed rail network on China's regional tourism development
Volume 1, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 34-38
Xin Wang | Songshan Huang | Tongqian Zou | Hui Yan
This paper examines the effects of China's high speed rail network (HSRN) on its regional tourism development. It applies the time-space replacement concept to extend the gravitational model and uses iso-tourist lines in explaining the effects created by the mass implementation of China's HSRN. Considering a future gridline tourism transportation model in China, the paper concludes that the effects of HSRN on China's tourism include: a) a redistribution and transformation of tourist markets; b) market competition on a larger scale; and c) a reallocation of urban tourism centers. © 2011.
Understanding and managing the rural tourism experience - The case of a historical village in Portugal
Volume 4, Issue , November 2012, Pages 207-214
Elisabeth Kastenholz | Maria João Carneiro | Carlos Peixeira Marques | Joana Lima
As an industry tourism is often perceived important as a means of development in marginal rural zones, such developments are thought to appeal to a post-modern market seeking unique' experiences. This paper examines the rural tourism experience offered by a small village in Central Portugal that uses its heritage and traditions to offer such experiences. The case, derived from interviews, analyses the experience of tourists and residents, the interactions between different stakeholders, impacts and marketing implications. It concludes that social, emotional and symbolic dimensions of the experience, associated with rurality, are important determinants of tourist satisfaction. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
Tourism and economic growth: A review of empirical literature
Volume 8, Issue , October 2013, Pages 28-41
María Del P. Pablo-Romero | José A. Molina
This paper presents a review of published literature that addresses the connection between tourism and economic growth, and provides a thematic and chronological analysis of empirical research on this topic. The approach leads to a classification of the numerous works into three major sets according to the methodology applied therein: time series, panel data and cross-sectional data. Within each set, we chronologically organise the literature and drawn conclusions about their findings. It can be shown that the relation between tourism and growth depends on various factors, the main one being the country's degree of specialisation in tourism. In a similar manner, empirical results are very sensitive to the selection of model specifications and to econometric techniques used. Consequently, an evolution towards the use of more refined techniques can be seen in recent works. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
Internet promotional material and conservation volunteer tourist motivations: A case study of selecting organizations and projects
Volume 1, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 17-27
Kerry E. Grimm | Mark D. Needham
Although much research has discussed why tourists volunteer abroad, little work has explored the role of promotional material (e.g., internet websites) in volunteer decisions. We examined if promotional material played a motivating role in volunteer tourists' decision to select specific organizations or conservation projects, and if so, what in the material influenced their choices. We also identified types of promotional material used and how volunteers accessed this information. To collect data, we engaged in participant observation and conducted interviews at a conservation volunteer project in Ecuador with 36 volunteer tourists, 2 managers, and 3 volunteer coordinators. Findings revealed that volunteers almost exclusively used the internet to search for volunteer tourism opportunities. Volunteer decisions to select the organization or project were influenced by both website appearance (e.g., organized, professional) and specific content (e.g., photographs, volunteer comments, project descriptions, buzzwords). We discuss implications for managers and organizations, tourism theory, and future research. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
Sustainable tourism development strategy by SWOT analysis: Boujagh National Park, Iran
Volume 4, Issue , November 2012, Pages 223-228
Anita Reihanian | Noor Zalina Binti Mahmood | Esmail Kahrom | Tan Wan Hin
This paper explores the applicability of transforming the current state of tourism in Boujagh National Park (BNP) (a region located in the northern Iran with an area of 3177. ha) to a sustainable tourism model. To plan and implement this, different management and decision making tools were used including interviews and questionnaire surveys as well as SWOT analysis. A series of interviews was conducted in order to identify actions taken by governmental bodies responsible (e.g., Department of Environment). In addition, the visitors of the park were surveyed to assess the rate of fulfillment of sustainable tourism development in the park. Local residents were also taken into account by using a survey to reveal the problems and attractions of the park. Results showed that the existing tourism activities in the park did not conform to sustainability requirements. Thus, a SWOT analysis was used to identify the required management strategies to improve the tourism in the park. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
Analysis of local economic development (LED) initiated partnership and support services for emerging tourism entrepreneurs in George municipality, Western Cape Province, RSA
Volume 2-3, Issue , April 2012, Pages 7-12
T. Ramukumba | V. M. Mmbengwa | K. A. Mwamayi | J. A. Groenewald
The state of partnership and support services provided by the local municipality to the emerging tourism entrepreneurs are keys to the achievement of Local Economic Development (LED) objectives. The tourism industry is seen as one of the key economic sectors that can be used as a strategy to achieve key objectives of LED which are employment creation and poverty alleviation. The tourism industry has grown to become the world's second largest industry over the years. The aim of this study was to analyze Local Economic Development (LED) initiated partnership and support services for emerging tourism entrepreneurs in the George municipality with the objective to determine the impact of the tourism sector in contributing to the achievements of LED objectives. The study was conducted at George municipality of Western Cape Province. The study used both qualitative and quantitative methodology. The data used in the quantitative analysis was collected from 10% of the sample population. Whilst data collected through qualitative methodology was used to explain the outcome of the quantitative method. The test used in analyzing the data was a non-parametric test where the Friedman two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was applied. The study found that 47.5% of respondents see the overall support by the municipality as poor while 50% of the respondents receive no support from the municipality. In addition, it was found that the respondents regard the state of partnership as average. The study recommends the exposure of tourism entrepreneur's products and services through marketing and promotion as well as training in basic business management and financial management for the entrepreneurs. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
Ecotourism joint ventures between the private sector and communities: An updated analysis of the Torra Conservancy and Damaraland Camp partnership, Namibia
Volume 4, Issue , November 2012, Pages 127-135
Susan Snyman
Community-based natural resource management is frequently proposed as a solution to poverty in rural Africa. The extent of Namibia's CBNRM programme's success in terms of joint ventures between the private sector and communities has not been comprehensively analysed. Tangible benefits from joint venture partnerships play an important role in development and poverty reduction, with intangible benefits improving social welfare and local economic development. Questionnaire surveys of staff employed at Damaraland Camp in Torra Conservancy and of households in Torra Conservancy provided insight into the potential benefits of joint ventures. The direct benefit of income from jobs in ecotourism and associated household income diversification opportunities highlight the importance of permanent employment in these remote, rural areas. An analysis of spending patterns, attitudes to tourism, non-governmental organisations and the conservancy illustrated the level of success achieved by joint venture partnerships in terms of poverty reduction, local socio-economic development and changes in attitudes. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
The growth and spread of the concept of sustainable tourism: The contribution of institutional initiatives to tourism policy
Volume 4, Issue , November 2012, Pages 1-10
Anna Torres-Delgado | Francesc López Palomeque
In the last two decades sustainability has emerged as a force in the tourism industry, offering new directions and values for public policy, and inducing the creation of the concept of sustainable tourism. There have been a number of institutional initiatives in this respect, and they have shaped a framework for both theoretic and applied development, and have helped extend the paradigm of sustainability as a general feature of contemporary tourism.The content of this article sheds light on the process of creation and use of the concept of sustainable tourism through the analysis and evaluation of institutional initiatives in tourism policy in the last 20. years. The systematic analysis of 55 institutional documents covering international, European and Spanish initiatives has enabled us to demonstrate the importance of these in the adoption of sustainability by the tourist industry, and their contribution to the growth and spread of the concept of sustainable tourism. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
Stakeholder engagement in the design of scenarios of technology-enhanced tourism services
Volume 4, Issue , November 2012, Pages 36-44
Scott McCabe | Mike Sharples | Clare Foster
The rapid uptake of mobile and digital technologies has the potential to radically transform city visiting experiences. This will result in a transition from technology that is owned and delivered by tourism organisations towards software developed by third party organisations that are owned and managed directly by tourists. Tourism providers in destinations must collaborate in service provision in order to develop integrated services to meet the needs of tourists and remain competitive. This paper argues that scenario-based design (SBD) offers a useful tool to generate innovative ideas for destination service development and to break down barriers to collaboration amongst tourism stakeholders. We report a study, which engaged city stakeholders in envisioning innovative, technology-based tourism services. We outline this process, discuss the value of SBD in multi-stakeholder service design, and make recommendations for future work in this area. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
Multi-criteria ELECTRE method and destination competitiveness
Volume 6, Issue , April 2013, Pages 108-113
Laurent Botti | Nicolas Peypoch
The aim of this research note is to implement an application of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) method ELECTRE I to tourism destinations. By doing so, this paper contributes to the reflexion on tourism destination competitiveness which has known a greater interest these recent years. Despite that MCDA outranking methods can apply to any area, very few applications have been done to the tourism context. The case of four Hawaiian islands is used to show how ELECTRE I can be used to analyse tourism destination relative competitiveness. It is shown that ELECTRE I and Weighted-Sum Method (most widely MCDA applied approach) results differ. Empirical results illustrate the two different advantages of destinations (comparative and competitive advantages) and push to believe that competitive advantages are more closely linked to competitiveness than comparative ones. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
Rural tourism development in Lithuania (2003-2010) - A quantitative analysis
Volume 2-3, Issue , April 2012, Pages 1-6
Tomas Baležentis | Irena Kriščiukaitiene | Alvydas Baležentis | Ron Garland
The objectives of the Rural Development Programme for Lithuania for the period 2007 to 2013 are to: (a) preserve natural and cultural heritage objects, (b) support complementary activity in the rural areas, and (c) generate rural tourism as an economic sector. The aim of this study is to identify current trends specific to the Lithuanian rural tourism sector and propose potential means of development. This study focuses on an inter-county assessment of rural tourism flows within Lithuania by the means of an index decomposition analysis. Consequently, an analysis was undertaken covering factors including the number of the rural tourism farmsteads, spatial distribution of those farmsteads, and capacity, an amended Defert Index, and duration of stay effects. The analysis suggests that the Lithuanian rural tourism sector was negatively affected by the 2008 recession. Indeed, the impacts exhibited relatively high elasticity of demand for rural tourism. Hence, there is a need for the further development of appropriate marketing and information dissemination strategies aimed at both middle and lower income consumers. © 2012.
Improving metro-airport connection service for tourism development: Using hybrid MCDM models
Volume 6, Issue , April 2013, Pages 95-107
Chui Hua Liu | Gwo Hshiung Tzeng | Gwo Hshiung Tzeng | Ming Huei Lee | Po Yen Lee
Few studies in tourism and transport have discussed the connection service between metro systems with urban airports or proposed strategies to assist in improving performance for long-term development. The purpose of this study is to address this problem using the novel method of hybrid MCDM (multiple criteria decision-making), including DEMATEL (decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory), DANP (the DEMATEL-based analytic network process) and VIKOR, to examine the influential relationships among dimensions and criteria of the empirical case and to ultimately present the best improvement schemes, which are valuable for both practitioners and researchers and for those destinations attempted to integrate the urban transport with tourism development. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.


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Mic Drop
"All she needs is a mic drop. I swear, that's the only thing missing. She fucking owns everything that ever existed. She just needs a mic drop."A character having just delivered an awesome speech or performance will emphasize just how awesome it was by purposefully toppling a microphone stand or dropping the microphone from shoulder level height just before leaving the stage. Since this is a showy, arrogant gesture, comedy is frequently wrought by having self-effacing or rule-conscious characters do it. Expect a wide range of audience reaction, from Show Stopper rapturous applause to Chirping Crickets silence. This action is often, but not always, accompanied by the stock phrase, "<Name> out" or "Peace out". Can also be parodied by NOT cutting out the sound while doing this, creating horrible sounding noise.
—The Nostalgia Critic, on the T-Rex from Jurassic Park.
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- In Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny JB knocks the mic stand over after the D's first "concert" (a one-song amatuer/open mic night). The audience is not impressed.
- Bane does this in The Dark Knight Rises after giving his big speech to Gotham at the football stadium, tossing the microphone on the dead body of Dr. Pavel, whom he's just murdered.
- Faith does this after finishing a song in Strange Days.
- One of the trailers for Minions has Bob (the youngest of the three) do it after delivering a speech to the crowd.
Live-Action TV
- Community: Annie Edison finishing her eulogy for Star-Burns.
Annie: Edison out!
- Chang did it earlier in the show, admonishing Jeff for "taking advantage of the emotionally vulnerable".
- Parks and Recreation: Ben Wyatt (pictured) after condemning Denmark in the Model United Nations.
- 30 Rock: Liz Lemon at the end of her high school reunion.
Liz: Lemon out!
- Done by Peele (as Obama) on Key And Peele. A rapper in the street says "I'm the boss and the king!" Obama pulls up in his limo, takes the mic and says "I'm the leader of the Free World" and drops the mic.
- The actual Barack Obama did this on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon at the end of a "Slow Jam the News" segment. Well, he didn't so much drop the mic as awkwardly set it down.
- Maeby in Arrested Development s4e12, giving her presentation on Fakeblock to a room of investors.
- The Daily Show: Jessica Williams ended an epic rant about racism with a mic drop ... which she first had to pull out from behind her desk because she wasn't using it during said rant.
- Comic Relief. Peter Dinklage does this at the end of his Red Nose Day song "I'm Still Going Strong" (about how his character on Game of Thrones hasn't been killed off yet).
- Bobby Moynihan from Saturday Night Live seems to love this trope. In a recurring sketch where a number of eccentric characters come up to speak during a wedding/funeral/etc., he's played a character who exists for no other reason than to manically scream "WHAAAAAAAAAAT?!" and drop the mic. More recently, his character Riblet, who appears on Weekend Update to antagonize Michael Che by trying to one-up him as a news anchor, will typically finish his appearance with one of these.
Professional Wrestling
- A staple of pro wrestling which either ends a promo in dramatic fashion or more often a prelude to an asskicking. The mic itself being weaponized will also envoke this.
Video Games
- In Divekick, this is Kick's win pose.
- Beowulf from Skullgirls has an attack where he hits the opponent with a microphone, and if the player holds the button, he'll drop the mic, causing it to hit overhead and give him some crowd hype to work with.
Web Video
- In his review of Jurassic Park, The Nostalgia Critic, while gushing over the T-Rex's awesomeness, says it should have done a mic drop at the end. He does one at the end of the review for the hell of it.
- On Escapist Magazine's show Jimquisition, the titular host Jim Sterling did it twice. Once after a rant on a topic he found especially worth his wrath (episode "Free-to-wait"), and another time to make fun of himself like usual — the mic was both plugged in and turned on, so it didn't so much drop as just swing back and forth hitting the podium.
- In Epic Rap Battles of History, Elvis Presley does this in "Michael Jackson vs Elvis Presley".
Elvis: Later weirdo, Elvis is leaving the building!
- Forms a gag in Anime Abandon: Bennett says that a character has essentially just done the equivalent of the following:
Drops a mic.
Holds out his other hand, holding two mics.
Drops them.
Pulls out a sack, filled with mics, and starts spilling them out onto the ground.
Web Comics
- Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: this comic in the votey.
- In Whomp!, M Dude instructs Ronnie to drop the Mic and ends up accidentally throwing it in the crowd and directly into the face of an audience member. M Dude applauds.
Western Animation
- Snips and Snails do this after their incredibly bad rap in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls Rainbow Rocks, without cutting out the audio, resulting in a ton of feedback. Principal Celestia even remarks "please do not drop the microphones", despite being under the villain's mind control at the time.
- King of the Hill: In the episode "Manger Baby Einstein" Luann grabs the microphone at the local kid's pizza joint and scolds her former puppet show fans. She ends her rant by dropping the mic.
- Done twice in Archer in the episode "The Wind Cries Mary". First when Archer is boasting about Lucas Troy and drops the control room mic, and again by Pam when she finds out no one (except Cyril) has filled out the Peer Review forms, despite the low employee numbers (even though there were 50 agents and a full office plus a receptionist in the pilot).
- Steven Universe: In "We Need to Talk", during Greg's jam session with the Gems, Pearl showboats through a Fusion Dance with Rose Quartz, then finishes Greg's song with a mic drop. Afterwards, she tells him that his relationship with Rose won't last, since he's only human. Greg takes it as a challenge, and pulls a mic drop of his own in response... then immediately picks it back up.
Greg: Ah, jeez, what am I doing? These things are expensive.
Real Life
- President Barack Obama himself turned this trope into a Memetic Mutation when he did it onstage. Possibly in homage to the Key And Peele sketch.
- This is common for people to do after just doing some sort of musical performance, often rapping or rock/metal singing, or after some kind of angry speech. What makes it interesting is that they will always hold the mic up and out before dropping it, rather than just letting it go from holding it at their mouth. This is because it's a signal to the person running the mic's audio; when he or she sees the person holding the mic like that, he or she cuts the mic's audio so that it doesn't cause unbearable noise from the speakers when it hits the ground.


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HD Tune Pro gives us accurate read, write and access time results and for the last couple of years has gained popularity amongst reviewers. It is now considered a must have application for storage device testing.
Reading compressible data sequentially from the drive fresh out of the box shows one of the highest average speeds we can record. Like the other drives we've tested with the Phison S8 controller, the Force LS is very fast when reading sequential data.
The sequential writes are also very fast, but this test uses compressible data. We'll look at incompressible data later in this review.
HD Tach - Sequential Write Performance after Random Writes
After a complete drive span 4K write, we tested the drive again with sequential data. The Force LS didn't lose a lot of write performance and the write speed stayed very consistent across the drive. Oddly enough, the Force LS actually outperforms Neutron GTX in this test when comparing write performance.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky.—After three wins over the weekend, including a sweep over then-No. 12 Pepperdine, Colorado State volleyball is again receiving votes in the AVCA Coaches Top 25 Poll. The poll was released by the AVCA Monday afternoon.
CSU, which began the year at No. 25 and improved to No. 24 after a 3-0 start to the season, fell out of the rankings a week ago after dropping three consecutive contests. Two of those teams are currently ranked.
The Rams received 44 votes this week, fifth-most among schools in the 'receiving votes' category. All-time, CSU has appeared in 237 of the AVCA's 433 polls, 14th-most in the country.
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In 2000, CSU defeated No. 1 UCLA on a neutral court, which is the two teams' most recent meeting.
Nebraska, which handed UCLA its only loss of the season, is the nation's top team. BYU and Tennessee, two of CSU's losses, are at No. 15 and 17, respectively, while Pepperdine ranks No. 18. Additionally, Oklahoma, which CSU defeated in four sets on Sept. 2, is receiving votes.
CSU's only match this week will be against the defending national champions. The Rams will look to improve on their 16-match home winning streak, which dates back more than a year. The match will also be a White Out, with the first 750 fans in attendance receiving free white T-shirts. Card five of the set of 12 collectible trading cards will also be given out.
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