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Maior-Barron, Denise Cristina Ioana. "Petit Trianon and Marie Antoinette : representation, interpretation, perception." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/3930.
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This interdisciplinary thesis belongs to Marie Antoinette studies. The contemporary dissonant commodification of the controversial historical character of the last Queen of France, detected at her former home, Petit Trianon, drives the course of the thesis research. Considering the complexity and controversy of the subject, the thesis seeks to make a contribution to extant scholarship by clarifying important modern history issues through a fresh approach: by using art history as an indicator in assessing the historical truth of the narrative of Petit Trianon, the residence identified as home to the last Queen of France. The thesis examines Petit Trianon and Marie Antoinette in the context of four major narratives - the historical, cinematic, architectural and heritage narratives - relevant to the contemporary heritage interpretation of Petit Trianon as well as its visitor perceptions. In addition to sourcing evidence for the arguments originating in art history information, the thesis relies on the data collection provided by a tailor-made survey for the topic, placing the results in the wider context of a hermeneutical interpretation of data found in either history or contemporary popular culture. The array of Marie Antoinette’s images detected by the analysis charts the commodification of this historical character at Petit Trianon: its production and consumption. It is through the assessment of this commodification that the present thesis reveals the misconceptions surrounding the historical character best known as Marie Antoinette. The thesis argues that the true role of the last Queen of France was successfully obscured through juxtaposition with her perception by the French collective memory. In other words, the perception of Marie Antoinette had subverted historical truth. Furthermore, the commodification of her historical character is perpetuated in an endless chain of representations fuelled by postmodern consumerism.
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Maclean, Coinneach. "The 'Tourist Gaze' on Gaelic Scotland." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2014. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5178/.
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The Scottish Gael is objectified in an un-modified ‘Tourist Gaze’; a condition that is best understood from a post-colonial perspective. John Urry showed that cultures are objectified by the gaze of a global tourist industry. The unequal power relations in that gaze can be mediated through resistance and the production of staged touristic events. The process leads to commoditisation and in-authenticity and this is the current discourse on Scottish tourism icons. An ethnographic study of tour guiding shows a pattern of (re)-presentation of a silenced and near invisible Gaeldom. By building upon Foucauldian theories of power, Said’s critique of Orientalism’s discourse and Spivak on agency, this unmodified gaze can be explained from a postcolonial perspective. Six related aspects of Gaeldom’s (re)-presentation are revealed ; the discourse of the Victorian invention of Scottish cultural icons, and, by metonymic extension, Gaelic culture; the commoditisation of Gaelic culture in the image of the Highland Warrior; the re-naming of landscape and invention of new place narratives; historical presence by invitation; elision with Irish culture; and, the mute Gael. Combined, the elements of (re)-presentation result in the distancing and the rendering opaque of Gaelic culture. The absence of informed mediators, either tourist authorities or individuals, the lack of an oppositional narrative and the pervasive discourse of invention reduces the Gael to a silenced subaltern ‘other’. Thus the unmediated tourist ‘gaze’ continues. This exceptionally singular condition of Scottish Gaeldom is comprehensible through analysis of Scottish tourism from a postcolonial perspective.
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Li, Mohan. "Tourist photography and the tourist gaze : an empirical study of Chinese tourists in the UK." Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 2015. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/12879/.
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This study seeks to deepen knowledge and understanding of the tourist gaze and tourist photography. The original concept of the ‘tourist gaze as proposed by John Urry is inherently Western-centric and, as a consequence, it is arguably of limited value as a conceptual framework for appraising the tastes, gazes and, more generally, the visual practices of the increasing number of non-Western tourists’. At the same, despite the fact that, in recent years, smart phone cameras have become widely used by people both in their everyday lives in general and in their travels in particular, few attempts have been made to explore and analyse the potential transformations brought to the landscape of the tourist photography by the increasing use of smart phone cameras. The purpose of this thesis, therefore, is to re-conceptualise and study empirically the tourist gaze and tourist photographic behaviour, as influenced by a variety of social, cultural and technological factors, amongst non-Western tourists. More specifically, it aims to explore the visual preferences of Chinese tourists in the UK, to consider critically what and how they take photographs of, and to evaluate the extent to which their gazes, their performance of gazing and their photographic practices are shaped by social, cultural and technological factors. In order to meet this aim, the qualitative research method of visual autoethnography is employed during two field studies with Chinese tourists in the UK. More precisely, a first field study was based on a seven-day package tour undertaken with eighteen Chinese tourists, visiting a total of thirteen destinations around British destinations. The second field study, in contrast, involved the researcher undertaking a five-day holiday with six Chinese tourists to the Isle of Wight off the south coast of England. During these two field studies, the researcher adopted the role of ‘researcher-as-tourist’, engaging in travel with the respondents, staying in the same accommodation, joining in with their activities and taking photographs with them. These first-hand travel and photographic experiences conspired to become an integral part of the resultant data resources which were not only analysed but also shared with the respondents during interviews with them. From the data collected during the two field studies and, indeed, the autoethnographic experiences of the researcher, it became clearly evident that smart phone cameras had become the principal means of taking photographs amongst Chinese tourists. Moreover, smart phone cameras have also altered the landscape of tourist photography, primarily by de-exoticising this practice and further enhancing its ‘playfulness’ and increasing its social functions. During the field studies, the Chinese tourist respondents engaged in a variety of visual and photographic activities, purposefully including but by no means being confined to an interactive game of photo-taking and photo-sharing, imagining authenticity, sensing the passing of time from gazing on natural spectacles, and deliberately observing what they considered to be ‘advanced’ aspects of the toured destination. Based upon these identified performances and practices, this thesis proposes the concept and framework of the Chinese tourist gaze. That framework essentially establishes what Chinese tourists prefer to see during their travels and seeks to explain why and how they see certain specific spectacles or tourist objects. At the same time, it theoretically re-situates both their gazes and their ways of gazing within a network of influential social, cultural and technological factors, including: the travel patterns of the élite in pre-modern China; the cultural characteristics of Chinese people; the intertwining of contemporary communication and photography technologies; and, the fusion of the Chinese nation-state, its economic policies policies and the resultant social and environmental problems that have emerged over the last three decades. Moreover, the framework points to potential future transformations in the Chinese tourist gaze, such as the de-exoticisation of that tourist gaze. The principal contribution of this thesis to extant knowledge is the concept and framework of the Chinese tourist gaze, as this may provide future researchers with the foundation for continuing to study and more profoundly understand the tastes, gazes, practices of gazing and other visual activities, including photography, of Chinese tourists. Indeed, given the inherent Western-centric bias in the relevant literature, an appropriate theoretical framework enabling them to do has, arguably, not previously existed. In addition, the dimensions and characteristics of tourist smart-phone-photography revealed in this research are of much significance, contributing to a deeper, richer understanding of transformations in the practice of tourist photography and, in particular, of why and how contemporary Chinese tourists take photographs. Furthermore, through identifying and exploring how the Chinese respondents in this study shared their photographs, greater knowledge and understanding has emerged of Chinese tourists’ technological travel communication and connections as well as their attitudes towards and use of the multiplicity of social networking sites and mobile-apps.
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Lee, Young-Sook. "Constructing tourism in South Korea : nation state and the tourist gaze /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2003. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17474.pdf.
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Fraley, Brandy B. "From Dissection to Connection: The Preservative Power of the Empathetic Gaze in Romantic Literature." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1272987977.
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Soper, Anne K. "Cultural heritage, identity, and tourism in Mauritius moving beyond the tourist gaze /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3220177.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Geography, 2006.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed April 15, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-05, Section: A, page: 1864. Adviser: Daniel C. Knudsen.
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Cater, Carl Iain. "Beyond the gaze : the reflexive tourist and the search for embodied experience." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/180a6371-8b5a-4704-9a64-d642a5bedd44.
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Vogler, Agnes School of English UNSW. "I came, I saw, I ???? Contemporary Australian representations that return the tourist gaze." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of English, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/23948.
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This thesis adopts post-colonial theory as a reading strategy to address both fiction and interdisciplinary critical writing on the subject of tourism. The introduction argues for the viability of this methodology, highlighting similarities between the ideological underpinnings of tourism and imperialism, especially in relation to the power of the gaze. The first chapter draws on analyses of early exploration and travel writing to advance the argument that as the ideology of empire was encoded in travel writing, so contemporary tourist culture, in so far as it has inherited this discourse, continues to operate within it. I suggest that in much the same way as the explorer???s gaze was a form of creating knowledge disseminated through writing, fiction constitutes a cultural production that contests the power of the gaze. The second chapter focuses on the ambivalent effects of the commodification of culture caused by the tourist industry. I argue that cultural tourism, centred on heritage and history, has constituted a platform from which to review conventional representations of Australian history in a way that demonstrates the relevance of heritage to contemporary national narratives. The third and final chapter examines the relationship between cultural performances in tourism and subject formation, contending that the repetitive nature of performance offers an ideal opportunity to interpolate transformative views of both locals and tourists into the conventional tourist discourse.
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Rodrian, Philipp. "Das Erbe der deutschen Kolonialzeit in Namibia im Fokus des "Tourist Gaze" deutscher Touristen /." Würzburg : Selbstverl. des Inst. für Geographie der Univ. Würzburg, 2009. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=018925306&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Lui, Chi-Wai. "Global shifts and local imaginations : changing tourist gaze and the transformation of Hong Kong's tourism /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2004. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17856.pdf.
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Sun, Ying, and Bin Yu. "Images of China : An Empirical Study of Western Tourist Material." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Institutionen för ekonomi och it, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-4384.
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This thesis aims to explore and describe the images of China in the Western tourist material. There is much literature talking about images of China; however, among the existing scholarship so far few have investigated from the angle as we do. We use social constructivism and representation as main theories and combined with central concepts of the tourist gaze, stereotypes and the other, and post-colonialism and orientalism. Moreover, we conduct a case study by applying qualitative discourse analysis in order to find out the stereotypes and orientalist ideas of China depicted in the tourist material. The findings show that in the perspective of western tourist material, China is representative of the Orient. The analysis also concludes that China is seen as a country with 5,000-year civilization whose people have lots of virtues; a developing economic power; a not so democratic socialist country; a potential threat and a global actor with increasing influences. Our thesis contributes to the existing literature on China research and tourism research—marketing and political implications for its national image improvement and tourism development.
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Suzuki, Tomoya. "Cultural Gaze? - Understanding Japanese and German Perceptions of Kiruna as a Tourist Destination (Applying Volunteer Employed Photography)." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Kulturgeografi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-106358.
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Photography and tourism have been developing in parallel with each other and leaving memories of the trip in photographs still remains as a significant part of traveling today. Tourist photograph is an effective tool to display the way tourists see the destination they visited. However, while there are studies regarding general relationships between photography and tourism, what tourists see and photograph in each destination has not yet profoundly been investigated.This study first investigates images of Kiruna, Sweden, utilized in its promotion as atourist destination to understand how it is expected to be perceived by tourists. Then these images are compared with tourist photographs to understand how they actually respond to this expectation.Also, this thesis aims to add a new perspective to the concept of ‘hermeneutic circle’ proposed by John Urry (1990). Specifically, it takes particular note of ‘nationality’ and ‘culture’, and focuses on two specific tourist groups in Kiruna, Japanese and German tourists, to investigate differences between these nationality groups in the way they perceive Kiruna as a tourist destination. In order to fulfill this aim, Volunteer Employed Photography (VEP) was applied and photographs they took in Kiruna were collected. In order to enrich the photographic data, semi-structured interviews were also conducted with each study participant.The results revealed that the study participants photographed subjects that were both appeared and not appeared in the promotional images of Kiruna. The study also revealed that there were certain differences between Japanese and German tourists in the way they perceived Kiruna and each nationality group has its own hermeneutic circle.
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Rodrian, Philipp T. [Verfasser]. "Das Erbe der deutschen Kolonialzeit in Namibia im Fokus des "Tourist Gaze" deutscher Touristen / Philipp T. Rodrian." Würzburg : Universität Würzburg, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1230324259/34.
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Wilkes, Karen. "Returning the gaze from the margins : decoding representations of gender, race and sexuality in tourist images of Jamaica." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2008. http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/340/.
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The thesis adopts a post-colonial approach to examine the relationship between historical and contemporary visual representations of Jamaica and identifies the repeated visual associations made with blackness and servitude, and whiteness with luxury from the colonial period in Jamaica and the imperial context in Britain. The thesis addresses a range of tourist advertising images of Jamaica which are analysed in terms of their representations of race, gender, class and sexuality. The theoretical context of the thesis combines post-colonial theory with black feminist theory to make explicit the significance and relevance of conducting critical analysis of visual representations of Jamaica from a social, economic and politically marginal standpoint. Homi Bhabha's concept of ambivalence in colonial discourse, Foucault's approach to discourse analysis and Roland Barthes' semiotics were combined to establish the methodological framework of the thesis and to identify, historicise and deconstruct the repetition of familiar colonial relations constructed as privilege and servitude. The economic and social context, which led to the shift towards tourism in post-emancipation Jamaica, is discussed through the analysis of a selection of visual texts. The discussion notes the particular references to the essentialised categories which are retained in the accounts of Jamaica by nineteenth-century travellers and early twentiethcentury tourist promotion of the island. This informs the empirical analysis in the final chapters by centrally addressing the construction of racialised and gendered categories in the shift away from the black female body to the white female body to carry the discourse of sexualised desire. The empirical analysis focuses on the celebratory display of whiteness and heterosexuality in the form of the key signifiers of romance, white weddings and marriage in the Sandals visual texts and examines the use of the white feminised body as the legitimate recipient of luxury and pleasure. In conclusion, the thesis argues that post-coloniality is more complex and fluid than identifying post-colonial identities by the geographical location of former colonies. The thesis confirms then significance of the analysis conducted from a marginal position which identifies the central use of the white female body to promote themes of pampering and service, and conveys the central role that the white female plays in maintaining the assumed 'natural' association with whiteness and luxury as 'lady of the manor'.
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Dickson, Jessica Lynn. "Seeing selves and others: rethinking 'the tourist gaze' of township tourism as inter-subjectivity in Cape Town, South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10343.
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This dissertation is intended as an "ethnography of the particular" that might demonstrate the inter-subjectivity of 'hosts' and 'guests' subject-positions so often presented as static and oppositional of township tourism in Cape Town, South Africa. The majority of research engages in a continuing debate that emphasizes either the 'hosts' or 'guests' of a global tourism industry as either the victims or profiteers of exploitation, or innovative and entrepreneurial agents of change. I attempt is to look for the transformative potentials in the ambiguities and ambivalences surrounding township tourism, as an industry representing evidence of further penetration by neoliberalism in sub-Saharan Africa, that does not pardon the proclivities of late capitalism to widen the gaps of social stratification, but rather questions its determinism in shaping subjectivities.
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Andersson, Emma, and Therese Oscarsson. "Upplev som en filmturist : En inventering av svenska filmturisters motivationer som ligger till grund för besök på filmdestinationer." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-100306.
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This paper is an inventory of the general motivations of Swedish film tourists. The paper is based on a quantitative research survey to gain insight from Swedish film tourists in the matter of what it is in movies that are motivating them to travel. The motivations behind film tourists visiting film destinations in a qualitative perspective, are storytelling, authenticity, film tourists gaze and fandom. By travelling to film destinations tourists takes part of magical tourism experiences. The paper has a deductive view point to the subject of film tourists and the results from the survey are collected from communities on Facebook called Harry Potter-fans in Sweden, Star Wars Sweden and The lord of the ring-fans in Sweden. The result from the survey shows that Swedish film tourists from these communities are motivated by the terms of storytelling, authenticity, film tourists gaze and fandom and that they are all experiencing something extraordinary when they travel because of movies. The motivations are also the foundation and the general aspect of travelling to film destinations, which either push or pull the film tourists towards the film destinations.
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Joelsson, Christoffer, and Jennie Rothed. "Filmens betydelse för en destinations platsmarknadsföring och image : En studie om filmerna The Beach och James Bond - The Man with the golden gun´s betydelse för destinationerna Maya Bay och James Bond Island." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-34574.
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Filmturism är ett relativt nytt fenomen på turistmarknaden, som kort kan beskrivas med när en turist besöker en destination eller attraktion till följd av att destinationen/attraktionen har visats upp på tv eller i film. I Thailand har ett flertal stora filmer spelats in genom åren, bland annat The Beach och James Bond – The Man with the Golden Gun. Syftet med denna studie är att belysa fenomenet filmturism samt undersöka hur lokala aktörer i Thailand använder filmerna Beach och James Bond – Man with the golden gun som redskap för platsmarknadsföring och imageskapande. I studien har det även studerats hur destinationerna har påverkats av filmerna samt hur destinationerna uppfattas av turister som har varit eller är på väg till någon av platserna. Den destinationsimage som skapas genom film behöver inte alltid stämma överens med destinationens verkliga image. Studiens material har samlats in genom kvalitativa intervjuer, observationer och skuggningar samt kvantitativa enkäter och granskning av resesidan Tripadvisor och aktören Maya Bay Tours hemsida. Studiens resultat visar att filmerna har påverkat platsernas image och att Maya Bay inte är lika beroende av filmen i sin marknadsföring som James Bond Island är. Turister som har besökt platserna påpekade att mängden turister är det som förstört upplevelsen och att turismen måste regleras för att deras förväntningar ska uppfyllas.
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Lywood, William George. "From Russia’s Orient To Russia’s Riviera: Reimagining The Black Sea Coast/Caucasus from Romantic Literature to Early Tourist Guidebooks." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1236622370.
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Gooch, Christina. "Food Studies Abroad: Identity, Consumption, and Learning in Italy." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19732.
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Food studies offers a powerful lens through which to consider the complexity of travel, given the ways in which food can bring multiple perspectives to the table. The merging of food studies with the well-established tradition of study abroad, then, provides a platform for incorporating critical thinking and fresh perspectives into the discourse surrounding study abroad. How does food studies abroad reflect the opportunities and reify the concerns posed by study abroad in general? I explore this topic through a case study of a University of Oregon food studies abroad program, Food and Culture in Italy, looking specifically at students’ motivations, on-site experience, and perceived outcomes. I employ the lenses of identity, consumption, and experiential learning to discuss the trends that emerge from the data and conclude with a series of recommendations for moving thoughtfully and critically forward with food studies abroad programming.
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Haraldsson, Louise Haraldsson, and Emma Borg. "Ekoturism i Filippinerna : En studie om turisters kunskap om begreppet ekoturism på Palawan, Filippinerna." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-34631.
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Ekoturism är ett användbart begrepp dock inte särskilt väldefinierat. Det finns många olika förklaringar om begreppet, från preciserat till koncist. Eftersom turistbranschen är en av världens största industrier är det därför viktigt att utveckla det på ett hållbart sätt som gynnar miljön, lokalbefolkningen och ekonomin. Syftet med studien var att undersöka i vilken utsträckning Palawan arbetar med ekoturism samt vilken uppfattning turisterna har om begreppet. Insamlingsmetoden baserads på kvalitativa samtalsintervjuer med en semistrukturerad ansats. Studien visade på att respondenterna inte hade några kunskaper om begreppet ekoturism och kan därför inte agera på ett hållbart vis. Anledningen till att samtliga respondenter inte hade någon kunskap om ekoturism berodde på kunskapsbrist, däremot hade det ett miljömedvetet beteende. Slutsatsen visar på att det finns ett glapp mellan kunskap och handling inom ekoturism. Att driva ekoturism anses vara mer krävande än vanlig turism av den orsaken att det behövs både mer kunskap men också för att det är en kostnadsfråga, vilket är anledningen till att många destinationer väljer att inte göra det. Lyckligtvis har ekoturism blivit allt mer populärt genom åren och människan är idag betydligt mer medvetna om dagens miljöproblem.Ecotourism is a useful concept, but not very well defined. As the tourism industry is one of the world's largest industries, it is therefore important to develop it in a sustainable way that benefits the environment, local people and the economy. The purpose with this thesis was to examine in what extent Palawan works with ecotourism and which perception the tourists has about the concept. The collection method was based at qualitative interviews. The thesis result showed that none of the respondents had any knowledge about the concept ecotourism and therefore can’t act in a sustainable manner. The reason why the respondents had no knowledge about the concept depended on lack of knowledge. The conclusion shows that there is a gap between knowledge and action within eco-tourism. Manage ecotourism is more demanding than regular tourism because of the needs for more knowledge, but also because it ́s a cost issue, which is why many destinations choose not to manage ecotourism. Fortunately, ecotourism has become increasingly popular over the years and man is today much more aware of today's environmental problems.
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Zyto, Julia. ""Thailand, here I come" : En kritisk diskursanalys över svenskars förhållande till resmålet Thailand." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Social and Welfare Studies, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-12445.
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Den globala turismnäringen har kommit att bli en av världens mest lukrativa branscher. Hundratusentals svenskar turistar i Thailand varje år. Vad representerar Thailand i turistens ögon? Hur ser turisten på sig själv i förhållande till det han/hon möter och hur förhåller sig turisten till det lokala och globala? Uppsatsen utgår från en kritisk hållning till fenomenet turism. Teorier om Postkolonialism och Orientalism samt kritisk turismforskning blir därmed centrala i förståelsen av det undersökta materialet. Materialet som studeras i uppsatsen innefattas av resdagboksinlägg från hemsidan Resdagboken.se. Som metod används den kritiska diskursanalysen.
Materialet visar på vissa specifika teman; ”Det trygga äventyret”, ”Att inte vara som alla andra turister”, ”Sol, bad konsumtion och lättja”, ”Erotik”, samt ”Tilltalet till dem där hemma”. Genom belysandet av turismens bakomliggande strukturer och hur man genom det skrivna ordet uttrycker föreställningar om andra och sig själv, försöker författaren till uppsatsen bredda förståelsen för turismen som global företeelse.
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Wallin, Kerstin. "Ekoturism som underhållning : en analys av ekoturismens visuella gestaltning." Thesis, Linköping University, Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-9084.
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Because of the mass tourism industry that exploits sensitive locations all over our planet a new kind of tourism came into focus in the 1980’s. This new form of tourism was named ecotourism, and as the name reveals ecotourism deals with low-impact travel. Today, all sorts of places can be gazed upon in a flick of a switch; all you need is a television set. It is well known that destination marketing successfully uses visual media as a tool to sell trips to potential tourists. Therefore, this essay examines how ecotourism benefits from the great power of the television. The analyzed material contains of six different TV shows, sorted into two groups – travel shows and discussion programs. With the theory of the tourist gaze, semiotics, destination marketing and the experience economy the study resulted in the conclusion that all TV shows are built upon collective cultural representations found in the exotic and the authentic. With the help of the visual language, travel shows can give new meaning to a specific destination expressed in a system of mutual understanding and shared culture.
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Ewigleben, Franziska. "Communicating Sustainable Nature-Based Tourism : A Mixed Method Approach to Investigate How Swedish Destination Marketing Organizations Promote Nature Destinations on Instagram." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, JMK, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-178426.
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Around the globe, sensitive nature destinations suffer from media-mediated mass tourism. Especially, the social media network Instagram is often made responsible for these events as its emphasis on visuals is claimed to foster people’s ambition to reproduce photographs of themselves in the epic sceneries they see online. Destination Marketing Organizations (DMOs) face a particularly big challenge in using Instagram. While they aim at attracting enough tourists to satisfy the local tourism industry’s needs, they need to apply a careful promotion to avoid attracting more tourists than the natural environments can cope with. Focusing on Sweden as case study, this thesis aims at identifying and exploring how Swedish DMOs currently promote vulnerable nature destinations on Instagram and what significance these economically driven communication agencies thereby attribute the protection of the natural resources. Theoretical implications from sustainable destination management and environmental psychology are employed to develop different communication strategies that enhance the destination’s sustainable image as well as attempt to encourage pro-environmental behavior among tourists. A mixed method design is applied which is dominated by an extensive quantitative content analysis and complemented by a more limited qualitative semiotic analysis. The findings reveal that the implementation of sustainable communication strategies is of varying importance for the six Swedish DMOs considered in this study. In general, their effort of using communication tools to enhance sustainable nature-based tourism is still very low. Future research is advised to investigate in the production as well as audience site to gain further insights in how economic interests might hinder a more sustainable branding and to examine how effective the developed communication strategies actually are in influence people’s behavioral intentions.
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Laine, Emmi. "Desirability, Values and Ideology in CNN Travel -- Discourse Analysis on Travel Stories." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-102742.
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Title: Values, Desirability and Ideology in CNN Travel -- a Discourse Analysis on Travel Stories Author: Emmi Laine Course: Journalistikvetenskap, Kandidatkurs, H13 J Kand (Bachelor of Journalism, Fall 2013), JMK, Stockholm University, Sweden Aim: The aim is to examine which values and ideologies CNN Travel fulfills in their stories. Method: Qualitative discourse analysis. Summary: This Bachelor ́s thesis asks what is desirable, which are the values of CNN Travel, the major U.S. news corporation CNN ́s online travel site. The question has been answered through a qualitative discourse analysis on 20 chosen travel stories, picked by their relevancy, diversity, and their expressive tone. Due to the limited space and the specific textual method, the analysis was restricted to the editorial texts of these stories. The chosen method was discourse analyst Norman Fairclough ́s model of evaluation, which revealed the explicit and implicit ways the media texts suggest desired characteristics. These linguistic devices took the readers ́ agreement for granted, as they imposed a shared cultural ground with common values, which is a base for a mutual understanding. After identifying the explicit and implicit evaluations, they were organized according to some major discursive themes found in the texts, and finally analyzed in order to expose their underlying values. The results showed how these certain values brought forth certain ideologies, to some extent in keeping with recent research of tourism and travel journalism. As the study has been put into a larger context of related research, the following pages will first explain some larger concepts of discourse analysis, such as representation, cultural stereotypes, ideology and power. A cross-section from older to more contemporary theories in culture studies has been utilized; moving from Edward Said ́s postcolonial classic Orientalism, an example of cultural stereotyping, to the more recent topics of ‘promotion culture’ and consumerism, and tourism researcher John Urry ́s ideas about the consumption of places and the ‘tourist gaze.’ In the end, the study considers what kind of power does travel journalism possess over the represented tourism destinations. Finally, when questioning the travel journalists ́ legitimacy and power to represent the travel destinations, poststructuralist Michel Foucault ́s theory about the ‘regime of truth,’ as well as Antonio Gramsci ́s ideas of ‘hegemony,’ theory of dominance through consent, were discussed and confirmed.
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Salem, Ghada. "Les enjeux du patrimoine au Liban : Baalbek : quelles échelles pour quels patrimoines ?" Thesis, Lyon 2, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011LYO20096/document.
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Pays où se croisent influences occidentale et arabe, le Liban est un laboratoire heuristique pour analyser la question patrimoniale. Son système politique confessionnel, sa société communautaire et sa situation stratégique au Moyen Orient en font un enjeu géopolitique. La construction nationale a approprié le regard orientaliste pour postuler une identité libanaise assise sur des mythes fondateurs ; elle a mobilisé les Libanais autour des valeurs communes de la nation afin de diluer les identités communautaires. La guerre civile a réactualisé ces identités et les communautés se sont emparées de leurs particularismes religieux au profit des acteurs divers qui s’affrontent au Moyen Orient et qui instrumentalisent la carte communautaire libanaise dans leurs confrontations. Le Liban a traversé deux périodes de construction identitaire : nationale et communautaire ; chacune de ces périodes a sécrété un patrimoine particulier. À Baalbek, ville connue par l’Occident à travers les récits des voyageurs, la construction nationale désigne le site archéologique comme patrimoine national. Or, ce site se caractérise par une sédimentation de couches culturelles qui sollicite une lecture patrimoniale différente selon des échelles : alors que le regard occidental y voit des temples romains, la population locale y voit une Qalaa (citadelle) arabe. Entre la romanité et l’arabité du site, l’État libanais a opté pour sa dimension phénicienne qui affirme que les Libanais sont les descendants des Phéniciens. Avec la remontée du pouvoir communautaire chiite dans la ville, un nouvel objet patrimonial émerge : le mausolée de Sit Khawla répond par son référentiel identitaire et la dynamique économique qu’il induit dans la ville, aux aspirations de la population locale recomposée communautairement. Il s’ensuit deux pôles patrimoniaux qui coexistent dans l’espace de Baalbek. Cette bipolarité patrimoniale renvoie à des enjeux, des logiques d’acteurs et des acceptions du patrimoine que cette thèse s’attache à analyserA country influenced by both the Western and Arab world, Lebanon is a heuristic laboratory to analyze heritage questions. Its confessional political system, community social structures and strategic location in the Middle East contribute to make it an important geopolitical stake. The Lebanese nation-building process appropriated the Orientalist gaze to force a national identity based on several founding myths. It sought to gather the Lebanese around national common values, and so weaken the community identities by promoting the image of a socio-cultural mosaic. The civil war refreshed these identities, and the communities seized their specific religious particularisms, which the regional powers in the Middle East manipulated for their power game. Lebanon witnessed two periods of identity-building: national and community, each of them inventing a particular heritage object. In Baalbek, a city that was familiar to the West thanks to travellers, nation-building process appointed the archaeological site as a national heritage. However, the site is characterized by sedimentation of several cultural layers, each participating in different scales of heritage interpretation: while the Western gaze sees Roman temples, the local gaze sees an Arab Qalaa (citadel). In addition to the Roman and Arab identity of the site, the Lebanese state stressed its Phoenician dimension favourable to its national discourse which affirms that the Lebanese are the descendants of Phoenicians. With the rise of Shiite community power in the city, a new heritage object attracts the local level: the mausoleum of Sit Khawla responds to the aspirations of local population, by its referential identity and its economic dynamics which it has induced in the city, now recomposed on a community basis. As a result, two heritage centres coexist in Baalbek’s space. This bipolarity underlines heritage issues, the actors’ logics and the different significance of the conception of heritage, which this thesis attempts to analyze
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Yang, Chen, and 陳洋. "Drifting in Lhasa: Lhasa New Residents’ Tourist Gaze and Second Gaze on Tibet Image." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/puc29p.
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碩士輔仁大學
社會學系碩士班
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With the development of globalization, Tibet Autonomous Region of China (Tibet), located three kilometers above sea level, is slowly incorporated into the world modern system. Through some specific routes and transportations, some pioneer travelers from big cities entered Lhasa, the capital city of Tibet, and gradually become a new resident group, drawing people’s attention in Lhasa. Through 8 mouths fieldwork in Lhasa, I mean to sort out what kind of tourist gaze is constructed between Tibet and mainland, China and how this tourist gaze was constructed by media, public discourse and sightseeing. New residents became the model group of “living in Lhasa” through their unique but also similar daily living and culture practices. Meanwhile, how they are gazed is constructed as a part of Tibetan gaze by the mass media and public tourists. Sightseeing and daily life of new residents is continually blending and melting and imaging a new life style allows younger generation more possibilities of mobility.
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Chan, Hsin-Ju, and 詹欣茹. "Fan's Tourist Gaze: The research on the Japan drama, tourist spots, and Japanophile’s imagination and practice." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/rpvhxe.
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碩士國立交通大學
傳播研究所
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Japan's drama culture is so popular in Taiwan since the 1990s. "Japanophile" has become a special cultural group in Taiwan, but also to promote the rise of the Japanese tourist. Relationship between the Japan drama and the fan is closely. The drama became an extension of Japanophile everyday life. The drama's shooting location is also the fan group's pilgrimage place. The Japan drama give the fan an exotic visual imagination, and the fan go to Japan for traveling, it is the actual exotic experience. In this study, "tourist gaze", "cultural globalization" and "fan culture" as the main theoretical basis. The in-depth interview and text analysis were used as the research method. This study is exploring the fans in the process of film tourism, which implies a fan base cultural practices. The findings of this study are that, firstly, for Japanophile is concerned, Japan is not only a national name, but constitute a synonym for life style. Secondly, cyberspace communication strengthen Japanophile with a good impression of Japan, also led a unique tourist map. Thirdly, the significance between fans and film tourism can be divided into "active choice", "to strengthen the identity," "give meaning", "form a life style" in four phases. Fourthly, the media text is redefining the relationship between human and the world. People seek relief in order to meet the desire by reading the text, expressing dissatisfaction with reality, and hoping Japanophile to find self.
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"Image Based Social Media and The Tourist Gaze A Phenomenological Approach." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.53453.
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abstract: The emergence of social media in concert with improved camera and cell phone technologies has helped usher in an age of unprecedented visual communication which has radically changed the tourism industry worldwide. Serving as an important pillar of tourism and leisure studies, the concept of the tourist gaze has been left relatively unexamined within the context of this new visual world and more specifically image based social media. This phenomenological inquiry sought to explore how image based social media impacts the concept of the tourist gaze and furthermore to discover how the democratization of the gaze in concert with specific features of image based social media applications impacts the hermeneutic circle of the tourist gaze. This in-depth analysis of the user experience within the context of travel consisted of 19 semi-structured photo elicitation interviews and incorporated 57 participant generated photos. Six salient themes emerged from the study of this phenomenon; 1) sphere of influence, 2) exchange of information, 3) connections manifested, 4) impression management and content curation, 5) replicated travel photography, and 6) expectations. Analysis of these themes in conjunction with examples from the lived user experience demonstrate that the tourist gaze is being accelerated and expanded by image based social media in a rapid manner. Furthermore, democratization of the gaze as enabled by technological developments and specialized social media platforms is actively shifting the power role away from a small number of mass media influencers towards a larger number of branded individuals and social media influencers. Results of this inquiry support the theoretical assertions that the tourist gaze adapts to social and technological developments and demonstrates that the concept of the tourist gaze is increasingly important within tourism studies. Practical implications regarding the prevalence of real-time information, site visitation, and “taking only pictures” as sustainable touristic behavior are discussed.Dissertation/Thesis
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Lin, Yi-Mei, and 林依玫. "The Transformation of Place-imagination and Self-identification under the Tourist Gaze." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/60154296409892891452.
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碩士國立臺北教育大學
文化創意產業經營學系
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This research focus on the travel practice of the backpacking traveler, which is through the second gaze of tourist place and the self-reflection of traveler, to realize how is a travel effect traveler self. Directed against the reconstruction of gaze, in addition to the redirection of gaze, this thesis increases another axis－the transition of self-identification, which is reconstruction with the place-gaze through the practice of travel. In term of using Structural Equation Modeling, try to analyze the impact fact or between different perspectives and investigate the relationship between backpacking travel and the reconstruction of self-identification, and the meaning of travel. The result shows that it must have the break of gaze and experience the second gaze even the traveler construct completely the place-imagination before, and reconstruct the new imagination. According to the analyze, the social-constructed place-imagination will influence the gaze of traveler, however, the desire and demand of traveler and the value and meaning of the place in traveler’s heart are the crucial effects of the practice of gaze during the journey. Because of the travelers’ self-reflection are beyond the frame of the social, the selves are able to escape the norms of common customs and have the opportunity to change themselves. No one will transform their self-identity but gaze themselves in the journey. If they don’t re-think themselves, their self-identity will not be different. This power of re-think is construct the process of adaption, struggle and achieve a balance in the end of the journey between the shock of the different culture and the travelers’ own culture. Is the power to make travelers to conscious themselves on the road and have a transformation of self-identification finally.
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Mengich, Olivia Chemutai. "Township tourism : understanding tourist motivation." Diss., 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25057.
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This study aims at exploring the motivation that drives tourists to townships. The theories that were chosen as the theoretical base of this study were the push and pull theory, the Travel Career Ladder, authenticity and the tourist gaze. Three research questions were asked around the theory base and a survey was done of 100 tourists in selected locations within Soweto. Results obtained from the respondents allowed for statistical analysis. The results indicated that the township tourists were intrinsically motivated and were driven by affiliation needs. Furthermore, the tourists that initially visited Soweto were motivated by authenticity; however, as the amount of tourism in the area grew, the tourist gaze became the more dominant form of motivation. The implications of the study findings are discussed. CopyrightDissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)
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FRANCESCHETTI, NADIA. "PLACE MARKETING AND PLACE MAKING: TORONTO, TOURISM, AND THE FRACTURED GAZE." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/6793.
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This thesis is an empirical and theoretical investigation into the changing trends in place marketing as it relates to urban tourism, particularly in the city of Toronto. It begins by exploring broader discourses to do with capitalism and creativity and their impacts on city space and people’s interactions with it and within it. These perspectives are then situated in the Toronto context, a city that currently embraces the notion of the Creative City, as promulgated by Richard Florida, which encourages the branding of the city for the purpose of stimulated economic growth and in which tourism plays an increasing role. Thirdly, it examines the theoretical implications of the prominent belief that tourism and place marketing are imperative for Toronto’s economic well-being. Official efforts at place marketing and place branding construct what John Urry terms the tourist gaze, and frame the city in particular ways to particular people. Fourthly, this thesis gives an empirical account of how the gaze comes to bear on the physical city space in terms of infrastructure and financing projects in the interest of creating a Tourist City. The penultimate chapter brings to light how the rise of new media has allowed for the greater possibility to puncture the traditionally linear narrative of the city with new voices, thus fracturing the monolithic gaze in some instances. The thesis concludes by questioning the implications of new media on the existing systems of city management and promotion, recognizing the ambivalence of new media and its potential to both challenge and reproduce current discourse.Thesis (Master, Cultural Studies) -- Queen's University, 2011-09-29 16:22:22.467
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Lo, Kai-Yun, and 羅凱勻. "The Vampire as A Flâneur: Redefining Post-Tourist Gaze in Interview with the Vampire." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/e3ct7r.
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碩士國立臺灣師範大學
歐洲文化與觀光研究所
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Abstract This thesis tries to understand the mindsets and behaviors of vampires in Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire (1976) as those of the post-tourist by comparing the vampires with Charles Baudelaire’s flâneur. Both Rice's vampires and Baudelaire's flâneurs are ambiguous figures but full of vivid meanings, and there are many similar characteristics between them. My argument is that both Rice’s vampire and Baudelairian flâneurs bear the characteristics of post-tourists, and their post-tourist gaze sheds light on the marginalized areas in the modern urban society. By analyzing these similar traits and the reasons shaping vampires and flâneurs to become post-tourists, this thesis redefines the meanings of post-tourist and aims to help bring some new discussions to the researches of vampire literature, postmodern tourism, and socio-cultural studies.
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Rodrian, Philipp T. "Das Erbe der deutschen Kolonialzeit in Namibia im Fokus des "Tourist Gaze" deutscher Touristen." Doctoral thesis, 2009. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-231424.
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Die Studie beschäftigt sich mit der Wahrnehmung des deutschen Kolonialerbes in Namibia aus Sicht deutscher Touristen. Namibia ist das Land in Afrika welches die stärkste Durchdringung mit Elementen der deutschen Kolonialzeit aufweist. Darüber hinaus zeichnet sich dieses Land durch eine sehr hohe touristische Bedeutung des deutschen Quellmarktes aus. Weiterhin ist die gemeinsame koloniale Vergangenheit weder bilateral noch innerhalb Namibias aufgearbeitet, was der Thematik eine gesellschaftspolitische Komponente verleiht.
Die Analyse der touristischen Wahrnehmung basiert auf 103 qualitativen Interviews mit deutschen Touristen in Namibia. Neben der Perspektive der Reisenden werden Akteure untersucht, welche den ‚Blick‘ der Touristen lenken und beeinflussen. Dabei kommen eine Inhaltsanalyse von deutschsprachiger Reiseliteratur sowie teilnehmende Beobachtungen bei Stadtführungen mit lokalen Reiseleitern in der Stadt zum Einsatz.
Die Resultate zeigen, dass die Touristen das Erbe der deutschen Kolonialzeit als sehr heterogenes Phänomen interpretieren. Durch das Aufsummieren der vielfältigen Erfahrungen mit gelebtem und gebautem Kolonialerbe wird die Wahrnehmung geographisch wirksam, da die Eindrücke auf Räume und Menschen übertragen werden und nicht auf punktuellen Elementen verharren. Aufgrund von Unterdrückung und Verbrechen in der Kolonialzeit sehen die befragten Touristen das deutsche Erbe in Namibia als ein ‚schwieriges’ an, das kaum nostalgische Gefühle auslöst, sondern eher zu einer kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit der Geschichte anregt. Der Grad dieser Dissonanz ist stark davon abhängig, in wie weit die koloniale Thematik nach Ansicht der Touristen in aktuellem Bezug steht oder aber als nicht mehr relevante Vergangenheit interpretiert wird.
Neben der ‚Dissonanz’ können die Touristen anhand der beiden weiteren Indikatoren ‚Interesse’ – im Sinne einer Auseinandersetzung und Informiertheit – sowie ‚Attraktion‘ – als touristische Bedeutung – typologisiert werden. Die entscheidende Determinante für die Charakterisierung der Befragten stellt das Maß der empfundenen Dissonanz dar. Weiterhin lässt sich eine Differenzierung in Touristen mit einer vorbereiteten und organisierten und solche mit einer unvorbereiteten und spontanen Konfrontation mit dem deutschen Erbe vornehmen. Insgesamt können fünf Typen – ‚klassische Heritage-Touristen’, ‚spontane Heritage-Touristen, ‚Kritiker’, ‚historische motivierte Touristen’ und ‚Sightseeing-Touristen’ – identifiziert werden, wobei den drei erstgenannten eine Wahrnehmung als ‚schwieriges’, dissonantes Erbe immanent ist.
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Shen, Pei-yao, and 沈佩瑤. "A Study on the Visualization and Construction of Taiwan Local Image in Tourist Gaze." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/18928333070085469388.
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碩士國立中正大學
比較文學所
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Through examining DPP’s tourism policy and promotion strategy, especially the part of spokesperson and media product, this thesis aims to analyze how DPP represents and constructs Taiwan local image in tourist gaze. Tourism is one of the most important elements in modern life. Nowadays, as a result of Internet has connected people all over the world, so people have almost been everywhere. Thus, to attract and construct tourist gaze is getting more and more important. Tourist Gaze not only reflects the viewpoint and construction of tourist, but also show the way of how a place gaze on itself. By discussing aborigines’ figure, local image, and transnational sights in Taiwan tourism policy, this research is going to dig out the performance of Taiwan local ideology in the tourist gaze which has build by DPP government; further, to interpret social framework and ethnic groups class behind the “gaze”.
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Wu, Chih-Kuan, and 吳致寬. "A Study of The Shanghai City Image and Scenic Signs Creation from The Tourist Gaze Viewpoint." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/31871402686379784734.
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碩士淡江大學
大眾傳播學系碩士班
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In this postmodern tourism age, tourism had such a different form than before, especially in how traveling places are constructed. Many traveling places are designed and constructed deeply to catch tourists’ imagination of traveling places and scenic signs, than urge them to go on a trip, and bring about more and more politic and economic benefits for the traveling places. This thesis uses the word “city” to represent a traveling place, and use “Shanghai” to do a case study, having an intention to figure out how shanghai city has been changing to cater to the trend of time in postmodern tourism age through some media text and consumer viewpoints. Among them , it is easier to observe images and scenic signs in the city. Therefore, this thesis uses the two targets and their related text to do research, figuring out how shanghai city constructs the city image and scenic signs, to give intoxicated tourists a brand-new thinking way of the tourism. In the end, this thesis proposes four major shanghai traveling image dimensions. Two of them are more important, which are called the main shaft, “exotic” and “fashion city” respectively. They are related to scenic signs that have a pure style, retaining the culture character, making a new style, and also creating a profound impression from tourists’ viewpoints. The other two image dimensions “eastern feelings” and “original paradise” are called the second shaft, and they use a complex signs creation. Although they play an important role in creating shanghai traveling image, most of the tourists have not had deep impression of those images and areas. People who live in the present cultural position have no chance and decision-making power to select the palce they want to go . Tourism’s interest under the present tourism and city discourse is to seek an authenticity period. It is a special experience for the tourists to seek a good imagination from the memory, and just becomes an important “meaning of the tourism”. According to the thesis, all of the tourists should take a deep introspect on the opposite side to be the best tourists in postmodern tourism age.
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Tsai, Meng-Hsuan, and 蔡孟軒. "A Study of Ethnic Symbols Representation in Huaxin Street of Zhonghe, Taiwan: A Perspective of Tourist Gaze." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3c8und.
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碩士國立臺灣大學
國家發展研究所
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Using Urry’s concept of "tourist gaze", we have represented ethnic symbols in Taiwan based on a case study in Huaxin Street of Zhonghe, also called Burmese Street, which has passed the symbolic imagination of Burmese Chinese into Taiwan’s society from the perspectives of representing authenticity, cultural performances and consumption. We have illustrated, in three chapters respectively, the space-time background of how Burmese street has been formed, the representation of authenticity, cultural performances and consumption. Viewed from the perspective of tourist gaze, the gazer interacts with the gazed and realizes how clearly the ethnic images can present connotations of culture and society. Thus, under "tourist gaze", "Street" and "Festivals" are important carriers of ethnic symbols of Burmese Chinese. The latter have been commoditized and consumed symbolically by tourists. On the one hand, the Burmese Chinese have accepted unavoidably this kind of authenticity representations; on the other hand, the tourists have authenticated the presumed heritages through symbolic consumption and realized the social experience of departure. Burmese Street has been constructed by the power relationship between the gazers and the gazed, based on the existence of the others and the others’ gazing, such that true meanings of symbols can practically be understood. The objects gazed by those tourists in Burmese Street are, therefore, the representation of ethnic symbols of Burmese Chinese.
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Bagelman, Caroline Patricia. "Tours of non-arrival: the politics of escape in tourist practices." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1708.
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The prevalent frame of 'tourism as vacation' explicitly implies that one vacates 'the familiar' and escapes to 'the foreign'. Discourses of escape, therefore, function on the assumption that a rather clean and uncomplicated rupture between the familiar and foreign takes place (an assumption not only informing conventional readings and practices of tourism, but also the modern logic of states and citizenship and modern thought more broadly). A failure to account for the effects of this escapist logic on both the performance and materialization of tourism, as well as the ways in which tourism has come to reflect profound political problematics endemic to modern thought, has produced a serious gap in 'critical tourism' literature. To contest this notion of rupture, or, to disrupt escape, requires what Judith Butler terms a ‘radical re-articulation’ of tourism. In hopes to excite such a disruption, my work draws on Jacques Derrida’s texts concerning ‘non-arrival’ and ultimately re-articulates tourism as a practice of everyday life.
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Tsai, Bi-ru, and 蔡璧如. "Study of Tourist Experiencing Values--Taking Example of “Romantic Journey across Land and Ocean in Egypt of the World Heritage”." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/37433475610080808524.
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碩士康寧大學
休閒管理研究所
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The experiencing value of visitors for world heritage tours was studied. The recreational market has grown exponentially in Taiwan. Believing in that thousands of miles traveled are better than thousands of books read, there are wide ranges of selections on the popular sight-seeing spots around the world to one’s amazement; for example, “Great Pyramids” and the “Temple of Abu Simbel” located in Egypt, which is one of the World Heritage in the northern Africa, to be allured by people who are in-depth travelers, prefer to have seen once personally than only by hearing in hundred times, and would like to personally go to the places for witnessing the intricacies as well as revealing their mysterious covers. Field survey was conducted in Egypt, with depth interviews on the tourists who actually make visits to the research locations, to make analysis on the correlations between experiencing values and leisure and recreation. Hopefully, the purpose will be beneficial to travelers for them to analyze their own values on travelling, instead to make travelling consumptions by bandwagon effects, and at the same time, to bring attention on the related units for emphasis on tourist experiencing, in order to pour into the leisure travelling with more diverse as well as abundant vivacity. For the experiencing value of efficiency, although the reactions seen from the practical sides such as finance, time and sensual feelings are the shortcut to find out most quickly on “efficiency”, what the tourists would like to achieve not only just the exchange of money for a quick experiencing, but during the process of in-person visit, either if to encounter good or bad circumstances, or if to gain tangible or intangible rewards, there are also incorporations between how one’s body senses and how one actually feels inside. For the experiencing value of aesthetics, to produce experiencing of inward emotions from the actual environment and generation of ambience, allowing one to have innermost understandings due of personal sentiments and opinions, able to reflect on one’s attitudes and performances later in life, sometime to show one’s emotions out of reflex, or even to be reinforced dominantly on the way of how one gets along with others. For the experiencing value of excellence, both excellent expertise in leadership and reinforcement on the social potential of individual, can all strengthen social superiority on the interactions with people. Finally, on the aspect of escaping from reality, for example, relief of work pressures, diversion from ordinary schedules both routine and mechanical, enhancement of knowledge and enjoyment of amusements, and recharging once again from the living inspirations. Thus, the experiencing values of the four major constructs are not divided in separation, instead to be beneficiary connection of complement among one another.
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Kordík, Jiří. "Trendy české televizní cestopisné publicistiky v letech 2010 - 2020." Master's thesis, 2021. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-448592.
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The Trends in Czech TV Travel Series Between the Years 2010-2020 diploma thesis outlines the typology and main trends in travel series that premiered on Czech public broadcast television channels between 2010 and 2020. The aim of this thesis is to introduce categories of Czech TV travel series and describe how the viewer is addressed. In the theoretical section, the terms such as TV travel journalism and the issue of celebritization and celebrification are defined. By introducing the concept of the Tourist Gaze, the problematic aspects of TV travel series are defined, be it the stereotypization of a displayed environment or the commercialization of its content. Following the methodology section, the thematical classification of Czech TV travel series is presented. In turn, the main part of the thesis focuses on establishing five typological categories of the travel series. After analysing several randomly selected episodes of the programmes, the thesis then sums up the most important peculiarities of Czech public broadcast production of travel series between the years 2010-2020 and identifies the most crucial development trends within the genre.