Essays about: "tourism material culture"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the words tourism material culture.

  1. 1. The supporting structures of entrepreneurship - a case study on the entrepreneurial development in a rural community

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

    Author : Edward Cornell; Hanna Hedlund; [2022]
    Keywords : entrepreneurship; culture; network theory; socio-economics; rural communities;

    Abstract : In the last centuries, Sweden's rural communities have experienced a constant decreasing population to pave the way for the urbanization trend. Studies have found that innovation is a driver for a city's survival and thriving, but still, rural communities have experienced a deteriorated attitude towards entrepreneurship. READ MORE

  3. 2. Ságastallam/Dialogue

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

    Author : Emil Stefansson; [2021]
    Keywords : Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : The hiker reaches out from the city, town, or village, intending to be alone. Away from sounds, away from paved roads and houses, away from streetlights and phones, away from people. But what is ‘nature’, and who has the right to it? The untouched landscape shaped by nothing but the earth itself is today hard to find. READ MORE

  4. 3. Artificially Authentic and Authentically Artificial : Experiencing the body of the past through the affect of the transmedial narrative of the Outlander-story world

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

    Author : Moa Hågbäck; [2019]
    Keywords : Material; physical; historic space; transmedia; cultural heritage tourism; affect; prosthetic; Scotland; cultural collective individual memory; memory culture; fan-experience;

    Abstract : Målet och syftet med denna studie är att observera, tolka, och vidareutveckla förståelsen för den samtida turistens interagerande med, och omförhandlande av, det historiska rummet genom individualistisk påverkan från fiktiva narrativ – i detta fallet, Outlanders transmediala berättelsevärld. Genom ett teoretiskt ramverk uppbyggt på materialism, påverkan, tidsresande och proteser har jag analyserat och kartlagt både kulturarvsplatserna samt Outlander-fansens interaktion med dessa genom att ha deltagit själv i två guidade endagarsturer, samt genom en djupgående, om än liten, enkät. READ MORE

  5. 4. Representation of the Sámi Culture in Tourism in Sweden: : A Thematic Analysis of Marketing Websites from Swedish Lapland

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Turismvetenskap

    Author : Gynn Heissy Ticao Hernaez; Lukas Mavromatis Klempin; [2018]
    Keywords : Indigenous Tourism; Sámi; Indigenous Representation; Tourism Marketing; Sweden.;

    Abstract : The following thesis examines the representation of Sámi that reside in the Swedish part of Lapland. Tourism has been a complement to the traditional occupations for many Sámi. However, representations of Sámi in web-marketing may be misleading the tourists in their understanding of the Indigenous people. READ MORE

  6. 5. Tourist or traveller? A study on social categorisation among non-residents in Gothenburg

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Author : Agnes Karnatz; [2016-08-04]
    Keywords : urban tourism; Gothenburg; role identification; social identity theory; high and low culture; symbolic capital;

    Abstract : The purpose of this paper is to examine how non-residents in Gothenburg categorise themselves and why, relating to the concept of “a tourist”. The aim is thus to investigate the perception of being a tourist in a western city through how people define the concept and what social status it has today. READ MORE