Essays about: "a tourist place"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 56 essays containing the words a tourist place.
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1. A student’s belonging in the tourist town : A case study of university students’ place belonging and community in the tourist destination Visby, Gotland
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionenAbstract : Tourism is a worldwide phenomenon and an important industry. In recent years, however, questions have arisen surrounding whether tourism can be harmful to destinations when exceeding their capacities. Visby is a medieval seaside town and a UNESCO World Heritage Site on Gotland, a Swedish island. READ MORE
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2. The perceived value of place brand ecosystems : An exploratory research on tourist preferences
University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Industriell ekonomiAbstract : In the pursuit of attracting more tourists in a market where competition is growing on a global scale, place branding has become increasingly more common. An underexplored alternative within the place branding literature is place brand ecosystems, and how they can create value for both the place brand itself as well as the tourists that travel there. READ MORE
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3. Beer Festival and Place Identity : An Analysis of Munich Oktoberfest And Qingdao International Beer Festival
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : As microcosms of German and Chinese societies, Munich Oktoberfest and Qingdao International Beer Festival are important manifestations of local culture. This study intends to answer the following question: to which extent are beer festivals in Germany and China related to local history and the local sense of place? A historical overview of the beer festivals in Munich and Qingdao is provided, as well as an analysis of how people seeking a sense of belonging creatively combine cognitive schemata of modernity with local cultural systems on a symbolic level. READ MORE
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4. Colonial Imagery and representation in tourism marketing of African destinations. : A case study of Kenya
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för kultur och samhälleAbstract : This research study is based on the visual marketing of African destinations and the colonial influence in a post-colonial world. Recent tourism research tourism has examined post-colonial realities in developing countries addressing the experience of British post-colonialism, however, only a few of those studies have examined the cultural consequences of tourism marketing image influence on culture and national identity. READ MORE
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5. Becoming with Rocks : Arriving in the Riddling Middle of (tourist) Places: touch, proximity, indeterminacy
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknikAbstract : The tourism industry is both large and growing, with private and public actors investing heavily in the commodification of places to travel to, supporting individuals with the wealth to do so, to be in different places for short time periods. Correspondingly, popular discourses and research within tourism studies have arisen, looking at attitudes and social and environmental impacts drawn along delineations of the tourist and the host and spatially enclosed tourist places or ‘destinations’. READ MORE
