Essays about: "tourist gaze"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the words tourist gaze.

  1. 1. Representations of Women and Gender relations in Jamaican Tourism Promotional Marketing: An analysis of visual images on Jamaica’s national DMO website.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Shailee Parasnis; [2022]
    Keywords : tourism images; male gaze; tourist gaze; gender stereotypes; ethnic stereotypes; sexualization; Jamaica; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Tourism images and representations depict women in a stereotypical way where men and women are represented differently. Like much advertising, women in tourism promotional marketing are sexualized and exoticized. Destinations are promoted through the use of the female body. READ MORE

  3. 2. Colonial Imagery and representation in tourism marketing of African destinations. : A case study of Kenya

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Anne Mundati; [2021]
    Keywords : Colonial myth; photography; marketing; Kenya; destination.;

    Abstract : 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

  4. 3. A critical discussion of MacCannell's and Urry's theories on 'tourists' : Through an autoethnographic exploration of a white woman's experiences in Cambodia

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik

    Author : Jana Heiss Fröman; [2021]
    Keywords : Tourism; Tourist; MacCannell; Urry; Cambodia; Autoethnography;

    Abstract : The word tourist is loaded with negativity, especially, as MacCannell and Urry argue, for those of us that travel ourselves. In this exploration, the author takes a deep dive into the primary theories of MacCannell's search for authenticity and Urry's tourist gaze while recounting a series of journeys throughout Cambodia through her own Western epistomologic lens while also considering feminist, postcolonialist and decolonialist extensions and counterarguments. READ MORE

  5. 4. Uppsala’s prerequisites for developing rural tourism

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Ellen Johansson; [2020]
    Keywords : rural development; tourism; entrepreneurship;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to explore some opportunities and constraints for tourism to contribute to rural development. The thesis explores several different stakeholders’ views, which are discussed in relation to each other. The informants represent companies, associations and authorities. READ MORE

  6. 5. Communicating Sustainable Nature-Based Tourism : A Mixed Method Approach to Investigate How Swedish Destination Marketing Organizations Promote Nature Destinations on Instagram

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/JMK

    Author : Franziska Ewigleben; [2020]
    Keywords : Sustainable Nature-Based Tourism; Instagram; Destination Marketing Organization; Social Marketing; Tourist Gaze; Environmental Psychology; Content Analysis; Semiotic Analysis; Sweden;

    Abstract : 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. READ MORE