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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Tourist sites"”.
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Epideictic Space: Community, Memory, and Future Invention at Civil War Tourist Sites
This dissertation examines American Civil War tourist spaces in order to describe how epideictic rhetoric has distinct spatial functions that affect the identity of tourists. Through an analysis of three Civil War spaces in Virginia--Lexington, Appomattox Court House, and the Museum of the …
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Exploring Cork City's tourist scene: sites, facilities and mobility
… industry, it encompasses components such as tourist sites, hospitality facilities, and mobility, which all play a crucial role in shaping a destination's appeal and success. This study was aimed at providing a comprehensive understanding of the tourist scene in Cork city, with a focus on …
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New Mexico Tourism: Conflict and Cooperation in the Land of Enchantment
… study is to analyze the impact that tourism and tourist sites have upon the surrounding communities in New Mexico. It will look specifically at Bandelier National Monument, El Santuario de Chimayo, and the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell. These sites have all been the …
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Absent Others: dark tourism, theatricality, and ethical spectatorship
… I offer two contrasting sets of examples: tourist sites and theatrical performances. The sites I consider are examples of 'dark tourism,' destinations that depict death and disaster. I explore how theatricality arises in response to the key challenge that underlies these places, which is …
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Giraffes, Ferris Wheels and Royal Reenactments: Hits and Misses in the Reinvention of a Joseon Palace
Tourist sites, like national identities, are selectively promoted depictions often made from highly contested perspectives. A site is a self-perpetuating scene created by host and visitors swapping the same images. Olivia Jenkins has described spiraling circles of representation linked to …
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The effects of invasive alien plants on cultural ecosystem services : tourism and recreation
… and map alien vegetation overlaps with key tourist sites in South Africa. This was followed by a more in-depth qualitative analysis, at a case study level, focussed on the Stellenbosch municipality, to determine the understanding and perceptions, tourists, landowners, and tourism operators …
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Prosuming visuality, authenticity and urban exploration within tourist experiences
… years. These books, papers and chapters explore tourist motivation and experiences in a range of contemporary contexts. The body of work moves from mainstream discussion around sustainability and slow tourism in the tourist decision making process to the use of visual media to explore, understand …
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Cakewalking into representation : Gabriele Münter's America travels (1898-1900) and art of dailiness
… Kodak advertising; theatrical productions and tourist sites Münter visited; and relationships between her work and contemporary Arkansas photographers such as Harry Miller.
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Masada performances : the contested indentities of touristic spaces
… increased over the last thirty years. When tourists visit Masada, they hear the story of the site and the story is framed so tourists will have a meaningful experience. While some scholars have looked at how the Masada story gets told to tourists who visit the site, these studies all tend to …
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The (family) firm : representation and power in the British royal family
… films, television productions, radio shows, websites, social media outputs, cartoons, political commentary, fan/anti-monarchy publications, public opinion polls and surveys, government reports, palace documents and legal archives; to more material phenomena such as monarchy memorabilia and …
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Strange(r) Maps: The cosmopolitan geopolitics of Sri Lankan tourism
… Specifically, I investigate Sri Lankan tourist maps as subversive examples of the politics of vision implicated within the historical formation of island-space under colonial mapping practices (i.e. Portuguese, Dutch, and British), and the contemporary political implications of the …
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Exploring the World's Visual History
… visualize and analyze the millions of visits to tourist sites, by generating 3D reconstructions of large indoor spaces. These are a common failure case for Structure-from-Motion systems, that fail to generate a complete 3D model due to sparse coverage, and break them up instead into small, …
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Red tourism in China: Propaganda, space, commodification
… People’s Republic of China in which people visit tourist spots with historical significance to either the Communist Party of China (CPC) or the Chinese revolution. A heritage tourism, Red Tourism is a kind of oxymoron. It is a yoking together of two extraordinarily powerful drivers in the cultural …
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The social construction of Jenolan Caves: multiple meanings of a cave tourist site
… place of Jenolan Caves, the most visited cave tourist site in Australia. The aim of the research project was to: further our understanding of the social dimensions of caves tourism in order to comment on issues and practices related to sustainability. The question was approached from a …