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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"tourism brochures"”.
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“Respectably Dull”: Striptease, Tourism and Reform in Postwar New Orleans
… Through news articles, correspondence, tourism brochures, and published reports, this thesis explores how striptease endured on Bourbon Street despite various reform campaigns against it and shows that striptease was an integral part of the New Orleans tourist economy in the postwar …
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Destination branding: a qualitative analysis of Bournemouth's projected image as a UK seaside resort
The projected tourism image is critical to the success of any destination. As tourism destinations become more substitutable due to increasing competition in global tourism markets, destination image is seen as a viable metaphor for building destinations brands and crafting a unique identity for …
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Transnational Market and Community: The Social Relations of Kaqchikel Maya Vendors
… vendors are commonly seen selling at Guatemala's tourism sites. They are the subjects of postcards, guidebooks, and tourism brochures. Most often they are the only Mayas with whom tourists meet and interact. These vendors work and live most often within a tourism borderzone where Guatemalan state …
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Tourism, Geography and Nation-Building : The Identity-Political Role of Finnish Tourism Images
This dissertation examines the role of tourism images in the construction of Finnish national identity. The study is informed by the notion that identity construction manifests itself in places and landscapes which are invested with meanings through mundane practices and representations. Tourism …
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Promoting the "classroom and playground of Europe": Swiss private school prospectuses and education-focused tourism guides, 1890-1945
… destination for international study and tourism. The historically entangled private schooling and tourism industries have steadily communicated idealised images of educational tourism in Switzerland via advertising. Concentrating on the period 1890 -1945 – when promotional ties between …
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"There is a place where the dreams live" : portrayals of the South Sea in German language tourist brochures
The promotion of places for tourism involves the projection of selective sets of images. Destinations often shape their cultural realities to match successful marketing images. Tourism and its promotion, therefore, generate transformations of a physical and symbolic nature. Beyond their …