Tourists, Signs and the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tourists, Signs and the City write by Michelle M. Metro-Roland. This book was released on 2016-02-24. Tourists, Signs and the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing upon the literature of landscape geography, tourism studies, cultural studies, visual studies and philosophy, this book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the interaction between urban environments and tourists. This is a necessary prerequisite for cities as they make themselves into enticing destinations and compete for tourists' attention. It argues that tourists make sense of, and draw meaningful conclusions about, the places in which they tour based upon the interpretation of the signs or elements encountered within the built environment, elements such as graffiti and lamp posts. The writings of the American pragmatist Charles S. Peirce on interpretation provide the theoretical model for explaining the way in which mind and world, or thoughts and objects, result in tourists interacting with place. This theoretical framework elucidates three applied studies undertaken with foreign visitors to the Hungarian capital of Budapest. Based upon extensive ethnographic field work, these studies focus on tourists' interpretation of the urban landscape, with particular attention paid to the encounters with national culture, the role of architecture and the importance of the prosaic in urban tourism.
Tourists, Signs and the City
Tourists, Signs and the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tourists, Signs and the City write by Dr Michelle M Metro-Roland. This book was released on 2012-11-28. Tourists, Signs and the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing upon the literature of landscape geography, tourism studies, cultural studies, visual studies and philosophy, this book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the interaction between urban environments and tourists. This is a necessary prerequisite for cities as they make themselves into enticing destinations and compete for tourists' attention. It argues that tourists make sense of, and draw meaningful conclusions about, the places in which they tour based upon the interpretation of the signs or elements encountered within the built environment, elements such as graffiti and lamp posts. The writings of the American pragmatist Charles S. Peirce on interpretation provide the theoretical model for explaining the way in which mind and world, or thoughts and objects, result in tourists interacting with place. This theoretical framework elucidates three applied studies undertaken with foreign visitors to the Hungarian capital of Budapest. Based upon extensive ethnographic field work, these studies focus on tourists' interpretation of the urban landscape, with particular attention paid to the encounters with national culture, the role of architecture and the importance of the prosaic in urban tourism.
City Tourism
City Tourism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook City Tourism write by Robert Maitland. This book was released on 2009. City Tourism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Capital city status attracts and drives tourism by enhancing a city's appeal to the tourist and its international standing. With a focus on city tourism themes, this book examines subjects including the identity of a city in a tourism context and practical matters such as promoting the city as a product. By examining tourist activities in national capitals, the book addresses issues in capital city development as tourist destinations with a broad, international approach and case studies on major tourist cities.
Destination Dixie
Destination Dixie - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Destination Dixie write by Karen L. Cox. This book was released on 2012. Destination Dixie available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An exploration of tourist locales that have been restored or adapted to preserve some aspect of the history of the American South.
Tourism Theory
Tourism Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tourism Theory write by Guilherme Lohmann. This book was released on 2016-12-07. Tourism Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Theories within tourism can be difficult, even confusing areas to understand. Developed from the successful Portuguese textbook Teoria do Turismo, Tourism Theory provides clear and thorough coverage of all aspects of tourism theory for students and researchers of tourism. Consisting of five sections and over fifty entries, this book covers nine of the most important models in tourism study. The first three sections examine general concepts in tourism; disciplines and topics; and the tourist, which includes areas such as demand, gaze, psychology and typologies. A fourth section covers intermediation, distribution and travel, reviewing aspects such as travel agencies, tourist flows and multi-destination travel patterns. The final section encapsulates the tourism destination itself, covering organizations, the destination image, supply, seasonality and more. Encyclopedic cross-referencing between entries makes navigation easy, while in-depth analysis, exercises and further reading suggestions for each of the selected areas provide the context and detail needed for understanding. Entries can be used individually as a reference, or as part of the whole for a complete introduction to tourism theory.
