Purpose This study aims to examine the multisensory experiences of participating in a cooking class and how they shape perceptions of destinations in the pre-trip stage. Performance theory and prosumption provide a theoretical lens to investigate how a cooking class influences the pre-trip destination sensescape. Design/methodology/approach This study used participatory action research consisting of an immersive Tatarstan cooking class experience with the supporting materials of music and videos, focus group discussions and participant observations. Findings Cooking class participants prosume local culture and (re)construct the perceptions of Tatarstan by partaking in cooking classes through a multisensory experience. The pre-trip destination sensescape formation in the cooking class is dynamic, stimulating and memorable. With active engagement in co-creating in the process, such experience significantly strengthens and reshapes the perceptions of a destination. Practical implications Cooking classes can be leveraged in pre-trip marketing as a tool to enhance the competitiveness of tourism destinations and contribute to accessible tourism, such as engaging visually impaired tourists’ other heightened senses in experience design and marketing. Originality/value This study revealed that participation in cooking classes involves active, embodied and multisensory engagement, which acts as a vehicle of the destination perception change.

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Infrared and thermography technology provides countless applications in different research and applied fields. The analysis of thermal changes and their monitoring is one of the popular usages of infrared technology which equally applies for long-term specimen observations or in contexts where chemical reactions are responsible for thermal changes. The proposed approach addresses thermal change-tracking of CO2 capture by brucite, a highly reactive magnesium dihydroxide mineral, in laboratory controlled conditions. Capture of CO2 by brucite is accompanied with thermal generation which commonly occurs in natural environments. An experiment was conducted in a carbonation cell at room temperature (22-23ºC) where gaseous CO2 is contacted with brucite while the process is monitored by means of a thermal camera positioned perpendicularly atop of reactor. Moreover, these thermal changes are recorded by thermocouples inserted at different locations in the carbonation cell. The slow reaction takes place over several hours during which the acquired data are stored to be post-processed after completion of the experiment. For the purpose of tracking spatially-resolved temperatures, thermal regions of interest from the infrared image were segmented first into several different sub-regions to represent local averaged zone temperatures. Then their corresponding changes were tracked over time. A color-based clustering was implemented for the segmentation in thermal images and for the smoothing of thermal fluctuations, namely, the Savitzky-Golay filter was used. Changes around 0.5ºC in amplitude were confirmed by the thermal sensors during the experiment. KEYWORDS: CO2 storage, Infrared thermography, Passive thermography, Middle-wave infrared hyperspectral imaging, Clustering. SUMMARYInfrared technology has been receiving an increasing attention through the large scope of application extending from medical field to in quality control and monitoring system. Based on the objectives of the research and test material, 2 types of infrared thermography (IRT) can be distinguished: active and passive. Unlike active thermography, passive one does not require any external excitation source and is used mostly in quantitative analyses [1]. Chemical engineering is one of the fields where passive IRT can be successfully applied due to the importance of precise temperature measurements during experiment or industrial process where heat effects are legion. Generally, temperature variations in chemical processes are caused by the heat release during chemical reaction and can be monitored by using high-speed cooled infrared camera with a high sensibility [2]. The infrared camera (Phoenix FLIR SC7000-mid-wavelength infrared (MWIR)) was placed above the chemical reactor at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. A mixture of 10% mineral brucite (powder, 060659A, Cimbar) with crystalline silica (50-70 mesh, 274739, Sigma Aldrich) was reacted with gaseous CO2 in the middle section of the cell. This reaction (1) is exothermic providing heat ...