A typology of photographic representations for tourism: Depictions of groomed spaces

Hunter, William Cannon

doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2007.03.008

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“…They convey the objectivity (Wolcott, 1995) of sights and experiences. They are signs (Hunter, 2008) that put forward the best, or worst, of places and people, in a language, or code, that is operationally inseparable from the practices of the tourism industry. Representations originate as 'things-in-themselves' (people, costumes, food, features of the natural and built environment or other unique iconic features) and are transformed visually into photographs or film; verbally into factual or scientific accounts, news reports, myths; aurally into music, song, speech; physically into miniatures, simulations, souvenirs; digitally, in any combination, into networks.…”

Section: Touristic Representationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rukai indigenous tourism: Representations, cultural identity and Q method

Hunter

2011

Tourism Management

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Rukai indigenous tourism: Representations, cultural identity and Q method

Hunter

2011

Tourism Management

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“…In particular, scholars of tourism have observed how visitors reproduce iconic destination images in their own photographic practices. This process has been described as "closing the hermeneutic circle"; prior exposure to imagery frames places in particular ways and this creates specific expectations about a place which then forms the metric by which subsequent experiences of that place are judged (Caton & Santos 2008;Crang 2003;Hunter 2008). By this interpretation, tourists travel to reaffirm prior expectations, often rationalized as "authenticity" and documented through photography.…”

Section: Re-presenting the Wallmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Fabulous Tales of the Common People, Part 1: Representing Hadrian’s Wall

Witcher

2010

Public Archaeology

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“…Edwards (1996) defines it as a combination of denotative and connotative elements, where the first ones apply on the presented photography itself, and the other ones on it's metaphorical implications (Hunter, 2008).…”

Section: Photography and Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As in total 16 types of tourism representations were found in a study conducted by William C. Hunter (2008), the correlation between an image content and a way tourists perceive destination could yield new approach for contemporary tourism marketing.…”

Section: Directions For Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%