Defining vernacular tourism

Bres, Karen De

doi:10.1016/0160-7383(96)00024-2

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“…In the decline state, says Butler (1980, 9), "the area will not be able to compete with newer attractions and so will face a declining market." More recently another researcher discussed vernacular tourism in Kansas, and the common use of discarded items, such as farm and mining machinery or in the case of Old Abilene Town, an abandoned jail, as examples of relict / recycled tourism (De Bres 1996).…”

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A Student Run Field Exercise in Applied Tourism Geography

Bres¹,

Coomansingh²

2006

Journal of Geography

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The purpose of this paper is to discuss the field project and the field experiences of 60 undergraduates in a lower level geography course. Cumulative based learning was the main teaching technique. The Eisenhower Center, the Dickinson County Historical Society Museum, and Old Abilene Town, a renovatedlreconstructed frontier town, were selected for study. The focus was on determining the appeal of each attraction by the undergraduate cohort and increasing that appeal. As a result of this field experience, students gained a much clearer understanding of the challenges facing those attempting to market tourism successfully in small towns, as well as participating in a practical application of geographical concepts previously discussed in class.

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A Student Run Field Exercise in Applied Tourism Geography

Bres¹,

Coomansingh²

2006

Journal of Geography

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India's Domestic Tourism: Chaos / Crisis / Challenge?

Singh

2004

Tourism Recreation Research

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Tourism occurs within a system. While contemporary models of the tourism system are useful in understanding the dynamics of international tourism, it is found that these models fall short of explaining the system of conventional tourism in India. This paper explores the conventional system of vernacular tourism with the purpose of establishing the contextual nature of these practices. This examination assists in asserting that a value-based context is an indispensable factor in the sustainable development of tourism in India. In conclusion, it is asserted that India's domestic tourism is currently in a state of chaos, perpetuated by the imposition of modern tourism on pre-modern vernacular tourism that has the potential of developing into a crisis. The article ends with a plea for the formulation of an appropriate policy for domestic tourism, befitting the sustainable development paradigm.

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