Tourism non-places: Bending airports and wildscapes

Varley, Peter; Schilar, Hannelene; Rickly, Jillian M.

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2019.102791

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“…For this study, such a methodological approach is deemed appropriate since it captures the unique and subjective lived extraordinary experience of the tourists. It also mirrors previous studies designed to provide insights into the nature of the lived experiences of tourists’ (e.g., Chen et al 2020; Isabelle, Dominique, and Statia 2019; Varley, Schilar, and Rickly 2020).…”

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confidence: 68%

Reconceptualizing Tourists’ Extraordinary Experiences

Goolaup

Nunkoo

2021

Journal of Travel Research

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Research that conceptualizes tourist extraordinary experiences both from the structural and anti-structural perspective is limited in the tourism literature. The purpose of this research is to develop a new theoretical perspective that re-conceptualizes our understanding of tourists’ extraordinary experience by taking into consideration both the structural and anti-structural elements of an experience. It draws on phenomenological interviews with 26 food tourists. The study finds that extraordinary experience consists of elements such as profaneness, collaborative interactions and conflict-easing, which represent both the structural and anti-structural elements. The findings of this study allow us to question whether extraordinary experience is purely structural or anti-structural as suggested by previous research. Rather, based on the findings, we argue that extraordinary experience is the positive co-existence of both the ordinary and the non-ordinary. As a result, we use the term “synstructure” to conceptualize the tourist extraordinary experience.

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Section: Methodssupporting

confidence: 68%

Reconceptualizing Tourists’ Extraordinary Experiences

Goolaup

Nunkoo

2021

Journal of Travel Research

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“…One is a sense of place, a shared memory of a named place. It is the manifestation of order that integrates environmentalism and existentialism, and establishes a spatial center of lived experience that can generally be identified at various scales (body, county, city, or country) and in different categories (home, pubs, or the wild) [20][21][22]. The other aspect is that place becomes flat and monotonous with unification and standardization in the process of modernization; this is known as placelessness, an ingenious concept proposed by Relph, and followed by Buttimer, and Seamon [23].…”

Section: Place and Placelessness In Human Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

Oriental Marco Polo Plaza Encounter: Choreographing Place and Placelessness from a Phenomenological Perspective

Gao

Zhou

2021

Sustainability

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The notion of place has raised great concern within weaving tourism studies in recent decades. Nevertheless, dialectical indigenous considerations of Edward Relph’s phenomenological concepts of place and placelessness are still insufficient, particularly in non-Western countries. Phenomenology, as an immersive approach, provides an open and descriptive examination of the diverse perceptions and constitutive meanings of a place. From a phenomenological perspective, this article aims to explore the dynamic grasping of place and placelessness in tourism experiences. Twenty-four tourists participated in the research in Marco Polo Plaza in Italian Style Town, a concession for a particular historical period, in Tianjin, China. The findings suggest that tourists’ experiences could be ordered into three themes: (1) encountering a place labelled recreation and entertainment, (2) encountering an exotic heterogeneous place, and (3) encountering a lived place in the lifeworld. These results emphasize that place and placelessness are intertwined paradoxically beyond the binary, and such a nonlinear, dialectical, and subtle dimension is the possible inspiration that the phenomenological perspective brings to tourism research. Drawing on the inevitability of tourists’ diverse perceptions, we advance that an open multi-sensuous engagement and inclusive geographic practices offer an insight into the understanding of sustainability.

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“…The dichotomy of place/non-place (non-lieux) proposed by Augé (2011) is supported by a number of other dichotomies of terms, providing room for evaluation: familiar/foreign, named/anonymous, static/dynamic, permanent/ephemeral, specific/general, etc. Examples of "non-places" known from the literature are airports (Wróbel, 2018;Varley et al, 2020), roadways (Merriman, 2004;Spinney, 2007), gas stations (Cwynar, 2017), cemeteries (Fabiszak & Brzezińska, 2018), food courts (Karpińska, 2007), traffic islands (Roberts, 2015), hotels (McNeill, 2009), docks, and areas such as banks, stations, and hospitals (Urry, 2007), etc.…”

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The Level of Knowledge About the University Building Among the Academic Community in the Context of Place Attachment

Warcholik

2021

MJSE

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This paper presents the issues of place and attachment to place. The aim of the article is to determine the level of knowledge among the academic community of the university building in which they study or work and its surrounding area, in the context of place attachment. The cognitive component – one of many aspects of identifying with a place – was examined. With limited knowledge about the building in which the study population spends time, calculated in months or years, it is difficult to determine place attachment, identification, or experience. The research method applied was a diagnostic survey, a questionnaire consisting of questions designed by the author. Both students and academics were surveyed. The results showed that students have limited knowledge of the building where they attend classes. The university building appears to be more of an anonymous non-place, without deeper symbolic or social meanings, than a place with which the academic community identifies itself.

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Tourism non-places: Bending airports and wildscapes

Cited by 20 publications

References 36 publications

Reconceptualizing Tourists’ Extraordinary Experiences

Reconceptualizing Tourists’ Extraordinary Experiences

Oriental Marco Polo Plaza Encounter: Choreographing Place and Placelessness from a Phenomenological Perspective

The Level of Knowledge About the University Building Among the Academic Community in the Context of Place Attachment

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