- Title
- Understanding the tourist experience of cities
- Creator
- Wearing, Stephen L.; Foley, Carmel
- Relation
- Annals of Tourism Research Vol. 65, p. 97-107
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2017.05.007
- Publisher
- Pergamon Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Economic, environmental and social forces have changed the way we are developing our cities. A range of theoretical constructs have been explored to provide direction for contemporary analyses of urban tourism experience. This paper engages with a feminist perspective in our understanding of the way tourists explore and experience cities. It achieves this by expanding current sociological frameworks that assume the tourist is simply a wanderer in the urban environment. Drawing on interactionist and post-structural critique and Wearing and Wearing’s (1996) theoretical framework of the flâneur and choraster, this paper demonstrates how a more feminized conceptualisation of the tourist experience as a creative and interactive process could have a transformative effect on our understanding of tourists’ experiences of cities.
- Subject
- tourist experience; cities; choraster; flâneur; flâneuse
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1349508
- Identifier
- uon:30411
- Identifier
- ISSN:0160-7383
- Language
- eng
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