Understanding the tourist experience of cities

Title: Understanding the tourist experience of cities
Creator: Wearing, Stephen L.; Foley, Carmel
Relation: Annals of Tourism Research Vol. 65, Issue July, p. 97-107
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2017.05.007
Publisher: Elsevier
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/1959.13/1399483
Identifier: uon:34612
Identifier: ISSN:1873-7722
Language: eng
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