How Do Tourists Turn Space into Place? – A Conceptualisation for Sustainable Place Marketing☆
This chapter was delivered as a speech to the assembled Advances in Tourism Marketing Conference 2013, at Vilamoura, Portugal, 3 October.
This chapter was delivered as a speech to the assembled Advances in Tourism Marketing Conference 2013, at Vilamoura, Portugal, 3 October.
ISBN: 978-1-78441-940-0, eISBN: 978-1-78441-939-4
Publication date: 22 June 2015
Abstract
Gnoth and Mateucci (2014) develop a phenomenological point of view and explain how tourists’ consciousness of their own activity determines how they experience a destination. This model is applied here to see how golf tourists might experience their destination and turn it into a meaningful place. This chapter exemplifies how destinations may develop their own uniqueness as a competitive advantage by understanding how tourists create meanings of a destination (here a golf resort). They argue that it is the tourist’s individual propensity to react to a destination that shapes not only motivations, but also perception and evaluation of the experience.
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Citation
Gnoth, J. (2015), "How Do Tourists Turn Space into Place? – A Conceptualisation for Sustainable Place Marketing This chapter was delivered as a speech to the assembled Advances in Tourism Marketing Conference 2013, at Vilamoura, Portugal, 3 October.
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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