文档介绍：CBC Research Showcase, 8th June 2011
Modes of engagement with a national landscape: Perception and representation of Exmoor National Park and impact on the local tourism economy Tim Wilkinson
Awareness of National Parks in England and Wales
Relatively high awareness
(GfK NOP, 2007)
National Parks ever visited in England and Wales
Relatively low visitation
(GfK NOP, 2007)
This project
Historical Geography
Human Geography/ Sociology
Media Studies
Tourist Studies
Tourism geographies
Tourist motivations analysis
Non-visitor research
National Park Movement
Narrative/ Discourse analysis
Study of representational practice
Exeter University
Place reproduction
History of tourism
non-representational theory: practice, performance, embodiment
Exmoor landscape
Dan James, Sustainable Economy Officer
Insights from Tourist Studies and Tourism Geography
Concrete, practical, physical reasons for non-visits:
Lack of transport, lack of time, competition from other activities
Quantifiable
Intrinsic-terminal reasons for non-visits:
Abstract needs, personal values, enduring beliefs, social constraints
Qualities
Representations shape, and are part of, tourist practice
Mediating texts like guidebooks, websites, television and film and newspaper articles reproduce tourist places in certain ways
Encoded into representation are discourses and cultural narratives
Thes